One of the most beautiful island groups of the Pacific, Bougainville has a remarkable history. Tragically, it is as the site of devastating civil conflict that Bougainville is perhaps best known. In exploring the rich environmental, cultural and social heritage of Bougainville before the conflict, this collection provides an insight into the long-term causes of the crisis. In doing so, it surve…
Victims' State is the first integrated account of how Imperial Austria and the successor Austrian Republic responded to the needs of citizen-soldiers and their families in the age of mass politics and the First World War. It shows that compulsory military service and war mobilization changed the mission of the Austrian state and citizens' understanding of what they were entitled to, thus showin…
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315401867, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. This book brings together academics, members of European institutions, and regional and national level policymakers in order to assess the performance and direction of EU Cohesion pol…
Pelestarian, perlindungan, dan promosi Sumber Daya Genetik Tanaman (SDG), Pengetahuan Tradisional (TK), inovasi, dan praktik-praktik dari masyarakat lokal dan masyarakat adat merupakan kunci penting bagi pembangunan suatu negara. Kekayaan PGR dan TK memainkan peran penting dalam perawatan kesehatan, ketahanan pangan, budaya, agama, identitas, lingkungan, pembangunan berkelanjutan, dan perdagang…
Pemuliaan tanaman yang mulai bekerja pada tahun 2015 akan mendekati akhir karir mereka pada tahun 2050. Kedua tahun itu sangat penting. Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa menetapkan delapan Tujuan Pembangunan Milenium yang ambisius untuk dicapai pada tahun 2015, dari garis dasar tahun 1990. Salah satunya mengurangi separuh tingkat kemiskinan ekstrim dan termasuk mengurangi separuh proporsi orang yang m…
Ada peningkatan hasil panen yang signifikan sejak tahun 1950-an, yang membuat makanan lebih murah dan lebih terjangkau. Namun, produksi tanaman dunia harus meningkat dalam tiga setengah dekade ke depan untuk memberi makan populasi yang terus bertambah. Itu harus terjadi sebagian besar di tanah yang sudah ditanami. Pemuliaan tanaman, subjek buku ini, menyediakan sarana untuk mengatasi tantangan …
The Anthropocene, in which humankind has become a geological force, is a major scientific proposal; but it also means that the conceptions of the natural and social worlds on which sociology, political science, history, law, economics and philosophy rest are called into question. The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis captures some of the radical new thinking prompted by the arriv…
This book explores how the Indian education and training system prepares young people for the world of work and for the requirements of the employment market – because India is a leading industrialised nation with a very young population and a high demand for a skilled workforce. Indian experts write from a course-specific perspective, offering a comprehensive picture of educational policy, c…
This open access book presents a person-centered exploration of student profiles, using variables related to motivation to do school mathematics derived from the IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) data. Statistical cluster analysis is used to identify groups of students with similar motivational profiles, across grades and over time, for multiple participating…