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Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage: Past, Present and Future
This Open Access book, building on research initiated by scholars from the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development (CHGD) and ICOMOS Netherlands, presents multidisciplinary research that connects water to heritage. Through twenty-one chapters it explores landscapes, cities, engineering structures and buildings from around the world. It describes how people have actively …
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- 1
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- 9783030002688
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- XIX, 435 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- -
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Making Universities Matter : Collaboration, Engagement, Impact
In an era of rapid change and increasing societal demands, the role of universities as knowledge producers and catalysts for change has come under scrutiny. This open access book offers a fresh perspective on the significance of universities in society, shedding light on how their knowledge can truly matter beyond academia. Drawing upon insightful inquiries from both the Swedish and internat…
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- -
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- 9783031487996
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- V, 232
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- Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management (ITKM)
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- 370 MAK
Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life
This open access book seeks to understand why we consume as we do, how consumption changes, and why we keep consuming more and more, despite the visible damage we are doing to the planet. The chapters cover both the stubbornness of unsustainable consumption patterns in affluent societies and the drivers of rapidly increasing consumption in emerging economies. They focus on consumption patterns …
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-11069-6
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Consumption and Public Life
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- 306
Magazines, Tourism, and Nation-Building in Mexico
This open access book discusses the relationship between periodicals, tourism, and nation-building in Mexico. It enquires into how magazines, a staple form of the promotional apparatus of tourism since its inception, articulated an imaginative geography of Mexico at a time when that industry became a critical means of economic recovery and political stability after the Revolution. Notwithstandi…
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-01003-4
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Studies of the Americas
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- 324
Public Administration in Germany
This open access book presents a topical, comprehensive and differentiated analysis of Germany’s public administration and reforms. It provides an overview on key elements of German public administration at the federal, Länder and local levels of government as well as on current reform activities of the public sector. It examines the key institutional features of German public administration…
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-53697-8
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Governance and Public Management
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- 352
Cycling Through the Pandemic
This open access book provides insight on how the tactical urbanism has the capacity to influence change in mobility practices such as cycling. COVID-19 crisis prompted the public authorities to rethink the use of public space in order to develop means of transport that are both efficient and adapted to the health context and their effects on cycling practices in Europe, North, and South Americ…
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-45308-3
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- oer.unej.ac.id
- Series Title
- The Urban Book Series
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- 324
Post Un-Lock
This open access book builds a framework that holds together numerous open issues in territorial planning: from the understanding of territorial, landscape, environmental and climatic dynamics to the analysis of local vulnerabilities, to the use of modern survey techniques to support planning. What is the role of urban and regional planning in achieving the sustainable development goals of our …
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-33894-6
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- oer.unej.ac.id
- Series Title
- The Urban Book Series
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- 324
Technological Imagination in the Green and Digital Transition
This open access book addresses the pressing need for sustainability in urban development and the use of technology, with cities to serve as the main stage for strategies that seek to meet the targets and the cross-sector priorities indicated in the EU’s Next Generation program, all in pursuit of a solid recovery on the part of the European economy, along lines of ecological transition, digit…
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-29515-7
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- oer.unej.ac.id
- Series Title
- The Urban Book Series
- Call Number
- 320
Planning Cities in Africa
This open access book provides insights into challenges, threats and opportunities of urban development in Africa. It discusses how and why African cities need localised urban planning concepts and theories to deal with challenges and threats of rapid urbanisation and climate change. The book delivers an in-depth view of the nature and gaps of the framework on which current planning practice an…
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- -
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- 978-3-031-06550-7
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- oer.unej.ac.id
- Series Title
- The Urban Book Series
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- 324
Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions : Results of SSPCR 2019
This open access book includes a selection of innovative contributions presented at the 4th international conference “Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions 2022”, held in Bolzano, Italy in July 2022. Featuring 10 papers by academics and consultants, strongly rooted in practical experiences and international projects, it discusses current ground-breaking research in innovativ…
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- -
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- 978-3-030-57764-3
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- XVII, 307
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- Green Energy and Technology (GREEN)
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- 333 SMA
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