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The Palgrave Handbook of Development Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda Contested Collaboration /

Table of Contents: “…Polycentricity and coordination in governance -- 3.Development finance and the 2030 goals -- 4.Transnational science cooperation for sustainable development -- 5.An evolving shared concept of development cooperation: Perspectives on the 2030 Agenda -- 6.The globalisation of foreign aid: Global influences and the diffusion of aid priorities -- 7.The untapped functions of international cooperation in the age of sustainable development -- 8.The difficulties of diffusing the 2030 Agenda: Situated norm engagement and development organisations -- 9.Diffusion, fusion, and confusion: Development cooperation in a multiplex world order -- 10.Conceptualising ideational convergence of China and OECD donors: Coalition magnets in development cooperation -- 11.Measuring development cooperation and the quality of aid -- 12.Interest-based development cooperation: Moving providers from parochial convergence to principled collaboration -- 13.Monitoring and evaluation in South-South cooperation: The case of CPEC in Pakistan -- 14.The implementation of the SDGs: The feasibility of using the GPEDC monitoring framework -- 15.Counting the invisible: The challenges and opportunities of the SDG indicator framework for statistical capacity development -- 16.Building a global development cooperation regime: Necessary but failed efforts -- 17.Failing to share the burden: Traditional donors, Southern providers, and the twilight of the GPEDC and the post-war aid system -- 18.Should China join the GPEDC? …”
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Social Media for Civic Education Engaging Youth for Democracy / by Chapman, Amy L.

Table of Contents: “…The Young and The Restless Don't Think So -- Chapter 3 The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: How Social Media Operates in the Civic Sphere -- Chapter 4 The Study: Teachers' Use of Twitter for Civic Education -- Chapter 5 #CivicEd: Teachers' Stories of Connection, Civics, and Social Media -- Chapter 6 (Digital) Citizenship: Dissenting from Indifference -- Chapter 7 Nurturing a Capacity That May Well Be Limitless: Supporting Student Worth as a Matter of Civic Urgency -- Chapter 8 With a Little Help from Friends: Teaching About, With, and Through Social Media -- Chapter 9 The Margins Don't Get Erased by Simply Insisting that the Powers That Be Erase Them: Social Media as a Disrupter -- Chapter 10 Conclusions: My Liberation is Bound Up with Yours.…”
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Quantifying Quality of Life Incorporating Daily Life into Medicine /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to Quality of Life and WHOQOL model -- Physical health: Activities of daily living -- Physical health: Dependence on medicinal substances and medical -- Physical health: Energy and Fatigue -- Physical health: Mobility -- Physical health: pain and discomfort -- Physical health: sleep and rest -- Physical health: work capacity -- Psychological: bodily image and appearance -- Psychological: negative and positive feelings -- Psychological: self-esteem -- Psychological: spirituality/religion/personal beliefs -- Psychological: thinking, learning, memory and concentration -- Social relationships: personal relationships +social support -- Social relationships: sexual activity -- Environment: financial resources -- Environment: freedom, physical safety and security -- Environment: health and social care: accessibility and quality -- Environment: home environment -- Environment: opportunities for acquiring new information and skills -- Environment: participation in and opportunities for recreation/leisure activities -- Environment: physical environment (pollution, noise, traffic, climate) -- Environment: Transport -- Future directions. .…”
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Guidebook to Carbon Neutrality in China Macro and Industry Trends under New Constraints.

Table of Contents: “…Green finance: Clarifying functions and capacity -- Chapter 5. Green technology: From quantity to quality -- Chapter 6. …”
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Grammatical theory From transformational grammar to constraint-based approaches by Müller, Stefan

Table of Contents: “…1 Introduction and basic terms -- 2 Phrase structure grammar -- 3 Transformational Grammar - Government & Binding -- 4 Transformational Grammar - Minimalism -- 5 Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar -- 6 Feature descriptions -- 7 Lexical Functional Grammar -- 8 Categorical Grammar -- 9 Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar -- 10 Construction Grammar -- 11 Dependency Grammar -- 12 Tree Adjoining Grammar -- 13 The Innateness of linguistic knowledge -- 14 Generative-enumerative vs. model-theoretic approaches -- 15 The competence/performance distinction -- 16 Language acquisition -- 17 Generative capacity and grammar formalisms -- 18 Binary branching, locality, and recursion -- 19 Empty elements -- 20 Extraction, scrambling, and passive: one or several descriptive devices? …”
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Taxation, International Cooperation and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda

Table of Contents: “…The Suitability of BEPS in Developing Countries (Emphasis on Latin America and the Caribbean) (Isaác Gonzalo Arias Esteban and Anarella Calderoni) -- Part II: External assistance for tax capacity building ((Chapters on external assistance, including issues for donors) -- Chapter 4. …”
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Designing Sustainable Technologies, Products and Policies From Science to Innovation /

Table of Contents: “…-Life Cycle Management Responsibilities and Procedures in the Value Chain -- Policy Options for Life Cycle Assessment Deployment in Legislation -- Part IV: Mainstreaming and Capacity Building on Life Cycle Management -- Taking Life Cycle Management Mainstream: Integration in Corporate Finance and Accounting -- Building Organizational Capability for Life Cycle Management -- Promoting Life Cycle Thinking, Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Management Within Business in Brazil -- Mainstreaming Life Cycle Sustainability Management in Rapidly Growing and Emerging Economies Through Capacity-building.…”
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Life Cycle Management

Table of Contents: “…-Life Cycle Management Responsibilities and Procedures in the Value Chain -- Policy Options for Life Cycle Assessment Deployment in Legislation -- Part IV: Mainstreaming and Capacity Building on Life Cycle Management -- Taking Life Cycle Management Mainstream: Integration in Corporate Finance and Accounting -- Building Organizational Capability for Life Cycle Management -- Promoting Life Cycle Thinking, Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Management Within Business in Brazil -- Mainstreaming Life Cycle Sustainability Management in Rapidly Growing and Emerging Economies Through Capacity-building.…”
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Water Security, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia Flows across Boundaries /

Table of Contents: “…Changing Use and Management of a Traditional Canal Irrigation System in Peri-Urban Kathmandu Valley -- Chapter 4 Public Lives, Private Water: Female Ready-Made Garment Factory Workers in Peri-Urban Bangladesh -- Chapter 5 Digging Deeper: Deep Wells, Bore-Wells and Water Tankers in Peri-Urban Hyderabad -- Chapter 6 Changing Agriculture and Climate Variability in Peri-Urban Gurugram, India -- Chapter 7 Views from the Sluice Gate: Water Insecurity, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban Khulna, Bangladesh -- Chapter 8 Interventions to Strengthen Institutional Capacity for Peri-Urban Water Management in South Asia -- Chapter 9 Concluding Reflections: Towards Alternative Peri-Urban Futures?.…”
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Gender Equality, Climate Action, and Technological Innovation for Sustainable Development in Africa by Adeola, Ogechi, Evans, Olaniyi, Ngare, Innocent

Table of Contents: “…1: Introduction: Gender and climate change in Africa -- PART I: GENDER AND CLIMATE ISSUES IN AFRICA -- 2: Gender and Climate Issues in West Africa -- 3: Gender and Climate Issues in North Africa -- 4: Gender and Climate Issues in East Africa -- 5: Gender and Climate Issues in South Africa -- Part II: GENDER AND CLIMATE ACTION IN AFRICA -- 6: Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in Africa -- 7: Inculcation of SDG13 and gender inclusion in climate change policy frameworks and strategies in Africa -- 8: Women empowerment for climate change responsiveness in Africa -- PART III: GENDER, CLIMATE ACTION AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION -- 9: Digital technology and climate change adaptation in Africa -- 10: Climate-Smart Agriculture for navigating climate-related challenges of women in Africa's agricultural sector -- 11: Renewable energy (green ICT) for climate change mitigation and energy sustainability: The African challenge -- PART IV: CONCLUSION -- 12: Green reskilling of women for climate action -- 13: Conclusion: Towards Policy Synergy in Africa.…”
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Introducing Foreign Models for Development Japanese Experience and Cooperation in the Age of New Technology /

Table of Contents: “…Bilateral Policy Dialogue: Japanese Cooperation for Enhancing Industrial Policy Capacity -- 6. Industry Engagement in TVET and the Japanese Cooperation in Vietnam: The Case of Hanoi University of Industry -- 7. …”
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Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life

Table of Contents: “…Towards sustainable consumption: reflections on the concepts of social loading, excess, and idle capacity.…”
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Vessel Health and Preservation: The Right Approach for Vascular Access

Table of Contents: “…Training process, competencies, preparation for PIV, PICC, CVC insertions -- Section 3. Right Insertion -- Chapter 4. …”
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Technology Assessment in a Globalized World Facing the Challenges of Transnational Technology Governance /

Table of Contents: “…Tracing Technology Assessment Internationally - TA Activities in 12 Countries Across the Globe -- Technology Assessment in a Multilateral Science, Technology and Innovation System -- Globalisation as reflexive modernisation - Implications for S&T governance -- Technology Assessment and public spheres in the context of globalization - A blueprint for the future -- Technology assessment in developing countries: The case of India - Examples of governmental and informal TA -- Climate change - Does the IPCC model provide the foundation for a potential global Technology Assessment framework? …”
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Assessing Progress in Decarbonizing Spain's Building Stock Indicators and Data Availability /

Table of Contents: “…Assessing the effectiveness of building renovation policies and decarbonization progress: a review of European legislation -- Analysis of institutional frameworks of indicators to measure the effectiveness of building renovation policy and decarbonization progress in Europe -- Indicators and data in Spain for an overview of the general characteristics of the national building stock -- Indicators and data in Spain for an overview of the energy characteristics of the national building stock -- Indicators and data in Spain for an overview of deep renovation of buildings -- Indicators and data in Spain regarding an overview of worst performing segments of the national building stock, rented properties and energy poverty -- Indicators and data in Spain regarding an overview of the capacities in the construction, energy efficiency and renewable energy sector -- Indicators and data in Spain for an overview of actual energy savings and wider benefits of renovation of buildings -- Indicators and data in Spain regarding evidence-based estimate of expected energy savings and of reduction of costs for health systems from buildings renovation -- Indicators and data in Spain regarding policies and measures for the mobilization of investments into the renovation of buildings -- On the availability and quality of data in Spain for the development of progress indicators to measure building renovation policies effectiveness and the decarbonization of the building stock -- New approaches to generate data to measure the progress of decarbonization of the building stock in Europe and Spain.…”
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Volcanic Unrest From Science to Society /

Table of Contents: “…Part 1 - Overview on volcanic unrest -- Significance of unrest -- Past experiences -- Part 2 - Geophysical and geochemical insights on unrest and precursory activity -- Volcano Seismology: detecting unrest in wiggly lines -- Volcano geodesy and multiparameter investigations -- Volcanic gases and low temperature volcanic fluids -- MONITORING CAPACITY: obvious and hidden problems -- Part 3 - Magma dynamics: Lessons from experiments and models -- Storage and ascent of magma -- Magma rejuvenation: Insights from numerical models -- Crystals, bubbles and melt: critical conduit processes revealed by numerical models -- Interaction between magma and hydrothermal system -- The magma laboratory: Constraining unrest mechanisms -- From unrest to eruption: Conditions for phreatic vs. magmatic activity -- Geochemical and isotopic investigations in the light of unrest -- Magma mixing as a prelude to unrest -- Part 4 - Bridging the gap between science and decision-making -- Legal governance -- A Warner paper incl Cost benefit -- Recognizing and tracking volcanic unrest: a probabilistic approach -- Probabilistic tools for hazard assessment and risk management -- Deterministic vs. probabilistic forecasts -- Perspective on global practices of communication and decision-makers' needs -- Social resilience and compliance during unrest crises -- Outreach and education -- Volcanic Unrest Simulation Exercises - guidance for future exercises -- Glossary -- INDEX.…”
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Biodiversity Conservation and Phylogenetic Systematics Preserving our evolutionary heritage in an extinction crisis /

Table of Contents: “…The case of phylogenetic relict species -- Using phylogenetic dissimilarities among sites for biodiversity assessments and conservation -- Phylogenetic diversity measures and their decomposition: a framework based on hill numbers -- Split diversity: measuring and optimizing biodiversity using phylogenetic split networks -- The rarefaction of phylogenetic diversity: formulation, extension and application -- Support in area prioritization using phylogenetic information -- Assessing hotspots of evolutionary history with data from multiple phylogenies: an analysis of endemic clades from New Caledonia -- Representing hotspots of evolutionary history in systematic conservation planning for European mammals -- Priorities for conservation of the evolutionary history of amphibians in the cerrado -- Global spatial analyses of phylogenetic conservation priorities for aquatic mammals -- Metapopulation capacity meets evolutionary distinctness: spatial fragmentation complements phylogenetic rarity in prioritization. - Patterns of species, phylogenetic and mimicry diversity of clearwing butterflies in the Neotropics -- Conservation of phylogenetic diversity in Madagascar's largest endemic plant family, Sarcolaenaceae -- The future of phylogenetic systematics in conservation biology: linking biodiversity and society.…”
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Goods and Services of Marine Bivalves

Table of Contents: “…PART I General Introduction -- PART II Provisioning services -- Introduction -- 2 Global production trends and challenges -- 3 Resource provisioning and efficient use -- 4 Bivalve production system in China -- 5 Production of pearls -- 6 Biotechnologies from marine bivalves -- PART III Regulating services -- 7 Introduction -- 8 Biofiltration for turbidity management -- 9 Feedbacks by filter feeders: nutrient regeneration -- 10 Nutrient extraction through bivalves -- 11 Perspectives of bivalves in IMTA -- 12 Regulating services of bivalve molluscs in the context of the carbon cycle and implications for ecosystem valuation -- 13 Bivalve reefs as eco-engineers -- 14 Bivalve beds as biodiversity hot spots -- 15 Enhanced production of finfish and large crustaceans by bivalve reefs -- PART IV Cultural services -- 16 Introduction -- 17 Socio-economy of shellfish culture communities -- 18 A variety of approaches for incorporating community outreach and education in oyster reef restoration projects: Examples from the United States -- 19 Bivalve gardening -- 20 Shells as collector's item -- 21 Archaeology and sclerochronology of marine bivalves -- PART V Assessment of services -- 22 Introduction -- 23 Bivalve aquaculture carrying capacity: concepts and assessment tools -- 24 Farm scale production models -- 25 Ecosystem models -- 26 Spatial models -- 27 Nutrient trading -- Epilogue.…”
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Louisiana's Response to Extreme Weather A Coastal State's Adaptation Challenges and Successes /

Table of Contents: “…Coupled Coastal-Inland - Regional Resilience: Building Adaptive Capacity and Community Wellbeing Across Louisiana's Dynamic Coastal-Inland Continuum.…”
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Parental Life Courses after Separation and Divorce in Europe

Table of Contents: “…The Consequences of Separation for Mothers' Perception of their Parenting Capacity -- Chapter 9. The Role of Gatekeeping in Non-Resident Fathers' Contact with their Children: Mothers' and Fathers' Views -- Part III: Parentand Child Well-being -- Chapter 10. …”
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