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Higher Education in Romania: Overcoming Challenges and Embracing Opportunities
Romanian education policy was notoriously plagued by instability and a tendency to escape the normal policymaking cycle via top-down highly politicised reforms. After almost three decades, a new initiative by the President of Romania attempts to promote a more inclusive style of policymaking that would ensure wider societal support to upcoming educational reforms. The purpose of this articl…
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- 9783030944964
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- VIII, 274
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Die beharrliche Mitte – Wenn investive Statusarbeit funktioniert
Die Mittelschichten spielen spätestens seit den 1950er Jahren als Großgruppe im Ungleichheitsgefüge moderner Gesellschaften die tragende Rolle. Wurde das 19. Jahrhundert vom Antagonismus zwischen Industriearbeiterschaft auf der einen, kapitalistischen Unternehmern auf der anderen Seite geprägt, vollzog sich in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts ein allmähliches Größenwachstum d…
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- 9783658365660
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- VII, 330
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Sustainable Enterprise Value Creation
This Open Access book provides a practical guide to the creation of sustainable enterprise value and implementation of the principles of stakeholder capitalism for corporate boards and management teams. The authors argue that business leadership is on the threshold of a new era driven by major shifts in technology, society, political economy and climate change. They set this transition in inter…
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- 978-3-030-93560-3
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- XVII, 289
Revisualising Intersectionality
The introduction to Revisualising Intersectionality explains the proposal for a revisualising of intersectionality as a double strategy of revising intersectionality and infusing it with a stronger focus on visual perceptions of similarity and difference to understand social stratifcation and inequality. Haschemi Yekani and Nowicka briefy situate the book within what by now has become t…
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- 9783030932091
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- XI, 132
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Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Southeast Asia: Innovations and…
This book is based on the findings of a long-term (2000-2014) interdisciplinary research project of the University of Hohenheim in collaboration with several universities in Thailand and Vietnam. Titled Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountainous Areas in Southeast Asia, or the Uplands Program, the project aims to contribute through agricultural research to the conservation of nat…
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- 978-3-642-33377-4
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- X, 490
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- Springer Environmental Science and Engineering (SPRINGERENVIRON)
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Narrative Praktiken von Unternehmen
Die vorliegende Monographie meiner Dissertation ist dank der Unterstützung vieler Menschen entstanden. Einige standen mir während des gesamten Prozesses zur Seite und andere sprangen mir in situativ aufkommenden Herausforderungen tatkräftig zur Seite. Ihnen allen danke ich herzlich für ihr Engagement und ihr Mitwirken: So gilt mein Dank meiner Erstbetreuerin Frau Prof. Dr. Helga Kottho…
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- 9783662646335
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- XXI, 569
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iCity. Transformative Research for the Livable, Intelligent, and Sustainable …
Economy and society today face a multitude of complex challenges (“grand challenges”) like climate change, demographic change, urbanization, or digitalization, which create a constant demand for new technologies, services, business models, and consequently innovative solutions. In this light, the mobility sector has undergone a great change over the past few years, which is formed by di…
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- 9783030920968
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- XLI, 371
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Vaccines, Medicines and COVID-19 : How Can WHO Be Given a Stronger Voice?
This open access book is a collection of research papers on COVID-19 by Germán Velásquez from 2020 and early 2021 that help to answer the question: How can an agency like the World Health Organization (WHO) be given a stronger voice to exercise authority and leadership? The considerable health, economic and social challenges that the world faced at the beginning of 2020 with COVID-19 co…
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- 978-3-030-89125-1
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- XVI, 117
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- SpringerBriefs in Public Health (BRIEFSPUBLIC)
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Violence in the Balkans : First findings from the Balkan Homicide Study
This is the first volume to offer an in-depth look at (lethal) violence in the Balkans. The Balkans Homicide Study analyses 3,000 (attempted) homicide cases from Croatia, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania and Slovenia. Shedding light on a region long neglected in terms of empirical violence research, the study at hand asks: - What types of homicides occur in the Balkans? - Who are the p…
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- 978-3-030-74494-6
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- XIII, 113
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- SpringerBriefs in Criminology (BRIEFSCRIMINOL)
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Community-Oriented Policing and Technological Innovations
This Brief presents new approaches and innovative challenges to address bringing technology into community-oriented policing efforts. “Community-oriented policing” is an approach that encourages police to develop and maintain personal relationships with citizens and community organizations. By developing these partnerships, the goal is to enhance trust and legitimacy of police by the commun…
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- 978-3-319-89294-8
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- XIII, 131
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- SpringerBriefs in Criminology (BRIEFSCRIMINOL)
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