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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Indicators of the Genetic Diversity of Trees: State, Pressure, Benefit and Response: The State of the World’s Forest Genetic Resources – Thematic Study

    This study, prepared within the ambit of The State of the World’s Forest Genetic Resources, reviews issues related to the development of indicators for tree genetic diversity. It includes a historical account of the development of science-based indicators for tree genetic diversity that embrace ecological surrogates for genetic diversity, the genealogical approach, genetic monitoring of management ... Read more

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  • Striving for the High Sublime

    This essay discusses the striving for sublimity from a personal perspective, but in a way that has universal validity and so can be applied to us all. It explains how we can make the inner quest for sublimity a defining aspect of our life, which will enrich our existence and give us new meaning and value. ... Read more

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  • Withstanding Vulnerability throughout Adult Life

    Dynamics of Stressors, Resources, and Reserves

    Edited by Dario Spini, Eric Widmer ...
    This open access interdisciplinary book integrates the major findings and theoretical advances of a 12-year research program run by the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES research program hosted by the universities of Lausanne and Geneva, within a single comprehensive and coherent publication on vulnerability across adulthood. The book is based on the idea that vulnerability is ... Read more

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  • Soziale Netzwerke und gesundheitliche Ungleichheiten

    Eine neue Perspektive für die Forschung

    In diesem Buch wird die Perspektive der soziologischen, psychologischen und gesundheitswissenschaftlichen Netzwerkforschung für die Erklärung des Zusammenhangs zwischen sozialen und gesundheitlichen Ungleichheiten fokussiert.Unterschiedliche theoretische und methodische Zugänge werden vorgestellt, der internationale und der nationale Forschungsstand werden aufgearbeitet und eine Reihe von ... Read more

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  • なぜなぜ仏教教室No.126「現生十種の利益(三)」浄土真宗親鸞会

    Series Book 126 - なぜなぜ仏教教室
    今回のなぜなぜ仏教教室では「現生十種の利益(三)」について学べます。仏教に関心を持つきっかけは様々です。こころの安らぎを求めて競争社会に疲れた。勝ち負け以外に価値を見い出したい尊敬している人が勧めてくれたからいちおう仏教徒だし、そろそろ仏教も学ばないとと思って海外留学したとき、仏教について尋ねられ全く答えられなかったから知人の死を通して、仏教を知りたいと思い始めた生きる意味を知りたい幸せとは何か、仏教にヒントがあるのではと思ってなどなど。中でも、悩みの解決を仏教に求めている人が多くあるようです。現代は不安の時代といわれ、多くの人が、物には恵まれていますが、仕事や結婚、家庭や職場での人間関係、老後のことなど、先行きの暗い心を抱えてみな生きています。また天災や人災など、日々様々な災害を耳にし、いつ何が起きるか分からない不安な世の中は深さを増していると多くの識者が指摘するとおり... ... Read more

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  • Sport and Development in Emerging Nations

    Edited by Cem Tinaz, Brendon Knott ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport Politics and Policy
    For the first time, this book examines the strategies of leaders of emerging nations to use sport as a tool for reaching social, economic, cultural, political, technological or environmental goals and gaining international prestige. It assesses whether sport can really be an effective tool in international development.The book explores the unique challenges, issues and opportunities offered by ... Read more

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  • Digital Transformation and Cultural Policies in Europe

    Series series Routledge Research in the Creative and Cultural Industries
    What happens when cultural policy turns digital? Digital Transformation and Cultural Policies in Europe analyzes and compares different digital cultural policies of Europe.Through case studies of seven European countries (UK, Germany, Croatia, Sweden, Spain, Norway, and Switzerland) as well as the analysis of EU digital cultural policy, the book investigates what happens when cultural policy gets ... Read more

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  • なぜなぜ仏教教室No.57「後世」浄土真宗親鸞会

    Series Book 57 - なぜなぜ仏教教室
    今回のなぜなぜ仏教教室では「後世」について学べます。仏教に関心を持つきっかけは様々です。こころの安らぎを求めて競争社会に疲れた。勝ち負け以外に価値を見い出したい尊敬している人が勧めてくれたからいちおう仏教徒だし、そろそろ仏教も学ばないとと思って海外留学したとき、仏教について尋ねられ全く答えられなかったから知人の死を通して、仏教を知りたいと思い始めた生きる意味を知りたい幸せとは何か、仏教にヒントがあるのではと思ってなどなど。中でも、悩みの解決を仏教に求めている人が多くあるようです。現代は不安の時代といわれ、多くの人が、物には恵まれていますが、仕事や結婚、家庭や職場での人間関係、老後のことなど、先行きの暗い心を抱えてみな生きています。また天災や人災など、日々様々な災害を耳にし、いつ何が起きるか分からない不安な世の中は深さを増していると多くの識者が指摘するとおりです。... ... Read more

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