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Advances in Design, Music and Arts II
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 903

Advances in Design, Music and Arts II

This book presents cutting-edge methods and findings that are expected to contribute to significant advances in the areas of communication design, fashion design, interior design and product design, as well as musicology and other related areas. It especially focuses on the role of digital technologies, and on strategies fostering creativity, collaboration, education, as well as sustainability and accessibility in the broadly-intended field of design. Gathering the proceedings of the 8th EIMAD conference, held on July 7–9, 2022, and organized by the School of Applied Arts of the Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, in Portugal, this book offers a timely guide and a source of inspiration for designers of all kinds, advertisers, artists, and entrepreneurs, as well as educators and communication managers.

Oxford Textbook of Public Mental Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1413

Oxford Textbook of Public Mental Health

Prevention of mental illness and mental health promotion have often been ignored in the past, both in undergraduate and postgraduate curricula. Recently, however, there has been a clear shift towards public mental health, as a result of increasing scientific evidence that both these actions have a serious potential to reduce the onset of illness and subsequent burden as a result of mental illness and related social, economic and political costs. A clear distinction between prevention of mental illness and mental health promotion is critical. Selective prevention, both at societal and individual level, is an important way forward. The Oxford Textbook of Public Mental Health brings together th...

Why Human Rights Still Matter in Contemporary Global Affairs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 331

Why Human Rights Still Matter in Contemporary Global Affairs

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-04-29
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book elucidates why human rights still matter in contemporary global affairs, and what can lead to better protection of international human rights in a post-liberal order. It blends theoretical, empirical, and normative perspectives, while providing much-needed analysis in light of the perils of populism, authoritarianism, and toxic nationalism, as well as highlighting the hopes with which people around the world view human rights in the new millennium. Systematically combining theoretical perspectives from across the disciplines with numerous case studies, it demonstrates not only the complexities of the domestic conditions involved, but also the ways in which human dignity can be pres...

The Rise of the City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 385

The Rise of the City

Cities and city regions are growing throughout the world and this trend is forecast to continue well into the 21st century. The authors of The Rise of the City see the next 100 years as being the ÒUrban CenturyÓ. In this book they examine urban growth

Reframing Latin American Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 303

Reframing Latin American Development

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-04-09
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Since the year 2000 Latin America has been at the forefront of a series of diverse experiments with alternative forms, pathways and models of economic development and at the cutting edge of the international theoretical and political debates that surround these experiments. Reframing Latin American Development brings together leading scholars from Latin America and elsewhere to debate and discuss the current practice and futures of the Latin American experience with alternative forms of development over the last period and particularly since the end of neoliberal dominance. The models discussed range from the neo developmentalism approach of growth with equity, to the Buen Vivir (How to Live...

Blue Planet Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Blue Planet Law

  • Categories: Law

Blue Planet Law is the global and future-oriented environmental law that is necessary to face the global environmental crisis in the Anthropocene, assuming especially the link between climate action (SDG 13) and ocean sustainability (SDG 14). This open access book focuses on means of overcoming global environmental problems such as climate change, ocean degradation and biodiversity loss and the consequent risks for human life, health, food and wellbeing. It explores how environmental law, at the international, European and national levels, might set economic and technological development on a more sustainable path. Law must engage in dialogue with other areas such as philosophy, economics, e...

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and the Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 457

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and the Law

  • Categories: Law

This open access book presents an interdisciplinary, multi-authored, edited collection of chapters on Artificial Intelligence (‘AI’) and the Law. AI technology has come to play a central role in the modern data economy. Through a combination of increased computing power, the growing availability of data and the advancement of algorithms, AI has now become an umbrella term for some of the most transformational technological breakthroughs of this age. The importance of AI stems from both the opportunities that it offers and the challenges that it entails. While AI applications hold the promise of economic growth and efficiency gains, they also create significant risks and uncertainty. The ...

Principles and concepts for development in nowadays society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1915

Principles and concepts for development in nowadays society

Temos o prazer de lançar o primeiro livro internacional do ano de 2022 voltado a área do desenvolvimento, que tem como título Principles and concepts for development in nowadays society, essa obra contém 152 artigos voltados a área multidisciplinar, sendo a mesma pela Seven Publicações Ltda. A Seven Editora, agradece e enaltasse os autores que fizeram parte desse livro. Desejamos uma boa leitura a todos

Sustainability Challenges of Brazilian Agriculture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 450

Sustainability Challenges of Brazilian Agriculture

With contributions from a wide range of thematic areas, this book provides a diverse perspective on the contemporary environmental challenges of Brazilian agriculture. Assessing existing experiences of governance interventions, implementation of inclusive and sustainable production practices, as well as technical innovations, this edited volume presents the reader with a nuanced perspective on sustainable future pathways for Brazilian agriculture. In many cases, actors within the agricultural sector stand in a key position to address environmental concerns, which often has generated important breakthroughs and improvement of production practices. Drawing on contributions from authors within ...

Ecologia de saberes e práticas na produção de ações de saúde
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 224

Ecologia de saberes e práticas na produção de ações de saúde

O livro apresenta alguns dos resultados da Tese de Doutorado chamada “Ecologia de saberes e práticas na produção de saúde no Assentamento da antiga Fazenda Annoni, no município de Pontão/RS”, defendida em Sessão Pública, no dia 18 de dezembro de 2018, pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Extensão Rural, da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria – UFSM, e sob a orientação do Prof. Dr. Clayton Hillig. Tendo como objetivo principal analisar a experiência de luta pela saúde desenvolvida no Assentamento da antiga Fazenda Annoni, localizado no município de Pontão/RS, visando identificar como foram sendo construídas as relações entre os saberes e práticas, científicas e populares, na produção das ações em saúde no Assentamento.