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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
This volume explores the meaning of the Paris Climate Agreement 2015 for business; it analyses its challenges and implications, and establishes required actions by the private sector in order to reduce global warming and mitigating climate change effects.
We bring together evidence-based,...
Environmental Philosophy
The Art of Life in a World of Limits
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Humankind has long considered the relationship it holds with nature to be both a blessing and a challenge. The onset of climate change has brought a new impetus to this relationship. This volume of Advances in Sustainability and Environmental Justice will examine environmental philosophy from a number...
by Dr. Lucy Budd, Steven Griggs, David Howarth
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
This volume brings together some of the leading names in global aviation policy research to provide a unique and ground breaking synthesis of current debates on sustainable aviation. Unlike previous edited works, this volume is inter-disciplinary and international in nature, drawing on the work of...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
This book examines the development of biopolitics as an academic perspective within political science. It reviews the work of the leading proponents of this perspective and presents a comprehensive view of biopolitics as a framework to structure political inquiry. The book's chapters present a range...
by Alexander W. Wiseman
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
This volume of the "International Perspectives on Education and Society" series examines the relationship between HIV/AIDS and education worldwide. Much of the mystery surrounding HIV/AIDS and education lies in the fact that many factors contextualize their intersection. Many of the children...
Youth Engagement
The Civic-Political Lives of Children and Youth
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
In recent years, civic and political institutions have stepped up their efforts to encourage youth participation: schools promote volunteerism, non-profits provide opportunities for service, local governments create youth councils, and social movement organizations discuss the need to encourage a...
Inquiry-Based Learning for Multidisciplinary Programs
A Conceptual and Practical Resource for Educators
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Inquiry-based learning (IBL) is a learner-centered, active learning environment where learning is cultivated by a process of inquiry owned by the learner. It has roots in a constructivist educational philosophy and is oriented around three components: 1) exploration and discovery (e.g. problem-based...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
This series publishes monograph length conceptual papers designed to promote theory and research on important substantive and methodological topics in the field of human resources management. Volume 31 of Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management (RPHRM) contains six papers on important...
by Sung-il Kim, Johnmarshall Reeve, Mimi Bong
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
The phenomena of motivation cannot be studied separately as an independent research topic because motivation is highly interrelated to cognition, emotion, learning, and decision-making process. The overarching aim of this volume, therefore, is to provide new insight into a unified grand theory of...
Special Issue
The Legacy of Stuart Scheingold
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society is dedicated to the life and work of beloved legal scholar Stuart Scheingold. The articles brought together in this volume articulate the inspiring contribution Scheingold made to political science and law and society. The final chapter "Rights,...
Special Issue
Law and the Liberal State
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics and Society focuses on law and the liberal state; presenting an interdisciplinary and multifaceted approach to analysis of law and liberty. The first chapters focus on law's direct relationship with the American liberal state. John P. Anderson defends...
General and Special Education Inclusion in an Age of Change
Roles of Professionals Involved
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
This volume addresses general and special education inclusion and how the education field has changed over time. The topic of inclusion has transformed over the years from when it was first introduced and as a result of legislation, new trends, and current research investigations. In addition, this...
Interdisciplinary Connections to Special Education
Key Related Professionals Involved
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
This two-part volume addresses the specific area of interdisciplinary connections within special education research. Special education has transformed as a result of legislation, new trends and current research investigations. Currently, there is no comprehensive resource that effectively covers these...
Behavioral Disorders
Identification, Assessment, and Instruction of Students with EBD
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Along with volume 23 of the same series, this book addresses the most current perspectives and issues related to behavior disorders and it involves leaders in the behaviour disorders field. This book specifically addresses identification, assessment and instruction. This book is organized to allow...