Africa and the Sustainable Development Goals [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Maano Ramutsindela, David Mickler |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxiv, 295 pages) |
Disciplina | 338.927 |
Collana | Sustainable Development Goals Series |
Soggetto topico |
Sustainability
Geography Human geography Medical sciences Education, Higher Africa - Economic conditions Regional Geography Human Geography Health Sciences Higher Education African Economics |
ISBN | 3-030-14857-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Varieties of Knowledge Society and the SDGs -- Lifelong Learning and the SDGs -- China’s Economic Embrace of Africa in Comparative Perspective -- The AU’s African Governance Architecture and SDG 16: A critical analysis of intersections -- African Mining and the SDGs: From Vision to Reality? -- Minding the Gap? The Media and the Realization of the SDGs in Kenya -- The SDGs and Human In/Security in Africa: A Ghanaian Example -- SDG 17 and Ghana’s Development Agenda -- Research Data Management as a Strategic Imperative for SDGs Scientific Evidence -- Prioritising Health Systems to Achieve SDGs in Africa: A Review of Scientific Evidence -- Prioritising Women’s Mental Health for the Achievement of the SDGs in Africa -- Talent Management in South Africa: Women’s Experiences in Multinational Organisations -- Securing Inclusive Growth: Mentorship, Youth Employment and Employment Creation in Kenya -- The Challenge of Decent Work in Africa -- Upscaling Agriculture and Food Security in Africa in Pursuit of SDG 1, 2 & 8: What Role Does China Play? |
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Africa Now! [[electronic resource] ] : Emerging Issues and Alternative Perspectives / / edited by Adebusuyi Adeniran, Lanre Ikuteyijo |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XI, 453 p. 3 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina | 304.2 |
Soggetto topico |
Human geography
Economic development Ethnology Environmental geography Natural resources Human Geography Development Studies Social Anthropology Environmental Geography Natural Resources |
ISBN | 3-319-62443-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Forward.- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors.- 1. Introduction: Africa in the 21st Century; Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran, Lanre Olusegun Ikuteyijo -- Section i: Conceptualizing the development process in 21st century Africa.- 2. The right to development in a reconfigured global order: conceptual dynamism and south-south cooperation; Stacey Links.- Section ii: Environment, natural resources’ management and development.- 3. Oil, ethnicism and sustainable national integration in Nigeria; Abosede Omowumi Babatunde.- 4. Phenomenological study of development outcomes of governance of extractive sector in Cote D’Ivoire; Kabran Aristide Djane -- 5. Land degradation and sustainable human development in Nigeria; Adetayo Tolulope Fajobi.- 6. Land, natural resources and the state in Kenya; Connor J. Cavanagh.- Section iii: Governance, economy and sustainable development.- 7. Urban agriculture (ua), food security and poverty alleviation in post-apartheid metropolitan Durban, South Africa; Sultan Khan.- 8. Internal democracy and leadership crisis in the nigerian legislature; Taofeek Oluwayomi Gidado.- 9. Exploring inherent social interactions between Chinese immigrants and corruption in Nigeria; Allen Hai Xiao.- 10. Emerging governance crises in 21st century Nigeria; Samuel S. Agunyai.- Section iv: Transnationalism, education and human development -- 11. Migration of nigerians to canada for undergraduate education: implications for brain drain and development; Charles T. Adeyanju.- 12. Imperialism and African indigenous knowledge system in technology; Kolawole T. Olabode.- Section v: crime, conflicts and regional dynamics.- 13. North africa: can common security challenges promote regional integration?; Rawia Tawfik.- 14. Ethnography of sex trade among bini-women in southern Nigeria; Clementina O. Osezua.- 15. Crime and human security: South Africa twenty one years post democracy; Shanta B. Singh.- 16. Environmental conflicts and forced migration in the Nigerian Niger delta; Iwebunor Okwechime.- 17. Informal immigrant traders in Johannesburg: the scorned cornerstone in the sadc integration project; Christopher Ushimbi and Inocent Moyo.- 18. Emergent dynamics of female migration in west Africa; Timothy Abayomi Atoyebi.- 19. Conclusion; Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran, Lanre Olusegun Ikuteyijo.- Index. |
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African cities and collaborative futures : Urban platforms and metropolitan logistics / / ed. by Michael Keith, Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (208 p.) |
Collana | Global Urban Transformations |
Soggetto topico |
Urban communities
Southern Africa Human geography Development studies |
Soggetto non controllato | African cities; infrastructure; seeing like a city |
ISBN | 1-5261-5535-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996552356003316 |
Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , [2021] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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African cities and collaborative futures : Urban platforms and metropolitan logistics / / ed. by Michael Keith, Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (208 p.) |
Collana | Global Urban Transformations |
Soggetto topico |
Urban communities
Southern Africa Human geography Development studies |
Soggetto non controllato | African cities; infrastructure; seeing like a city |
ISBN | 1-5261-5535-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910557163703321 |
Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , [2021] | ||
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African Heritage Challenges [[electronic resource] ] : Communities and Sustainable Development / / edited by Britt Baillie, Marie Louise Stig Sørensen |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2021.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XXI, 363 p. 29 illus., 25 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina | 301 |
Collana | Globalization, Urbanization and Development in Africa |
Soggetto topico |
Anthropology
Human geography Cultural heritage Economic development Human Geography Cultural Heritage Development Studies |
ISBN | 981-15-4366-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Heritage challenges: Perspectives on Contestations and Expectations from Sub-Saharan Africa and Neighbouring Regions -- 2. Needle in a Haystack? Cultural Heritage Resources and the Nature-based Environments of Southern Africa -- 3. African Cultural Heritage and Economic Development: Dancing in the Forests of Time -- 4. Heritage and/or Development - Which Way for Africa? -- 5. Mega Developments in Africa: Lessons from the Meroe Dam -- 6. Heritage and Sustainability: Challenging the Archaic Approaches to Heritage Management in the South African Context -- 7. The Antimonies of Heritage: Tradition and the Work of Weaving in a Ghanaian Workshop -- 8. Transformation as Development: Southern Africa Perspectives on Capacity Building and Heritage -- 9. The Culture Bank in West Africa: Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development -- 10. Exhibition Making as Aesthetic Justice: A Case of Memorial Production in Uganda -- 11. Modern Nostalgias for Sovereignty and Security: Preserving Cultural Heritage for Development in Eritrea -- 12. Epilogue-Whose Heritage, Whose Development?. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910484218203321 |
Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Age of Post-Rationality [[electronic resource] ] : Limits of economic reasoning in the 21st century / / by Val Colic-Peisker, Adrian Flitney |
Autore | Colic-Peisker Val |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XIV, 253 p. 17 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina | 339 |
Soggetto topico |
Political economy
Globalization Human geography Sociology Political philosophy International Political Economy Human Geography Sociology, general Political Philosophy |
ISBN | 981-10-6259-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. A rational society -- Chapter 3. The tyranny of competition -- Chapter 4. Hyper-consumption and inequality -- Chapter 5. The great gamble of global finance vs. the real economy -- Chapter 6. Economic rationality vs. the Earth -- Chapter 7. The promise and threat of the Internet age -- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Into a bright post-capitalist future?. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910300515403321 |
Colic-Peisker Val | ||
Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ageing and place : perspectives, policy, practice / / edited by Gavin J. Andrews and David R. Phillips |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | xv, 252 p. : ill., maps |
Disciplina | 305.26 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
AndrewsGavin J. <1970->
PhillipsDavid R. <1968-> |
Collana | Routledge studies in human geography |
Soggetto topico |
Gerontology
Human geography Older people - Social conditions Older people - Services for Age distribution (Demography) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-134-36138-6
0-203-69451-1 1-280-09620-9 0-415-32044-5 |
Classificazione | 74.93 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | chapter INTRODUCTION / Gavin J. Andrews -- chapter 1 Geographical studies in ageing: progress and connections to social gerontology / Gavin J. Andrews -- chapter 2 PLACING AGEING -- Positionings in the study of older people / Robin A. Kearns -- chapter 3 Multi-disciplinary con?gurations in gerontology / Pia C. Kontos -- chapter 4 INTERNATIONAL DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITIONS / Kevin McCracken -- chapter 5 RESIDENTIAL HOMES -- From distributions in space to the elements of place / Gavin J. Andrews -- chapter 6 HOME AS A NEW SITE OF CARE PROVISION AND CONSUMPTION / Janine Wiles -- chapter 7 HEALTHY AGEING IN THE COMMUNITY / Helen Bartlett -- chapter 8 The physically ageing body and the use of space KICHU NAIR / Kichu Nair -- chapter 9 ENVIRONMENT AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO AGEING / Robyn Findlay -- chapter 10 Ageing in rural communities: vulnerable people in vulnerable places / Alun E. Joseph -- chapter 11 AGEING AND THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT / David R. Phillips, Oi-Ling Siu, Anthony G.-O. Yeh and Kevin H. C. Cheng -- chapter 12 IMAGINED LANDSCAPES OF AGE AND IDENTITY / Andrew Blaikie -- chapter 13 CATALOGUING OLD AGE / Bill Bytheway -- chapter 14 MAKING SPACE FOR IDENTITY / Sheila M. Peace. |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ageing and place : perspectives, policy, practice / / edited by Gavin J. Andrews and David R. Phillips |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | xv, 252 p. : ill., maps |
Disciplina | 305.26 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
AndrewsGavin J. <1970->
PhillipsDavid R. <1968-> |
Collana | Routledge studies in human geography |
Soggetto topico |
Gerontology
Human geography Older people - Social conditions Older people - Services for Age distribution (Demography) |
ISBN |
1-134-36137-8
1-134-36138-6 0-203-69451-1 1-280-09620-9 0-415-32044-5 |
Classificazione | 74.93 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | chapter INTRODUCTION / Gavin J. Andrews -- chapter 1 Geographical studies in ageing: progress and connections to social gerontology / Gavin J. Andrews -- chapter 2 PLACING AGEING -- Positionings in the study of older people / Robin A. Kearns -- chapter 3 Multi-disciplinary con?gurations in gerontology / Pia C. Kontos -- chapter 4 INTERNATIONAL DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITIONS / Kevin McCracken -- chapter 5 RESIDENTIAL HOMES -- From distributions in space to the elements of place / Gavin J. Andrews -- chapter 6 HOME AS A NEW SITE OF CARE PROVISION AND CONSUMPTION / Janine Wiles -- chapter 7 HEALTHY AGEING IN THE COMMUNITY / Helen Bartlett -- chapter 8 The physically ageing body and the use of space KICHU NAIR / Kichu Nair -- chapter 9 ENVIRONMENT AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO AGEING / Robyn Findlay -- chapter 10 Ageing in rural communities: vulnerable people in vulnerable places / Alun E. Joseph -- chapter 11 AGEING AND THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT / David R. Phillips, Oi-Ling Siu, Anthony G.-O. Yeh and Kevin H. C. Cheng -- chapter 12 IMAGINED LANDSCAPES OF AGE AND IDENTITY / Andrew Blaikie -- chapter 13 CATALOGUING OLD AGE / Bill Bytheway -- chapter 14 MAKING SPACE FOR IDENTITY / Sheila M. Peace. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777592403321 |
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005 | ||
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Ageing and place : perspectives, policy, practice / / edited by Gavin J. Andrews and David R. Phillips |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | xv, 252 p. : ill., maps |
Disciplina | 305.26 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
AndrewsGavin J. <1970->
PhillipsDavid R. <1968-> |
Collana | Routledge studies in human geography |
Soggetto topico |
Gerontology
Human geography Older people - Social conditions Older people - Services for Age distribution (Demography) |
ISBN |
1-134-36137-8
1-134-36138-6 0-203-69451-1 1-280-09620-9 0-415-32044-5 |
Classificazione | 74.93 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | chapter INTRODUCTION / Gavin J. Andrews -- chapter 1 Geographical studies in ageing: progress and connections to social gerontology / Gavin J. Andrews -- chapter 2 PLACING AGEING -- Positionings in the study of older people / Robin A. Kearns -- chapter 3 Multi-disciplinary con?gurations in gerontology / Pia C. Kontos -- chapter 4 INTERNATIONAL DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITIONS / Kevin McCracken -- chapter 5 RESIDENTIAL HOMES -- From distributions in space to the elements of place / Gavin J. Andrews -- chapter 6 HOME AS A NEW SITE OF CARE PROVISION AND CONSUMPTION / Janine Wiles -- chapter 7 HEALTHY AGEING IN THE COMMUNITY / Helen Bartlett -- chapter 8 The physically ageing body and the use of space KICHU NAIR / Kichu Nair -- chapter 9 ENVIRONMENT AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO AGEING / Robyn Findlay -- chapter 10 Ageing in rural communities: vulnerable people in vulnerable places / Alun E. Joseph -- chapter 11 AGEING AND THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT / David R. Phillips, Oi-Ling Siu, Anthony G.-O. Yeh and Kevin H. C. Cheng -- chapter 12 IMAGINED LANDSCAPES OF AGE AND IDENTITY / Andrew Blaikie -- chapter 13 CATALOGUING OLD AGE / Bill Bytheway -- chapter 14 MAKING SPACE FOR IDENTITY / Sheila M. Peace. |
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The Ageing of Australian Ethnic Minorities [[electronic resource] /] / by Hoon Han, Yong Moon Jung, Xueying Xiong |
Autore | Han Hoon |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (117 pages) |
Disciplina | 305.260994 |
Soggetto topico |
Urban geography
Human geography Sociology, Urban Urban planning City planning Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns) Human Geography Urban Studies/Sociology Urbanism |
ISBN | 981-13-2796-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1 The Research Gap: Globalisation, Migration and Ageing Society -- Chapter 2 Participation and Engagement: Dynamics of Social Life -- Chapter 3 Economic Situation -- Chapter 4 Housing and Location Choice -- Chapter 5 Independence and Care: In Search of an Effective Care Model -- Chapter 6 Intergenerational Transfer and Transnational Migration Decisions in Later Life -- Chapter 7 Life Satisfaction and Quality of Life -- Chapter 8 Conclusion and Implications. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910350343703321 |
Han Hoon | ||
Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2019 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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