Publications
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Chapter 15 Patterns and Drivers of Plant Biodiversity in Urban and Urbanizing Landscapes
(2024)
This handbook provides a state-of-the-art, comprehensive overview of the expanding field of urban biodiversity. The field of urban biodiversity has emerged from within the broad discipline of urban ecology in the past two ...
Chapter 3 Nothing as practical as an analytical strategy in realist evaluation
(2025)
Realist Evaluation: Principles and Practice offers a comprehensive exploration of contemporary realist evaluation, showcasing how skilled practitioners navigate diverse fieldwork contexts. Authored by experts spanning ...
Dynamic Resource Allocation in Embedded, High-Performance and Cloud Computing
(2016)
The availability of many-core computing platforms enables a wide variety of technical solutions for systems across the embedded, high-performance and cloud computing domains. However, large scale manycore systems are ...
Neuroscience and Critique
(2016)
Recent years have seen a rapid growth in neuroscientific research, and an expansion beyond basic research to incorporate elements of the arts, humanities and social sciences. It has been suggested that the neurosciences ...
Chapter 1 Demographic Transitions in Europe and the World
(2015)
Current demographic trends raise new questions, challenges and controversies. Comparing demographic trends in Europe and the NAME-region (North Africa and the Middle East), this book demonstrates how population change ...
Renewable Economies in the Arctic
(2022)
"This book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on renewable economies in the Arctic and how these are being supported scientifically, economically, socially, and politically by Arctic states.
The economic development ...
Chapter 2 Animal sacrifice on trial
(2024)
Animal sacrifices are commonly practised in Himachal Pradesh on various occasions, including public festivals at the district level. Over recent years criticism of the practice has increased and some cases have been brought ...
Chapter 5 Alchemy, potency, imagination
(2018)
A case in point is Paracelsus’s view of poisons, which have a richness that
has not been captured in previous scholarship. Most scholars only touched
on the subject of poison and did not fully reflect on the complexity ...
Chapter 3 Digital Approaches to Analyzing and Translating Emotion
(2023)
This chapter discusses the use of digital tools—in particular, language technology—to study the history of emotions. There are a growing number of annotated text corpora for ancient languages large enough to benefit from ...
Artificial Intelligence and Systems of the Earth
(2025)
Artificial Intelligence and Systems of the Earth is a book about the potential and capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for studying the Earth. It aims to serve as an eye-opener on new ...