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How can members of the DAC effectively tackle critical environmental challenges and threats - such as climate change, pollution, and loss of soil fertility and biodiversity - in activities supporting the 2030 Agenda in developing countries? Most already have environmental safeguards in place to screen out negative environmental practice, but they need far more robust policies, capacities and approaches for mainstreaming environment across all their development co-operation activities. This report examines five critical areas for mainstreaming: strong policy commitment and leadership; robust systems, processes and tools; capacity and continuous skill development; shared knowledge, learning and engagement; well-supported country systems.

Northern Ireland has a complex urbanism with multilayered socio-spatial politics. In this environment, issues of communication, self-representation and expression of identity are central to the experience of urban space and architecture where the dichotomy of division and shared living are spatially exercised in everyday life. Unlike other studies in the area, this book focuses on the everyday experiences of local communities in both public and private spheres - issues of 'shareness' - challenging conventional approaches to divided cities. The book aims to layer its narratives of architectural and social developments as an urban experience in post-conflict settings over the past two decades.

"This volume presents a selection of papers from the WASTES 2017 conference, a platform for scientists and industries from the waste management and recycling sectors from around the world, who shared experiences and knowledge at the meeting. Covering discussions regarding the balance between economic, environmental and social outcomes, the development of innovative techniques, tools and strategies on how wastes can be transformed into good ideas. Improving both the overall environmental performance and the understanding of the industry impact on the environment, as well as the options analysis for its improvement were key objectives of this conference."--Provided by publisher.

Preliminary -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Figures -- Introduction -- 1. Latin America: Changing political realities and trends 2000-2014 -- 2. Australia-Latin America Education Relations -- 3. Australia's Foreign Aid to Latin America -- 4. Australia, Latin America and the Environment -- 5. Australia-Latin America Trade and Business Relations -- 6. Australia and Latin America: Shared experiences and prospects for a new partnership -- 7. Latinos in Australia -- 8. Print and Electronic Media -- 9. Culture as a Key to Connections: Using culture to promote Australia's strategic relationship with Latin America -- 10. Doing Business in Latin America the Australian Way: Debunking myths about cross-cultural sensitivities

1. My life's lessons -- 2. Adapting to the war zone environment -- 3. War zone experiences -- 4. French island hot sauce -- 5. Interrogation by torture -- 6. The bullet gift -- 7. Insurrection and conflict -- 8. Eternal hate -- 9. Eternal hope -- 10. War zone insanity -- 11. A matter of perspective -- 12. Children lost -- 13. Communicating -- 14. Day of the bull -- 15. Less becomes more -- 16. Red wine in Eastern Europe -- 17. The world of food -- 18. Bug out -- 19. Lifestyle of survival -- 20. Respect -- 21. The cargo net -- 22. The shared loss -- 23. Two promises of death -- 24. "Courtesy" -- 25. Returning back home -- 26. International sayings

Nursing Leadership covers contemporary concepts in leadership and management and their application to nursing practice. In addition to covering the fundamentals, a wide range of current topics are addressed including: change management, contemporary approaches to nursing care delivery health outcomes evaluation; developing enhancing quality in nursing practice; research based practice; cultural change processes; shared governance; development leadership of staff; quality of work life issues; quality work environments; and industrial relations. Nursing Leadership provides a fresh innovative approach to the topic and is designed to stimulate interest in theory and concepts as well as providing the reader with strategies that can be readily tested and applied in practice.

The changed geostrategic situation of the European Union (EU) since Russia's invasion of Ukraine is particularly evident in the Baltic Sea region due to its geographical proximity and shared history with Russia. After years of enlargement fatigue, member states now see EU enlargement as a geopolitical imperative and are discussing the need for prior institutional reform. In addition, the EU and its member states must confront growing hybrid threats in the form of disinformation and economic dependency. In order to ensure the EU's ability to act in the current geopolitical environment, a European "Zeitenwende" must strengthen the rule of law, democracy and economic security.

The present study was initiated to verify whether a curriculum enhanced with efficacy-building techniques might foster students' adaptation to an online study environment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Inductive thematic analysis was applied to analyze interview data obtained from 32 sophomores pursuing a degree in English as a Foreign Language. Three main themes were identified: students voiced their concerns regarding the lack of online literacy, symptoms of cognitive overload, and the absence of meaningful relationships. The planned intervention partially facilitated the students' transition process: growing efficacy among the sample was linked to more proper attribution, less negative affect, and the development of individual and shared regulation mechanisms.

Within scientific teams, a culture of community (the facilitation of shared values, goals, and an environment where individuals feel valued and want to engage in a team's work) has implications for members' learning and participation, and the team's functioning, cohesion, and productivity. Drawing on 12 focus group interviews conducted over four years with 23 participants, we used an autoethnographic approach to examine how a research team developed a positive culture of community that influences its cohesion and productivity. We present six interconnected cultural practices that can foster a culture of community in settings where team-based learning and collaborations are required.

This article describes and analyses a model of continuous learning pedagogy (CLP). Profound, ongoing societal change reflect our time and place new demands on work skills. The necessity to update skills challenges employers, employees, and ultimately the entire education system. Future
pedagogical planning needs to consider:1) the goals and methods of the learning process from the adult student's perspective;2) the learning opportunities offered by the environment based on technology and distance learning;3) the teacher's caring, expertise-based role
and ability to appreciate students' emphasizing;4) shared leadership, working life skills, and teamwork; and5) interprofessionalism, national and international networks.

The aim of this paper is to reflect on how, during the digital era, new forms of social isolation have emerged, quite different from the forms we found in other pandemics, before the rise of social networking. Through the use of images and information, this research aims to outline similarities between the Covid19 pandemic and earlier pandemics (specifically the Spanish flu) in terms of containment practices. We will also illustrate how the photos and testimonies that people shared online during this period have led to the interpretation of social networks as a social environment where self-representation and sociability take place.

Teaching philosophy statements clarify why we do what we do in the classroom, and the process of drafting a philosophy offers an opportunity for developmental reflection. Personal teaching philosophies can be grounded in the shared foundation of historical educational philosophies. The authors offer here for facilitators a reflective card-sort exercise that helps surface the philosophical roots of personal teaching philosophies and helps teachers create or renew a teaching philosophy statement. They explain the exercise activities and typical outcomes based on their experiences facilitating the exercise. The authors conclude with insights and considerations for facilitators.

This paper looks to examine the strength of people's Brexit identities -firstly, by exploring how much influence an individual's Brexit identity has on their political party affiliations and secondly, how impactful people's Brexit views are in their place of work. With a sample size of 230, data was collected through a survey that was shared on linevia political forums. The findings show that in the upcoming 2019 election, Brexit identity will play a hugely important role in which political party people choose to support. Furthermore, as a result of contrasting Brexit views there will be a divide in the workplace that will negatively affect the working environment.

This paper analyzes strategies for articulating power and effectuating social control in the built environment by French colonial authorities in New France and colonial Africa. The former was a settler colony while the latter comprised colonies of economic exploitation. Despite their different colonial status, they shared much in common. In this regard, French colonial authorities recycled spatial control strategies they had employed in New France a century earlier for use in Africa. However some changes commensurate with the changing priorities and objectives of the French colonial project were instituted. In particular, recycled policies from New France were made more stringent, less tolerant and ostensibly oppressive in French colonial Africa.

This essay considers German 'Naturlyrik' in terms of factors contributing to the mid-century emergence of political ecopoetry and 21st-century post-pastoral register. Cold War aesthetic experimentation connected with environmental concerns as poets, anthologists, and scholars bridged ideological differences by acknowledging shared values in relation to nature and environment. Material ecocriticism theory provides insight into how during the Cold War the lyric genre became the first to reclaim nature as a place of refuge, then protested the specter of an uninhabitable world, and eventually responded to humanly shaped nature. Work by poets Hans-Jürgen Heise, Peter Huchel, Wulf Kirsten, Ulrike Almut Sandig, and others is discussed.