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Ireland's Long Economic Boom
This Open Access book examines the long economic boom experienced in Ireland between the late 1980s and 2007, analysing why this boom occurred. The book situates Ireland as a relative latecomer to economic development, with specific challenges and advantages inherent to this position. It discusses the risks involved in remaining reliant on foreign companies, exploring how in Ireland’s cas…
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-53070-8
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- 30 March 2024
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Transnational Solidarity in Times of Crises
This open access collection is devoted to an in-depth, qualitative analysis of practices of cross-national solidarity in response to the current political and social crises, from citizens’ initiatives to networks of cooperation among civil society actors. The book analyses existing informal groups at the grassroots, furthering transnational solidarity in three thematic areas: disability, une…
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-49659-3
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
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Energy Citizenship Across Europe = Contexts and Conditions for an Emerging En…
This open access book is intended to provoke and progress new thinking in the field of energy research for policy makers, practitioners and scholars. By drawing on a broad range of social and innovation theory insights, this book showcases the diversity of energy citizenship and opens up the concept by including multiple ‘latent’, less visible, forms of energy citizenship that also form par…
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- 1
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- 9783031701573
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- XVII, 172 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- -
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Energy Citizenship = Envisioning Citizens’ Participation in the Energy System
This open access book develops a deeper understanding of an increasingly applied term across policy cycles and academic discourses, ‘energy citizenship’. It provides the reader with five distinct chapters, with each in turn examining a specific aspect of the concept and how it has manifested in public discourses.
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783031701535
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- VII, 138 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- -
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Empowering At-Risk Youth in and Through Vocational Education = A Comparative …
This open access book presents insights on the resiliency strategies of at-risk vocational education and training (VET) students in the field of learning, employment and social integration, in the Baltic countries and Norway. It investigates the ways in which vocational education and training (VET) can enhance the social inclusion of young people at-risk, both in terms of combating school dropo…
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- 1
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- 9789819606139
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- XIV, 225 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- -
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Global Asylum Governance and the European Union's Role: Rights and Responsibi…
This open access book provides a state-of-the-field of the interactions between emerging national asylum governance systems and the 2018 United Nations Global Compact for Refugees (UN GCR). It provides a detailed examination of the relationship and compatibility between asylum governance and refugee protection and human rights, and the responsibilities for states and other implementing actors i…
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-74866-0
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- XXI, 323
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- -
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Education for Citizenship in Times of Global Challenge: IEA International Civ…
This open access book investigates the ways in which young people around the world are prepared to undertake their roles as citizens. It presents the international results from the third cycle of the study IEA’s International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS 2022). Based on data from 24 countries or benchmarking participants from Europe, Latin America, and Asia, ICCS 2022 studies c…
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-65603-3
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- XVI, 278
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- -
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Education and Cultural Evolution in Norway’s Multiethnic Society: Bridges t…
This open access volume explores the complex dynamics of ethnic and racial segregation in Norwegian schools, particularly in Oslo. It examines how educational institutions can reflect and challenge societal norms regarding race, culture, and identity. The book argues that while Norway pursues an egalitarian ethos, recent trends in school segregation undermine these ideals. The major contributi…
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-89018-5
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- XVII, 203
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- -
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Demanding a Radical Constitution: Environmentalism, Resilience, and Participa…
This open access book documents the critical thinking and political actions that generated one of the world’s most progressive national constitutions, presented to the Chilean public in 2022. Although that text was ultimately rejected in a national referendum, it drew on decades of diverse environmental, political, Indigenous, and community organizing and contained concepts and goals at the f…
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-75690-0
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- XIV, 168
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- -
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Transforming Education Outcomes in Africa = Learning from Togo
Good education changes lives. It is therefore unsurprising that improved schooling plays a central part in most development strategies. At the same time, the expansion of school attainment alone is not sufficient to guarantee improved welfare. This open access book focuses on one country in West Africa, Togo, to explore what a country that has successfully increased enrollment rates can do to e…
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- 1
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- 9783030127084
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- XVII, 103 ill; hlm
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- -
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