Publications
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Mathematics for the Environment
(2011)
Mathematics for the Environment shows how to employ simple mathematical tools, such as arithmetic, to uncover fundamental conflicts between the logic of human civilization and the logic of Nature. These tools can then be ...
Digital Internationalisation of Firms
(2025)
Digital Internationalisation of Firms offers a comprehensive examination of the digital outward internationalisation of firms, focusing on both Internet-based and Internet-enabled businesses, including SMEs and large ...
AIDS, Intimacy and Care in Rural KwaZulu-Natal
(2025)
In 2003-2006, Patricia Henderson lived in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal where she recorded the experiences of people living with HIV/AIDS. In this illuminating study, she recounts the concerns of rural people ...
Chapter 6 Laundering a Massacre
(2024)
Laundering Black Rage: The Washing of Black Death, People, Property, and Profits is a spatial and historical critique of the capitalist State that examines how Black Rage—conceived as a constructive and logical response ...
Organizing for Sustainable Development
(2022)
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recognize the increasingly complex, interdependent nature of societal and environmental issues for governments and business. Tackling such "grand challenges" requires the concerted ...
Sovereignty through Practice
(2025)
This book explores how actors practise sovereignty as a force in a multiscalar context.
Among the various power structures that perform sovereignty, such as the head of state, a legislative body, or the military, one ...
Governing Delinquency Through Freedom
(2020)
"This book analyses the non-custodial government of young offenders in two major cities in Brazil. In doing so, it delves into the paradox of an institution exerting control over youths while at the same time promoting ...
Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining
(2022)
This book explores the role of Catholic peacebuilding in addressing the global mining industry. Mining is intimately linked to issues of conflict, human rights, sustainable development, governance, and environmental justice. ...
The Political Economy of Coal
(2022)
This volume provides an overview of the political economy of coal in diverse country contexts. Coal is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions globally, accounting for about 40 percent of energy-related CO2 emissions. ...
Hydroxyapatite Coatings for Biomedical Applications
(2013)
Hydroxyapatite coatings are of great importance in the biological and biomedical coatings fields, especially in the current era of nanotechnology and bioapplications. With a bonelike structure that promotes osseointegration, ...
Education in Youth Detention Homes
(2025)
Drawing upon meticulous ethnographic analysis and unique data sources, this book dissects the multifaceted challenges and occasional victories encountered by both educators and detained youth in Sweden.
Originally ...
Window Functions and Their Applications in Signal Processing
(2013)
Window functions—otherwise known as weighting functions, tapering functions, or apodization functions—are mathematical functions that are zero-valued outside the chosen interval. They are well established as a vital part ...
Chapter 17 On vibrational architectures
(2025)
This companion explores a range of conceptual and practical relationships between sound and space across various disciplines, providing insights from technical, creative, cultural, political, philosophical, psychological, ...
The Hydrocene
(2024)
This book challenges conventional notions of the Anthropocene and champions the Hydrocene: the Age of Water. It presents the Hydrocene as a disruptive, conceptual epoch and curatorial theory, emphasising water's pivotal ...
Chapter 2 Buddhism in Sweden
(2025)
This book provides new unprecedented research on Buddhism in the five Nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Aiming at comparisons between the different Nordic countries, the chapters identify ...
Regulating Interracialized Intimacies
(2025)
This book explores the role of the law in the social construction of ‘race’ and ‘mixture’ within and beyond the borders of Europe. It focuses on ‘interracialized’ intimacies, that is, the intimate relations of subjects ...
Chapter 11 Three Markets and Three Types of Competitiveness
(2017)
Paper is a universal and familiar product for any industrial society. Although digitization eroded its dominance as an information carrier, one can hardly live without paper’s use in printing, packaging and wrapping material, ...
Chapter 25 Patriarchal Backlash in Uganda?
(2025)
This handbook engages with and broadens current debates on men and masculinities in conflict and peacebuilding. Through an expansive range of chapters across a unique array of geographical settings, the volume shatters ...
The Routledge Companion to Gender and Affect
(2023)
The study of affect is one of the most exciting and wide-ranging topics to have emerged in the humanities and social sciences in recent years and continues to generate research and debate. It has particularly important ...
Discourses of Global Queer Mobility and the Mediatization of Equality
(2021)
This book critically unpacks the why and how around everyday rhetorics and slogans promoting global LGBTQ equality. Examining the means by which particular discourses of progress and hope are circulated globally, it offers ...
RNA, the Epicenter of Genetic Information
(2023)
The origin story and emergence of molecular biology is muddled. The early triumphs in bacterial genetics and the complexity of animal and plant genomes complicate an intricate history. This book documents the many advances, ...
Sustainable Urban Development in the European Arctic
(2025)
Focusing on cities in the European Arctic, this book consolidates research on sustainable development, local and urban governance, and transnational cooperation in the region. It examines to what extent there is transnational ...
Subtle Agroecologies
(2021)
This book is about the invisible or subtle nature of food and farming, and also about the nature of existence. Everything that we know (and do not know) about the physical world has a subtle counterpart which has been ...
Geosynthetics: Leading the Way to a Resilient Planet
(2023)
This volume contains the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Geosynthetics (12 ICG), held in Roma, Italy, 17-21 September 2023. About 750 Authors - Academics, Researchers, Students, Practitioners, Contractors ...
Chapter 1 Constructing knowledge for food sovereignty, agroecology and biocultural diversity
(2017)
Contestations over knowledge – and who controls its production – are a key focus of social movements and other actors that promote food sovereignty, agroecology and biocultural diversity. This book critically examines the ...
Adaptive Middleware for the Internet of Things
(2018)
Over the past years, a considerable amount of effort has been devoted, both in industry and academia, towards the development of basic technology as well as innovative applications for the Internet of Things. Adaptive ...
Analytical Heat Transfer
(2019)
Developed from the author’s 30 years of teaching a graduate-level intermediate heat transfer course, Analytical Heat Transfer explains how to analyze and solve conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer problems. ...
Expatriates and Managing Global Mobility
(2023)
There has been several decades of research on why women are under-represented in the expatriate population, but it is only in the past few years that research has begun to focus on issues with members from other diverse ...
Lakhpati Kisan
(2025)
Agriculture plays an essential role in the growth of developing economies, as agricultural production is key to food security and is closely intertwined with the livelihoods of many. This book explores the lives of smallholder ...
Resilience, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and Transitional Justice
(2023)
This interdisciplinary book constitutes the first major and comparative study of resilience focused on victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV).
Locating resilience in the relationships and ...
Charting Literary Urban Studies
(2021)
Guided by the multifaceted relations between city and text, Charting Literary Urban Studies: Texts as Models of and for the City attempts to chart the burgeoning field of literary urban studies by outlining how texts in ...
Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Africa
(2021)
This book explores recent developments, constraints and opportunities relating to the advancement of sexual and reproductive health and rights in Africa. Despite many positive developments in relation to sexual and ...
Chapter Standards and criteria
(2022)
This book provides an authoritative overview of the criteria and standards of the doctorate across a wide range of international settings, with a particular focus on the practices of examining. Presenting case studies and ...
Queer and Trans People of Colour in the UK
(2023)
This book explores the meanings of Queer and Trans People of Colour (QTPOC) activist groups in the UK, considering the tensions around inclusion and belonging across lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) and of ...
From Sovereignty to Solidarity
(2022)
Bauder, Harald, Human, Migration, Rethinking, Solidarity, Sovereignty
Researching New Religious Movements
(2004)
New religious movements such as the Moonies, Jehovah's Witnesses and Hare Krishnas are now well established in mainstream cultural consciousness. But responses to these 'cult' groups still tend to be overwhelmingly negative, ...
China’s Carbon-Energy Policy and Asia’s Energy Transition
(2022)
This book seeks to examine the impacts associated with China’s carbon-energy policy in Asia and how, coupled with the Belt and Road Initiative, these effects prompt foreign direct investments in coal power and exports of ...
Engaging Faculty in Group- Level Change for Institutional Transformation
(2023)
Diversifying the academic faculty remains an elusive goal marked by slow and uneven progress. This book describes an effective model for institutional transformation which is uniquely grounded in group-level processes.
Efforts ...
Far From the Truth
(2024)
Information and knowledge were essential tools of early modern Europe’s global ambitions. This volume addresses a key concern that emerged as the competition for geopolitical influence increased: how could information from ...
Designing with Photovoltaics
(2020)
"Designing with Photovoltaics" cover a broad range of topics related to the design of products, buildings and vehicles with integrated photovoltaic (PV) technologies including storage aspect. It enables the reader to easily ...