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Wellbeing, Values and Lifestyles = Towards a New Development Paradigm
This open access book with contributions by leading global experts from diverse specialization defines a new development paradigm built on Lifestyle for Environment (LiFE). The volume outlines the contours of LiFE across five facets namely ethics and value system; sustainable consumption and production; modalities of systemic transformation; financing for resilient infrastructure, cities and s…
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- 9789819747306
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- XVIII, 314 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Well-being During the Pandemic = Comparative Perspectives from the Global Nor…
This open access book focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on well-being, happiness and quality of life, taking into account the mediating effects of social inequalities. The volume brings together and into dialogue the different experiences and perspectives of countries and researchers from the Global North and South. Expert scholars from across the world have analyzed empirical data…
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- 9783031634406
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- XIII, 295hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Weirding Landscapes = Arctic Glacier Extinction and Monsters of the Anthropocene
This open access book investigates human-environment relations in the context of the anthropocenic Arctic. Through an archaeological and anthropological study of landscape, it wields “weirding” – a creative mode of engagement with the world – as a means of coming to terms with the stranger, experiential dimensions of a planet populated by diverse non-human entities often bearing monstro…
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- 9783031850165
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- XXVIII, 200 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Voicing Consent = Sex Workers, Sexual Violation and Legal Consciousness in Cr…
This open access book draws on an international research project, using extensive and multiple methods to explore unwanted sexual contact and violence in sex work populations. A project delivered by a large team of sex workers, peer researchers, and academics, and with practitioner input over a four-year period, the central question they explore is: how do social, legal, and judicial contexts s…
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- 9783031777158
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- XX, 270hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Urban Morphology versus Urban Redevelopment and Revitalisation = Proceedings …
This open access book provides a comprehensive review of current theoretical and practical expertise at the confluence of urban morphology and urban rehabilitation. Its holistic perspective addresses theoretical explanations and approaches as well as practical experiences in the design of urban places. The extensive methodological section illustrates innovation and development in this area. Th…
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- 9783031777523
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- VIII, 700 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility = Proceed…
This is an open access book. It gathers the proceedings of the 10th edition of Transport Research Arena (TRA 2024), held on 15-18 April, 2024, in Dublin, Ireland. Contributions cover a wide range of research findings, methodological aspects, technologies and policy issues that are currently reshaping the transport and mobility system in different parts of Europe. Bridging between academic rese…
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- 9783031894442
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- XVIII, 771 hlm,: ill, lamp; 21 cm
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Transport Transitions : Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility = Procee…
This is an open access book. It gathers the proceedings of the 10th edition of Transport Research Arena (TRA 2024), held on 15-18 April, 2024, in Dublin, Ireland. Contributions cover a wide range of research findings, methodological aspects, technologies and policy issues that are currently reshaping the transport and mobility system in different parts of Europe. Bridging between academic rese…
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- 9783031855788
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- XVII, 827 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Transnational Southeast Asia = Communities, Contestations and Cultures
This open access book presents Southeast Asia as an interesting and conceptually meaningful site to interrogate the transnational paradigm. In featuring research from and across different nations in Southeast Asia, it asks in what ways Southeast Asia lends itself to nuanced applications of transnationalism, and what the wider cultural and collective implications of that might be. Instead of vie…
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- 9789819636082
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- XIX, 342 hlm,: ill, lamp; 21 cm
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Towards Sustainable Good Health and Well-being = The Role of Health Literacy
The purpose of this open access book is threefold. The first is to shed light on patient participation and health literacy for Good Health and Well-being, which is one of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Health literacy is considered a prerequisite for patients to be able to participate in shared decisions on their own treatment (WHO,1998). Health literacy has received increased internat…
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- 9783031618109
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- XXI, 209 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Procurement and Politics
This open access book compares the experiences of large-scale military procurement in Canada and Australia. Focusing on the recent frigate and jet-fighter programmes, it demonstrates how delays suffered in delivering weapons systems and platforms in these countries have been caused by misalignments between the strategic requirements set out by the armed forces and government defence policies. B…
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- 978-3-031-25689-9
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- IX, 156
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