Background and objectives In developing countries, a substantial share of the older population is employed (WHO, 2007), which is anticipated to triple between 2020 and 2050, bolstered by the rise of bridge employment in ...

This chapter examines the implications of human rights for how refugees should be treated. It focuses on the EU and its member states and understands human rights as an idea of minimal global justice, the core of which is ...

This chapter aims to untangle the relationship between digital media practices and marginality in one of the geographical and discursive peripheries of Southern Europe, Italy, in particular in the city of Rome. Its intention ...

This edited volume centres on how the idea of Europe can be explored by focusing on Europe’s margin. It inquires critically into the relations and tensions in the Global South/Global North divide and the internal differentiation ...

Mechanistic reasoning (MR), which is a form of causal reasoning, is an essential aspect of science education. To support students in developing MR, students in this series of studies were tasked with constructing and using ...

In October 1949, the Belgian-American economist Robert Triffin recalled the signing of the Bretton Woods Agreements of July 1944. From a luxurious hotel in the secluded forests of New Hampshire, the world had aimed to ...

We put forward a formal model of participatory budgeting where projects can incur costs with respect to several different resources, such as money, energy, or emission allowances. We generalise several well-known mechanisms ...