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This book examines the role of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) in public and scholarly discussions of the meaning of the Anthropocene proposal. The status of the Anthropocene, both as a geoscientific concept and as a cultural concept becoming increasingly familiar...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-03-03
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This open access edited volume focuses on fairness issues concerning the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for social service provision in national welfare systems. With this, it touches upon important questions in the innovation agenda of countries across continents...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-03-03
Collection :
Artificial Intelligence, Simulation and Society
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This volume explores contemporary caste dynamics in India, combining theoretical insights with rich empirical evidence. It offers an insightful examination of how caste practices, particularly concerning marginalized communities or Dalits, have transformed over the...
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Springer
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2025-03-02
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Using the theoretical framework of new economic geography and the research methods of GIS and econometrics, this book analyzes the impact of high-speed railway development on China's economic distribution, population mobility and regional integration. The development of...
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Springer
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2025-03-02
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Das Tableau der Nachhaltigkeitsziele der Vereinten Nationen fordert alle gesellschaftlichen Akteure heraus. Soll die globale Transformation in eine ressourcenorientierte Weltzivilisation gelingen, muss auch die Wissenschaft einen Beitrag für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2025-03-01
Collection :
SDG - Forschung, Konzepte, Lösungsansätze zur Nachhaltigkeit
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Interprofessional communication remains both under-theorized and under-researched in healthcare contexts.This book aims to fill that gap by offering practitioners, policy makers, interprofessional curriculum builders, and students in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-01
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This study aims to understand political transnationalism through the political incorporation of migrants in the receiving country. With a qualitative analysis of the perceptions of transnational second-generation Turks towards the political opportunity structures in...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2025-03-01
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In diesem Open Access Buch wird in einer Zeit, in der digitale Medien zunehmend an Bedeutung gewinnen, die dynamische Interaktion innerhalb digitaler Praxisgemeinschaften am Beispiel von Let’s Play-Videos auf YouTube untersucht. Die Autorin beleuchtet die sich...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2025-03-01
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This book centers the life histories of three women engaged in sex work in Kolkata, India to show how they make sense of their lived experiences and reveals deep insights into the risks women face in the current social environment of India. Much of the risk discourse...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-28
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The Palgrave Handbook of Ubuntu, Inequality and Sustainable Development interrogates the multiple inequalities that subsist in the world and explores how Ubuntu, emerging from Africa but being potentially applicable elsewhere, holds promise for mitigation and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-28
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This volume takes a global perspective on intersectionality embodied by Muslim women. It addresses questions such as balancing multiple identities, lived experiences and complex realities, and the role of faith in social roles. The chapters debunk the idea of Islam or...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-02-28
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This edited volume identifies and analyses the Eco-Weird as an interdisciplinary theoretical tool for engaging in fictional, philosophical, filmic, and ludic texts. It is the first volume to engage in the study of the Eco-Weird, which is a developing field at the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-28
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This book retraces the intellectual career of committed sociologist and maverick, Charles Wright Mills (1916-1962), whose work is considered "classic" in the USA. Unlike some existing works that focus primarily on Mills’ theoretical contributions or political...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-02-28
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Scholarly attention to the concept of the posthuman has increased recently in response to pressing problems about what it means to be human and what distinguishes the human from the nonhuman. The ongoing ecological catastrophes, recent technological breakthroughs, and...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-02-27
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„Wohnen“ hat in den letzten Jahren wieder Konjunktur; manche bezeichnen es schon als neue soziale Frage. Die rasante Steigerung der Angebotsmieten führt dazu, dass für viele das Wohnen insbesondere in einigen Groß- und Schwarmstädten unerschwinglich wird und sie in die...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2025-02-27
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This book is an Open Access Publication. The Guidelines for Trustworthy AI developed by the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI is a framework that has been developed to promote and achieve the trustworthiness of AI systems. It provides seven ethical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-27
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Wie konnte sich die Graffiti-Szene in Deutschland von einem kleinen, vorwiegend rechtswidrig und improvisierend agierenden Netzwerk zu einer der ältesten und stabilsten Szenen des Landes entwickeln?
Die Untersuchung beleuchtet diese Entwicklung und zeichnet den...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2025-02-27
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Trillions of dollars are lost annually due to corporate fraud, a growing global problem. For savvy professional investors, however, this crisis presents an opportunity. This book is the first to comprehensively explore a systematic and updated approach to identify,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-27
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