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Stanbury, W. T. The challenge to Canadian forest products in Europe: Managing a complex environmental issue. Victoria, B.C: Pacific Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, 1995.

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Tromp, Coyan. Wicked Philosophy. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462988774.

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Wicked Philosophy. Philosophy of Science and Vision Development for Complex Problems provides an overview of the philosophy of the natural sciences, the social sciences and the humanities, and explores how insights from these three domains can be integrated to help find solutions for the complex, ‘wicked’ problems we are currently facing. The core of a new science-based vision is complexity thinking, offering a meta-position for navigating alternative paradigms and making informed choices of resources for projects involving complex problems. The book also brings design thinking into problem-solving and teaching, fostering construction of an integrative approach that bridges structure and action amplified by transdisciplinary engagement of stakeholders in society. It is not always easy to set up a succesfull philosophy course for students in other programs. The author of Wicked Philosophy, Coyan Tromp, has experience in designing courses on philosophy of science for various Bachelor programs. You can find two examples here. The first example is for an introductory course to an Interdisciplinary Philosophy of Science, which is specifically suited for programs focusing at complex problems such as sustainability or health issues. The second example is a program for a course on (Philosophy of) Science in a Post-Truth Society. More examples are also available (e.g. a program in which Philosophy of Science is combined with Vision Development and Future Scenarios). In addition to the program, the author can also provide a workbook with lesson plans, both for online and on campus settings as well as additional literature suggestions for Dutch and French programmes. Please contact us at marketing@aup.nl for questions or extra material.
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Wickhamsmith, Simon. Politics and Literature in Mongolia (1921-1948). NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462984752.

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Politics and Literature in Mongolia (1921-1948) investigates the relationship between literature and politics during Mongolia’s early revolutionary period. Between the 1921 socialist revolution and the first Writers’ Congress held in April 1948, the literary community constituted a key resource in the formation and implementation of policy. At the same time, debates within the party, discontent among the population, and questions of religion and tradition led to personal and ideological conflict among the intelligentsia and, in many cases, to trials and executions. Using primary texts, many of them translated into English for the first time, Simon Wickhamsmith shows the role played by the literary arts — poetry, fiction and drama — in the complex development of the ‘new society’, helping to bring Mongolia’s nomadic herding population into the utopia of equality, industrial progress and social well-being promised by the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party.
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South Carolina. General Assembly. Legislative Audit Council. Report to the General Assembly: A management review of the Charleston Naval Complex Redevelopment Authority. Columbia, S.C: Legislative Audit Council, 2000.

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Busacca, Maurizio, and Roberto Paladini. Collaboration Age. Venice: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-424-0.

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Recently, public policies of urban regeneration have intensified and multiplied. They are being promoted with the aim to start social and economic dynamics within the local context which is subject to intervention. From the empirical analysis, we realise that such activities are mainly implemented by three subjects or by mixed coalitions (public institutions, actors of the third sector and companies). Within them, each player is moved by a multiplicity of interests and goals that go beyond their own nature – public interest, market and mutualism – and tend to redefine themselves, thus becoming hybrid forms of production of value (social, economic, cultural). By studying a number Italian and Catalan cases, this essay deals with the theory that, under specific conditions and configurations, a collaborative direction – of organization, production and design – would give life to successful procedures, even without the identification of a one-best-way. The collaboration is not simply a choice of operation, but a real production method which mobilises social resources to create hybrid solutions – between state, market and society – to complex issues that could not be faced solely with the use of the rationale of action of one among the three actors. In this framework, the systems of relations and interactions between players and shared capital become an essential condition for the success of every initiative of urban redevelopment, or failure thereof. Such initiatives are brought to life by the strategic role of individuals who foster connections as well as the dissemination of non-redundant information between social networks, and collective and individual actors which would otherwise be separated and barely able to communicate and collaborate with each other. In addition to the functions carried out by knowledge brokers, that have been extensively described in organisational studies and economic sociology, the aforementioned figures act as real social enzymes, that is to say, they handle the available information and function as catalysts of social processes of production of knowledge. Moreover, they increase the reaction speed, working on mechanisms which control the spontaneity.
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Ismailov, Nariman, Samira Nadzhafova, and Aygyun Gasymova. Bioecosystem complexes for the solution of environmental, industrial and social problems (on the example of Azerbaijan). ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1043239.

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A key objective of the modern development of society is the observance of ecological and socio-economic unity in human life and comprehensive improvement of environment and quality of life should be considered in close connection with the quality of the natural landscape. The formation of scientific understanding of the unity of society and nature is driven by the need for practical implementation of such unity. This defines the focus of this monograph. Given the overall assessment of the current state of the environment in Azerbaijan, considers the scenarios for the future development of the area. The prospects of the use of biotechnology in integrated environmental protection. In the framework of the above to address complex social, environmental and production problems in Azerbaijan developed scientific basis of integrated system of industrial farms — biclusters with a closed production cycle through effective utilization of regional biological resources, whose interactions and relationships take on the character of vzaimodeistvie components for obtaining focused final result with high practical importance. Microbiological, biochemical and technological processes are the basis of all development of biotechnology. Presents the development will help strengthen the ties between science and production, establishing mechanisms to conduct applied research in the field of innovation and creation of knowledge-based technologies in solving current and future environmental problems in Azerbaijan. We offer innovative ideas distinguishes the potential need for their materialization into new products, technologies and services, including the widespread use of digital technologies to design dynamic digital environmental map in space and in time. For students, scientific and engineering-technical workers, students and specializing in environmental technology, environmental protection.
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South Carolina. General Assembly. Legislative Audit Council. Report to the General Assembly: A performance audit of the South Carolina Resources Authority Infrastructure Funding Program. Columbia, S.C: The Council, 1994.

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Keen, Andrew. The cult of the amateur: How today's internet is killing our culture. London: Nicholas Brealey, 2007.

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The cult of the amateur: How blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today's user-generated media are destroying our economy, our culture, and our values. New York: Currency Doubleday, 2007.

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Keen, Andrew. The Cult of the Amateur. New York: Broadway Books, 2007.

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The cult of the amateur: How today's internet is killing our culture. New York: Doubleday, 2007.

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South Carolina. General Assembly. Legislative Audit Council. Report to the General Assembly: Options for Medicaid cost containment. Columbia, S.C: South Carolina Legislative Audit Council, 2003.

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Council, South Carolina General Assembly Legislative Audit. Report to the General Assembly: A review of the state operations of the Adjutant General. Columbia, SC: South Carolina Legislative Audit Council, 2000.

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South Carolina. General Assembly. Legislative Audit Council. Report to the General Assembly: A limited-scope review of the Department of Social Services. [Columbia, S.C.]: The Council, 1991.

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Council, South Carolina General Assembly Legislative Audit. Report to the General Assembly: A management and performance review of the South Carolina Jobs-Economic Development Authority. [Columbia, S.C.] (620 Bankers Trust Tower, Columbia 29201): The Council, 1995.

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Council, South Carolina General Assembly Legislative Audit. Report to the General Assembly: Department of Health and Environmental Control's implementation of the Safe Drinking Water Act. Columbia, S.C: The Council, 1994.

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South Carolina. General Assembly. Legislative Audit Council. Report to the General Assembly: A review of the Public Service Commission. Columbia, S.C: Legislative Audit Council, 2003.

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South Carolina. General Assembly. Legislative Audit Council. Report to the General Assembly: A sunset review of the Department of Health and Environmental Control's health services. [Columbia, S.C.]: The Council, 1996.

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Council, South Carolina General Assembly Legislative Audit. Report to the General Assembly: A limited-scope review of the South Carolina State Department of Education. Columbia, SC: The Council, 1996.

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South Carolina. General Assembly. Legislative Audit Council. Report to the General Assembly: A review of South Carolina school bus operations. Columbia, SC: South Carolina Legislative Audit Council, 2001.

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South Carolina. General Assembly. Legislative Audit Council. Report to the General Assembly: A review of competition for the Department of Transportation's road paving contracts. Columbia, S.C: South Carolina Legislative Audit Council, 2001.

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South Carolina. General Assembly. Legislative Audit Council. Report to the General Assembly: A review of the Department of Revenue's vehicle assessment guides. Columbia, S.C: South Carolina Legislative Audit Council, 2000.

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South Carolina. General Assembly. Legislative Audit Council. Report to the General Assembly: A review of the Department of Health and Environmental Control's SUPERB Fund and Underground Storage Tank Program. Columbia, S.C: The Council, 1995.

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South Carolina. General Assembly. Legislative Audit Council. Report to the General Assembly: A limited-scope review of the Residential Property Tax Relief Program. Columbia, S.C: The Council, 1999.

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South Carolina. General Assembly. Legislative Audit Council. Report to the General Assembly: A review of the Medical University of South Carolina and University Medical Associates. Columbia, S.C: South Carolina Legislative Audit Council, 1999.

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South Carolina. General Assembly. Legislative Audit Council. Report to the General Assembly: A review of selected operations of the State Housing Finance and Development Authority. Columbia, S.C: Legislative Audit Council, 2003.

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South Carolina. General Assembly. Legislative Audit Council. Report to the General Assembly: A review of the implementation of the South Carolina Family Independence Act. Columbia, SC: The Council, 1996.

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South Carolina. General Assembly. Legislative Audit Council. Report to the General Assembly: A review of the South Carolina Insurance Reserve Fund. Columbia, S.C: The Council, 1995.

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South Carolina. General Assembly. Legislative Audit Council. Report to the General Assembly: Cost savings strategies for the South Carolina Medicaid program. Columbia, S.C: Legislative Audit Council, 2001.

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South Carolina. General Assembly. Legislative Audit Council. Report to the General Assembly: A review of the South Carolina Department of Mental Health. Columbia, S.C: The Council, 1996.

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Maruska, Karen P., and Russell D. Fernald. Social Regulation of Gene Expression in the African Cichlid Fish. Edited by Turhan Canli. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199753888.013.012.

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How does an animal’s social environment shape its behavior and physiology, and what underlying molecular and genetic mechanisms lead to phenotypic changes? To address this question, the authors used a model system that exhibits socially regulated plastic phenotypes, behavioral complexity, molecular level access, and genomic resources. The African cichlid fishAstatotilapia burtoni, in which male status and reproductive physiology are under social control, has become an important model for studying the mechanisms that regulate complex social behaviors. This chapter reviews what is known about how information from the social environment produces changes in behavior, physiology, and gene expression profiles in the brain and reproductive axis ofA. burtoni. Understanding the mechanisms responsible for translating perception of social cues into molecular change in a model vertebrate is important for identifying selective pressures and evolutionary mechanisms that shape the brain and ultimately result in diverse and complex social behaviors.
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Jenkins, Rob, and James Manor. Implications. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190608309.003.0008.

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This chapter advances six arguments concerning the relationship between Indian politics and the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 (NREGA): NREGA, for all its faults, has improved the well-being of tens of millions of poor people; (2) NREGA's political aims and implications must be recognized to appreciate its significance as a development initiative; (3) while the Indian state's porousness provides privileged access to business organizations and socially powerful constituencies, it also offers openings for voices seeking to effect progressive social change in the interests of non-elite groups; (4) various aspects of NREGA implementation have demonstrated the complex process through which “clientelist” politics in India is being transformed rather than eliminated; (5) NREGA is emblematic of a new category of rights—a category we term “governance rights”, which are characterized by hybridity in terms of both content and enforcement mechanisms; and (6) NREGA spurred a devolution of resources to elected local councils, which made village-level democratic institutions, despite their shortcomings, a site where poorer people's demands for accountability were legitimated—a process aided in some states by unusually capable social movements, and in others by state bureaucracies.
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Brian, Hayden, ed. A Complex culture of the British Columbia plateau: Traditional Stl'átl'imx resource use. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1992.

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Bietti, Lucas M., and Michael J. Baker. Multimodal Processes of Joint Remembering in Complex Collaborative Activities. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198737865.003.0010.

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The aim of this chapter is to expand research on joint remembering into real-world complex collaborative activities at the workplace. The text illustrates how the interweaving of verbal, corporal, social, and material resources supports joint remembering of relevant aspects of work projects during group interactions. As joint remembering does not represent a ubiquitous joint action in complex collaborative activities in the workplace, but rather a localized and goal-oriented interactional mechanism, here we focus on those interactional sequences concerning past actions and events, in relation to work projects, that are triggered by questions acting as reminders. Such sequences are called “multimodal remembering sequences.” The group interactions that are presented as illustrative examples to support our theoretical standpoint were taken from a corpus collected on the basis of two naturalistic studies on joint remembering collaborative design conducted with architects and animation designers at their workplaces.
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Detterman, Robin, Jenny Ventura, Lihi Rosenthal, and Ken Berrick. Unconditional Education. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190886516.001.0001.

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After decades of reform, America's public schools continue to fail particular groups of students; the greatest opportunity gaps are faced by those whose achievement is hindered by complex stressors, including disability, trauma, poverty, and institutionalized racism. When students' needs overwhelm the neighborhood schools assigned to serve them, they are relegated to increasingly isolated educational environments. Unconditional Education (UE) offers an alternate approach that transforms schools into communities where all students can thrive. It reduces the need for more intensive and costly future remediation by pairing a holistic, multi-tiered system of supports with an intentional focus on overall culture and climate, and promotes systematic coordination and integration of funding and services by identifying gaps and eliminating redundancies to increase the efficient allocation of available resources. This book is an essential resource for mental health and educational stakeholders (i.e., school social workers, therapists, teachers, school administrators, and district-level leaders) who are interested in adopting an unconditional approach to supporting the students within their schools.
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Hydén, Lars-Christer. Dementia. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199391578.003.0003.

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This chapter focuses on the changing brain of individuals living with dementia and the challenges produced by these changes. It is argued that to better understand what persons with changing brains can do as storytellers, together with other persons, it is necessary to add a social psychological perspective to more traditional psychological knowledge, which often is centered on a decontextualized individual and that person’s diseased brain. The chapter discusses the brain’s role in storytelling. Storytelling is a ubiquitous and important everyday activity, but also a very complex social activity taking many different resources into account; cognitive as well as semiotic resources are used, together with a host of emotional resources, to regulate social interaction. The focus is on the limitations of the clinical understanding of the effects of brain injuries and the theoretical concepts that are needed to understand how the brains of persons with dementia are affected.
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Homer-Dixon, Thomas. The Ingenuity Gap: Facing the Economic, Environmental, and Other Challenges of an Increasingly Complex and Unpredictable World. Knopf, 2000.

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Homer-Dixon, Thomas. The Ingenuity Gap: Facing the Economic, Environmental, and Other Challenges of an Increasingly Complex and Unpredictable Future. Vintage, 2002.

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Page, Robert E. The Art of the Bee. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197504147.001.0001.

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The impact of bees on the world is immeasurable. Bees are responsible for the evolution of the vast array of brightly colored flowers and for engineering the niches of multitudes of plants, animals, and microbes. They’ve painted landscapes with flowers through their pollination activities and have evolved the most complex societies to aid their exploitation of the environment. The biology of the honey bee is one that reflects their role in transforming environments with their anatomical adaptations and a complex language that together function to exploit floral resources. A complex social system that includes a division of labor builds, defends, and provisions nests containing tens of thousands of individuals, only one of whom reproduces. Traditional biology texts present stratified layers of knowledge where the reader excavates levels of biological organization, each building on the last. This book presents fundamental biology not in layers but wrapped around interesting themes and concepts and in ways designed to explore and understand each concept. It examines the coevolution of bees and flowering plants, bees as engineers of the environment, the evolution of sociality, the honey bee as a superorganism and how it evolves, and the mating behavior of the queen.
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Copeland, Jeffrey P., Arild Landa, Kimberly Heinemeyer, Keith B. Aubry, Jiska van Dijk, Roel May, Jens Persson, John Squires, and Richard Yates. Social ethology of the wolverine. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198759805.003.0018.

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Social behaviour in solitary carnivores has long been an active area of investigation but for many species remains largely founded in conjecture compared to our understanding of sociality in group-living species. The social organization of the wolverine has, until now, received little attention beyond its portrayal as a typical mustelid social system. In this chapter the authors compile observations of social interactions from multiple wolverine field studies, which are integrated into an ecological framework. An ethological model for the wolverine is proposed that reveals an intricate social organization, which is driven by variable resource availability within extremely large territories and supports social behaviour that underpins offspring development.
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Rossen, Eric, ed. Supporting and Educating Traumatized Students. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190052737.001.0001.

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Traumatic or adverse experiences are pervasive among school-aged children and youth. These experiences undermine students’ ability to learn, form relationships, and manage their feelings and behavior. Meanwhile, educators and school-based professionals often remain unaware of the complex needs of their students or how to meet them within the hours of the typical school day, all while possibly dealing with their own stressors. Supporting and Educating Traumatized Students: A Guide for School-Based Professionals provides a practically oriented tool for understanding and assisting students with a history of trauma. Designed specifically for professionals in mental health and education settings, this volume combines content and expertise from practitioners, researchers, and other experts with backgrounds in education, school psychology, school social work, school administration, resilience, school policy, and trauma. The book provides a thorough background on current research in trauma and its impact on school functioning; administrative and policy considerations; and a broad set of practical and implementable strategies and resources for adapting and differentiating instruction, modifying the classroom and school environments, and building competency for students and staff impacted by trauma. Rather than provide complex treatment protocols, the chapters in this book offer simple techniques and strategies designed for all types of educational environments within the context of multiple potential sources of trauma. Supporting and Educating Traumatized Students is an essential resource for classroom teachers, administrators, and school-based professionals, as well as courses that address crisis, trauma, and education across a broad spectrum of specializations.
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Henry G, Burnett, and Bret Louis-Alexis. Part II Key Risks and Disputes Associated with International Mining Projects, 10 Environmental and Social Disputes. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198757641.003.0010.

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This chapter examines the principal manifestations of social and environmental risks facing mining companies, emphasizing those resulting in international arbitration disputes. Environmental disputes can arise when mining companies fail to abide by environmental norms and regulations; or when these norms or regulations changes during the life of a mining project. Mining companies responsible for environmental contamination or pollution may be responsible for the cleanup of pollution to land or water supplies and to compensate victims of pollution. It is therefore imperative for mining companies to identify the environmental risks associated with their operations and to ensure that they strictly comply with applicable regulations. Social disputes may arise when two or more stakeholders in a project disagree about the material (economic) or immaterial (political, strategic, moral, religious, environmental, etc.) implications of access to and use of natural resources; it is very important to distinguish between discrete conflictual episodes that will necessarily occur in connection with large natural resource projects, and structural differences between stakeholders which can lead to the project’s demise.
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Colombia de Lo Imaginario a Lo Complejo: Reflexiones y Notas Acerca de Ambiente, Desarrollo y Paz. Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Bogota, 2003.

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Peterson, Martin. The Sustainability Principle. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190652265.003.0006.

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The aim of this chapter is to render the Sustainability Principle more precise. To what extent can it be motivated by axiological claims about the moral value of sustainability? The position articulated in this chapter is somewhat complex. If sustainability had been valuable in a noninstrumental sense, then this would have been an excellent explanation for why long-term depletion of significant natural resources is wrong. However, the best argument for ascribing noninstrumental value to the environment does not warrant the conclusion that sustainability is valuable in a noninstrumental sense. This leaves us with an alternative explanation for why we should accept the sustainability principle: Long-term depletion of significant natural, social, or economic resources is wrong because it indirectly reduces the well-being of millions of present and future sentient beings. It is thus the instrumental value of sustainability that ultimately motivates the sustainability principle.
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Spicker, Paul. The Poverty of Nations. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447343325.001.0001.

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Conventionally, poverty is often represented as a lack of resources, but it is much more than that. A considerable amount of work has been done in recent years to establish a view of poverty as a complex, multi-dimensional set of experiences. The poverty of nations goes further still. The nature of poverty is constituted by social relationships - relationships such as low status, social exclusion, insecurity and lack of rights. The relational elements of poverty tell us what poverty really means – what poverty consists of, what poor people are experiencing, and what kind of problems there are to be addressed. The more emphasis that we put on such relationships as elements of poverty, the more difficult it becomes to suppose either that poverty is primarily a matter of resources, or that poverty in rich countries means something fundamentally different from poverty in poor countries. The book considers how poverty manifests itself in rich and poor countries, and how those countries can respond to poverty as a relational issue.
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Empson, Laura. Leading Discreetly. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198744788.003.0007.

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Senior management professionals have overall responsibility for business services functions, such as Finance, Human Resources, and Marketing. To perform their role effectively they need to develop a very close working relationship with the senior leadership dyad and engage in a complex range of political activities. To bring about the change they have been tasked with achieving, they must become consummate politicians, displaying a range of political skills, from networking ability and interpersonal influence to social astuteness and apparent sincerity. Through a complex set of political activities, management professionals work with the Managing and Senior Partners to help shift the balance of power, away from senior fee-earning professionals and towards the leadership of the organization, without the fee-earning professionals necessarily recognizing or accepting that this change is occurring. This chapter, therefore, shows how it is possible for outsiders to lead discreetly.
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Schandl, Heinz, and Iain Walker, eds. Social Science and Sustainability. CSIRO Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486306411.

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Sustainability policies shape the ways that society and the economy interact with the environment, natural resources and ecosystems, and address issues such as water, energy and food security, and climate change. These policies are complex and are, at times, obscured by contestation, uncertainty and sometimes ignorance. Ultimately, sustainability problems are social problems and they need to be addressed through social and policy change. Social Science and Sustainability draws on the wide-ranging experience of CSIRO’s social scientists in the sustainability policy domain. These researchers have extensive experience in addressing complex issues of society–nature relationships, usually in interdisciplinary collaboration with natural scientists. This book describes some of the evidence-based concepts, frameworks and methodologies they have developed, which may guide a transition to sustainability. Contributions range from exploring ways to enhance livelihoods and alleviate poverty, to examining Australians’ responses to climate change, to discussing sociological perspectives on sustainability and how to make policy relevant. Researchers, policy-makers and decision-makers around the globe will find this book a valuable and thought-provoking contribution to the sustainability literature. It is also suited to academics and students in postgraduate-level courses in social sciences and sustainability, or in courses in applied sociology, applied social psychology and other applied social sciences.
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De Cieri, Helen. Transnational Firms and Cultural Diversity. Edited by Peter Boxall, John Purcell, and Patrick M. Wright. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199547029.003.0025.

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Globalization has impacted significantly on many firms, with substantial implications for human resource management (HRM). Geopolitical, social, economic, and technological changes have created opportunities for managers and employees to interact with culturally diverse populations. The development of cultural diversity in the workforce presents substantial and complex challenges for HR scholars and managers as they strive to determine the potential implications of cultural diversity for firm effectiveness. This article examines cultural diversity issues, which are increasingly viewed as a critical aspect of management in transnational firms.
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Sharma, Mukul. Dalit Memories and Water Rights. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199477562.003.0004.

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Water is a deeply contentious issue, intersecting with caste, class, and gender in India in multifaceted ways, and producing complex cultural meanings and social hierarchies. Culturally, politically and economically, it has been a source of power. It has been controlled by the powerful, and used as a means to exert control over others. It has been a traditional medium for exclusion of Dalits in overt and covert ways: denying Dalits the right over, and access to, water; asserting monopoly of upper-castes over water bodies, including rivers, wells, tanks and taps; constructing casteist water texts in cultural and religious domains; obscuring Dalit narratives and knowledge of water; and rendering thinking and speaking about caste, water and Dalits together as peripheral to discourses on water. The chapter takes up two case studies from two different regions of Bihar, where Dalits have used water to represent their own ecological vision in a collective manner, drawing from a rich repertoire of their religious, cultural, and social resources. Cultural symbols and myths of Deena-Bhadri and Ekalavya are assembled by Dalits as a community tool-box, to demand river and fishing rights, and to attach themselves to pasts, places, and resources.
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Buesching, Christina D., and Theodore Stankowich. Communication amongst the musteloids: signs, signals, and cues. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198759805.003.0005.

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Most intentional communication is intra-specific and benefits both sender and receiver. Typically, the more complex a species’ social system, the more complex is its communication. Because only ca. 10% of musteloid species are truly social, their communication is generally quite basic, while their solitary, nocturnal lifestyle is reflected in a predominance of olfactory signals. This chapter first discusses the properties of different signal modalities (visual, acoustic, olfactory and tactile), and then provides a review of musteloid communication in the context of signal functionality, starting with a section on defensive signals (warning-, alarm-, and distress signals), proceeding to other modes of inter-specific communication, such as eavesdropping on predator cues by smaller prey species (odours increasingly applied in conservation management), before moving on to more specialised intra-specific communication. It discusses resource defence and territorial marking, before concluding with a section on individual advertisement, including recognition of individuals and group-membership, and fitness advertisement.
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