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Sustainable mobility for island destinations
This open access book presents the findings of the CIVITAS DESTINATIONS project regarding the link between mobility and tourism in urban areas and the complications tourist destinations face in becoming more sustainable. It integrates the tourist mobility needs and the associated fluctuation impacts in the design of mobility solutions in order to enforce the accessibility, attractiveness, effic…
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- 13
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030737153
- Collation
- ix; 147p; ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 388.4 SUS T
Civil and environmental engineering for the sustainable development goals : e…
This open access volume collects emerging issues in Environmental and Civil Engineering, originating from outstanding doctoral dissertations discussed at Politecnico di Milano in 2021. The advanced innovative insights provided are presented with reference to the relevant sustainable development goals (SDGs), hoping that scientists, technicians and decision makers will find them as a valid suppo…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030995935
- Collation
- IX, 108p ; ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 628 CIV
Education for Sustaining Peace through Historical Memory
‘This is a necessary exercise in deconstruction and reconstruction that challenges conventional and critical approaches to peace education. Schultze-Kraft’s new book is an impressive piece of synthesis, a personal manifesto married to a rigorous interrogation of the theoretical literature. It pushes boundaries enhancing the sustaining peace agenda. As such it deserves the critical attention…
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- 6
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030936549
- Collation
- xi; 119; ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 327.1 EDU M
COVID-19, The Global South And The Pandemic’s Development Impact
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines the unique implications of the pandemic in the Global South. With international contributors from a variety of disciplines, it investigates the pandemic’s effects on development, medicine, gender (in)equality and human rights among other issues. The book’s assessment offers a discourse on the ways in which the…
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- -
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- 9781529225679
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- -
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Creating resilient futures : integrating disaster risk reduction, sustainable…
This excellent text recognises that efforts towards improving development outcomes must work in concert with strategies which promote planetary health and support the transition to a sustainable and climate-resilient future. — Rt Hon Helen Clark, Patron, The Helen Clark Foundation, Auckland, New Zealand. The threat multiplier of climate change is carefully used to examine best practic…
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- 11
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030807917
- Collation
- xix; 257p; ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 363.346 CRE S
Ray Tracing Gems II : Next Generation Real-Time Rendering with DXR, Vulkan, a…
This Open Access book is a must-have for anyone interested in real-time rendering. Ray tracing is the holy grail of gaming graphics, simulating the physical behavior of light to bring real-time, cinematic-quality rendering to even the most visually intense games. Ray tracing is also a fundamental algorithm used for architecture applications, visualization, sound simulation, deep learning, and m…
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- -
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- 9781484271858
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- lvi, 858 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 006.6 RAY A
Economic diversification in Nigeria : the politics of building a post-oil eco…
Nigeria has for long been regarded as the poster child for the ‘curse’ of oil wealth. Yet despite this, Nigeria achieved strong economic growth for over a decade in the 21st century, driven largely by policy reforms in non-oil sectors. This open access book argues that Nigeria’s major development challenge is not the ‘oil curse’, but rather one of achieving economic diversification be…
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- 4
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781786993977
- Collation
- xiii, 313p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 338.9669 ECO u
Practices of Citizenship in East Africa : Perspectives from Philosophical Pra…
Practices of Citizenship in East Africa uses insights from philosophical pragmatism to explore how to strengthen citizenship within developing countries. Using a bottom-up approach, the book investigates the various everyday practices in which citizenship habits are formed and reformulated. In particular, the book reflects on the challenges of implementing the ideals of transformative and criti…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780429279171
- Collation
- xi, 258 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 323.609678 PRA K
LAND TENURE SECURITY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
This open access book presents a nuanced and accessible synthesis of the relationship between land tenure security and sustainable development. Contributing authors have collectively worked for decades on land tenure as connected with conservation and development across all major regions of the globe. The first section of this volume is intended as a standalone primer on land tenure security an…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030818807
- Collation
- xxxvii, 329p.; ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 333.3 LAN h
The anguished and the enchanted : The little prince revisited
"In The Anguished and the Enchanted, M.H. Bowker offers a lengthy critical essay and richly annotated English translation of a lost Finnish translation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince. Featuring a substantial Translator’s Preface, M.H. Bowker develops a psychoanalytic lens through which to regard Saint-Exupéry’s classic work, offering a more nuanced and less ""fable-esqu…
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- 6
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781953035554
- Collation
- 120p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 843.912 ANG M
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