This book draws on the insights and wisdom of representatives from a wide range of international organizations with a presence in China, leveraging their rich experience in their respective fields as well as their unique understanding of China’s development and its role in the world. In a world of increased tension between governments and a rise in regionalism, globally positioned non-governmental international organizations are key to keeping the lines of communication open. In addition to the United Nations and its affiliate organizations, a host of international organizations are ensuring that the world’s most pressing issues, in areas ranging from economics to education, are being discussed.

Présentation de seize techniques de manipulation mettant en lumière les ressorts de la persuasion, de l'influence et du pouvoir par la parole. …

This book is an innovative history of community health practitioners’ responses to the seemingly intractable problem of men (and on rare occasions, women) sexually abusing children within the private family home. It is situated within a social history of the development of British community-based health professions in the last decades of the twentieth century. Drawing on archival research and newly gathered in-depth oral history interviews, the monograph argues that expectations placed upon community-based doctors, nurses and mental health staff since the 1980s in relation to predicting and preventing the sexual abuse of children by men they know are incongruous. Beneath a surface acquiescence to the need to protect children from such abuse or to intervene early lie cultural, social and structural barriers that prevent its fulfilment. The book is a first in specifically interrogating the recent history of the role of community health practitioners within the modern 'child protection workforce', and contributes to growing scholarship on the history of emotions in the medical professions.

This edited collection is aimed at educators, student services staff, and university management. It is timely in adopting a forward-facing view of various aspects of digital teaching and learning in business and law and provides a vital resource for those designing, managing or thinking about digital learning in both fields.

This book presents peer-reviewed chapters that introduce the subject of climate change within formal and informal sectors of education in Africa, as key to building the capacity of current and future generations to address the most pressing global issue.

This edited book provides a synthesis of knowledge on Water Productivity (WP) and its role in addressing global challenges related to water and food insecurity, as well as climate change. It explores how increasing WP can contribute to achieving several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the global South, with a focus on SDG 2, 6, and 12.

In this book, Sarah Rüller offers a comprehensive exploration of the complexities and nuances of conducting Western digital research in non-Western contexts, focusing on a case study in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. The research underscores the importance of addressing the challenges inherent in navigating this intercultural landscape, particularly as Western researchers immersed in ethnographic work. The studies highlight the multifaceted issues surrounding postcolonial frameworks, extractivism, technocapitalism, exploitation, and the evolving paradigms of development and sustainability, and underscores the urgent need for a more pluralistic, site-specific co-design approach. This approach is central to promoting inclusive and just digital futures, mitigating the impact of WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) biases, and unraveling the complex interplay of local and rural contexts torn between authenticity and exploitation by information and communication technologies (ICTs). This research delves deeper into a critical analysis of the establishment of a MediaSpace and the different community perspectives on technology access, revealing tensions and contradictions that shape the discourse on development and self-determination.

Dies Buch. In der Natur, heißt es, befindet sich alles im Kreislauf. Für die Circular Economy und Bioökonomie ist die Kreislauffigur deshalb „das“ Leitmotiv. Ein Teil ihrer Denkschulen orientiert sich an der Natur und will deren Kreisläufe nachahmen. So bedeutend der Kreislaufbegriff für sie aber auch ist, in den zugehörigen Fachgemeinschaften fehlt es bisher an einer Auseinandersetzung damit. Diese Lücke soll das Buch schließen. Es befasst sich damit, was Kreisläufe sind, betrachtet die historische Entwicklung des Denkens in Kreisläufen, unterscheidet verschiedene Kreislaufmodelle und fragt danach, ob die eingangs getroffene Aussage, dass die Natur in Kreisläufen arbeitet, tatsächlich zutrifft. Abschließend erfolgt ein wichtiger Vergleich: Ist das, was mit Blick auf die Natur als Kreislauf bezeichnet wird, dasselbe, wie das, was in der Circular Economy und Bioökonomie so genannt wird?

This book presents peer reviewed articles from the 14th Arab Conference on Astronomy and Spaces Sciences (AUASS), held from 13 – 16 November 2023 at the University of Sharjah, UAE. It includes recent advances in the fields of astronomy, astrophysics, space sciences and technologies, including the universe and its components of celestial objects, including stars, galaxies, stars, planets and the solar system. Additional topics covering earth from outer space, the physics of the sun, solar activities and their impact on the atmosphere and the environment are included. A number of chapters will be dedicated to the Arab heritage highlighting their contribution in astronomy and space sciences.