Today in the world of 24-hour news, we cannot help but be aware of the brutality and human cost of war. It is difficult to imagine the festive atmosphere of parades and cheering as local regiments marched off to fight in the American Civil War, or even in the early days of World War I. Yet in spite of our lack of illusion about the reality of war, the idea of war still holds an enduring fascina…
This document provides guidance for designing ILO initiatives in countries affected by fragility and conflict. These include countries or regions subject to tensions or at risk of conflict or violent unrest, or where criminal violence threatens people’s security on a significant scale. It outlines how to use a peace and conflict analysis (PCA) to ensure that programmes and projects are confli…
The Maldives, a chain of 26 coral atolls to India’s southwest, is one of the smallest countries in Asia and the Pacific by population and land area. Its estimated 341,200 people are widely dispersed over 188 inhabited islands across an archipelago more than 800 kilometers long and 130 kilometers wide. The capital city, Malé, is home to one-third of the people, yet has a total land area of le…
The circular economy provides an answer to the great challenge of the 21st century, which is to utilise raw materials with much greater efficiency. In order to continue feeding humanity, provide it with the necessary goods and to guarantee people a decent existence, a fundamental change in how we use raw materials is necessary. We are talking about an economy that provides for people’s needs …
Most legal thinkers and practitioners view law as fundamentally terrestrial. Indeed, law—in its Eurocentric iteration at least—ultimately imagines itself as beginning and ending on terra firma. Land is perceived as a fully historicized, mapped, and regulated space that stands in stark opposition to the seemingly a-temporal, empty, and unruly sea.…
Violence and abuse against children are serious threats to children’s well-being, and the need for societies to take action is increasingly recognised, in both the Nordic region and internationally. Children exposed to violence and abuse are vulnerable and often in need of multiple services, creating the risk of potential “secondary victimi…
The CODES Action Plan for a Sustainable Planet in the Digital Age marks the 50th anniversary of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment and the establishment of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) set-up to promote global environmental sustainability. The goal of the Action Plan is to offer a vision and set of priorities to advance digital sustainability through a series …
The global Living Planet Index continues to decline. It shows anaverage 68% decrease in population sizes of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish between 1970 and 2016. A 94% decline in the LPI for the tropical subregions of the Americas is the largest fall observed in any part of the world. Why does this matter? It matters because biodiversity is fundamental to human life on Earth, and…
As a rule, the introduction is where the author explains to the reader what the book is about. Before I do that, however, I will take the liberty of a brief digression of a personal nature. Whenever I’m at some sort of gathering and find I am acquainted only with the host, my interactions with other guests go off “without a hitch”. I’m not a particularly shy person, so it’s rather eas…
Cities are home to the majority of the world’s population, drivers of both national and global economic activity, hubs of culture and innovation, and are the locations in which many of society’s greatest challenges, from climate change to social unrest, play out. Given this, it is not surprising that, in recent years, cities have captured the global imagination. A focus on cities …
The demand for secure, affordable and clean energy is a priority call to humanity. Challenges associated with conventional energy resources, such as depletion of fossil fuels, high costs and associated greenhouse gas emissions, have stimulated interests in renewable energy resources. For instance, there have been clear gaps and rushed thoughts about replacing fossil-fuel driven engines with ele…
A True Story of the Imperial German Government's Spies and Intrigues in America from facts furnished Each morning at 3 o'clock, American time, those messages flashed from the tremendous wireless tower at Nauen, Germany—to find spies waiting everywhere in America for them. On interned ships, in shacks, built far from the roar and bustle of the city, even in Fifth Avenue residences, were wirel…
Upaya-upaya untuk tercapainya perbaikan kesejahteraan hidup bagi setiap individu maupun masyarakat luas, dalam pengertian sehari-hari seringkali disebut sebagai upaya "pembangunan". Pendek kata, pembangunan merupakan segala upaya yang terus-menerus ditujukan untuk memperbaiki kehidupan masyarakat dan bangsa yang belum baik, atau untuk memperbaiki kehidupan yang sudah baik menjadi lebih baik lag…
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The insurance industry safeguards the assets of its policyholders by transferring risk from an individual or business to an insurance company. Insurance companies act as financial intermediaries in that they invest the premiums they collect for providing this service. Insurance company size is usually measured by net premiums written, that is, premium revenues less amounts paid for reinsurance.…
The tendency towards concentration in the corporate sector has been given a huge boost as we approach the twenty-first century. There were more mega-mergers in 1998 than in any previous year - in banking, insurance, oil, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, automobiles and the media. This merger frenzy has amplified the power of a handful of companies over whole sectors of the global economy. The merger…
This topic measures the number of procedures, time, cost and paid-in minimum capital requirement for a small- to medium-sized limited liability company to start up and formally operate in each economy’s largest business city. To make the data comparable across 190 economies, uses a standardized business that is 100% domestically owned, has start-up capital equivalent to 10 times the income pe…
Undang-Undang Dasar 1945 pasal 31 ayat (1) dan Undang-Undang (UU) Nomor 20 Tahun 2003 tentang Sistem Pendidikan Nasional menegaskan memberi jaminan sepenuhnya kepada penyandang disabilitas untuk memperoleh layanan pendidikan yang bermutu dan hal itu tidak dapat dilepaskan adanya istilah ‘pendidikan inklusif’. Negara semakin menegaskan melalui komitmen-komitmen global, dimana tidak ada seor…
Internationally, the tourism economic sector is dominated by small businesses that provide goods and services to a visiting tourist clientele. Community based tourism (CBT) is a form of tourism that seeks to empower communities to manage tourism growth and achieve community aspirations relating to their well-being, and includes economic, social and environmental sustainable development. Therefo…
Passed by Congress in 1966, the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) sets general standards for humane care and treatment that must be provided for certain animals that are bred for commercial sale, sold sight unseen (Internet sales), exhibited to the public, used in biomedical research, or transported commercially. Congress assigned the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) the responsibility for enforcin…
I recently saw a debate about whether the opening day of hunting season was more exciting than Christmas morning. If you’re anything like me — it’s not just the first day that is enthralling. It’s every stalk, every bugle, everytime my finger inches toward the trigger. The passion never quits, and I’m looking forward to a great 2022 season. As the director of the Wyoming Game and Fish…
Any business entity which wishes to maintain and strengthen its position in the market must adapt to changing market conditions and the requirements and needs of its customers. This applies to all sectors of the economy, including business entities in the cultural sector, such as cultural institutions. For over twenty years, we have been able to observe dynamic develop…
Energy poverty occurs when a household is unable to secure a level and quality of domestic energy services—space cooling and heating, cooking, appliances, information technology—sufficient for its social and material needs. This somewhat contested and broad definition lies at the tip of a vast scientific and policy iceberg, involving complex socio-technical relat…
The performance of more efficient technologies is often dependent on how they are used by householders, if at all. Moreover, short-term efficiency gains may be wiped out by increasing overall consumption in order to reach newly perceived levels of comfort, convenience and stand-ards. This increase in consumption manifests, for example, through social pressure to…
Welcome as we share the successes of the International Space Station (ISS) in this third edition of the International Space Station Benefits for Humanity. The ISS is a unique scientific platform that has enabled more than 3,600 researchers in 106 countries and areas to conduct more than 2,500 experiments in microgravity through February 2018—and the research continues. Since November 2, 2000,…
Pilihan atas sistem pemilu adalah salah satu keputusan kelembagaan paling penting bagi demokrasi di mana pun. Dalam hampir semua kasus pilihan atas sistem pemilu tertentu memiliki pengaruh mendalam bagi masa depan kehidupan politik di negara bersangkutan, dan sistem politik, begitu sudah dipilih, sering kali tetap sangat konstan seiring berbagai kepentingan politik mengukuhkan diri di seputar d…
This volume brings a sociologist of curriculum and history educators, from a range of contexts, into dialogue on questions of knowledge and knowing – questions about what school history should and could be, as an activity and mode of engaging with the world, and questions about what school history education should and could look like and be about. Like all tr…
The aspiration for social justice, through which every working man and woman can claim freely and on the basis of equality of opportunity their fair share of the wealth that they have helped to generate, is as great today as it was when the ILO was created in 1919. As the ILO celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2019, the importance of achieving social justice is ever more pressing, with the ris…
Pengertian perjanjian atau kontrak berbeda dengan perikatan. Perjanjian merupakan salah satu sumber perikatan. Sumber perikatan yang lain adalah undang-undang. Perbedaan antara perikatan yang bersumber dari perjanjian dan undang-undang terletak pada akibat hukum dari hubungan hukum tersebut. Akibat hukum perikatan yang lahir dari perjanjian dikehendaki oleh para pihak karena perjanjian dibuat a…
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…
LIPI Press berkolaborasi dengan Perhimpunan Pelajar Indonesia (PPI) Dunia menerbitkan rangkaian buku seri Indonesia Emas Berkelanjutan 2045: Kumpulan Pemikiran Pelajar Indonesia Sedunia. Rangkaian bunga rampai ini terdiri dari 12 buku dengan sejumlah topik yang mendukung Tujuan Pembangunan Berkelanjutan atau Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) untuk mencapai tujuan Indonesia Emas 2045. Buku in…
LIPI Press berkolaborasi dengan Perhimpunan Pelajar Indonesia (PPI) Dunia menerbitkan rangkaian buku seri Indonesia Emas Berkelanjutan 2045: Kumpulan Pemikiran Pelajar Indonesia Sedunia. Rangkaian bunga rampai ini terdiri dari 12 buku dengan sejumlah topik yang mendukung Tujuan Pembangunan Berkelanjutan atau Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) untuk mencapai tujuan Indonesia Emas 2045. Buku in…
The 2005 Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions recognizes the key role of culture, creativity and innovation in meeting the challenges of sustainable development, encouraging economic growth and promoting social inclusion. The International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD), its operational tool, supports the development of policies and actions in…
Private sector banks play a significant role in the financial system and the real economy. They intermediate between all sectors of the economy and other financial intermediaries and institutions, and some of them provide the payments system, which most of us use every day. Banks are innovative, largely a function of intense competition, and they are therefore at the forefront of new developmen…
In recent years, significant progress has been achieved in delivering health-related interventions that are designed to achieve goals relating to improving maternal and child health, and reducing mortality and illhealth due to HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. It is increasingly apparent, however, that the gains have been neither universal nor sufficiently broad-based and sustainable. Progres…
When was the last time that you ate together with others? Maybe you had breakfast with your family or lunch with your friends. Such food sharing is often part of everyday routines; habitual practices that we rarely reflect on, except when they change. Perhaps an extended daily commute to work in a new job means that breakfast with the family gets replaced with a snack on the go, whil…
his book is about Singapore’s development into a city in which water and vegetation, along with associated environmental, technical, social and political aspects have been harnessed and cultivated into a livable sustainable way of life. It is also a story about a unique and thoroughgoing approach to large-scale and potentially transferable water sustainability, within largely urbanized circum…
Tekanan terhadap stabilitas sistem keuangan meningkat pada semester I 2018, hal ini tercermin dari peningkatan Indeks Stabilitas Sistem Keuangan (ISSK) dibandingkan semester sebelumnya. Meskipun demikian, ISSK masih berada dalam zona normal. Pelemahan Indeks Harga Saham Gabungan (IHSG), peningkatan yield Surat Berharga Negara (SBN) dan penurunan nilai tukar Rupiah memberikan peningkatan tekanan…
Kurikulum merupakan salah satu bagian penting terjadinya suatu proses pendidikan. Karena suatu pendidikan tanpa adanya kurikulum akan terlihat tidak teratur. Hal ini akan menimbulkan perubahan dalam perkembangan kurikulum, khususnya di Indonesia. Kurikulum merupakan salah satu alat untuk mencapai tujuan pendidikan, dan sekaligus digunakan sebagai pedoman dalam pelaksanaan proses belajar mengaja…
The first edition of the GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard (GHG Protocol Corporate Standard), published in September 2001, enjoyed broad adoption and acceptance around the globe by businesses, NGOs, and governments. Many industry, NGO, and government GHG programs1 used the standard as a basis for their accounting and reporting systems. Industry groups, such as the Intern…
Stuff is happening. The book Hyperobjects is now in a way irrele-vant—everyone knows, everyone intuitively feels (which is much more important) what a hyperobject is. Coronavirus is everywhere. You can’t see it. It operates on all kinds of different scales—terrify-ing interpersonally or if you’re being forced back to work or school; weirdly amazing…
This book tracks the latest trends in the theory, research, and practice of entertainment-education, the field of communication that incorporates social change messaging into entertaining media. Sometimes called edutainment, social impact television, narrative persuasion, or cultural strategy, this approach to social and behavior change communication offers new opportunities including transmedi…
Governing is the art of planning and predicting. Developing a picture of long-term jobs and skills requirements is critical for policymakers as they navigate rapid, complex and uncertain shifts in the economy and society. A wide range of areas – from curriculum development and careers guidance through apprenticeships and workplace training to occupational standards, migration and social insur…
Recent theories of society and social change have become caught in a dilemma. A renewed focus on individual agency, on beliefs and values and on cultural processes falls short of any adequate specification of social structural process. Sociological researchers have often made a leap of faith between agency and structure, and between norms and concrete social relations. This book explores a rang…
Millennials are likely the most studied generation to date. According to U.S. Census Bureau statistics, there are plenty of them to study—80 million plus (the largest cohort size in history). There are data to find most of what you are looking for, as the data are varied and sometimes contradictory. In fact, Millennials are full of contradictions, which, of course, may explain the youth of an…
Economic sociology has experienced a remarkable revival during the last cou-ple of decades, and it has become one of the most innovative fields of sociologi-cal research. The drastic recent economic developments—the financial crises above all—took many analysts and experts by surprise. Changes in economic policy in Europe, the United States, and the world at large have …
The underlying idea linking all contributions to this book is that multiple factors facilitate the emergence of programmatic political parties; they do not fit into a simple formula or a particular sequencing or hierarchy, and operate in ways that seem very contextual. Those influencing factors, as will be discussed further in the concluding chapter, can be categorized according to their facili…
This open access book provides a broad context for the understanding of current problems of science and of the different movements aiming to improve the societal impact of science and research. The author offers insights with regard to ideas, old and new, about science, and their historical origins in philosophy and sociology of science, which is of interest to a broad readership. The book show…
Vulnerable examines the vulnerabilities and interconnections brought to light by the pandemic, as well as the legal, ethical and public policy responses. This book exposes the vulnerabilities of individuals, institutions, governance and legal structures, in several countries and worldwide.
Pengajaran hak asasi manusia di perguruan tinggi di Indonesia hingga saat ini masih sangat didominasi oleh pendekatan filosofis dan kultural. Dalam pendekatan yang demikian, pengajaran hak asasi manusia lebih ditekankan pada perbincangan mengenai isu-isu pendasaran konsep hak asasi manusia, asal-usul dan justifikasinya (baik segi legal maupun kultural) yang tidak bisa dilepaskan dari konteks po…