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The Fading Gloss of Data Science: Towards an Agenda that Faces the Challenges of Big Data for Development and Humanitarian Action
Different UN and international agencies are busy trying to leverage big data to unlock its value for evidence-based decision-making in development...
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Digital Food Provisioning in a Time of Multiple Crises: An Introduction
This opening chapter emphasises the critical role of food in sustainable transitions and highlights the need to comprehend the novel dynamics of...
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Introduction
By way of introduction, the book shows the political background in the EU during the 2015 refugee crisis. Before embarking on a discussion of recent...
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A Moment of Intersecting Crises: Climate Justice in the Era of Coronavirus
The author explores the nexus of ‘climate chaos’ and how this intersects with and exacerbates the top issues of our time—from immigration to public...
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Clothing the Emperor: Supporting National Climate Change Action in Ireland Through Local Governance Networks
The Irish Government has set out policies and a governance framework for implementing action on climate change. However, the potential for local...
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Trajectories of Post-Sustainability
Faced with climate change and other ecological crises, sustainability has become an inescapable normative framework for organizations and societies...
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Shift from Resilience to Resistance and Political Action
This chapter, points out the importance of a needed shift from territorial to relational connection with a place, and the role of organic...
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An Exploratory Study to Understand Nonprofit Organizations’ Crisis Leadership Competencies: A Portuguese Analysis on COVID-19
The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors that affect the Nonprofit Organization’s (NPO) competencies and leadership in a crisis...
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Climate change impacts and threats on basic livelihood resources, food security and social stability in Afghanistan
Afghanistan is facing one of the world's most serious humanitarian and environmental crises, with food insecurity, conflict, instability, and climate...
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Reintermediating Voluntary Action: The Path-Dependent Pluralization of the Italian Volunteering Field
While the international literature has significantly addressed the “new forms of voluntary action,” there has been limited attention paid so far to...
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Make the World Yours! Arts-Based Research in Action in the Cerco do Porto Neighbourhood
In this chapter, we present a theoretical and analytical tour of the concept of Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) young people in the...
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Smoke with fire: Financial crises and the demand for parliamentary oversight in the European Union
The handling of the 2008 financial crisis has reinforced the conviction that the European Union (EU) is undemocratic and that member states are...
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Introduction: Embedding the Analysis of Housing Contention in the Sociopolitical Complexity of Structural Crises
The chapter introduces the main objectives of the book: (1) to develop an analytical approach able to account for the structural and ideological...
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Unprecedented Struggles: Preserving Last Rites as Human Rights During the Second Wave of COVID-19 in India
In the dynamic landscape of pluralistic societies like India, where diverse religions and varying religious-cultural practices span across different...
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Inter-Organisational Entanglements in Migrant Support Ecologies: Action and Collaboration Supporting Labour Market Integration
This paper examines inter-organisational behaviours in what we call ‘migrant support ecologies’ – shared physical and abstract spaces where multiple...
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Influence of emotions on coping behaviors in crisis: a computational analysis of the COVID-19 outbreak
Widespread public crises often give rise to the proliferation of sensationalized rumors and conspiracy theories, which can evoke a variety of public...
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Decades of Insecurity and Crisis. Authoritarian Temptations Have Reached the Open Society
In the analysis of the development of authoritarian temptations and right-wing threat alliances, the succession of crises since 2000 emerges as a...
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Heightened risk of unintended pregnancy among sex workers and sex worker organizations’ response during the stringent COVID-19 containment measures in East and Southern Africa
The UNFPA 2022 State of the World Population (SWOP) report recognises that certain populations of young women and girls are at a higher risk of...
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The clues in the news media coverage: detecting Chinese collective action trend from a text analytics research framework
With the adjustment of social relations and interest patterns brought about by the comprehensive deepening reform in China, new and old...
