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The vegetable alphabet book
Describes a variety of terms, from A to Z, relating to vegetable gardening, beginning with asparagus and ending with zucchetta.
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Agile Resilience
An essential read for anyone working today, this book focuses on agile resilience, exploring how resilience can be learned, chosen, developed and adapted to help you cope with the range of circumstances and experiences you may face at work, whether that's at home, in an office or any other workspace.
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Pachakuti: Indigenous perspectives, buen vivir, sumaq kawsay and degrowth
Bob Thomson argues that understanding the limits to growth for our finite planet is slowly gaining currency due to the (mostly) European sustainable degrowth ‘movement’ and a plurinational Latin American cosmovision which is largely indigenous but also criollo. These visions challenge us to decolonize our minds, as well as our economies. Thomson introduces a number of writers and perspectives on ‘degrowth’ and suggests that a synthesis of indigenous concepts of ‘living well’ with western critiques of our unsustainable industrial ‘model’ may hold promise for a way out of the multiple environmental, economic and social crises that we face.
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Developing a Normatively Grounded Research Agenda for Fair Trade: Examining the Case of Canada
This paper examines two issues related to research of certified fair trade goods. The first is the question of how agendas for fair trade research should be developed. The second issue is the existence of major gaps in the fair trade literature, including the study of the particular features of fair trade practice in individual northern countries. In taking up the first of these issues, the paper proposes that normative analysis should provide the basis for developing research agendas. Such an approach is important to ensure that the necessary types of questions to make normative judgments and policy decisions are posed and that biases that tend to favor mainstreaming practices in the generation of knowledge are minimized. The paper addresses the second research issue by examining the development of research agendas at the level of individual countries, using Canada as a case.
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Dveloping a Nomatively Grounded Research Agenda for Fair Trade Examining the Case of Canada
This paper examines two issues related to research of certified fair trade goods. The first is the question of how agendas for fair trade research should be developed. The second issue is the existence of major gaps in the fair trade literature, including the study of the particular features of fair trade practice in individual northern countries. In taking up the first of these issues, the paper proposes that normative analysis should provide the basis for developing research agendas. Such an approach is important to ensure that the necessary types of questions to make normative judgments and policy decisions are posed and that biases that tend to favor mainstreaming practices in the generation of knowledge are minimized. The paper addresses the second research issue by examining the development of research agendas at the level of individual countries, using Canada as a case.
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Narrow-leafed Lupins with Restricted Branching
Crop phenology is one of the most important characters influencing productivity in a given environment. Narrow-leafed lupin (Lupinus angustifolius L.) is a major grain legume crop in southern Australia with general phenological adaptation to this Mediterranean-type environment. However, it is an indeterminate crop with several associated limitations to productivity, such as overlapping vegetative and reproductive growth, late grain filling and sometimes excessive vegetative growth. Here we studied two novel types of narrow-leafed lupin with restricted branching, which might be useful for overcoming these problems. These restricted branching lupins arose spontaneously within a breeding population, in the case of ‘Tallerack’, and within a farmer's crop in the case of ‘ Hurst’ and we compared them with the ‘Merrit’, which is widely grown and has the normal indeterminate branching habit. The morphology and development of the main shoot of these genotypes were similar. However, ‘Hurst’ had much larger leaves. There were also striking differences in the lateral branches of the restricted branching types; they had fewer leaves than ‘Merrit’ and flowered earlier. These differences were most marked in ‘ Hurst’, where the upper main stem branches were reduced to a single floret in the axil of main stem leaves, and these flowers often exhibited abnormal morphology.
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The Context of Blended Learning as a Driving Force - Does the Type of Education Matter?
Real estate education across Europe is predominantly embedded in either schools of built environment or business schools. The framework conditions and especially the size of the student cohorts have a significant impact on the setup and handling of teaching and subsequent learning facilities. Blended learning is to regarded a didactical meaningful combination of traditional face-to-face instruction and state-of-the-art e-learning formats. This contribution is reporting on a survey with accompanying structured interviews conducted with representatives stemming from both types of real estate education. The survey itself has already been presented at the ERES2015 conference in Istanbul. The interviews serve as augmenting case studies touching upon four main areas: delivery of content, training, strategic impetus, culture. The questions for the case studies were sent in advance to the interview partners (in order to settle preparation) and undertaken using a videoconference.
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