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Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 What this Book Is About -- 1.2 Methodological Notes -- 1.3 The Organisation of the Book -- References -- Part I Context and Concepts -- 2 African Refugees in Australia: Resettlement and Representation -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Resettlement -- 2.2.1 Global Initiatives -- 2.2.2 Australian Context -- 2.2.3 The Arrival of African Refugees -- 2.3 Representation -- 2.3.1 Racial Prejudice as Anchoring -- 2.3.2 From Anchoring to Othering -- 2.4 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Education and Refugee Integration: A Capability Approach -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Educational Capability -- 3.2.1 Substantive Opportunities -- 3.2.2 Conversion Ability -- 3.2.3 Navigational Capacity -- 3.2.4 Conditioned Choice -- 3.3 Implications for Policy, Practice, and Further Research -- 3.4 Conclusion -- References -- Part II Educational Attainment -- 4 School Education: Aspirations, Engagement, and Transition -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Aspirations -- 4.3 Engagement -- 4.4 Transition -- 4.5 Persisting Challenges -- 4.6 Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 5 Higher Education Opportunities: Policy Visibility of Refugees -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 National Initiatives -- 5.3 Sectoral Policies -- 5.4 Institutional Translation -- 5.5 Problematising the Equity Provisions -- 5.5.1 Disconnection: Scalar Misalignment -- 5.5.2 Omission: Policy Silence -- 5.5.3 Distortion: Issue Misframing -- 5.6 Conclusion -- References -- 6 Higher Education Participation: Access, Experience, and Success -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Access -- 6.3 Experiences -- 6.4 Success -- 6.5 Overlooked Factors of Disadvantage.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Cultural Sociology of Cultural Representations of Italy -- 1 Methods, Theory, Data -- 2 Italy as Paradise and Hell -- 3 Republican Rome and Imperial Britain -- 4 Italy as Re-Enchantment and Refuge -- 5 Italy as Salvation and Liberation -- 6 Multiple Italys Past -- Multiple Italys Present -- 7 Italy as Illusion and Paradox -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- References -- Index.

This is the Open Access edition of Global Focus from the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). Global Focus has become one of the most authoritative resources for in-depth analysis and updates on international management development. With features, topical reports, thought leadership and insight from leading experts from academia, business schools, companies and consultancies, this edition focuses on business school internationalisation.

This eighteenth volume focuses on the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI), with insights into topics such as the role of AI in corporate learning by Martin Moehrle, reshaping business education using hands-on AI by Ana Freire, and whether generative AI is a threat to the world of teaching and learning by Pär Mårtensson and John Mullins. The topic of the impact of business school research is explored by Kai Peters and Howard Thomas, and Usha Haley, Cary Cooper and Andrew Jack look at societal impact through sustainable scholarship. Chapters also focus on important aspects of working in business and business schools, such as Dan Pontefract's discussion of loneliness both within and beyond the workplace and the importance of 'finding your people', and insights for developing an international scholar career presented by Miguel Córdova.

This book will be of value and interest to those working in business schools and higher education leaders, as well as policy makers and business leaders seeking insight into how management education will be shaped to support business and wider society.

This book analyses right-wing memory politics in Poland through the concept of "cursed soldiers" as a key memory symbol, and how it has been used to construct a narrow and exclusionary vision of Polish identity framed in terms of Catholicism, national culture, and traditional family values.

Groundbreaking in its approach and combining top-down study with reception analysis, the book builds on the theory of hegemony, adding emotional dimensions to the understanding of memory politics and nationalism. It provides a detailed case study of Polish memory politics since 2015, when the Law and Justice Party (PiS) came to power, and offers insights into how historical memory is used to mobilise support within nationalist and populist movements. Through a range of data including interviews, participant observation, and analysis of various media, it presents a semiotic and emotional map of how these memory symbols are received and experienced in Polish society. The focus on Podlasie, a region with significant Belarusian population and a history of post-war partisan conflicts, highlights the complex interplay of memory, identity, and politics in contemporary Poland.

This work is intended for a broad audience, including undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars, and non-specialist readers such as booksellers or librarians.

This is a systematic study of Matteo Ricci's (1552–610) enormous impact on the development of modern scientific and intellectual terminology in China.

Taking the Sino‑estern cultural exchanges initiated by Western Jesuit missionaries in the late‑ing dynasty as its starting point, this book comprehensively presents the new terms coined by Ricci (and his collaborators) in his religious, geographical, geometrical, and astronomical Chinese writings. It uses a multitude of examples adopted from Ricci's Chinese works as well as from ancient Chinese documents to discuss etymological evolution. Ricci's early coinages of terms and their subsequent history demonstrate the role of interaction and scholarly collaboration between the late Ming Jesuits and Chinese intellectuals in the formation of modern Chinese lexicon. The research conclusions of this book will further advance Ming‑ynasty studies and contribute to a new understanding of the creation of modern Chinese lexicon.

This book is a vital resource for students, scholars, and linguists studying and researching in the history of Chinese and early Mandarin. This volume will also be very interesting among students and scholars of Chinese literature and history, particularly among scholars who work in Ming history and literature.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license

"Local leaders don't need to become professional facilitators or hire expensive consultants to run a great meeting. Public Engagement Made Easy offers practical and affordable methods that bring ease to one of the most challenging aspects of any local leader's role: involving the public. The tools and techniques in this book will empower planners, public managers, decision-makers, and other leaders to implement effective public engagement programs that build trust within communities and contribute to successful decisions that stand the test of time"--

"Managers are facing unprecedented complexity, volatility and ambiguity, quickly adapting their decision-making, leadership, vision, and strategies. Megatrends and forces of change have profound implications for business models, processes and organizational structures, calling into question current paradigms and designing future change. Additionally, unprecedented disruptions, unforecastable in their nature, have increased the need for resilience and strategic flexibility. The book aims at tackling the potential interrelations among environmental transformations, strategic decisions, and leadership, to better understand the role of external and internal factors on the effectiveness of managers. The book defines "change": its extent, nature and characteristics. Then, it focuses on decision-making, the role of potential cognitive biases and how the interaction with the perception of determined environmental events affects the way in which decision-makers decide to implement specific strategies. Finally, in the light of waves of strategic change, it reviews theories on leadership and transformation, by looking at the role and traits of leaders. Since environmental transformations have the potential to "disrupt" not only strategies but also decision-making processes and leadership, the book provides a review on the issue and propose an integrative framework which can be useful for both scholars and managers, especially in the fields of decision-making and strategy"--

How do foreign policy-makers learn from history? When do states enter alliances? Beginning with these two questions, Dan Reiter uses recent work in social psychology and organization theory to build a formative-events model of learning in international politics.

"This book will focus on analysis of the role the New Christians and Jews played in the formation of the colonial economy of Latin America in the first two centuries after the conquest and this way also contributed to the emergence of the Atlantic world"--

In late 2023, the International Standard Organization (ISO) published a new standard on carbon neutrality: ISO 14068-1. It provides terminology, principles and requirements for GHG-neutral organizations and products, agreed by international experts. However, it contains significant shortcomings as it allows GHG-neutrality claims to be made using high fossil based GHG emissions and environment-damaging GHG removal methods . In a factsheet, the German Environment Agency (⁠UBA⁠) describes the new carbon neutrality standard and concludes: Credible GHG-neutrality claims must go beyond the standard. Above all, companies must consequently reduce their GHG emissions.

I estimate a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model for the United States that incorporates oil market shocks and risk shocks working through credit market frictions. The findings of this analysis indicate that risk shocks play a crucial role during the Great Recession and the Dot-Com bubble but not during other economic downturns. Credit market frictions do not amplify persistent oil market shocks. This result holds as long as entry and exit rates of entrepreneurs are independent of the business cycle.

Neighbourhood policing has been called the "cornerstone of British policing" but changing demand, pressures on funding and cyclical political support mean that this approach is under considerable pressure. The book investigates whether this UK model - intended to build confidence and legitimacy - has been successful and assesses its future.

This study assesses whether existing international carbon market methodologies for determination of additionality and baselines and monitoring, particularly those from the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), can be adjusted to transition to the Article 6.4 mechanism. We highlight the necessity of drawing from the experiences of the Kyoto Protocol. CDM methodologies need to be modified to align with the more rigorous requirements of Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement. Reaching consensus among Article 6.4 Supervisory Body (SB) members on developing a methodology guidance has been challenging and shows that there is a wide range of interpretation of the Article 6.4 methodology requirements. On this basis, we discuss different options to operationalise the Article 6.4 methodology requirements and focus on the option to develop overarching methodological tools that can be applied to make CDM methodologies "Article 6.4 proof". We illustrate this approach by applying it to two CDM methodologies, ACM0005 ("Increasing the blend in cement production") and ACM0006 ("Electricity and heat generation from biomass"). For these methodologies, we propose specific adjustments to ensure alignment with Article 6.4 requirements, particularly regarding additionality determination, avoidance of lock-in of emissions, quantification of emission reductions and monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV).

This report summarizes key lessons learned from the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI) for the new Article 6.4 mechanism of the Paris Agreement. The report first provides an overview of the issuance and use of carbon credits under these mechanisms. This is followed by an assessment of what elements of the existing mechanisms could be transferred to the Article 6.4 mechanism. Some provisions from the CDM can be transferred with only minor adjustments as they are the result of substantial refinement and overhaul. This includes the rules and regulations for the project cycle, accreditation of auditors, validation and verification, provisions to ensure transparency and the governance structure. However, in other areas, Article 6.4 rules should be strengthened compared to the CDM and JI, mainly with regard to demonstrating additionality, quantifying emission reductions, addressing non-permanence and social and environmental safeguards. Based on the experiences with CDM and JI, we recommend that mitigation activities under the Article 6.4 mechanism should be considered 'high-hanging fruits', enhance ambition, have a high likelihood of additionality, provide co-benefits for other sustainable development targets, and ensure that emission reductions can be reasonably attributable to the mitigation activity.

This fact sheet surveys the role of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (PA) in the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) that Parties have submitted to the UNFCCC. The findings indicate that there is in general considerable openness towards Article 6, with the intention to buy ITMOs or A6.4ERs being much more limited than to sell such units. The distribution between sellers vs. buyers largely reflects the structure known from the Kyoto Protocol and its Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), indicating that the distribution of roles might persist under the Paris Agreement. The fact sheet finds that complementing the findings of the NDC analysis with country-specific research could provide a more complete picture about the role Article 6 could play in the implementation of the Paris Agreement.