Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: peter koehn

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  • VISIONING HIGHER EDUCATION FOR CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL CHALLENGES
    PETER H. KOEHN / PHYLLIS BO-YUEN NGAI / JUHA I. UITTO
    Visioning presents a roadmap for university leaders to vitalize higher education in response to global problems. It addresses structural, programmatic, and curricular gaps in ways designed to prepare current and future generations for unfolding socio-ecological challenges. The book introduces five urgent and interconnected global challenges (sustainable development, climate cha...

    $1,240.00

  • MIGRANT HEALTH AND RESILIENCE
    PETER H. KOEHN / PHYLLIS BO-YUEN NGAI / JUHA I. UITTO / DIANA M. DIAKÓW
    In an era of escalating conflict-induced and climate-induced migration and cross-border interaction, transnational-competence (TC) preparation for displaced persons, members of their host communities, humanitarian responders, and health-care professionals is increasingly critical. Building on insights from those engaged with a range of humanitarian crises and global-justice con...

    $1,200.00

  • PUBLIC POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION IN AFRICA
    PETER KOEHN
    Originally published in 1990. A look at the vast, historically and socially complex nature of the Nigeria This book is intended to share what he has learned about public policy and administration in Africa over the past ten years. This book is based upon a decade of research, reflection, and writing. The field research period corresponds with the ...

    $1,200.00

  • REFUGEES FROM REVOLUTION
    PETER KOEHN
    This book relates social constraints and opportunities to micro-level exile decision making. It focuses on Cuban, Indo-Chinese, Ethiopian, Eritrean and Iranian exile communities in the United States. The book analyzes the origins of these large groups of exiles and their treatment under US policy. ...

    $1,060.00

  • TRANSNATIONAL MOBILITY AND GLOBAL HEALTH
    PETER H. KOEHN
    Transnational Mobility and Global Health spotlights the powerful and dynamic intersections of human movement, inequality, and health. The book explores the interacting political, economic, social, cultural, and climatic drivers of health and migration, proposing innovative ways to enhance global health and care provision in an era of transnational mobility. As health security c...

    $1,260.00

  • UNIVERSITIES AND THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FUTURE
    PETER H. KOEHN / JUHA I. UITTO
    Since the mid-1970s, a series of international declarations that link environment and sustainable development to all aspects of higher learning have been endorsed and signed by universities around the world. Although university involvement in sustainable-development research and outreach has increased substantially, systematic learning from higher-education engagements has been...

    $1,260.00

  • CHINA CONFRONTS CLIMATE CHANGE
    PETER KOEHN
    China is an integral actor in any movement that will stabilize the global climate at conditions suited to sustainable development for its own population and for people living around the world. Assessments of China’s climatic-system consequences, impact, and responsibilities need to take into account the strengths, weaknesses, and potential of subnational governments, non-govern...

    $1,320.00

  • TRANSNATIONAL COMPETENCE
    PETER H. KOEHN / JAMES N. ROSENAU
    In this timely new contribution, Koehn and Rosenau develop their transnational-competence framework and demonstrate the promise of its application across six critical professions: teacher education, engineering, business management, social work, sustainable-development (encompassing agricultural sciences, public administration, and natural-resources management), and medicine/he...

    $1,320.00

  • THE EXPANDING ROLES OF CHINESE AMERICANS IN U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS
    PETER KOEHN / XIAO-HUANG YIN / XIAO-HUANG YIN
    This book addresses the historical and contemporary involvement of Chinese Americans from diverse walks of life in U.S.-China relations. The contributors present new evidence and fresh perspectives on familiar and unfamiliar national and transnational networks - including families, businesspersons, community newspapers, students, lobbyists, philanthropists, and scientists - and...

    $1,560.00