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The environmental rule of law for oceans: designing legal solutions
Our oceans need a strong and effective environmental rule of law to protect them against increased pressures and demands, including climate change, pollution, fisheries, shipping and more. The environmental rule of law for oceans requires the existence of a set of rules and policies at multiple governance levels that appropriately regulate human activities at sea and ensure that pressures on th…
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- -
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- 9781009253741
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- xxxiii, 380 pages; illustration
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- -
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- 341.4 POZ t
Harnessing public research for innovation in the 21st century: an internation…
Universities and public research institutes play a key role in the innovation ecosystem. Many countries have implemented national strategies to support the commercialization of knowledge produced by public institutions, to help take their innovations and scientific breakthroughs to market and ultimately boost economic growth. Research bodies themselves have also introduced practices to support …
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- 9781108842792
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- 544 p
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- Intellectual property, innovation and economic development
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- 607.2 ARU h
Pragmatism and methodology: doing research that matters with mixed methods
A pragmatist … turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns towards concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power. That means the empiricist temper regnant, and the rationalist temper sincerely given up. It means the open ai…
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- 9781316516140
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- ix, 236 p ; 24 cm
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- -
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- 300.72 GIL p
Surveying climate-relevant behavior : measurements, obstacles, and implications
This open access book discusses the contribution of sociology and survey research to climate research. The authors address the questions of which behaviors are of climate relevance, who is engaging in these behaviors, in which contexts do these behaviors occur, and which individual perceptions and values are related to them. Utilizing survey research, the book focuses on the measurement of clim…
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- 1
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- 9783030857967
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- xi, 159p. : ill.
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- -
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- 363.73874 MAR s
The Conflict of the Faculties: Perspectives on Artistic Research and Academia
Artistic research is an endeavour in which the artistic and the academic are connected. In this emerging field of research artistic practices contribute as research to what we know and understand, and academia opens its mind to forms of knowledge and understanding that are entwined with artistic practices. Henk Borgdorff also addresses how we comment on such issues, and how the things we say ca…
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- 19
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- 9789087281670
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- x, 277 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 707
Precision oncology and cancer biomarkers : issues at stake and matters of con…
This open access book reflects on matters of social and ethical concern raised in the daily practices of those working in and around precision oncology. Each chapter addresses the experiences, concerns and issues at stake for people who work in settings where precision oncology is practiced, enacted, imagined or discussed. It subsequently discusses and analyses bioethical dilemmas, scientific c…
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- Edisi 1
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- 9783030926120
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- xiv, 281p. : ill.
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- Human perspectives in health sciences and technology
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- 616.994 PRE p
Diseases of edible oilseed crops
Diseases of Edible Oilseed Crops presents an unprecedentedly thorough collection of information on the diseases of cultivated annual oilseed crops, including peanut, rapeseed-mustard, sesame, soybean, sunflower, and safflower. Written by internationally recognized researchers, this book covers and integrates worldwide literature in the field up to 2014, setting it apart from other books that ar…
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- 9
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- 9781466595651
- Collation
- 486 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 633.85 CHI d
The Land between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black…
The Land Between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300-1700 focuses on the strong riverine ties that connect the seas of the Mediterranean system (from the Western Mediterranean through the Sea of Marmara, the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov) and their hinterland. Addressing the mediating role of the Balkans between East and West all the way to Poland and Lithuania…
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- -
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- 9789004515468
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- 480p. : ill.
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- -
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- 709.4 ALI t
Actions of Their Own to Learn : Studies in Knowing, Acting, and Being
What does it mean to take actions of one’s own to learn? How do human beings create meaning for themselves and with others? How can learners’ active efforts to build knowledge be encouraged and supported? In this edited compilation, scholars from a diverse range of academic and professional backgrounds address these questions, grounded in the conviction that the ability to take effective ac…
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- 9789463512008
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- 284 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 371.3 IRO A
Female social entrepreneurship : challenging boundaries and reframing gender …
Das Zusammenspiel von Unternehmertum, Gender, Nachhaltigkeit und insbesondere der sozialen Dimension ist komplex und unterschätzt. Diese Studie analysiert Social Entrepreneurship durch eine Gender-Linse und stellt deutsche Sozialunternehmerinnen und ihre politischen, sozialen und ökonomischen Kontexte dar. Im Rahmen eines deskriptiven qualitativen Forschungsdesigns wurden eine Sekundäranalys…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783847425304
- Collation
- 292p
- Series Title
- L'AGENda, 10
- Call Number
- 658.408 GER
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