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    Editorial by Dr. Roberto Anaya Rodríguez

    Published 2014
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    Social Movements in 1980s Sweden Contention in the Welfare State /

    Published 2023
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction; Helena Hill and Andrés Brink Pinto -- 2. Actors behind Contention over the Welfare State in the 1980s; Jenny Jansson and Katrin Uba -- 3. …”
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    Inside Asylum Bureaucracy: Organizing Refugee Status Determination in Austria by Dahlvik, Julia

    Published 2018
    Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Claiming asylum in the 21st century: an institutional perspective -- 1.Introduction -- 2.Determining refugee status in the European context: the legal and institutional framework -- Part II: Setting the scene: the context and circumstances of work at the Federal Asylum Office -- 3.The organization: structure, environment and socialization -- 4.The asylum interview as a magnifying glass for key issues: conflicting norms, power struggles, and actors' strategies -- 5.Regulation vs. room for maneuver -- 6.Definitiveness vs. uncertainty -- 7.The human individual vs. the faceless case -- 8.Responsibility vs. dissociation -- Part IV: Conclusion and prospects: theorizing public officials' practices and practical ways ahead -- 9.Practices in focus: the dilemmas that evoke them and the effects they have -- 10.Practical implications: how to deal with structural dilemmas? …”
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    The Impact of Covid-19 on the Institutional Fabric of Higher Education Old Patterns, New Dynamics, and Changing Rules? /

    Published 2023
    Table of Contents: “…Section 1: Setting the Stage -- Chapter 1: Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on the institutional fabric of Higher Education -- Section 2: The System's Responses to COVID-19 -- Chapter 2: Evidence, stakeholders and decision making: managing COVID-19 in Irish Higher education -- Chapter 3: New actors, administrative measures and conflicting agendas: The impact of the pandemic on internationalisation of higher education in Poland and Russia -- Chapter 4: Highlighting systemic inequalities: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on French Higher Education -- Chapter 5: Higher education institutions responses to COVID-19 in Uganda: Regulatory tools and adaptive institutions -- Section 3: Higher Education Institutions' Responses to COVID-19 -- Chapter 6: Higher Education in Brazil: Institutional actions for the retention of students in public and private sectors -- Chapter 7: Higher Education in Brazil: Institutional actions for the retention of students in public and private sectors -- Chapter 8: Internationalization of higher education in Argentina upon the arrival of Covid-19: Reactions and lessons from the perspective of International Relations Office -- Chapter 9: University-civic engagement in the time of the pandemic -- Chapter 10: Public Service Resilience in a post-COVID-19 world: The Case of Digital Transformation in Higher Education -- Chapter 11: Entrepreneurial universities: From research groups to spin-off companies in a time of COVID-19 -- Section 4: Actors' Responses to COVID-19 -- Chapter 12: Challenges, Opportunities, and Coping Strategies when Faced with the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study of Academics in Mainland China and Hong Kong -- Chapter 13: "We shouldn't let academia exhaust ourselves anymore!"…”
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    Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights

    Published 2020
    Table of Contents: “…The Coercive Sting in SDG 16 -- Climate Change, Sustainable Development, and Human Rights -- Reflecting on the Right to Development from the Perspective of Global Environmental Change and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development -- The Role of Public and Private Actors and Means in Implementing the SDGs: Reclaiming the Public Policy Space for Sustainable Development and Human Rights -- Towards a Division of Labour for Sustainable Development: Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations.…”
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    Nachhaltige Entwicklung in einer Gesellschaft des Umbruchs

    Published 2021
    Table of Contents: “…Ein kritisch-historischer Abriss -- Transdisziplinäre Nachhaltigkeitsforschung - Methoden, Kriterien, gesellschaftliche Relevanz -- Transformation and contestation. Learning from actors and socio-political engagements in transformative science -- Wie ist ein nachhaltiger Umgang mit Plastik möglich? …”
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    Agroecological Transitions: From Theory to Practice in Local Participatory Design

    Published 2019
    Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Chapter 1: General introduction -- Chapter 2: TATA-BOX at a glance -- Part I: Territorial Agroecological Transition at a concept crossroads -- Chapter 3: Socio-economic characterisation of agriculture models -- Chapter 4: An integrated approach to livestock farming systems' autonomy in designing and managing agroecological transition at the farm and territorial levels -- Chapter 5: Agroecological transition from farms to territorialised agri-food systems: issues and drivers -- Chapter 6: A plurality of viewpoints regarding the uncertainties of the agroecological transition -- Chapter 7: Towards an integrated framework for the governance of a territorialised agroecological transition -- Chapter 8: The key role of actors in the agroecological transition of farmers: a case-study in the Tarn-Aveyron Basin -- Part II: Support methodology for territorial agroecological transition design, and feedback from the TATA-BOX project experience -- Chapter 9: Participatory methodologyfor designing an agroecological transition at local level -- Chapter 10: Towards a reflective approach to research project management -- Chapter 11: Evaluation of the operationalisation of the TATA-BOX process -- Part III: New prospects and cross-cutting perspectives -- Chapter 12: Information and communication technology (ICT) and the agroecological transition -- Chapter 13: TATA-BOX: A model for participatory processes? …”
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    The World of the Seafarer Qualitative Accounts of Working in the Global Shipping Industry /

    Published 2021
    Table of Contents: “…by Victor Oyaro Gekara -- 4 Careers at Sea: Exploring Seafarer Motivations and Aspirations by Polina Baum-Talmor -- 5 Women Seafarers: An Analysis of Barriers for Their Employment by Momoko Kitada -- Part Two: Being at Sea: 6 Transitions and Adjustments Made by Seafarers Whilst at Sea by Helen Devereux -- 7 The Rhythms of Shipboard Life: Work, Hierarchy, Occupational Culture and Multinational Crews by Helen Sampson -- 8 The Experience of Being a Filipino Seafarer on a Multinationally Crewed Ship by Iris Acejo -- 9 Environmental Management at Sea, What Being 'Green' Means for Seafarers by Ngwatung Akamangwa -- 10 Safety Aboard Chinese Vessels by Conghua Xue -- 11 Multiple Roles and Role Conflict: Seafarers as Economic, Humanitarian and Security Actors by Amaha Senu -- Part Three: Support for Seafarers and Their Families: 12 Union Organising in the Context of Regional Labour Market Decline: The Case of Nautilus International by Victor Oyaro Gekara -- 13 Trade Union Representation in the Philippines by Ralph Buiser -- 14 On-line Support Groups for Families in China by Lijun Tang.…”
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    Planning Cities in Africa Current Issues and Future Prospects of Urban Governance and Planning /

    Published 2022
    Table of Contents: “…Insights from Maputo City -- Translating globalised ideals into local settings: The actors and complexities of post-settlement water infrastructure planning in urban Ghana.…”
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