Introduction. Post-Soviet Migration and Diaspora: From Global Perspectives to Everyday Perspectives; David Carment and Milana Nikolko -- Chapter 1. Diasporas, Development, and Homelands in Eurasia After 1991; Timothy Heleniak -- Chapter 2. Post-Soviet Russian-speaking migration to the UK: the discourses of visibility and accountability; Anna Pechurina -- Chapter 3. Migrant Self-Reflectivity and…
This book presents proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment (HAICTA 2017) which examine sustainable rural development in the context of environmental, economic, and the socio-cultural dimension. This book raises awareness of the importance of sustainable management in agriculture using examples of actual i…
1. Interactive Perspectives on Water Governance in Asia -- 2. Citizen Initiatives in Water Governance in the Netherlands:Reflection and Implications to Asian Cases -- 3. Contextual Factors Affecting the Modes of Interaction in Governance: The Case of Dam Removal in Japan -- 4. Interactive Participation under a Fragmented Administration System: Watershed Governance in Zhejiang Province, China --…
Chapter 1: Introducing Education for Sustainable Development; Roger Cutting and Denise Summers -- Chapter 2: Becoming Sustainability Champions: How Embracing ESD Can Help Organisations to Change; Pauline Osborne -- Chapter 3: Embracing Co-operative Inquiry to Embed ESD; Denise Summers -- Chapter 4: From the Local to the Global and Back Again – Reflections on Journeying to India, Learning abou…
Preface -- Part 1. Conceptual Frameworks -- Chapter 1. Reviewing the Stakeholder Value Creation Literature: Towards a Sustainability Approach -- Chapter 2. Innovative Approaches to Organisational Sustainability: State-of-the-art and Conceptual Framework -- Chapter 3. Sustainability and green project management skills: An exploratory study in the construction industry in Dubai -- etc.This book c…
The Concept of Spatial Planning and the Planning System -- Spatial Planning in Ghana: Historical Origins and Evolution -- Contemporary Planning Systems and Spatial Planning at the National Level -- The Inception of Regional Spatial Planning in Ghana -- Spatial Planning at the Local Level and Development Management -- Policy Integration in Spatial Planning: Mechanisms, Challenges and the Way For…
Foreword -- Preface -- Part 1 Introduction to the book and how it related to SDG Goal 1 -- Forest products and Poverty Alleviation -- Part 2 Personal narratives -- Part 3 Concluding chapter -- List of abbreviations.This book narrates personal stories of people from around the world who have used natural products, in particular Non Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) as a means to come out of poverty…
Chapter1. Introduction: Climate change and lifestyle – the relevance of new concepts for socialecological research -- Chapter2. Approaches of measuring human impacts on climate change -- Chapter3. The research context: India and the megacity of Hyderabad -- Chapter4. Conceptualisation and operationalisation – A social geography of climate change: Social-cultural mentalities, lifestyle, and …
What is Intergenerational Transmission of Child Maltreatment? -- Theoretical Frameworks Conceptualizing Intergenerational Transmission of Child Maltreatment -- Summary of Research on Intergenerational Transmission of Child Maltreatment -- Risk Factors Associated with Intergenerational Child Maltreatment -- Interrupting Intergenerational Transmission of Child Maltreatment: Protective Factors Ass…
Chapter 1. CREA and our path towards socially relevant social sciences -- Chapter 2. Dialogic relations and interactions as an alternative to power -- Chapter 3. The dialogic self: preventive socialization -- Chapter 4. Successful Actions: democratic sociology for democratic societies.This book presents the findings of research projects conducted by CREA (Community of Researchers on Excellence …