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Risk, Power, and Inequality in the 21st Century provides a groundbreaking new analysis of the increasingly important relationship between risk and widening inequalities. The massive, and often unequal, impacts of contemporary risks are recognized widely in popular discussions - be it the fall-out from the 2008 financial crisis or Hurricane Katrina - yet there is a distinct neglect in social science of the overall systemic impacts of these risks for increasing inequalities. This book moves beyond this lacuna to identify novel intersections of risk and inequalities. It shows how key processes associated with risk society - the social production and distribution of risks as side-effects - are intensifying inequalities in fundamental ways. In articulating how risk is intensifying both the social sources of suffering of the least advantaged and the power of the most advantaged, this book realizes a significant rethinking of risk, power, and inequalities in contemporary society.
Social stratification --- sociologie --- sociale wetenschappen --- armoede --- sociale ongelijkheid --- macro-economie --- anno 2000-2099 --- Social sciences --- Economic development. --- Sociology. --- Macroeconomics. --- Social structure. --- Equality. --- Environmental sciences --- Social Theory. --- Development Studies. --- Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics. --- Social Structure. --- Environmental Social Sciences. --- Philosophy. --- Social aspects.
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This book provides a contemporary account of the linkages between the academic field of conflict resolution and the practice of military peacekeeping, through the lens of pre-deployment training for military personnel about to embark on UN peacekeeping operations. Military personnel serving on United Nations peacekeeping operations are deployed into highly challenging post-conflict environments, where the likelihood of violence remains high. Moreover, these personnel are deployed part of a wider peace process, and are thus situated as an anchor point in a transition from war to peace. This dimension of their work therefore means that a range of skills and techniques are relied upon, which come not from traditional military training, but from other, non-traditional fields. It is into this gap where the academic field of conflict resolution has made a valuable contribution to understanding international peacekeeping. Since the 1970’s, studies have sought to understand international peacekeeping as a necessary stage in conflict de-escalation, and ultimately transformation. From this, there is a history of engagement including studies which seek to understand the skills peacekeepers may need to assist them in their day to day activities, and the role that international peacekeeping plays in wider projects of conflict transformation. .
International relations. Foreign policy --- Politics --- Mass communications --- communicatie --- politiek --- internationale betrekkingen
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Psychology --- zelfsturing --- perfectionisme --- zelfvertrouwen --- zelfbeeld --- geluk
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This book brings a new spatial analysis to gang territories through the concept of the gang assemblage- the variety of actors, contexts, and practices that create and maintain these spaces. This conceptualization helps overcome the tendency of gang literature to succumb to the gang territorial trap, the tendency to assume gang territories are fixed and static containers of gang life. Drawing on multi-sited qualitative fieldwork in central Canada, interviews with gang and non-gang-affiliated residents, police, and administrators show gang territories being made material through a wide variety of daily embodied practices. Recognizing the role of multiple actors encourages a relational ethics of accountability between bodies, practices, and place that challenges the often-naturalized connections between race, space, and crime. Understanding gang space as enacted through embodied material practices provides an alternative way to think through, trace, and disrupt these associations.
Sociology of law --- Sociology --- Criminology. Victimology --- Criminal law. Criminal procedure --- sociologie --- strafrecht --- steden --- criminaliteit --- Gangs --- Spatial behavior --- Critical criminology. --- Social aspects. --- Sociology, Urban. --- Social justice. --- Urban Sociology. --- Social Justice. --- Critical Criminology.
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English literature --- PXL-Education 2018 --- secundair onderwijs --- fictie --- vanaf 13 jaar
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Materials sciences --- Transport engineering --- Production management --- DFMA (design for manufacture and assembly) --- duurzaamheid --- transport --- duurzame ontwikkeling
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Oncology. Neoplasms --- Neuropathology --- neurologie --- oncologie
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The blurring of boundaries between hitherto distinct scientific disciplines, technologies or markets is a common and powerful phenomenon. Subjects of this convergence often change consumer behaviours, favouring products and platforms with multiple functions. The Anticipation of Converging Industries provides a detailed focus on the triggers, drivers and consequences of convergence to create a more concise definition of convergence. This detailed analysis includes a specifically developed toolbox for ‘convergence foresight’, creating a forecasting method for convergence trends. With the focus on the chemical, biotechnological and pharmaceutical industries, several indicators of convergence in the areas of Nutraceuticals/Functional Foods, Cosmeceuticals and ICT are derived from samples including over 1million patents and scientific publications. By supporting this methodical approach with real world data, The Anticipation of Converging Industries is perfect for industry practitioners looking for a competitive edge in the present and for the future. Similarly, academics will find a comprehensive theoretical concept for better understanding the underlying rationale of convergence at their disposal.
Social psychology --- Methodology of economics --- Economic policy and planning (general) --- Industrial economics --- Economics --- Biology --- Pharmacology. Therapy --- Applied physical engineering --- Business economics --- technologiebeleid --- sociale psychologie --- farmacologie --- biologie --- economie --- biotechnologie --- industriële marketing --- ingenieurswetenschappen --- Food industry and trade --- Functional foods. --- Convergence (Telecommunication) --- Engineering. --- Pharmaceutical technology. --- Information technology.
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This book describes the importance of the goal and scope phase for the entire LCA study. In this first phase of the LCA framework (ISO standardized), the purpose of the assessment is defined and decisions are made about the details of the industrial system being studied and how the study will be conducted. Selecting impact categories, category indicators, characterization models, and peer review is decided during goal and scope definition. The book provides practical guidance and an overview of LCIA methods available in LCA software. Although not specified in the ISO standards, Attributional LCA and Consequential LCA are presented in order to appropriately determine the goal and scope of an assessment. The book closes with the interconnection between goal and scope definition and the interpretation phase. Example goal and scope documents for attributional and consequential LCAs are provided in the annexes.
Meteorology. Climatology --- General ecology and biosociology --- Toxicology --- Social medicine --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Production management --- ecotoxicologie --- farmacologie --- milieuhygiëne --- toxicologie --- milieubeleid --- milieuzorg --- duurzame ontwikkeling --- klimaatverandering
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The book presents high-quality research papers presented at the 1st AUE International research conference, AUEIRC 2017, organized by the American University in the Emirates, held on November 15th-16th, 2017 in Dubai. The book is broadly divided into three sections: Media and Smart Cities, Creative Technologies and Innovation, and Security Risks and Strategic Challenges. The areas covered under these sections are cyber-psychology and digital forensics, cloud RAN architecture, networking functions virtualization, e-Governance and IoT semantic interoperability, ERP security, web-based application and problem-solving skills, smart technologies and advertising, smart technologies for smart cities, smart adaptable navigation systems, turbo codes for security key generation, technology advanced student learning and mobile devices, big data security and privacy, multi-channel buffer enabled technique, physiological signal acquisition in electro-oculography, blockchain and donation-based crowdfunding, smart city and framework development approach, news channel and media education, UAE foreign policy, China-GCC relations, diplomacy in the Internet age, intelligent cyber-security strategies, industry securities and strategic challenges, hybrid alliances and corporate security, security and privacy in smart cities, human computer interaction and e-learning solution, complexity of smart cities governance. The papers included in this book present insightful information on the most recent and relevant research, theories and practices in the field, which aim for a sustainable future.
Mass communications --- Computer science --- Smart City --- cloud computing --- IoT (Internet of Things) --- big data --- blockchain --- mobiele netwerken --- communicatie --- computers --- duurzame ontwikkeling --- computerkunde
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