Publications
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Life-Cycle Performance of Structures and Infrastructure Systems in Diverse Environments
(2025)
Life-Cycle Performance of Structures and Infrastructure Systems in Diverse Environments contains the lectures and papers presented at the Ninth International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE 2025, Melbourne, ...
Byzantine Dress: A Guide
(2025)
This book offers approaches to the study of Byzantine dress of elites and non-elites, in sacred and secular modes, from the beginning of the Empire in the fourth century until the fifteenth century. Byzantine dress is ...
Nordic Societal Security
(2020)
This book compares and contrasts publicly espoused security concepts in the Nordic region, and explores the notion of societal security. Outside observers often assume that Nordic countries take similar approaches to the ...
Handbook of Optical and Laser Scanning
(2012)
From its initial publication titled Laser Beam Scanning in 1985 to Handbook of Optical and Laser Scanning, now in its second edition, this reference has kept professionals and students at the forefront of optical scanning ...
Urban Politics
(2019)
Urban Politics blends the most insightful classic and current political science and related literature with current issues in urban affairs. The book’s integrative theme is ‘power,’ demonstrating that the study of urban ...
Data-Driven Innovation in the Creative Industries
(2024)
The creative industries – the place where art, business, and technology meet in economic activity – have been hugely affected by the relatively recent digitalisation (and often monetisation) of work, home, relationships, ...
Populism and Conspiracy Theory
(2024)
This book explores the close connections between populism and conspiracy theory. Populism and Conspiracy Theory contributes to filling the gap in the research in this area. The individual contributions in Part I provide ...
Future of Sustainable Agriculture in Saline Environments
(2021)
Food production on present and future saline soils deserves the world’s attention particularly because food security is a pressing issue, millions of hectares of degraded soils are available worldwide, freshwater is becoming ...
Restoring Forests and Improving Livelihoods in Nepal
(2025)
This book presents a comprehensive review of new research and practice-based insights from Nepal’s four decades of community forestry development, delving into when and how community-based management can lead to forest ...
Chapter 2 Khural Democracy
(2021)
The political system of early socialist-era Mongolia, established by the first Constitution in 1924, can be interpreted as a vernacular version of the Soviet system, in which the formally supreme representative body, the ...
Constitutional Law and Precedent
(2022)
This collection examines case-based reasoning in constitutional adjudication; that is, how courts decide on constitutional cases by referring to their own prior case law and the case law of other national, foreign, and ...
Multispecies Dialogues
(2025)
In Multispecies Dialogues Eva Meijer develops a new understanding of the concept ‘dialogue’, which includes embodied, material and spatial interaction. Meijer does not do this alone: each chapter of the book is devoted to ...
Architectural Thinking in a Climate Emergency
(2025)
What is the role of architecture – and the architect – in the Anthropocene? It’s an immutable fact: human activity is driving the climate and biodiversity crises that now threaten all life. The damage we inflict on the ...
Contextualizing Entrepreneurship Theory
(2020)
As the breadth and empirical diversity of entrepreneurship research have increased rapidly during the last decade, the quest to find a "one-size-fits-all" general theory of entrepreneurship has given way to a growing ...
Ethics of Engagement in Research Practices
(2025)
This book elaborates on the concept of response-ability. Although the notion is becoming popular in organization and management studies to talk about the ethical dimension of academic practices and research work, it has ...
Chapter 6 Conclusions
(2025)
This book presents the legislative networks in charge of drafting democratic reforms as gatekeepers to the actual adoption, implementation and internalisation of democratic norms in selected post-Soviet countries. It ...
Chapter Transferable Stressors in Small Cetaceans: Historical Status, Current Trends and Future Directions
(2025)
The ever-increasing interest in work in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance to global environmental issues, especially global climate change and its impacts, creates a demand for authoritative refereed reviews ...
A Cultural History of Physics
(2024)
While the physical sciences are a continuously evolving source of technology and of understanding about our world, they have become so specialized and rely on so much prerequisite knowledge that for many people today the ...
The Mobility Control Apparatus
(2025)
This book critically explores the complexities of intra-Schengen border control and migration dynamics within Europe. It provides a comprehensive analysis of how various actors, including border officials and state ...
Fluid Balance, Hydration, and Athletic Performance
(2016)
Athletes and nonathletes frequently consume too little water or fluids, affecting exercise performance as well as overall health. This book comprehensively reviews the aspects relating to body fluid balance, rehydration, ...