This book explores the role of agriculture in long-term economic growth. With a particular focus on Ethiopia, the role of the state in igniting agricultural growth and in sustaining economic growth is highlighted as essential for low-income countries. Taking ideas from both economic history and development economics, the ability of Ethiopia and the rest of Africa to sustain recent rapid growth …
This open access book describes the theoretical underpinnings and operational aspects of delivering longer-term inpatient psychiatric care to adolescents experiencing severe, unremitting mental illness. The authorship is drawn from the multidisciplinary team that supports the Walker Adolescent Unit, located in Sydney, Australia. The book begins with an account of the planning and development of…
This book addresses how sexual practices and identities are imagined and regulated through development discourses and within institutions of global governance. The underlying premise of this volume is that the global development industry plays a central role in constructing people’s sexual lives, access to citizenship, and struggles for livelihood. Despite the industry’s persistent insis…
Buku ini menawarkan perspektif teoretis dan multimodal yang koheren tentang penelitian, pengajaran, dan pembelajaran di berbagai lingkungan pembelajaran nonformal, semiformal, dan formal. Mengambil contoh dari berbagai latar yang berbeda, buku ini menyediakan kerangka kerja konseptual untuk penelitian tentang pembelajaran di berbagai lingkungan. Buku ini menyediakan model konseptual seputar des…
Wandering the Wards memberikan pemeriksaan etnografis yang terperinci dan tak tergoyahkan tentang kehidupan di rumah sakit kontemporer. Buku ini mengungkap budaya institusional dan bangsal yang menginformasikan organisasi dan pemberian perawatan sehari-hari untuk salah satu populasi terbesar di dalamnya: orang yang hidup dengan demensia yang memerlukan perawatan rumah sakit yang tidak terjadwal…
This edited volume aims to widen the discussion about the diversity of human-nature relationships and valuation methods and to stimulate new perspective that are needed to build a more sustainable future, especially in face of ongoing socio-environmental changes. Conceptual and empirical approaches, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodologies have been used to highlight the imp…
This open access book emphasizes that procuring goods at the expense of the environment and those who live there is no longer acceptable. Fortunately, there is now an unstoppable force, created by a collective of diverse stakeholders, driving the sustainability agenda. A company’s sustainability standards can only truly be as good as those along its entire supply chain. The purpose of this bo…
This open access book describes Smittestopp, the first Norwegian system for digital contact tracing of Covid-19 infections, which was developed in March and early April 2020. The system was deployed after five weeks of development and was active for a little more than two months, when a drop in infection levels in Norway and privacy concerns led to shutting it down. The intention of this book …