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Heritage Conservation and Tourism Development at Cham Sacred Sites in Vietnam
This open access book considers the growing field of heritage tourism from community perspectives. It explores how the Cham—Vietnam’s large ethnic minority—reconcile their needs for economic development with the boundaries circumscribed by their traditional culture. It examines struggles that local minority stakeholders like the Cham face when trying to participate in areas of development…
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- 978-981-99-3349-5
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- XIX, 234
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Achieving Zero Hunger in India
This open access volume discloses rich set of findings and policy recommendations for India towards achieving the SDG 2.1 target of zero hunger by 2030. Through its fourteen chapters, it takes an integrated approach by examining diverse aspects of food and nutrition security through multidisciplinary lens of Agricultural Economics, Nutrition, Crop Sciences, Anthropology and Law, while being roo…
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- 978-981-99-4412-5
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- IX, 344
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Cultural Policy is Local
This Open Access edited collection calls for a greater understanding of ‘the local’ within the ways the arts, culture and creative practices are governed, promoted, regulated, resourced and valued. Cultural policy studies tends to privilege the national (and international) as the primary site at which cultural policy is enacted, and focuses on the ‘local’ as a case study of practice, ra…
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- 978-3-031-32311-9
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- XIX, 267
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The Monumental Challenge of Preservation: The Past in a Volatile World
The enormous task of preserving the world's heritage in the face of war, natural disaster, vandalism, neglect, and technical obsolescence. The monuments—movable, immovable, tangible, and intangible—of the world's shared cultural heritage are at risk. War, terrorism, natural disaster, vandalism, and neglect make the work of preservation a greater challenge than it has been since World War II…
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- 9780262345798
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Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance
Here, experts examine the ways transnational corporations exercise power over governance of the global food system and the implications this has for sustainability.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255509
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- 1 online resource (xix, 308 pages) :illustrations.
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Food routes:growing bananas in Iceland and other tales from the logistics of …
Finding opportunities for innovation on the path between farmer and table. Even if we think we know a lot about good and healthy food--even if we buy organic, believe in slow food, and read Eater --we probably don't know much about how food gets to the table. What happens between the farm and the kitchen Why are all avocados from Mexico Why does a restaurant in Maine order lamb from New Zealand…
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- 9780262352185
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- 1 online resource (x, 195 pages).
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The nature of the farm :contracts, risk, and organization in agriculture
The Nature of the Farm is a theoretical and empirical study of contracts and organization in agriculture based on the transaction cost framework. Transaction costs are important in agriculture because nature (for example, seasonality, weather, pests) plays such a critical role in determining output and limiting the ability of farmers to specialize. The book develops specific models and tests th…
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- 9780262267014
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- 1 online resource (viii, 258 pages)
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Cultivating science, harvesting power : Science and Industrial Agriculture in…
Christopher R. Henke reveals how agricultural scientists and growers in California have cooperated - and struggled - in shaping the state's multi-billion-dollar farm industry.
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Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: A Critical Discourse
This is a collection of theoretical and practical perspectives from a range of disciplines on the challenges of using digital media in research, preservation, management, interpretation, and representation of cultural heritage.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262269742
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- 1 online resource (x, 465 pages) :illustrations.
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Turks, Jews, and other Germans in contemporary art
"The first book to showcase and analyze the diversity of Germany's contemporary cultural production, while arguing against its myth of homogeneity"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262365284
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