This Open Access book deals with the pressing question of how to achieve transformational change that reconciles development with environmental sustainability. It particularly focuses on the role of evaluation in finding sustainable solutions. Environment and development are closely interlinked, as are human health and ecosystem health. The pandemic that began in 2020 demonstrated in no uncerta…
This collection of essays explores cultural narratives of care in the contexts of ageing and illness. It includes both text-based and practice-based contributions by leading and emerging scholars in humanistic studies of ageing. The authors consider care not only in film (feature and documentary) and literature (novel, short story, children’s picturebook) but also in the fields of theatre per…
Classroom Assessment and Educational Measurement explores the ways in which the theory and practice of both educational measurement and the assessment of student learning in classroom settings mutually inform one another. Chapters by assessment and measurement experts consider the nature of classroom assessment information, from student achievement to affective and socio-emotional attributes; h…
This open access book focuses on the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on individuals and society from a legal perspective, providing a comprehensive risk-based methodological framework to address it. Building on the limitations of data protection in dealing with the challenges of AI, the author proposes an integrated approach to risk assessment that focuses on human rights and encompasses…
This open access book brings together varying perspectives for transformational change needed in India’s agriculture and allied sectors. Stressing the need of thinking for a post-Green Revolution future, the book promotes approaching this change through eight broad areas, indicating the policy shifts needed to meet the challenges for the coming decade (2021-2030). The book comprises of ten…
Co-production and co-creation occur when citizens participate actively in delivering and designing the services they receive. It has come increasingly onto the agenda of policymakers, as interest in citizen participation has more generally soared. Expectations are high and it is regarded as a possible solution to the public sector’s decreased legitimacy and dwindling resources, by accessing m…
This book asks how governments in Africa can use evidence to improve their policies and programmes, and ultimately, to achieve positive change for their citizens. Looking at different evidence sources across a range of contexts, the book brings policy makers and researchers together to uncover what does and doesn’t work and why. Case studies are drawn from five countries and the ECOWAS (west …
Chan’s book explores the challenges in assessing experiential learning, deepens our understanding, and inspires readers to think critically about the purpose of assessment in experiential learning. Experiential learning has been studied and proven to be effective for student learning, particularly for the development of holistic competencies (i.e. 21st century skills, soft skills, transferabl…
This book investigates how we should form ourselves in a world saturated with technologies that are profoundly intruding in the very fabric of our selfhood. New and emerging technologies, such as smart technological environments, imaging technologies and smart drugs, are increasingly shaping who and what we are and influencing who we ought to be. How should we adequately understand, evaluate an…
Making Sense of the Future integrates the latest thinking in Future Studies with the author’s expertise in world history, economics, interdisciplinary studies, knowledge organization, and political activism. The book takes a systems approach that recognizes the complexity of our world. It begins by suggesting a set of goals for human societies and identifying innovative strategies for achievi…
This open access book contains 13 contributions on global animal law, preceded by an introduction which explains key concepts and methods. Global Animal Law refers to the sum of legal rules and principles (both state-made and non-state-made) governing the interaction between humans and other animals, on a domestic, local, regional, and international level. Global animal law is the response to t…
Digital self-tracking devices and data have become normal elements of everyday life. Imagining Personal Data examines the implications of the rise of body monitoring and digital self-tracking for how we inhabit, experience and imagine our everyday worlds and futures. Through a focus on how it feels to live in environments where data is emergent, present and characterized by a sense of uncertain…
This innovative collection examines key questions on language diversity and multilingualism running through contemporary debates in psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. Reinforcing interdisciplinary conversations on these themes, each chapter is co-authored by two different researchers, often those who have not written together before. The combined effect is a volume showcasing unique and dy…
First published in 1989. Understanding Leisure is a readable introductory analysis of the key elements in the study of leisure. This includes leisure concepts and dimensions of leisure, its activity forms, participants, provision, and leisure futures, leisure and social theory. A collaborative work of six authors, Understanding Leisure is a textbook which introduces the reader to the interrelat…
This innovative collection explores critical issues in understanding multilingualism as a defining dimension of identity creation and negotiation in contemporary social life. Reinforcing interdisciplinary conversations on these themes, each chapter is co-authored by two different researchers, often those who have not written together before. The combined effect is a volume showcasing unique and…
The story of global sport is the story of expansion from local development to globalized industry, from recreational to marketized activity. Alongside that, each sport has its own distinctive history, sub-cultures, practices and structures. This ambitious new volume offers state-of-the-art overviews of the development of every major sport or classification of sport, examining their history, …
This open access book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they have come to matter. Rather than asking what quantification is, New Politics of Numbers explores what quantification does, its manifold consequences in multiple domains. It scrutinizes the power of numbers in terms of the changing relations between numbers and d…
This is an open access book discusses readers to various methods of modeling plans and policies that address public sector issues and problems. Written for public policy and social sciences students at the upper undergraduate and graduate level, as well as public sector decision-makers, it demonstrates and compares the development and use of various deterministic and probabilistic optimization …
This open access book contains 13 contributions on global animal law, preceded by an introduction which explains key concepts and methods. Global Animal Law refers to the sum of legal rules and principles (both state-made and non-state-made) governing the interaction between humans and other animals, on a domestic, local, regional, and international level. Global animal law is the response to t…
This open access book aims to set an agenda for research and action in the field of Digital Humanism through short essays written by selected thinkers from a variety of disciplines, including computer science, philosophy, education, law, economics, history, anthropology, political science, and sociology. This initiative emerged from the Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism and the associated le…
This book analyses the specificity of the law-making activity of European constitutional courts. The main hypothesis is that currently constitutional courts are positive legislators whose position in the system of State organs needs to be redefined. The book covers the analysis of the law-making activity of four constitutional courts in Western countries: Germany, Italy, Spain, and France; an…
Philosophy of Race: An Introduction provides plainly written access to a new subfield that has been in the background of philosophy since Plato and Aristotle. Part I provides an overview of ideas of race and ethnicity in the philosophical canon, egalitarian traditions, race in biology, and race in American and Continental Philosophy. Part II addresses race as it operates in life through colonia…
Persoalan dalam sektor transportasi adalah bagaimana cara merekayasa lalu lintas sehingga terjadi keseimbangan antara kebutuhan pergerakan dengan kemampuan penyediaan prasarana jaringan jalan dan fasilitas-fasilitas pendukungnya. Pembenahan sistem transportasi harus dilakukan melalui pandangan dan pendekatan yang luas, menyeluruh, terkoordinasi dan konsisten. Untuk itu diperlukan sistem yang ba…
Pertumbuhan penduduk memicu pertumbuhan volume kendaraan dan tidak diiringi dengan pengembangan kapasitas ruas jalan, pada akhirnya menimbulkan kemacetan khususnya pada kota-kota besar di Indonesia. Akibat kemacetan, pergerakan masyarakat perkotaan justru cenderung melakukan perjalanan sebagai tujuan dalam beraktivitas sehari-hari dengan menggunakan kendaraan pribadi. Penggunaan kendaraan priba…
This open access book, now in its second edition, offers a comprehensive overview of the experiences of First in Family (FiF) or first-generation students in higher education. It draws upon narratives of students and their family members and spans the entire university student life cycle (pre-entry, commencement, progression and graduation) with a focus on specific cohorts including mature-aged…
Buku ini membahas pengantar rekayasa lalu lintas. Pada bab pertama dijelaskan definisi dan tujuan teknik lalu lintas serta perkembangannya. Bab selanjutnya membahas karakteristik pengemudi dan pejalan kaki yang mempengaruhi lalu lintas. Bab ketiga membahas karakteristik arus lalu lintas seperti volume, kecepatan, dan kerapatan serta hubungannya. Bab empat membahas kajian ruas jalan perkotaan.
Buku ini membahas secara mendalam tentang pikiran-pikiran filsafat Pancasila dari dua filsuf besar, yakni Prof., Dr. Notonagoro dan Prof., Dr. N. Drijarkara, SJ. Keduanya tidak diragukan lagi sebagai filsuf yang memberikan kontribusi besar bagi perumusan atau pengembangan filsafat Pancasila. Dengan latar belakang pendidikan filsafat dan sosio-kultural yang berbeda, membandingkan pemikiran kedua…
This open access book considers the stories of adolescents and young adults from different regions of the world who use digital media as instruments and stages for storytelling, or who make the media the subject of story telling. These narratives discuss interconnectedness, self-staging, and managing boundaries. From the perspective of media and cultural research, they can be read as responses …
This open access book provides new conceptualisations on the networks of migrants and their descendants in accessing the labour market. Although references to social networks are common in discussions of migration, simplified ideas of co-ethnic networks often obscure the reality, for example confounding ties with co-ethnics and ‘strong ties’. This open access book addresses key questions ab…
This open access book brings science and practice together and inspires a global movement towards co-creating regenerative civilizations that work for 100% of humanity and the Earth as a whole. With its conceptual foundation of the concept of transformation literacy it enhances the knowledge and capacity of decision-makers, change agents and institutional actors to steward transformations effec…
The rise of authoritarian, nationalist forms of populism and the implications for rural actors and settings is one of the most crucial foci for critical agrarian studies today, with many consequences for political action.Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World reflects on the rural origins and consequences of the emergence of authoritarian and populist leaders across the worl…
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to develop a better and sustainable future for the world, and the goals are part of an action plan to address poverty, hunger, health, gender equity and various pressing world issues. One of these goals looks at health and wellness. Ageing populations have become a crucial issue worldwide, and this short monograph explores ageing and how the con…
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume shares new data relating to Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA), with emphasis on experiences in Eastern and Southern Africa. The book is a collection of research by authors from over 30 institutions, spanning the public and private sectors, with specific knowledge on agricultural development in the region discussed. The material is…
This open access book introduces the modern tontine and its applications in retirement and decumulation. Personal financial management in the later stages of life presents unique challenges, and renowned retirement planning expert Dr. Milevsky proposes the modern tontine as a solution. With the goal of guiding professionals and retirees in more efficient decumulation, the book demonstrates how …
The Center for China Studies is among China's most influential think-tanks, and its China Studies Reports are read at the highest levels of government. Now for the first time, the most important of these and reports is collated in book form in English, providing a fascinating insight into the challenges and opportunities for Chinese development and the government's thinking on economic and and …
This book is a critical introduction of theorisations and research on contemporary political populism emphasising the cultural per-spective. It introduces the basic theories and analyses the cultural construction of populism regarding radical democratic theory and empirical studies.Applying Ernesto Laclau’s and Chantal Mouffe’s theories, the author builds …
This Open Access volume aims to methodologically improve our understanding of biodiversity by linking disciplines that incorporate remote sensing, and uniting data and perspectives in the fields of biology, landscape ecology, and geography. The book provides a framework for how biodiversity can be detected and evaluated—focusing particularly on plants—using proximal and remotely sensed hype…
This open access book traces the journey of nuclear law: its origins, how it has developed, where it is now, and where it is headed. As a discipline, this highly specialized body of law makes it possible for us to benefit from the life-saving applications of nuclear science and technology, including diagnosing cancer as well as avoiding and mitigating the effects of climate change. This book se…
Pasar Minggu di masa lalu dikenal sebagai penghasil buah utama untuk penduduk Jakarta. Bahkan telah menjadi memori kolektif masyarakat Jakarta terutama terlihat dalam lirik-lirik lagu yang menggambarkan berbagai aspek dinamika kehidupan pertanian buah di Pasar Minggu kala itu. Buku ini menceritakan kembali dunia yang hilang (the lost world) tentang Pasar Minggu sebagai area penghasil buah-buaha…
Kereta api dianggap sebagai alat transportasi massal yang potensial dan efektif karena mempunyai daya angkut yang besar, waktu tempuh yang terjadwal, dan bebas macet sehingga menjadi salah satu alat transportasi publik yang disukai. Akan tetapi, sering terjadinya kecelakaan kereta api masih menjadi permasalahan yang harus dibenahi. Sarana pemeriksaan kondisi rel kereta api yang belum memadai me…
Are we being manipulated online? If so, is being manipulated by online technologies and algorithmic systems notably different from human forms of manipulation? And what is under threat exactly when people are manipulated online? This volume provides philosophical and conceptual depth to debates in digital ethics about online manipulation. The contributions explore the ramifications of our in…
Robots and artificial intelligence (AI) are powerful forces that will likely have large impacts on the size, direction, and composition of international trade flows. This book discusses how industrial robots, automation, and AI affect international growth, trade, productivity, employment, wages, and welfare. The book explains new approaches on how robots and artificial intelligence affect the w…
This Open Access book brings the experiences of automation as part of quotidian life into focus. It asks how, where and when automated technologies and systems are emerging in everyday life across different global regions? What are their likely impacts in the present and future? How do engineers, policy makers, industry stakeholders and designers envisage artificial intelligence (AI) and automa…
Buku ini akan membantu instansi pemerintah dalam melaksanakan survei tingkat kepusasan masyarakat melalui suatu metode pengukuran yang detail, jelas, dan mudah dipahami serta diterapkan. Metode pengukuran lndeks Kepuasan Masyarakat (IKM) Plus juga memiliki nilai 'plus' yang tidak dapat ditemukan pada metode sejenis. Pembaca akan dipandu langkah demi langkah melaksanakan metode pengukuran IKM Pl…
Peranan Lembaga Keuangan Mikro (LKM) Non-Bank dalam Pembiayaan Usaha Mikro bertujuan memberikan informasi kepada para praktisi, akademisi, dan pengambil kebijakan. Buku ini memaparkan karakteristik lembaga keuangan mikro, yaitu koperasi dan BMT. Selain itu, buku ini juga mengulas LKM non-bank dari sisi kemandirian keuangan serta menganalisis perannya sebagai lembaga pembiayaan dalam mendorong k…
Persedian bahan bakar fosil dunia semakin hari semakin menipis, sementara permintaan dan kebutuhan masyarakat akan bahan bakar terus meningkat. Hal ini mengakibatkan harga bahan bakar fosil semakin tidak terjangkau, yang pada akhirnya dapat berujung pada krisis energi global. Di Indonesia, subsidi BBM sudah menjadi momok bagi APBN setiap tahunnya. Oleh sebab itu, dibutuhkan energi alternatif un…
Subregional Mekong mulai mendapat perhatian dari dunia internasional. Hal ini terbukti dari terbentuknya banyak kerja sarna di Subregional ini. Munculnya beberapa kerja sama tersebut menunjukkan bahwa Subregional Mekong memiliki posisi strategis dengan potensi pengembangan yang cukup besar. Dari segi bidang kerja sama di Subregional ini, hampir semua skema yang ada mengarah pada pembangunan eko…
Tidak dapat dimungkiri bahwa dewasa ini konsumsi energi di Indonesia yang bersumber dari BBM meningkat pesat. Laju peningkatan penggunaan BBM ini diperparah oleh meningkatnya jumlah kendaraan setiap tahun. Hal ini menjadi faktor utama sebab sejauh ini sektor transportasi menempati urutan teratas—sebesar 60% dari total—pengonsumsian BBM. Tentu fenomena ini tidak boleh didiamkan sebab kasus k…
Kesetaraan dan keadilan gender dapat menjadi upaya strategis dalam mewujudkan pembangunan yang berkelanjutan, berkeadilan, dan maju. Oleh karena itu, pemahaman tentang konsep gender dalam pembangunan iptek harus dimiliki oleh berbagai pelaku iptek. Ditulis oleh berbagai pakar, peneliti, dan pemerhati gender dan iptek dari berbagai institusi iptek, buku bunga rampai Gender dalam Ilmu Pengetahuan…