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Global University Rankings: Challenges for European Higher Education

Global University Rankings explores the novel topic of global university rankings and their effects on higher education in Europe. The contributions in this volume outline different discourses on global university rankings and explore the related changes concerning European higher education policies, disciplinary traditions and higher education institutions. The first global university rankings were published less than a decade ago, but these policy instruments have become highly influential in shaping the approaches and institutional realities of higher education. The rankings have portrayed European academic institutions in a varying light. There is intense reflexivity over the figures, leading to ideational changes and institutional adaptation that take surprisingly similar forms in different European countries. The contributions in this book critically assess global university rankings as a policy discourse that would seem to be instrumental to higher education reform throughout Europe.

Global Warming Science: A Quantitative Introduction to Climate Change and Its Consequences

A quantitative, broad, hands-on introduction to the cutting-edge science of global warmingThis textbook introduces undergraduates to the concepts and methods of global warming science, covering topics that they encounter in the news, ranging from the greenhouse effect and warming to ocean acidification, hurricanes, extreme precipitation, droughts, heat waves, forest fires, the cryosphere, and more. This book explains each of the issues based on basic statistical analysis, simple ordinary differential equations, or elementary chemical reactions. Each chapter explains the mechanisms behind an observed or anticipated change in the climate system and demonstrates the tools used to understand and predict them. Proven in the classroom, Global Warming Science also includes “workshops” with every chapter, each based on a Jupyter Python notebook and an accompanying small data set, with supplementary online materials and slides for instructors. The workshop can be used as an interactive learning element in class and as a homework assignment.Provides a clear, broad, quantitative yet accessible approach to the science of global warmingEngages students in the analysis of climate data and models, examining predictions, and dealing with uncertaintyFeatures workshops with each chapter that enhance learning through hands-on engagementComes with supplementary online slides, code, and data filesRequires only elementary undergraduate-level calculus and basic statistics; no prior coursework in science is assumedSolutions manual available (only to instructors)

Globaler Katholizismus, Toleranz und die offene Gesellschaft: Eine empirische Studie über die Wertesysteme der Katholiken

Dieses Buch bewertet systematisch die politischen und sozialen Werte der mehr als 1,3 Milliarden Katholiken auf der ganzen Welt, der bei weitem größten Konfession des westlichen Christentums. Auf der Grundlage einer umfassenden Analyse von Daten aus dem World Values Survey und anderen globalen Meinungsumfragen wirft das Buch ein neues Licht auf die Wertesysteme und Meinungen der Katholiken. Die Autoren heben zentrale Probleme und Herausforderungen hervor, mit denen die Kirche derzeit bei der Anpassung an die moderne Welt konfrontiert ist, einschließlich des katholischen Antisemitismus, der religiösen und sexuellen Toleranz und der Meinungen zur Demokratie, und bieten gleichzeitig eine anthropologische Reflexion darüber, wie gut sich die Kirche an die Anforderungen einer offenen Gesellschaft anpasst oder nicht.

Globalisation and Energy Transition in Latin America and the Caribbean: Economic Growth and Policy Implications

This book explores the potential for renewable energy development and the adoption of sustainable production processes in Latin America and the Caribbean. By examining the energy transition process, the impact of environmental degradation, and the relationship between renewable energy sources and economic growth, the effects of increased globalisation and liberalisation in this part of the world are analysed. Particular attention is given to renewable energy investment, the energy-economics growth nexus, the impact of trade openness, and the mitigation of carbon emissions. This book aims to highlight econometric techniques that can be used to tackle issues relating to globalisation, the energy transition, and environmental degradation. It will be relevant to researchers and policymakers interested in energy and environmental economics.

Globalisation, Economic Inclusion and African Workers: Making the Right Connections

This book addresses the question of whether greater inclusion in the global economy offers a solution to rising unemployment and poverty in contemporary Africa. The authors trace the connection between global demographic change and new mechanisms of economic inclusion via global value chains, digital networks, labour migration, and corporate engagement with the bottom of the pyramid, challenging the claim that African workers have become functionally irrelevant to the global economy. They expose the shift of global demand for African workers from formal to increasingly informalised labour arrangements, mediated by social enterprises, labour brokers, graduate entrepreneurs and grassroots associations. Focusing on global employment connections initiated from above and from below, the authors examine whether global labour linkages increase or reduce problems of vulnerable and unstable working conditions within African countries, and considers the economic and political conditions needed for African workers to capture the gains of inclusion in the global economy. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies.

Globalization and Families

As our world becomes increasingly interconnected through economic integration, technology, communication, and political transformation, the sphere of the family is a fundamental arena where globalizing processes become realized. For most individuals, family in whatever configuration, still remains the primary arrangement that meets certain social, emotional, and economic needs. It is within families that decisions about work, care, movement, and identity are negotiated, contested, and resolved. Globalization has profound implications for how families assess the choices and challenges that accompany this process. Families are integrated into the global economy through formal and informal work, through production and consumption, and through their relationship with nation-states. Moreover, ever growing communication and information technologies allow families and individuals to have access to others in an unprecedented manner. These relationships are accompanied by new conceptualizations of appropriate lifestyles, identities, and ideologies even among those who may never be able to access them. Despite a general acknowledgement of the complexities and social significance inherent in globalization, most analyses remain top-down, focused on the global economy, corporate strategies, and political streams. This limited perspective on globalization has had profound implications for understanding social life. The impact of globalization on gender ideologies, work-family relationships, conceptualizations of children, youth, and the elderly have been virtually absent in mainstream approaches, creating false impressions that dichotomize globalization as a separate process from the social order. Moreover, most approaches to globalization and social phenomena emphasize the Western experience. These inaccurate assumptions have profound implications for families, and for the globalization process itself. In order to create and implement programs and policies that can harness globalization for the good of mankind, and that could reverse some of the deleterious effects that have affected the world's most vulnerable populations, we need to make the interplay between globalization and families a primary focus.

Gloom to Boom: How Leaders Transform Risk into Resilience and Value

Leaders – whether in business, government or the nonprofit sector – take risks but often without fully understanding risk at a strategic level. Expanding upon the well-known "ESG" risks, this book explains the key nonfinancial (environmental, social, governance and technological or ESGT) risks. For many leaders (including board members), taking risk without knowledge or preparation can lead to organizational crisis, scandal and value destruction. For those who are prepared, resilience follows and so does the ability to transform ESGT risk into opportunity and value for stakeholders. In this book, global governance, risk, ethics and cyber strategist, author and board member, Andrea Bonime-Blanc, shows practitioners at all levels how to effectively identify and manage their top ESGT risks to avoid crises and transform risk into sustainable long-term resilience and value. Gloom to Boom is a book for everyone – from the highest levels of leadership in an organization (the board, CEO and C-suite), to other senior leaders (the chief risk officer, CFO, general counsel, head of CSR and sustainability, CISO, CHRO), and midlevel leaders, students and folks simply interested in current affairs and the role and impact of strategic risk and opportunity on their lives.

Go Math CA Multi-Volume Chapter 1

California Go Math! Chapter 1 Place Value, Addition, and Subtraction to One Million In this chapter, you will explore and discover answers to the following Essential Questions: - How can you use place value to compare, add, subtract, and estimate with whole numbers? - How do you compare and order whole numbers? - What are some strategies you can use to round whole numbers? - How is adding 5- and 6-digit numbers similar to adding 3-digit numbers?

Go Math CA Multi-Volume Chapter 10

California Go Math! Chapter 10 Two-Dimensional Figures In this chapter, you will explore and discover answers to the following Essential Questions: - How can you draw and identify lines and angles, and how can you classify shapes? - What are the building blocks of geometry? - How can you classify triangles and quadrilaterals? - How do you recognize symmetry in a polygon?

Go Math CA Multi-Volume Chapter 11

California Go Math! Chapter 11 Angles In this chapter, you will explore and discover answers to the following Essential Questions: - How can you measure angles and solve problems involving angle measures? - How can you use fractions and degrees to understand angle measures? - How can you use a protractor to measure and classify angles? - How can equations help you find the measurement of an angle?

Go Math CA Multi-Volume Chapter 12

California Go Math! Chapter 12 Relative Sizes of Measurement Units In this chapter, you will explore and discover answers to the following Essential Questions: - How can you use relative sizes of measurements to solve problems and to generate measurement tables that show a relationship? - How can you compare metric units of length, mass, or liquid volume? - How can you compare customary units of length, weight, or liquid volume?

Go Math CA Multi-Volume Chapter 13

California Go Math! Chapter 13 Algebra: Perimeter and Area In this chapter, you will explore and discover answers to the following Essential Questions: - How can you use formulas for perimeter and area to solve problems? - How are area and perimeter different? - What are some methods you can use to find area and perimeter of a figure? - How could two different rectangles have the same perimeter or the same area?

Go Math CA Multi-Volume Chapter 3

California Go Math! Chapter 3 Multiply by 2-Digit Numbers In this chapter, you will explore and discover answers to the following Essential Questions: - What strategies can you use to multiply 2-digit numbers? - How can you use place value to multiply 2-digit numbers? - How can you choose the best method to multiply 2-digit numbers?

Go Math CA Multi-Volume Chapter 4

California Go Math! Chapter 4 Divide by 1-Digit Numbers In this chapter, you will explore and discover answers to the following Essential Questions: - How can you divide by 1-digit numbers? - How can you use remainders in division problems? - How can you estimate quotients? - How can you model division with a 1-digit divisor?

Go Math CA Multi-Volume Chapter 5

California Go Math! Chapter 5 Factors, Multiples and Patterns In this chapter, you will explore and discover answers to the following Essential Questions: - How can you find factors and multiples, and how can you generate and describe number patterns? - How can you use models or lists to find factors? - How can you create a number pattern?

Go Math CA Multi-Volume Chapter 6

California Go Math! Chapter 6 Fraction Equivalence and Comparison In this chapter, you will explore and discover answers to the following Essential Questions: - What strategies can you use to compare fractions and write equivalent fractions? - What models can help you compare and order fractions? - How can you find equivalent fractions? - How can you solve problems that involve fractions?

Go Math CA Multi-Volume Chapter 7

California Go Math! Chapter 7 Add and Subtract Fractions In this chapter, you will explore and discover answers to the following Essential Questions: - How do you add or subtract fractions that have the same denominator? - Why do you add or subtract the numerators and not the denominators? - Why do you rename mixed numbers when adding or subtracting fractions? - How do you know that your sum or difference is reasonable?

Go Math CA Multi-Volume Chapter 8

California Go Math! Chapter 8 Multiply Fractions by Whole Numbers In this chapter, you will explore and discover answers to the following Essential Questions: - How do you multiply fractions by whole numbers? - How can you write a product of a whole number and a fraction as a product of a whole number and a unit fraction?

Go Math CA Multi-Volume Chapter 9

California Go Math! Chapter 9 Relate Fractions and Decimals In this chapter, you will explore and discover answers to the following Essential Questions: - How can you record decimal notation for fractions and compare decimal fractions? - Why can you record tenths and hundredths as decimals and fractions? - What are some different models you can use to find equivalent fractions? - How can you compare decimal fractions?

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Go Math! CA Multi Volume Chapter 2

California Go Math! Chapter 2 Multiply by 1-Digit Numbers In this chapter, you will explore and discover answers to the following Essential Questions: - What strategies can you use to multiply by 1-digit numbers? - How can you use models to multiply a multi-digit number by a l-digit number? - How can you use estimation to check your answer? - How does the partial products strategy use place value?