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Climate smart agriculture : building resilience to climate change
The book uses an economic lens to identify the main features of climate-smart agriculture (CSA), its likely impact, and the challenges associated with its implementation. Drawing upon theory and concepts from agricultural development, institutional, and resource economics, this book expands and formalizes the conceptual foundations of CSA. Focusing on the adaptation/resilience dimension of CSA,…
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- 9783319611945
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- xviii, 630p. : ill.
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- 338.1 CLI c
Contemporary perspectives on ageism
This open access book provides a comprehensive European perspective on the concept of ageism, its origins, the manifestation and consequences of ageism, as well as ways to respond to and research ageism. The book represents a collaborative effort of researchers from over 20 countries and a variety of disciplines, including, psychology, sociology, gerontology, geriatrics, pharmacology, law, geog…
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- 9783319738208
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- xxx, 564p. : ill.
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- 305.26 CON c
People, texts and artefacts: cultural transmission in the medieval Norman worlds
This volume is based on two international conferences held in 2013 and 2014 at Ariano Irpino, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. It contains essays by leading scholars in the field. Like the conferences, the volume seeks to enhance interdisciplinary and international dialogue between those who work on the Normans and their conquests in northern and southern Europe in an original way. This coll…
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- 9781909646568
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- xvii, 284 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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- 940.146 PEO p
Invited lectures from the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education
The book presents the Invited Lectures given at 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-13). ICME-13 took place from 24th- 31st July 2016 at the University of Hamburg in Hamburg (Germany). The congress was hosted by the Society of Didactics of Mathematics (Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik - GDM) and took place under the auspices of the International Commission on Ma…
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- 9783319721705
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- x, 786p. : ill.
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- 370 INV i
Security in computer and information sciences : first International ISCIS Sec…
This open access book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the First International ISCIS Security Workshop 2018, Euro-CYBERSEC 2018, held in London, UK, in February 2018. The 12 full papers presented together with an overview paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. Security of distributed interconnected systems, software systems, and the Internet of Things…
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- 9783319951898
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- xii, 157p. : ill.
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- 005.8 SEC s
A scholarly inquiry into disciplinary practices in educational institutions
This book is a collection of chapters based on original research dealing with issues of discipline and disciplinary practices in educational institutions. The aim of the book is to provide a scholarly and scientific perspective on the current state of discipline and disciplinary practices in schools and tertiary education settings. The issue of discipline is investigated from diverse paradigmat…
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- 9781928523154
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- XXXIII, 326 p.
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- NWU Education and Human Rights in Diversity Series, 2
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- 370 ASC a
Delusions in context
This open access book offers an exploration of delusions—unusual beliefs that can significantly disrupt people’s lives. Experts from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including lived experience, clinical psychiatry, philosophy, clinical psychology, and cognitive neuroscience, discuss how delusions emerge, why it is so difficult to give them up, what their effects are, how they are manage…
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- 9783319972022
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- xi, 121p. : ill.
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- 616.89 DEL d
The economy as a complex spatial system : macro, meso and micro perspectives
This collected volume represents the final outcome of the COST Action IS1104 “The EU in the new complex geography of economic systems: models, tools and policy evaluation”. Visualizing the EU as a complex and multi-layered network, the book is organized in three parts, each of them dealing with a different level of analysis: At the macro-level, Part I considers the interactions within la…
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- 9783319656274
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- xii, 220p. : ill.
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- 330.9 ECO e
Vocational education and training in Sub-Saharan Africa : current situation a…
There is a rising demand for specialist workers in several countries of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The area still lacks a consistent system of professional training and further education. The conference transcript comprises practical knowledge collected by the authors to depict the current state of professional training within the Sub-Saharan African countries. The paper also introduces the read…
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- 9783763957934
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- 367 p.
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- 370.1130967 EIC v
Memory in motion : archives, technology, and the social
How do new media affect the question of social memory? Social memory is usually described as enacted through ritual, language, art, architecture, and institutions ? phenomena whose persistence over time and capacity for a shared storage of the past was set in contrast to fleeting individual memory. But the question of how social memory should be understood in an age of digital computing, instan…
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- 9789048532063
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- 331 p.
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- 302 MEM m
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