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Rural Retirement Migration

This book examines the migration of older persons to rural retirement destinations in the United States. While the majority ...

Seeds for Diversity and Inclusion : Agroecology and Endogenous Development

This book will contribute to a more nuanced debate around seed system resilience that goes beyond the dominant dichotomous ...

Sensitivity Analysis: Matrix Methods in Demography and Ecology

This book shows how to use sensitivity analysis in demography. It presents new methods for individuals, cohorts, and populations, ...

Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights Global Inequities, Challenges, and Opportunities for Action

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the health inequities and human rights issues faced by sex workers globally ...

Shared Physical Custody Interdisciplinary Insights in Child Custody Arrangements

This book provides an overview of the ever-growing phenomenon of children in shared physical custody thereby providing legal, ...

Social Computing with Artificial Intelligence

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the application of artificial intelligence in social computing, from fundamental ...

Social Innovation in Higher Education : Landscape, Practices, and Opportunities

The book includes a selected set of peer-reviewed chapters presenting different perspectives against which relevant actors ...

Societal Implications of Community-Oriented Policing and Technology

This Brief presents new approaches and innovative challenges to address bringing technology into community-oriented policing ...

Socioeconomic and Environmental Implications of Agricultural Residue Burning : A Case Study of Punjab, India

This book discusses the important issue of the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of agricultural residue burning, common ...

Stable Isotopes to Trace Migratory Birds and to Identify Harmful Diseases : An Introductory Guide

This manuscript discusses the potentials of the approaches as mentioned below to monitor the AIVs in WMW. Molecular diagnostic ...

The GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks

Biodiversity observation systems are almost everywhere inadequate to meet local, national and international (treaty) obligations. ...

The Golden Mouse : Ecology and Conservation

This volume is the first attempt to draw together what is known about the golden mouse ranging from systematics, natural ...

The Handbook of Salutogenesis

Readers will find numerous practical examples of how to implement salutogenesis to enhance the health and well-being of families, ...

The Impact of Environmental Variability on Ecological Systems

Brings together contributions from these three fronts to provide readers with a comprehensive look at the challenges for ...

The Palgrave Handbook of Positive Education

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the growing field of positive education, featuring a broad range of theoretical, ...

The Places Where Community Is Practiced

In this book the social cohesion of urban neighborhoods and their residents is examined, which is often viewed as vulnerable ...

Towards a Natural Social Contract Transformative Social-Ecological Innovation for a Sustainable, Healthy and Just Society

This book states that the endemic societal faultlines of our times are deeply intertwined and that they confront us with ...

Transformational Change for People and the Planet : Evaluating Environment and Development

This Open Access book deals with the pressing question of how to achieve transformational change that reconciles development ...

Ubiquitous Computing Systems

UCS has become a symposium for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research and engineering practices in ubiquitous computing ...

Use of Force Training in Law Enforcement

This Brief describes a reality based approach to use-of-force training in law enforcement, an area of growing importance. ...

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