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- Explores policy, connection and complimentarity in the times of the global pandemic caused by COVID-19
- Combines theory and practice with storytelling and concrete suggestions both for policymakers in charge of designing the collective landscape
- Looks at the consequences of the prevailing crisis and offers an outlook in two alternative directions
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book looks at the COVID-19 pandemic and its likely aftermath through a four-dimensional prism - aspirations, emotions, thoughts, and sensations to understand human behavior. That perspective opens possibilities to turn the current crisis into an opportunity for positive change; because systematically influencing the various components of our being, individually and collectively, begins by understanding their nature and interaction. Beyond influence this interplay between dimensions can be optimized; which is the purpose of the C-Core (completion, compassion, creativity, cooperation) introduced in the book. In addition, the four determinants that shape institutions: priorities, people, positions, programs - the P-Puzzle are looked at. This book combines theory and concrete suggestions both for policymakers in charge of designing the collective landscape and for individuals who must adapt to, and shape, a new ‘normal’.
COVID-19 is a reminder that humans around the World are fundamentally the same. Whether in the long run the Pandemic will bring out the best or the worst in humans depends on individual and collective choices to nurture our best individual and collective selves. COVID-19 may either expand life quality by adding a new breadth of solidarity or reduce Society to mere survival.
Reviews
“The book Development and Connection in COVID-19 was fascinating … . The author’s writing was straightforward and easily understandable. … This book tackles a global pandemic with a humanistic approach … . This book will be an invaluable resource as the people, communities, and societies find the ‘new normal’ post-COVID-19 and serve as a source to others when facing future crises–this book implications for policy, government and non-government organizations.” (Matthew L. McClellan, International Journal of Community Well-Being, Vol. 5, 2022)
“Through step-by-step analysis, linking abstract concepts with practical knowledge … . The book will be of interest to a wide range of readers, as it is written in an understandable language and in an interesting manner. It can become both the basis from which ideas for scientific research will emerge, and the support for the philosophy of people interested in this topic. The practical proposals put forward by the author can be adopted by both governments and supranational organizations.” (Deniza Alieva, Applied Research in Quality of Life, Vol. 16, 2021)
Authors and Affiliations
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Tübingen, Germany
Cornelia C. Walther
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Development and Connection in the Time of COVID-19
Book Subtitle: Corona’s Call for Conscious Choices
Authors: Cornelia C. Walther
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53641-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53640-4Published: 02 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-53641-1Published: 01 October 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 177
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour