This book builds on the work of anthropologists, designers, and ethnographers to develop an original methodology and framework for indigenous engagement and designer/non-designer collaboration in the field of social design.
This book explores the role of law and policy in circular economy transitions and their impacts on justice, including on distributional equity and recognition and procedural rights, especially for people already marginalised under the current dominant economic system.
This book builds on the work of anthropologists, designers, and ethnographers to develop an original methodology and framework for indigenous engagement and designer/non-designer collaboration in the field of social design.
This book explores the role of law and policy in circular economy transitions and their impacts on justice, including on distributional equity and recognition and procedural rights, especially for people already marginalised under the current dominant economic system.
Humanitarian Futures: Challenges and Opportunities explores the increasing types, dimensions and dynamics of crises threatening the world in the twenty-first century, and argues that those with humanitarian roles and responsibilities can only meet such challenges if their approaches to strategic and operational planning undergo fundamental paradigmatic shifts.
This book responds to the need for a comprehensive and detailed theoretical framework and systemic design approaches to improve mental, physical, social, behavioral, and ecological health in urban environments.
»Bewässerung« - hinter diesem Begriff versteckt sich nicht nur der Transport von Wasser, sondern ein komplexes Gefüge von Steuerungsprozessen: Wie hat sich das Bewässerungsdispositiv in Kenia seit der Kolonialzeit verändert?
Obwohl der Empirie in praxisanalytischen Forschungszugängen ein zentraler Stellenwert beigemessen wird, ist die Methodendiskussion in der Soziologie der Praxis bisher zu kurz gekommen.
Mikrofinanzierung ermöglicht die Vergabe von Krediten durch wechselseitiges Bürgen der Schuldner innerhalb einer Gruppe auch noch dort, wo kommerzielle Banken Risiken scheuen.
Israel und Palästina - Was sich heute als politisch scheinbar ausweglose Situation präsentiert, entsprang einst dem optimistischen, wenn auch naiven Traum, mit der Gründung des Staates Israel 1948 eine friedliche Gesellschaft für alle Religionen zu errichten.
This handbook critically examines spaces of mental health and wellbeing across multiple, often intersecting, domains from green and blue spaces to lived and embodied spaces, creative spaces, work and home spaces, and institutional and post-institutional spaces.
This book investigates corruption and anti-corruption efforts in Africa, emphasising the regional and thematic differences across the continent, whilst also exploring key patterns and trends.
This content-rich and inspirational book offers complementary theoretical and practical perspectives from detailed research and analysis of decent work, inclusion and sustainability issues in Brazil, Canada, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Singapore, the United Kingdom, the United States and West Africa.
This book provides a comprehensive account of the patterns of university and academics' societal engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), considering knowledge production and the resulting outputs, outcomes, and benefits that are yielded from such engagement for society.
Power sharing has become a common way of ending violent conflicts since the 1990s, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, in the hope that it positively impacts on both peacebuilding and democratisation.
Responsible and sustainable business practices are becoming increasingly important in the information age, as companies are realizing the need to address ethical and social issues associated with their operations.
Obwohl im Kampf gegen Korruption inzwischen einige positive Ansätze zu verzeichnen sind, ist sie vor allem für Organisationen der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit nach wie vor ein schwieriges und tabuisiertes Thema.
This book explores sustainable community development in Ghana post-COVID-19, highlighting examples of how individuals facing extreme challenges have adapted to their changing circumstances.
Der Autor geht von verschiedensten Schlüsselerlebnissen aus, die er als Mittelschullehrer und später als Priester in einem armen Milieu Westafrikas hatte.
This book explores the causes of the current economic crisis, evaluates the foundational principles of capitalism that contribute to crises, and investigates how an Islamic economic and banking system could play a role in fostering global stability.
This book investigates the experiences of women in Zimbabwe facing COVID-19 and gender-based violence, arguing that the insights from this extremely tough period could be used as a springboard for positive legal, cultural and policy changes.
This book develops a theory of collective empowerment that looks for change both from the bottom up, in civil society, and from the top down, from state interventions responding to such pressure.
This book focuses on upland agricultural systems and applies a multiple capitals approach to explain what they can provide at a time when many are struggling to survive.
Die vorliegende Arbeit zeigt in einer möglichst umfassenden Breite auf, welche Belege für die verschiedenen immobiliaren Eigentumsübertragungsvarianten dem Grundbuchamt als Rechtsgrundausweis für Eigentumseintragung einzureichen sind.