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  • Località in movimento

    Governare i sistemi locali nella società dell’informazione

    Series series Sviluppo e territori
    L’avvento della società dell’informazione, caratterizzata da un intenso scambio locale-globale e dall’inspessirsi di reti che consentono agli attori sociali di relazionarsi e interagire non più solo su base territoriale, ma anche nello “spazio dei flussi”, ha accelerato i processi di trasformazione della società e dell’economia in atto su scala locale, causando frammentazione e rendendo sempre più ... Read more

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  • Livestock grazing systems and sustainable development in the Mediterranean and Tropical areas

    Recent knowledge on their strengths and weaknesses

    Series series Matière à débattre et décider
    Livestock grazing systems, through their specific footprints on the landscape, can contribute to sustainable development in general and to that of territories in particular, especially in Mediterranean and tropical areas where they are very present. An analysis of their capacity to adapt, their efficiency and their potential for innovation sheds light on their most important assets and their ... Read more

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  • Desigualdades sociales en México.

    Legados y desafíos desde una perspectiva multidisciplinaria

    México se caracteriza por la desigualdad de oportunidades y la escasa movilidad social. Las personas enfrentan severos obstáculos para alcanzar mayores niveles de bienestar debido a rezagos persistentes y a nuevos desafíos para la justicia social. Este volumen parte de un estudio de los legados de desigualdad en la educación para luego explorar los patrones diferenciados de oportunidades que se ... Read more

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  • The Limits to Citizen Power

    Participatory Democracy and the Entanglements of the State

    by Victor Albert ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    Can a political project exist outside of the power relations from which it is trying to emerge? In the twilight of Brazil’s twenty-one year military regime, a new union movement emerged in São Paulo’s industrial region, giving life to a new political party: the Workers’ Party. The electoral success enjoyed by the party enabled it to champion a whole raft of democratic reforms and Brazil is now ... Read more

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  • Professional Practice in Child Protection and the Child’s Right to Participate

    Series series The Focus On Series
    This book explains and discusses how a child’s right to freedom of expression is upheld through practice and decision-making in Child Protection Services (CPS).Using the right to expression as stipulated in Article 12.2 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) as a point of departure, it explains what CPS practices should look like and how they must operate to uphold and ... Read more

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  • Habeas Corpus after 9/11

    Confronting America’s New Global Detention System

    2012 American Bar Association Gavel Award Honorable Mention for Books2012 Scribes Book Silver Medal Award presented by the American Society of Legal WritersThe U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay has long been synonymous with torture, secrecy, and the abuse of executive power. It has come to epitomize lawlessness and has sparked protracted legal battles and political debate. For too long, ... Read more

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  • Traçando Caminhos em uma Sociedade Violenta

    a vida de jovens infratores e de seus irmãos não-infratores

    Objetiva aprofundar o conhecimento sobre a violência praticada por jovens, com base, dentre outras, na seguinte pergunta: por que, na mesma família, somente alguns desenvolvem comportamento delinquente? Foram escolhidos Rio de Janeiro e Pernambuco, com incidência elevada de infrações juvenis, para olhar mais de perto o universo daqueles que cometeram delitos e de suas famílias - que, muitas vezes, ... Read more

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  • Business Transitions: A Path to Sustainability

    The CapSEM Model

    Edited by Annik Magerholm Fet ...
    This open access book represents a journey documenting the development of tools and methodologies over 3 decades and asks where the future lies. It further develops seminal work carried out under the auspices of the Capacity building in Sustainability and Environmental Management (CapSEM) project co-funded by the EU Erasmus programme from 2016-2019 as well as research projects such as IGLO-MP2020, ... Read more

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  • The PKK's Treachery and Oppression

    Members of this terror organization, raised on Darwinist and communist principles, perpetrate what communism requires by carrying out cowardly attacks, as bequeathed to them by Lenin. Those who say, “Enough, let us give up some land just so long as this terror comes to an end” are unaware of the true scale of the danger: The PKK wants a world communist state, starting with the Southeast and then ... Read more

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  • Primal Ethics: What Our Kids Are Taught In School And Culture

    by Damion Boyd ...
    The Earth moves through space as part of a Grand Story. Some have poetically called this unfolding story the “Song of Creation”. They believe in a Creator. They believe God has a purpose. Thus, they approach each day within a Big Narrative of meaning and purpose. For example, such people may well reason that there is an order to Creation—that human life is more valuable than birds—that life seems ... Read more

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  • मराठा मूक मोर्चाच्या अंतरंगात (Maratha Muk Morchyachyaa Antarangat)

    कोपर्डीतील घटनेची तीव्रता कशा पद्धतीने वाढली? औरंगाबादच्या पहिल्या मोर्चाची तयारी कशी झाली? प्रत्यक्षात मोर्चाचे स्वरूप कसे ठरले?मोर्चाला एवढ्या मोठ्या प्रमाणात प्रतिसाद कसा मिळाला?मोर्चामुळे नेमके काय साध्य झाले ?९ ऑगस्ट २०१६ रोजी पहिला मराठा मूक मोर्चा औरंगाबादमध्ये निघाला. या मोर्चाने मराठा मूक मोर्चाची वेगळी ओळख निर्माण केली. पुढे महाराष्ट्रात ४८, राज्याबाहेर ५ आणि देशाबाहेर ४ ठिकाणी मराठा मूक ... Read more

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  • La situation mondiale des pêches et de l’aquaculture 2022: Vers une transformation bleue

    L’édition 2022 de La Situation mondiale des pêches et de l’aquaculture coïncide avec le lancement de la Décennie d’action des Nations Unies pour la réalisation des objectifs de développement durable, la Décennie des Nations Unies pour les sciences océaniques au service du développement durable et la Décennie des Nations Unies pour la restauration des écosystèmes. Elle montre comment ces décennies ... Read more

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  • Getting Georgia Right

    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    Georgia is unquestionably the most open polity of the South Caucasus, and its political development will be a bell-wether for the prospects of democratic development across Eurasia. This research paper analyses the achievements and shortcomings of the Rose Revolution era as well as the prospects for the country under the leadership of the Georgian Dream Coalition. Furthermore, it discusses the ... Read more

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  • Global Plan of Action for the Conservation, Sustainable Use and Development of Aquatic Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

    This Global Plan of Action for the Conservation, Sustainable Use and Development of Aquatic Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (GPA) was developed by FAO at the request of the members of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture in response to the needs and challenges identified in the first global assessment of the status of Aquatic Genetic Resources for Food and ... Read more

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  • Democracy & World Peace

    Our world is riddled with conflict and war. Democracy, it seems, is the only solution. But, is it? In this manifesto, we study the characteristics of democracy & question if its truly worth it. ... Read more

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  • Working Undercover

    by Ralph Holiman ...
    Working Undercover is a true short story about a DEA agent going undercover in New Orleans in 1992 to buy five kilograms of cocaine. ... Read more

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  • Scenes and Communities in the City

    This open access book addresses the problem of creation and reproduction processes of contemporary urban communities, as well as cultural mechanisms and factors of these processes. Rejecting both the environmental determinism, and cultural reductionism of community studies, the book assumes that the postmodern city is a space of diverse urban communities that go far beyond the traditional concept ... Read more

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  • 中欧能源杂志2023年3月刊

    2023, #2

    Series Book 2 - 2023
    關於中歐能源合作平台 (ECECP)"中欧能源合作平台于 2019 年 5 月 15 日启动,旨在支持落实《关于落实中欧能源合作的联合声明》中的举措。中欧能源合作平台的目标是遵循欧盟能源绿色新政,欧盟联盟、《全欧洲人共享清洁能源倡议》、《巴黎气候变化协定》和欧盟《全球战略》,加强中欧能源合作。此次加强合作将增进中欧双方理解互信,为全球清洁能源向可持续、可靠、安全的能源系统转型做出贡献。中欧能源合作平台由艾思赋国际咨询公司(ICF)作为牵头机构 及国家发展和改革委员会能源研究所、共同组成项目执行团队。欧盟(DG ENERGY) 和中国国家能源局给予政策指导。"法律免责声明本刊物所表达观点和传达的信息的仅来自作者本人,並不代表中歐能源合作平台。©️ European Union 2021, 2022, 2023 版權所有 ... Read more

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  • Energy Transition in the Baltic Sea Region

    Understanding Stakeholder Engagement and Community Acceptance

    Edited by Farid Karimi, Michael Rodi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Energy Transitions
    This book analyses the potential for active stakeholder engagement in the energy transition in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) in order to foster clean energy deployment.Public acceptability and bottom-up activities can be critical for enduring outcomes to an energy transition. As a result, it is vital to understand how to unlock the potential for public, community and prosumer participation to ... Read more

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  • African Initiated Christianity and the Decolonisation of Development

    Sustainable Development in Pentecostal and Independent Churches

    Series series Routledge Research in Religion and Development
    This book investigates the substantial and growing contribution which African Independent and Pentecostal Churches are making to sustainable development in all its manifold forms. Moreover, this volume seeks to elucidate how these churches reshape the very notion of sustainable development and contribute to the decolonisation of development.Fostering both overarching and comparative perspectives, ... Read more

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  • Striking before Disasters Do: Promoting Phased Anticipatory Action for Slow-Onset Hazards: Position Paper

    Hazards may occur suddenly (sudden-onset) or develop over time (slow-onset) and threaten people’s lives and livelihoods and all the pillars of sustainable development. Since 2016, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has supported extensive country-level work on Anticipatory Action for several slow-onset hazards such as drought, cold waves, pests and diseases, Rift ... Read more

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  • Police Cooperation and Sovereignty in the EU

    Norway’s Lessons for Europe

    Series series Transnational Criminal Justice
    The State and the police are traditionally seen as closely connected phenomena. Today, however, rapid EU legal developments mean that European police forces are no longer tied to a specific national legal context or a specific territory in the way they used to be.Norway is not a member of the EU. Or is it? This book shows that although it lacks formal membership status, Norway has become part of ... Read more

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  • A trajetória da cana-de-açúcar no Brasil

    perspectivas geográfica, histórica e ambiental

    No ano de 2017, o Brasil se posicionou como o maior produtor mundial de cana-de-açúcar e de açúcar, e o segundo de etanol. O que explica essa constância da cana-de-açúcar e dos seus derivados nas pautas de produção e de exportação brasileiras? Quais são as condicionantes físicas que explicam a expansão dos canaviais e, consequentemente, das unidades manufatureiras e industriais do açúcar, etanol e ... Read more

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  • The Four Books of John: Development of Intuitive Personality

    by FM NOTE LIGHT ...
    Series Book 30 - FM/NOTE/LIGHT: The Chapter Series
    Mail delivery. I've some personal letters for you, you, and you. Oh...and you too. Yes, I promise I did not open them and read them already. I know they are personal, so... ... Read more

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