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Tourism and Conservation-based Development in the Periphery
This open access book applies a social ecological systems (SES) lens to conservation-based development in Patagonia, bringing together authors with historical, contemporary, and future-oriented perspectives in order to increase understanding of the social and environmental implications of nature-based tourism and other forms of conservation-based territorial development. By focusing on Patagoni…
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- 978-3-031-38047-1
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- XXXIV, 468
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Introducing Foreign Models for Development
This open access book studies how foreign models of economic development can be effectively learned by and applied to today’s latecomer countries. Policy capacity and societal learning are increasingly stressed as pre-conditions for successful catch-up. However, how such learning should be initiated by individual societies with different features needs to be explained. The book answers this p…
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- 978-981-99-4237-4
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- XXVI, 338
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Fortbildungen für KulturSchule
In diesem Open-Access-Buch gibt eine Evaluationsstudie Auskunft, wie teilnehmende Lehrkräfte Fortbildungen erleben, die auf die KulturSchul-Entwicklung zielen. Welche Perspektiven bauen diese auf? Und welche internen Unterstützungsmaßnahmen trifft die Schule, damit sich die Lernkultur ändern kann? Die Fortbildungsreihen im Landesprogramm «KulturSchule Hessen» legen die Grundlage dafür…
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- 978-3-658-42220-2
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- XI, 243
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Future Intelligence
The first quarter of the 21st century introduced the world to rapid uncertainty, be it the social-political and financial crises, or pandemics, or the shaking up of well-established democracies with an increasing rise in populism. At the same time, the technological promise has taken off with automation, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnologies increasingly becoming an economic reality. Th…
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- 978-3-031-36381-8
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- XXII, 241
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On the Power and Limits of Empathy
This book has two main objectives. The first is to identify and adequately describe the phenomenon of empathy. This essentially means offering a strong, reasoned and accurate description of the phenomenon of empathy in order to capture the essence of the empathic phenomenon and clearly distinguish it from other similar emotional phenomena such as sympathy or compassion The second part focuse…
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- 978-3-031-37521-7
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- XIV, 374
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The right way to hire financial help; A Complete Guide to Choosing and Managi…
Saran terperinci dan praktis tentang cara merekrut penasihat keuangan. Mempekerjakan bantuan keuangan adalah tugas yang banyak dilakukan orang yang cerdas dengan cara yang salah, memilih untuk mengandalkan rekomendasi dari keluarga dan teman, pertemuan kebetulan, atau iklan daripada melakukan riset yang matang. Dalam prosa yang menarik dan mudah dipahami, kolumnis sindikasi nasional Charles A. …
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- 9780262287845
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- 658.46 JAF r
Public Financial Management and Internal Control
This open access book focuses on the ‘downstream’ element of PFM, that is how public organisations utilise public resources. It argues that improvements in PFM/IC will only flow from a recognition that what really matters is the quality of management. Management reform is an essential precondition to the successful implementation of many new techniques. Only when a managerial capacity exis…
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- 978-3-031-35065-8
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- XXIII, 579
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Integrated Treatment Technology of Rural Domestic Sewage
This open access book provides integrated treatment technology of rural domestic sewage, and highlights ten typical cases in China. The integrated sewage treatment system (ISTE) combine sewage pretreatment, biological treatment, sedimentation, and disinfection, which particularly suitable for decentralized domestic wastewater treatment in rural areas without pipe networks. The main advantages o…
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- 978-981-99-5905-1
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- XIII, 140
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Elektromobilität
Dieses Buch ist eine „Open Access“-Publikation zum Stand der Entwicklung der Elektromobilität. Ohne Zweifel: Die Automobilindustrie befindet sich in einem tiefgreifenden Wandel. Mit der Elektromobilität verändern sich bisherige Fahrzeug- und Antriebskonzepte grundlegend. Bestimmt durch neue Fahrzeugkomponenten wie die Batterie, die Leistungselektronik, der Elektromotor und die Brennstoff…
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- 978-3-662-65811-6
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- XXVIII, 724
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Bio-Inspired Information Pathways
This open access book offers a timely and comprehensive review of the field of neurotronics. Gathering cutting-edge contributions from neuroscientists, biologists, psychologists, as well as physicists, microelectronics engineers and information scientists, it gives extensive information on fundamental information pathways in selected nervous systems. It also highlights their relevance as buildi…
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- 978-3-031-36704-5
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- XIII, 433
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