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Total Pages : 658 pages
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Download or read book Pesquisa FAPESP written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miguel A. Montoya
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030841340
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book COVID-19 and Cities written by Miguel A. Montoya and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the work of more than 25 scholars from different parts of the world who analyze the challenges posed by the new coronavirus and how it can transform the lives of the cities. Through 19 chapters organized into three sections - experiences, responses and uncertainties - the authors offer a novel perspective about the resilience of the metropolis to face the most important sanitary crisis in the twenty-first century. History shows that cities can innovate and change profoundly in a response to disasters or after suffering an intense crisis, such as a pandemic or dramatic local spread of infectious diseases. In many cases, cities evolve to better urban systems, as literature based on the resilience perspective suggests. From this perspective, this book is a unique contribution to the academic discussion offering a multidisciplinary approach to analyze the impact of COVID-19 in the cities.
Author : Rahman, Mushfiqur
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (693 download)
Download or read book Optimizing Leadership and Governance in Higher Education written by Rahman, Mushfiqur and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optimizing leadership and governance in higher education creates an environment that promotes academic excellence, innovation, and inclusivity. As institutions face challenges from technological advancements, demographic shifts, and global competition, effective governance structures and leadership development becomes critical when navigating these challenges. By prioritizing transparency, collaboration, and adaptability, educational leaders develop a culture of shared responsibility and continuous improvement, empowering faculty, staff, and students to engage in their own educational experience. Exploration into the commitment to optimizing leadership and governance in higher education can lead to sustainable growth, improved student outcomes, and a more responsive educational landscape. Optimizing Leadership and Governance in Higher Education explores best practices and insights into higher education governance and leadership optimization. By sharing research, practical strategies, and personal experiences, the book offers solutions for education administrators to navigate complex challenges in the evolving educational landscape. This book covers topics such as educational technology, ethics and law, and social science, and is a useful resource for education professionals, administrators, policy makers, computer scientists, sociologists, academicians, and researchers.
Author : D. Pimentel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402086547
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Biofuels, Solar and Wind as Renewable Energy Systems written by D. Pimentel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-07-22 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The petroleum age began about 150 years ago. Easily available energy has s- ported major advances in agriculture, industry, transportation, and indeed many diverse activities valued by humans. Now world petroleum and natural gas s- plies have peaked and their supplies will slowly decline over the next 40–50 years until depleted. Although small amounts of petroleum and natural gas will remain underground, it will be energetically and economically impossible to extract. In the United States, coal supplies could be available for as long as 40–50 years, depending on how rapidly coal is utilized as a replacement for petroleum and natural gas. Having been comfortable with the security provided by fossil energy, especially petroleum and natural gas, we appear to be slow to recognize the energy crisis in the U. S. and world. Serious energy conservation and research on viable renewable - ergy technologies are needed. Several renewable energy technologies already exist, but sound research is needed to improve their effectiveness and economics. Most of the renewable energy technologies are in uenced by geographic location and face problems of intermittent energy supply and storage. Most renewable technologies require extensive land; a few researchers have even suggested that one-half of all land biomass could be harvested in order to supply the U. S. with 30% of its liquid fuel! Some optimistic investigations of renewable energy have failed to recognize that only 0. 1% of the solar energy is captured annually in the U. S.
Author : Iracema Dulley
Publisher : ICI Berlin Press
ISBN 13 : 3965580663
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Displacing Theory Through the Global South written by Iracema Dulley and published by ICI Berlin Press. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Displacing Theory Through the Global South calls for reflection on the historical and geopolitical inequalities that have shaped theorization. It asserts that what appears 'universal' often involves generalizations that flatten the particular. Critiquing the colonialist, imperialist, and Eurocentric perspectives that have historically impacted theorization in general and, more specifically, knowledge production about the so-called Global South, this volume seeks a different form of engagement that moves beyond such strictures. Featuring essays that unsettle distinctions between the general and the particular, it proposes a commitment to expanding notions of universality, making theorization not only relevant and generative, but ultimately, transformative.
Author : Vicente Riccio
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040259146
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Policing the Amazon written by Vicente Riccio and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection discusses the rule of law in the Amazon and the capabilities of the region’s sovereign states to police their territory considering security matters. Comprised of nine countries, including a European Union member, the Amazon region features states facing political instability, poverty, social inequalities, high levels of corruption, and lack of trust by their populations. This context is aggravated by the presence of criminal organizations operating there and shaping transnational bonds. Notably, the world’s foremost cocaine-producing countries—Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia—are located in the region, presenting related turmoil and instability. Moreover, as home to the largest rainforest on Earth and the widest biodiversity, the region is an object of concern due to environmental reasons. The protection of these natural resources as well as the traditional peoples living there is intertwined with issues of development, security, and policing. The book delves into questions on the international agenda, such as: how is it possible to sustain the rule of law in the Amazon? What are the states’ capabilities for controlling the territory and enforcing the law? How do these states deal with the growing urban violence in the region? What are the capabilities of public authorities for proposing laws and policies, and judicial systems to process, prevent, and suppress different crimes such as drug dealing, smuggling, human trafficking, terrorism, and environmental crimes? The book fills a gap in English-language scholarship exploring the context of the rule of law in the Amazon and the impact on policing activities. It is ideal for a wide range of audiences, including policing scholars, law enforcement and community leaders, and students focusing on criminal justice and the Amazon.
Author : Sonia Virginia Moreira
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 180071601X
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Creating Culture Through Media and Communication written by Sonia Virginia Moreira and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-07 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sponsored by the American Sociological Association Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology (CITAMS), Creating Culture Through Media and Communication addresses the media and communications challenges of our time.
Author : Fabiana Lopes da Cunha
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319584480
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Latin American Heritage written by Fabiana Lopes da Cunha and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Brazil, this book approaches the term “heritage” from not only a historical and architectural point of view, but also considers its artistic, archaeological, natural, ethnological and industrial aspects. The book is divided into four thematic sections – 1) traditions and intangible heritage, 2) archaeological heritage, 3) natural heritage and landscapes, and 4) heritage of industrial and built environments – and presents chapters on a diverse range of topics, from samba and cultural identities in Rio de Janeiro, to the history of Brazilian archaeology, the value of scenic landscapes in Brazil, and the cultural landscape of Brazil. As an outcome of the First Heritage International Symposium, this unique book explores a variety of heritage dialogues, pursuing global and specific approaches, and combining different views, perceptions and senses.
Author : Carl J. Gross
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540376429
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The 4th International Conference on Exotic Nuclei and Atomic Masses written by Carl J. Gross and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-10 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Conference on Exotic Nuclei and Atomic Masses (ENAM) has gained the status of the premier meeting for the physics of nuclei far from stability. The selected and refereed papers presenting the main results constitute valuable proceedings that offer everyone working in this field an authoritative and comprehensive source of reference.
Author : Alexander Dent
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822391090
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book River of Tears written by Alexander Dent and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: River of Tears is the first ethnography of Brazilian country music, one of the most popular genres in Brazil yet least-known outside it. Beginning in the mid-1980s, commercial musical duos practicing música sertaneja reached beyond their home in Brazil’s central-southern region to become national bestsellers. Rodeo events revolving around country music came to rival soccer matches in attendance. A revival of folkloric rural music called música caipira, heralded as música sertaneja’s ancestor, also took shape. And all the while, large numbers of Brazilians in the central-south were moving to cities, using music to support the claim that their Brazil was first and foremost a rural nation. Since 1998, Alexander Sebastian Dent has analyzed rural music in the state of São Paulo, interviewing and spending time with listeners, musicians, songwriters, journalists, record-company owners, and radio hosts. Dent not only describes the production and reception of this music, he also explains why the genre experienced such tremendous growth as Brazil transitioned from an era of dictatorship to a period of intense neoliberal reform. Dent argues that rural genres reflect a widespread anxiety that change has been too radical and has come too fast. In defining their music as rural, Brazil’s country musicians—whose work circulates largely in cities—are criticizing an increasingly inescapable urban life characterized by suppressed emotions and an inattentiveness to the past. Their performances evoke a river of tears flowing through a landscape of loss—of love, of life in the countryside, and of man’s connections to the natural world.
Author : Bo Göransson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781001421
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Biotechnology and Innovation Systems written by Bo Göransson and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how policies targeting public research institutions, such as universities, contribute to the appropriation of biotechnology through national innovation systems. Around the world, biotechnology has become a driving force for dramatic change in systems and policies intended to spur innovation. The leading contributors expertly construct a detailed picture of policy approaches that support biotechnology and how such approaches work under different economic and social conditions. They also provide an insight into the role of universities in this process. Researchers, academics, students, policy advisors, decision-makers and other professionals involved, and working in, the fields of biotechnology, innovation systems, higher education and development will find this book an invaluable resource.
Author : Samir Dasgupta
Publisher : Pearson Education India
ISBN 13 : 9788131717028
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Understanding the Global Environment written by Samir Dasgupta and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2009 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization is often discussed in terms of its ecological ramifications. Yet, while ecological imbalance is today one of the greatest threats to mankind, globalization is also a reality that is here to stay. The volume, therefore, seeks to address how globalizing and environmental interests can be reconciled. The essays in this volume state that globalization can work both in favour of and against the environment. The major issues discussed in this topical volume are, how globalization can be used to promote environmental reforms; the role of individuals, private organizations and governments in keeping environmental degradation in check and in promoting environmental reform; globalization and ecological inequality; women, the environment and globalization; changing nature of environmental movements; overpopulation and the ecology; the relation between the ecology and the economy; and the effects of global climate changes.
Author : Ana Clara S. Bastos
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1607523191
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Living in Poverty written by Ana Clara S. Bastos and published by IAP. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the results of investigation of social realities and their public representation in Brazilian poor communities, with a particular emphasis on the use of cultural tools to survive and create psychological and social novelty under conditions of severe poverty. A relevant part of it brings together the multi-faceted evidence of a decade of research concentrated in two particular low-income areas in the city of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. Other studies conducted in other Brazilian areas and in Cali, Colombia are included. In contrast to most representations of poverty in the social sciences which create a “calamity story” of the lives of poor people, the coverage in this book is meant to balance the focus on harsh realities with the cultural-psychological resiliency of individuals and families under poverty.
Author : Angela Alonso
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110842113X
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Last Abolition written by Angela Alonso and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new interpretation of the Brazilian anti-slavery narrative, placing Brazil within the global network of nineteenth-century abolitionist activism, uncovers the broad history of Brazilian anti-slavery activists and the trajectory of their work. The Last Abolition is a major contribution to scholarship on the ending of slavery in Brazil.
Author : Casa Stefan Zweig
Publisher : Imprimatur
ISBN 13 : 6559054136
Total Pages : 1065 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Biographical dictionary of refugees of nazi fascism in Brazil written by Casa Stefan Zweig and published by Imprimatur. This book was released on 2022-04-27 with total page 1065 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were musicians, writers, painters, actors, scientists, mathematicians, architects, doctors, photographers, dancers, businessmen and even circus clowns, police officers and football coaches. All refugees from nazi fascism, who sought salvation from 1933 onwards. They are remembered in 300 illustrated biographies, representing the thousands of fugitives who made or remade their lives and careers in Brazil and contributed so much to Brazilian society. Each trajectory, an epic, from birth and training in the Old World, the terrible dangers and sufferings faced with the arrival of Nazism, the struggles and adventures to escape, obtain visas and embark towards freedom. The Dictionary of Refugees from Nazi fascism in Brazil reports all this. It is yet another publication by Casa Stefan Zweig, based in Petrópolis and dedicated to the dissemination and study of the work of the great Austrian writer who died here and the role of refugees who, like him, escaped from the totalitarianism.
Author : Yuri Erastovich Penionzhkevich
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814479950
Total Pages : 815 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Exotic Nuclei: Exon2004 - Proceedings Of The International Symposium written by Yuri Erastovich Penionzhkevich and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises an important collection of papers dedicated to the problems of producing and investigating nuclei far from the line of stability. Together, they discuss the latest results on the production and study of the properties of the lightest to the heaviest nuclei as well as the current plans for future joint investigations in the field of exotic nuclei.The contributions from well-known experts in the field were presented at the International Symposium on Exotic Nuclei, jointly organized by four scientific centers where this field is actively pursued: Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions JINR (Dubna), RIKEN (Japan), GANIL (France), and GSI (Germany).Unique techniques for the synthesis and investigation of the properties of exotic nuclei are being developed together with the realization of large accelerator projects. The creation of these new radioactive ion beam factories requires substantial investment, and they can only be built with the support of international collaborations.
Author : Lisa Sowle Cahill
Publisher : Herder & Herder
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Genetics, Theology, and Ethics written by Lisa Sowle Cahill and published by Herder & Herder. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a team of the world's leading bioethicists, a collection of original popular and scholarly essays on the challenges of bioethics in our world today. Topics include stem cell research, cloning, economic challenges.
