This book is about how water becomes people – or, put another way, how people and water flow together and shape each other. While the focus of the book is on the relationships held between water and people, it also has a broader message about human relationships with the environment generally – a message that illustrates not only that people are existentially entangled with the material wor…
The Global Fund was designed to evolve to best meet the needs of a changing world context. More than 50 percent of the burden of each of the three diseases and the majority of the world’s poor now live in countries classified by the World Bank as middle income but still varying greatly in terms of quality, access, and capacity of health service provision. Simultaneously, concentrations of dis…
The project aims to exchange interdisciplinary knowledge in the fields of economics and geomatics. For the newly introduced courses, interdisciplinary learning materials have been developed by a team of lecturers from four different universities in three countries. In a first study block, students were taught methods from the two main research fields. Afterwards, the knowledge gained had to be …
The book series on Knowledge and Space explores the nature of human knowledge from a geographical perspective. How to create, share, and adopt new knowledge is a core question in the social sciences. Processes of learning and knowledge creation are the result of social practice and always take place in space and in specific geo-graphical contexts. The eleventh volume is the outcome of the sympo…
My first discussions of collective narcissism took place in Philadelphia during the Summer Institute of the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at University of Pennsylvania in 2005. The Institute brought together scholars and practitioners of conflict resolution, civic servants, and activists in this field to discuss the dynamics of escalation and de-escalation of ethno-n…
In Singapore, a sensor ticks rapidly upward, logging the location of individu-als connected to a mobile network. Such data will register the trace of the digitally savvy citizen, while excluding others subjects such as the migrant or the elderly. In doing so, it constructs a very particular understanding of national territory.In Hong Kong, a protestor dons a gas mask, …
Water is not only the beginning of all things, as the old Greeks had alreadyrealized, but without water, no life on earth is possible, and clean water is also aprecondition for any form of sustainable development. There is enough availablefreshwater on earth (about 91,000 km3) to supply every individual on earth (about7.5 billion in 2020) approx. 12,000l, more than enough to live decently. Howe…
As a result, a unique amalgam was formed. On the one hand, the Alpha-betical Odyssey is a guide showing the breadth of the creative field of children’s literature that blends the ancient and the modern for readers of all ages, thereby making it possible for them to travel beyond time, to learn about new things, but also to rediscover what may already seem familiar. Short chapters on clas-sica…
Pirates, it is frequently claimed, have existed since the dawn of history, as long as there has been traff ic and commerce at sea.1 Presumably, the origins of piracy would thus be sometime in the pre-historic past, when people f irst took to the sea for commercial purposes, probably around eight thousand years ago, along the coast of the Persian Gulf.2 Historical records over close to three and…
In theory, and regional destination shipping aside, there are three potential major routes for intercontinental transits through the Arctic (Arctic Council 2009; Østreng et al. 2013). The first, and most realistic, is the Northeast Passage, which includes the Northern Sea Route through Russian Federation waters. The latter has been see-ing growing, albeit incremental, commercial traffic …
his volume presents recent critical work on Edgar Allan Poe andpsychology. It began in 2012 after careful consideration of whatwas lacking in Poe scholarship. Upon months of combing througharchives at McGill University, Concordia University, as well asJSTOR I discovered that nothing on Edgar Allan Poe and psychol-ogy had come around in many years. After more considerationI posted a Ca…
This book is about storytellers and their oral performances of folktales in Mayotte, an island lying in the Indian Ocean about 1,000 miles east of the African coast. The book is built on a constraint: I have not witnessed the performances I discuss; in fact I have never been to Mayotte. Within that constraint, I indulge a whim. I use books by three French ethnographers …
At the origin of the cooperation that eventually led to this book, there is the idea of emphasizing the gap between the ordinariness of diversity, as it occurs in everyday life, and the many ways of representing and addressing it as something exceptional, independently of whether those representations and practices carry with them posi-tive or negative connotations. On the on…
How significant is the history of untouchability for an understanding of South Asia’s early modern past? Studies that approach early modern caste as a whole tend to represent the “untouchable” castes as being at the bottom-most rung of a graded order and untouchability as part of the larger complex of caste practices. But the exclusion and discrimination that those deemed “Untouchable…
For many centuries humanity had dreamt of flight, of the wonders of a speedy and expansive mobility above land and sea. This feat was finally accomplished during the early years of the twentieth century, when the Wright brothers and Louis Bleriot took to the air in powered flight. But celebration was soon tarnished by the onset of aerial warfare and its frightening…
A poorly designed bottle sits atop a mantelpiece, contents slowly leaking into the surrounding environment. Not toxic, but affective, this bottle contains air collected from the Irish countryside—captured, commodified, and trans-ported across the globe to lonely “expats” separated from families amid the shuttering of global borders in response to the COVID-19 pandem…
The world has produced enough food since the Second World War to feed itself despiterapid population growth, owing to extraordinary technological and institutional change.The rise in world food production, however, has been accompanied by unequal access tothat abundance, as well as soil degradation, loss of biodiversity, and growing water scar-cities. There have also been dramatic changes in th…
People in the North of England live two years less than those in the South of England and boys born in the most deprived neighbourhoods of England can expect to live nine years less than those born in the most affluent wards (ONS, 2015). For baby girls, the gap is seven years. In our case study town of Stockton-on-Tees in the North East of England, the gaps in life expectancy …
This book makes a case for art as geography. In doing so, it situates itself at a certain juncture—the translation of geographical knowledge through art. This juncture is blurry, because in the making of art to trans-late knowledge, new knowledge is created. For this very reason, this book won’t perpetuate a false distinction between knowledge creation and kn…
Denial describes information operations that allow for the achieving of stra-tegic goals. This book is set to expose efforts to justify Russian trolling. Spe-cifically, this book documents patterns and frames of systematic denialism used to justify Russian trolling that circulated in two unrelated contexts and periods of time. This book not only uncovers justification arguments and t…
The literature on diversity in higher education has created a substantialfoundation for many of the contributions in this volume, but it also hassome important limitations. First, too often the existing literature framesstudent diversity as a challenge to be overcome for faculty teaching, ratherthan an opportunity to advance student learning. Second, much of theliterature drawn from the North A…
The aims of this chapter revolve around three arguments. First, in agreement with the contributions this volume consists of, it demonstrates the continu-ing force and reality of the nation form as the only mode of politics world-wide currently. Against arguments seeing the demise of nationalism as integral to the march to globalization, globalism or a cosmopolitan future on the one ha…
The aim of this book is to explore the role of music with regard to social dynamics and processes of cultural inclusion and exclusion through the concept of musical gentrification. Our investigation of these phenomena pays special attention to the expanding role that popular music plays, and has played, in the listening habits of people of all kinds as well as in a variety of edu…
NATO enters the eighth decade of its existence with both a longer record of success and a wider assortment of looming challenges than its founders could have foreseen when they signed the Washington Treaty in April 1949. In the thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet threat that called NATO into existence, the Western Alliance has defied innumerable predictions of its imminent demise. It …
Bangladesh has been successful to date in controlling the spread of HIV in the general population, with a prevalence of less than 0.1%. The main reason for this low prevalence is the early and sustained HIV prevention programmes targeting high risk groups backed by a state-of-the-art surveillance system. Another contributing protective factor is the high rates of male circumcision. There is, ho…
But Virchow’s understanding of politics was very particular, as revealedin the second and less well-known part of his statement. After character-izing politics as medicine on a larger scale, Virchow went on to write,‘Medicine as a social science, as the science of human beings, has the obli-gation to point out problems and to attempt their theoretical solution;the politician, the practical …
The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States at the end of 2016 generated even more surprise. The mere rise of Trump as a Republican candidate for president provoked great astonishment and few believed the business billionaire’s methods would lead him to most powerful office in the “free world”. However, Trump’s pop-ulist campaign appealed to vo…
n the wake of the so-called ‘Arab Spring,’ Occupy, and Anonymous move-ments, attention has increasingly been paid to the intersection of politics and the internet. In the popular media, commentators such as Roger Cohen of the New York Times took a technological determinist approach, as he declared Face-book founder Mark Zuckerberg to be the true leader of the protests spreading a…
The one thing that I find most difficult is to write about myself. It is hard to understand why some people thirst for knowledge about me. It was never my intention to be anyone's hero. I am certainly no great example upon which to base one's life. I consider myself a very average normal kind of guy. I have some pretty good points; I have some human failings. I am proud of some of my achievemen…
In last year’s introduction to the Factfile I looked forward to the prospect of emerging from the Covid pandemic. How desperately mistaken that prediction has proved to be. Once again, for prisoners and their families, the pains of imprisonment have been terribly amplified by the restrictions imposed to prevent infection. Prisons have relaxed more slowly, and tightened up more quickly, than t…
Among the most commonly used types of beverage bottles are bottles made from plastics for single use. The environmental impact of single-use plastic bottles has been widely discussed in society. For example, they are among the top plastic products found on beaches, contributing to the growing littering of marine and terrestrial ecosystems. To mitigate the environmental problems of single-use pl…
Apa itu korupsi? Buku ini adalah upaya melibati pertanyaan itu. Dengan melacak jauh ke masa silam, suatu horizon terbentang untuk memahami lintasan perkembangan arti korupsi hingga hari ini. Pengertian korupsi terjahit integral dengan cita-cita tatanan dan tata-kelola yang baik, tidak lekang oleh waktu, dan bukan monopoli tradisi kebudayaan atau peradaban tertentu. Korupsi berkembang menjadi ko…
It is one of the most important demographic megatrends with implications for all aspects of our societies. Ageing is already having a far-reaching impact on living arrangements and the way that societies and economies work. The process of change towards more aged societies is inevitable. Ageing is happening in different regions and in countries at various levels of development. It is proceeding…
Proses kewirausahaan, diawali dengan suatu aksioma yaitu adanya tantangan. Dari tantangan tersebut, timbul gagasan, kemauan dan dorongan untuk berinisiatif, yang tidak lain adalah dengan berpikir kreatif dan bertindak inovatif, sehingga tantangan tersebut, dapat diatasi dan diselesaikan. Jika tidak ada tantangan, maka seorang wirausaha tidak akan kreatif dan begitu juga sebaliknya, tidak akan a…
The Autumn Statement 2022 comes at a time of significant economic challenge for the UK and global economy. Putin’s illegal war in Ukraine has contributed to a surge in energy prices, driving high inflation across the world. Central banks are raising interest rates to get inflation under control, which has pushed up the cost of borrowing for families, businesses and governments. Growth is slow…
The automobile industry is one of the biggest industrial sectors in the world. If one includes the economic activities up- and downstream of actual manufacturing the sector’s global value added stands at around 5–10 per cent. Worldwide there are around 500 million registered passenger cars. Their number continues to grow and by 2030 this will triple (Bartel et al. 2015: 6). Automobile manuf…
Pesatnya pengguna teknologi internet pada masa Revolusi Industri 4.0 ini, mempengaruhi pelayanan yang disediakan oleh Direktorat Jenderal Pajak (DJP) bagi Wajib Pajak dalam rangka membantu Wajib Pajak memenuhi kewajiban perpajakannya dengan lebih mudah, lebih cepat, dan lebih akurat. Kewajiban perpajakan, sesuai dengan prinsip Self Assessment System, memberi wewenang penuh kepada Wajib Pajak un…
BI adalah Bank Sentral Republik Indonesia. Tugas dan peran bank sentral secara umum adalah menjaga stabilitas moneter, sistem keuangan, dan sistem pembayaran, untuk menunjang pertumbuhan ekonomi yang berkesinambungan dalam rangka meningkatkan kesejahteraan masyarakat.
The Kingdom of Denmark signed 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (hereafter "the Convention") on the day it was opened for signature and ratified it on 16 December 2004. This Partial Submission is the fifth step in fulfilling the Kingdom of Denmark's obligation under Article 76(8) and Article 4 of Annex II to the Convention to submit information on the outer limits of its cont…
Pasar modal berperan dalam peningkatan kekayaan investor, pemenuhan kebutuhan pembiayaan perusahaan dan pemerintah, mendorong pembangunan ekonomi secara luas, serta sebagai saluran keuangan untuk tabungan dan investasi. Pentingnya peran pasar modal ini dikarenakan peran pasar modal tidak hanya terbatas dalam aktivitas sektor keuangan, tetapi terkait langsung dengan aktivitas ekonomi riil.
Wildlife in tropical forests is a main source of livelihoods, and the ‘empty forest syndrome’ can have direct negative impacts on the health and well-being of forest dependent communities. The bushmeat crisis therefore reminds us of humankind’s dependence on biodiversity: the disappearance of wildlife from our forests is also a serious threat to the cultural and spiritual identity of many…
Setelah kelulusan SMA ataupun SMK, pasti Anda akan melanjutkan studi ke jenjang berikutnya atau sekedar mencari pengalaman kerja. Secara umum ujian masuk ke perguruan tinggi ada tiga jenis yaitu jalur prestasi, jalur tes, dan jalur mandiri. Jalur tes disebut SNBT, ujian masuk perguruan tinggi menggunakan tes. SNBT merupakan tes yang cukup menguras tenaga dan pikiran. Bisa dibayangkan semua calo…
Start with Why menggunakan contoh dunia nyata untuk menguraikan konsep Lingkaran Emas yang merangkum pentingnya mengindentifikasi tujuan keberadaan organisasi sebelum hal lainnya, kemudian mengambil tindakan untuk membuat visi menjadi kenyataan. Asal mula perusahaan harus menjadi alasannya. Begitu juga dengan pribadi kita. Setiap orang atau organisasi dapat menjelaskan apa yang mereka lakukan; …
In 1850, an epidemic swept America—but instead of leaving victims sick with fever or flu, this epidemic involved a rabid craze for the music of Swedish soprano Jenny Lind. American showman P. T. Barnum (who would later go on to found the circus now known as Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey), a shrewd marketer and self-made millionaire, is credited with spreading “Lindomania” through a s…
In practice, Jokowi has experienced a number of domestic and foreign policy troubles. In 2015 the economy slipped to its lowest levels since 2009, in a year characterized by a continuation of falling global commodity prices, deceleration in China, a strengthening USD and a depreciating IDR. This resulted in a decline in domestic consumption, the main driver of Indonesia’s economic growth. A n…
Environmental studies deals with every issue that affects an organism. It is essentially a multidisciplinary approach that brings about an appreciation of our natural world and human impacts on its integrity. It is an applied science as its seeks practical answers to making human civilization sustainable on the earth’s finite resources. Its components include biology, geology, chemistry, phys…
The framework should be viewed as a school development planning tool to promote the inclusion of pupils with special educational needs. Information gathered when using it can inform school development planning activities by highlighting inclusion issues that need to be addressed. Schools will find the framework useful in demonstrating their progress towards the implementation of the principles …
According to the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA), benchmarking drives a “race to the top” and is one of the ways Textile Exchange (an ally of the WBA) mobilizes the industry to accelerate the uptake of preferred materials. Through Textile Exchange’s Corporate Fiber & Materials Benchmark (CFMB) program and its annually published Material Change Index (MCI), participating companies are al…
Mental health is more than the mere lack of mental disorders. The positive dimension of mental health is stressed in WHO’s definition of health as contained in its constitution: “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” Concepts of mental health include subjective well-being, perceived self-efficacy, autonomy…
Heritage comes in many shapes—in tangible forms such as sites, buildings, landscapes, or as intangibles, like memories, emotions, values and customs—as does the use of heritage, ranging from the purpose of building nations to marketing places. Heritage usually represents a phenomenon within a traditional historical discourse but have lately, more and more, come to take in peripheral appeara…