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As the world grapples with the escalating challenges of climate change, the legal profession finds itself at a crossroads. Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer: Climate and the Australian Legal System provides an original, innovative and accessible analysis of the impact of climate change on legal doctrines and principles. It offers an overview of cutting-edge developments and how the transition to a low-carbon society is reshaping a wide range of laws, from corporate to criminal law, and beyond. This valuable new resource supports legal professionals, law students, and legal educators to understand current legal challenges – providing the know-how to strategically navigate, and positively influence, the development of law to respond to a climate changed world. The book delivers a transformative approach to legal education: equipping law students to become climate-conscious professionals with the confidence and competency to deliver legal solutions to a diverse range of clients, and promote climate justice across diverse communities.

This book is designed to prepare postgraduate students for advanced research at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. It advises and guides students on the research skills needed to carry out independent academic research projects for the first time. Students will be guided through key stages of research: Formulating a research question, scoping search, comprehensive searching of the literature, evaluating information sources, and reference management. Practical and informative in style, the book does not cover writing and research methods. The book focuses on the skills a University Library teaches and supports. While written for Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington students, using our own examples, links and references, the core text is generic in nature, to allow for other New Zealand Universities to adapt the book for their own situations and cohorts.

This textbook introduces students to the disciplines of criminology and criminal justice, using contemporary Australian examples to combine theory with practical applications and hands on research project. In the first section of the book, students will examine the nature of crime and how it is defined and measured in contemporary society. In the next section of the book, students will learn about the different criminological theories that guide our understanding of contemporary crime problems. In the final section of the book, students will examine criminal justice responses to learn how criminal justice agencies use these theoretical approaches to produce meaningful practical solutions. This textbook provides several benefits for novice criminology and criminal justice students, including prioritizing diversity and representation within each chapter. Interviews with researchers and practitioners help to make the textbook information come to life, offering critical insights into cutting-edge research and real-world illustrations of frontline criminal justice practices and policies. Students can gauge their comprehension of the chapter content with self-administered quizzes. Collectively, this interactive textbook enables students to advance their knowledge of criminology and criminal justice by drawing on the expertise of leaders in the field while applying local examples to this global discipline.

The first open source and open access textbook on Australian politics, Australian Politics and Policy provides a unique, holistic coverage of politics and public topics for use in university courses.

This peer reviewed eBook introduces readers to foundational concepts in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, personality psychology and social psychology to help explain why conflict occurs, how it develops and how it may be managed and/or resolved.

This book has a new location. Please access the book via JCU Open eBooks.

A guide to the UWA approach to answering clinical questions; an Evidence Based Practice approach. ACQ teaches Evidence Based Practice principles such as to individualise information for your patient’s situation, integrate the best available information with clinical expertise, patient values, and the health care environment, and to challenge dogma and avoid uncritical acceptance of ‘usual practice’. Developed to support students in the Doctor of Medicine degree.

Developed for an international cohort, this text is designed to explain business finance concepts in an easily understood manner without overwhelming students with too much content.

This interactive, open-access textbook provides a comprehensive and engaging exploration of the challenges and opportunities facing our oceans, with a strong Australian focus and global relevance. It integrates ocean science, sustainability, policy and community perspectives to build ocean literacy and support the development of a sustainable Blue Economy. Drawing on contemporary research, international and national frameworks (including the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the UN Decade of Ocean Science and Australian marine strategies), the textbook examines key themes such as climate change and ocean solutions, food security, biodiversity conservation, cleaner oceans, coastal resilience, ocean equity and Indigenous empowerment. Rich multimedia content, including interactive activities, videos and podcasts, are embedded throughout to support active learning and real-world application. Designed for students, educators, practitioners and the broader community, this resource bridges science, policy and practice to inform decision-making and foster collective stewardship of Australia’s marine environment.

Tens of thousands of iconic fossils are housed in the collections of the Geology Museum at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka – University of Otago, in Ōtepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand. Used for teaching and research for over a century, here we offer a close look at some of the most special fossil treasures in the collections.

This accessible open-access textbook employs a critical health psychology perspective to health psychology to promote critical reflexive thinking and learning about health and wellbeing, within a social justice framework. The book navigates the reader through a comprehensive examination of contemporary research and theoretical developments in the field of critical health psychology. Organised into three distinct parts, the book radically orients readers to new ways to think about health through:

• incorporating a conscious reflection on and examination of how health is theorised, understood, treated, and promoted for individuals, communities, and societies;
• using a critical psychology lens that centres issues of power and meaning making, including gendered, Indigenous, and intersectional frameworks;
• an openness to, and engagement with, theoretical and methodological pluralism, including quantitative, qualitative and Indigenous approaches to explore people’s experiences and understandings of health and illness;
• explicit attention to socio-political contexts;
• and considering the application of knowledge beyond behaviour change, to social change including community-level (community-led interventions, activism and advocacy) and societal level (e.g., policy, wider discourses).