What are the challenges and action points for agricultural sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa? This collection of papers offers technical analyses, policy recommendations and an overview of success stories to date. Each carefully selected paper provides valuable insights for improved policy making and defines relevant strategic priorities on Africa’s sustainable transformation process, whic…
This open access book follows the development of the Building Resilience in Teacher Education (BRiTE) project across Australia and internationally. Drawing on the success of this project and the related research collaborations that have since emerged, it highlights the importance of cultivating resilience at various stages of teachers’ careers. Divided into three sections, the book includes c…
Daerah perkotaan identik dengan kemajuan teknologi, industri, dan ekonomi. Bertolak belakang dengan hal tersebut, penduduk miskin masih menjadi permasalahan yang kerap ditemukan di daerah perkotaan. Sebagian besar penduduk miskin tersebut berasal dari kaum migran yang bekerja di sektor informal. Kaum ini sangat rentan mengalami proses marginalisasi yang berdampak pada rendahnya ketahanan sosial…
Kemiskinan masih menjadi salah satu permasalahan utama yang dialami Indonesia. Tak hanya di daerah perdesaan, permasalahan kemiskinan justru kerap ditemukan di area perkotaan yang identik dengan kemajuan teknologi, industri, dan ekonomi. Ruang sosial menjadi pembeda antara kemiskinan di pedesaan dan perkotaan. Namun, keduanya memiliki kesamaan. Sama-sama memiliki kesulitan dalam mengakses sumbe…
This open access book provides an enriched understanding of historical, collective, cultural, and identity-related trauma, emphasising the social and political location of human subjects. It therefore presents a socio-ecological perspective on trauma, rather than viewing displaced individuals as traumatised “passive victims”. The vastness of the phenomenon of trauma among displaced populati…
Climate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales provides professionals with guidance on adapting the built environment to a changing climate. This edited volume brings together practitioners and researchers to discuss climate-related resilience from the building to the city scale. This book highlights North American cases that deal with issues such as climate projections, public health, adaptiv…
This book examines the survivors of political violence and terrorism, considering both how they have responded and how they have been responded to following critical incidents. As this work demonstrates, survivors of comparatively rare and spectacular violence hold a mirror up to society’s normative assumptions around trauma, recovery and resilience. Drawing on two years of observational fiel…
Processes of post-war reconstruction, peacebuilding and reconciliation are partly about fostering stability and adaptive capacity across different social systems. Nevertheless, these processes have seldom been expressly discussed within a resilience framework. Similarly, although the goals of transitional justice – among them (re)establishing the rule of law, delivering justice and aiding rec…
Bringing together scholars of migration and constitutional law, this volume analyses the problematic relationship between the rise of populism, restrictions of migrants' rights and democratic decay in Europe. By offering both constructive and critical accounts, it creates a nuanced debate on the possibilities for and limitations of legal resilience against populist erosion of migrants' rights. …