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Indigenous cultures and sustainable development in Latin America
This open access book outlines development theory and practice overtime as well as critically interrogates the “cultural turn” in development policy in Latin American indigenous communities, specifically, in Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, and Bolivia. It becomes apparent that culturally sustainable development is both a new and old idea, which is simultaneously traditional and modern, and th…
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- 9783030370237
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- ix, 253p. : ill.
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- 306.098 MAC i
Energy justice across borders
We must find new and innovative ways of conceptualizing transboundary energy issues, of embedding concerns of ethics or justice into energy policy, and of operationalizing response to them. This book stems from the emergent gap; the need for comparative approaches to energy justice, and for those that consider ethical traditions that go beyond the classical Western approach. This edited vol…
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- 9783030240219
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- xiv, 305p. : ill.
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- 333.79 ENE e
Economic complexity and human development: how economic diversification and s…
This book combines the human development approach and innovation economics in order to explore the effects that structural economic change has on human development. The author discusses how innovation, social networks, economic dynamics and human development are interlinked, and provides several practical examples of social and micro-entrepreneurship in contexts as diverse as Peruvian rural vil…
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- 9780415858915
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- xxiv, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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- 306.3 HAR e
Advances in pharma business management and research
This open access book presents a unique collection of practical examples from the field of pharma business management and research. It covers a wide range of topics such as: 'Brexit and its Impact on pharmaceutical Law - Implications for Global Pharma Companies', 'Implementation of Measures and Sustainable Actions to Improve Employee's Engagement', 'Global Medical Clinical and Regulatory Affair…
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- 9783030359188
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- x, 85p. : ill.
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- 615.19 ADV a
Managing socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes for sustainable…
This open access book presents up-to-date analyses of community-based approaches to sustainable resource management of SEPLS (socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes) in areas where a harmonious relationship between the natural environment and the people who inhabit it is essential to ensure community and environmental well-being as well as to build resilience in the ecosystems tha…
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- 9789811511332
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- x, 179p. : ill.
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- 333.7 MAN m
Enabling sustainable energy transitions : practices of legitimation and accou…
This open access book reframes sustainable energy transitions as being a matter of resolving accountability crises. It demonstrates how the empirical study of several practices of legitimation can analytically deconstruct energy transitions, and presents a typology of these practices to help determine whether energy transitions contribute to sustainability. The real-world challenge of climat…
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- 9783030268916
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- xxi, 168p. : ill.
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- 333.79 ENA e
Disrupted development and the future of inequality in the age of automation
This open access book examines the future of inequality, work and wages in the age of automation with a focus on developing countries. The authors argue that the rise of a global ‘robot reserve army’ has profound effects on labor markets and economic development, but, rather than causing mass unemployment, new technologies are more likely to lead to stagnant wages and premature deindustrial…
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- 9783030301316
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- xiii, 102p. : ill.
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- 338.9 SCH d
Between Imagined Communities and Communities of Practice - Participation, Ter…
Community and participation have become central concepts in the nomination processes surrounding heritage, intersecting time and again with questions of territory. In this volume, anthropologists and legal scholars from France, Germany, Italy and the USA take up questions arising from these intertwined concerns from diverse perspectives: How and by whom were these concepts interpreted and re-in…
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- 9783863952051
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- 315 p.
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- 306.42 BET b
Sustainable development goals and human rights
This open access book analyses the interplay of sustainable development and human rights from different perspectives including fight against poverty, health, gender equality, working conditions, climate change and the role of private actors. Each aspect is addressed from a more human rights-focused angle and a development-policy angle. This allows comparisons between the different approaches bu…
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- 9783030304690
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- xv, 239p. : ill.
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- 304.2 SUS s
Framing in sustainability science : theoretical and practical approaches
This open access book offers both conceptual and empirical descriptions of how to “frame” sustainability challenges. It defines “framing” in the context of sustainability science as the process of identifying subjects, setting boundaries, and defining problems. The chapters are grouped into two sections: a conceptual section and a case section. The conceptual section introduces readers …
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- 9789811390616
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- viii, 196p. : ill.
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- 338.927 FRA f
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