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The Future of Africa = Challenges and Opportunities
This open access textbook offers a critical introduction to human and economic development prospects in Africa revolving around three questions: where is Africa today, what explains the current state, and, given historical trends and what we know about the world, where do we think the continent will be in 2040? And, a final question: what can we do to create a better tomorrow? It models ambitio…
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- 9783030465902
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- XVII, 421 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Designing Digital Work = Concepts and Methods for Human-centered Digitization
Combining theory, methodology and tools, this open access book illustrates how to guide innovation in today’s digitized business environment. Highlighting the importance of human knowledge and experience in implementing business processes, the authors take a conceptual perspective to explore the challenges and issues currently facing organizations. Subsequent chapters put these concepts into …
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- 9783030122591
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- XXI, 435 ill; lamp
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Transdisciplinarity in Financial Communication = Writing for Target Readers …
This open access book identifies and analyses problems of text production in finance from three complementary perspectives: problem identification, problem analysis, and problem solution. By doing so, it explains why solving these problems in transdisciplinary collaboration benefits theory, practice, and society at large. Drawing on 25 years of ethnographic research, roughly 2100 text products,…
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- 9783031291159
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- XII, 274 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Causal Mechanisms in the Global Development of Social Policies
This open access edited volume introduces the concept of causal mechanisms to explore new ways of explaining the global dynamics of social policy, and shows that a mechanism-based approach provides several advantages over established approaches for studying social policy The introductory chapter outlines the mechanism-based approach, which stands out by modularisation and a clear focus on acto…
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- 9783030910884
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- XIX, 457ill; lamp
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Social Protection in Latin America = Causality, Stratification and Outcomes
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of social protection in Latin America, its origins, institutions, and outcomes. The chapters are organised in three groups. The earlier chapters discuss in turn appropriate methods, an analytical framework, and core institutions. The book advocates a causal inference approach to the study of the institutions that have dominated social protection in t…
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- 9783031497957
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- XIX, 293 ill; lamp
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Stakeholder Relationships And Sustainability = The Case Of Health Aid To The …
This open-access book analyses how stakeholder relationships impact the sustainability of health aid. It does this by providing an overarching analytical framework, which allows for a systematic analysis of sustainability, relationships, and a possible causal link between these phenomena. The book goes beyond universal paradigms and detailed single-case studies by offering a thorough analysis o…
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- 9783031319907
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- XXV, 381 ill; lamp
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International Organizations in Global Social Governance
International Organizations (IOs) are important actors within global social governance. They provide forums for exchange, contention and cooperation about social policies. Our knowledge about the involvement of IOs varies significantly by policy fields, and we know comparatively little about the specific roles of IOs in social policies. This volume enhances and systematizes our understanding…
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- 9783030654399
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- XXVII, 353 ill; lamp
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Technical, Economic and Societal Effects of Manufacturing 4.0 = Automation, A…
This open access book is among the first cross-disciplinary works about Manufacturing 4.0. It includes chapters about the technical, the economic, and the social aspects of this important phenomenon. Together the material presented allows the reader to develop a holistic picture of where the manufacturing industry and the parts of the society that depend on it may be going in the future. Manuf…
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- 9783030461034
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- XXVIII, 266 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Tourismus und Klimawandel
Diese Open-Access-Publikation beleuchtet die komplexen Beziehungen zwischen Tourismus und Klimawandel für die Tourismusdestination Österreich und basiert auf einer umfassenden Erhebung, Zusammenfassung und Bewertung des aktuellen Standes der Forschung zu diesem Thema. Für diesen Bericht haben 40 Wissenschaftler*innen führender Forschungseinrichtungen, unterstützt durch ein internationales …
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- 9783662615225
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- XIV, 258 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Beyond 100: The Next Century in Geodesy; Proceedings of the IAG General Assem…
Buku akses terbuka ini berisi 30 makalah yang telah ditinjau sejawat berdasarkan presentasi pada Perhimpunan Umum ke-27 dari Perhimpunan Internasional Geodesi dan Geofisika (IUGG). Pertemuan diadakan dari 8 hingga 18 Juli 2019 di Montreal, Kanada, dengan tema perayaan seratus tahun berdirinya IUGG. Perayaan seratus tahun ini juga merupakan kesempatan baik untuk melihat ke depan ke abad berikutn…
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- 978-3-031-09857-4
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- online resource ( IX, 286 Pages)
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- Simposium Asosiasi Geodesi Internasional (IAG SYMPOSIA)
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- 526.1 FRE b
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