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Understanding China’s School Leadership Interpreting the Terminology

This book outlines key terms of China’s school leadership in Chinese political and legal, financial, administrative, and ...

Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy

This book analyzes and seeks to consolidate the use of robust quantitative tools and qualitative methods for the design and ...

Understanding the Bigger Energy Picture

This book gives an overview of today’s energy problem in the context of a rising world population, climate change and the ...

Undocumented Migrants and their Everyday Lives The Case of Finland

This monograph provides an overview of the everyday lives of undocumented migrants, thereby focusing on housing, employment, ...

Unemployment Insurance and Non-Standard Employment : Four European Countries in Comparison

The importance of non-standard employment forms has increased over the last decades. Janine Leschke addresses two important ...

University and School Collaborations during a Pandemic : Sustaining Educational Opportunity and Reinventing Education

Based on twenty case studies of universities worldwide, and on a survey administered to leaders in 101 universities, this ...

Urban Forests and Trees

This publication is the result of more than six years of hard work by a dedicated group of European urban forest and tree ...

Urban Transportation Planning in the United States

The book focuses in-depth at the most significant event in transportation planning--the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1962; ...

User Behavior and Technology Development

The book User Behavior and Technology Development explores these relationships between technology and behavior from an interdisciplinary ...

Vaccines, Medicines and COVID-19 : How Can WHO Be Given a Stronger Voice?

The considerable health, economic and social challenges that the world faced at the beginning of 2020 with COVID-19 continued ...

Value and the Humanities The Neoliberal University and Our Victorian Inheritance

Tracing the shift from liberal to neoliberal education from the nineteenth century to the present day, this open access book ...

Venezuela: A Petro-State Using Renewable Energies : A Contribution to the Global Debate about New Renewable Energies for Electricity Generation

In spite of the economic role of oil, Venezuela has started developing hydroelectricity since the 1950s. At present, the ...

Vermin, Victims and Disease : British Debates over Bovine Tuberculosis and Badgers

This book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread ...

Visa Policy within the European Union Structure

The book focuses on the common visa policy as a case study on the constitutional structure of the European Union. After introducing ...

Visions for Intercultural Music Teacher Education

This book highlights the importance of visions of alternative futures in music teacher education in a time of increasing ...

Visual Securitization Humanitarian Representations and Migration Governance

This book offers an innovative account of how relief organizations’ visual depiction of Syrian displacement contributes ...

Volcanic Unrest : From Science to Society

Volcanic unrest is a complex multi-hazard phenomenon. The fact that unrest may, or may not lead to an imminent eruption contributes ...

WTO and World Trade

This book contains 12 articles from internationally renowned experts in the field of world trade. The contributions cover ...

Wastewater Treatment, Plant Dynamics and Management in Constructed and Natural Wetlands

Constructed wetlands provide a reliable treatment technology for various types of polluted water, including industrial and ...

Water Management at Abandoned Flooded Underground Mines : Fundamentals, Tracer Tests, Modelling, Water Treatment

This book addresses the processes related to mine abandonment from a hydrogeological perspective. The book gives some key ...

Total Books: 581 - 600 /619