Publications
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Marginality: Addressing the Nexus of Poverty, Exclusion and Ecology
(2014)
Environment, general; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice; Environmental Economics; Social Policy
Unzuverlässiges Erzählen
(2023)
Die einzelnen Studien dieser Open Access-Monographie (zu Werken u.a. von A. Andersch, Th. Bernhard, H. Böll, M. Frisch, G. Grass, H. Risse, A. Schmidt, O.F. Walter und G. Wohmann) geben in der Summe einen Überblick über ...
Moral Reasoning at Work
(2015)
Business and Management, Leadership and Strategy, Organisational Behaviour, Human Resources
Business Ethics and Critical Consultant Jokes
(2023)
This open access book offers four ways to enrich traditional research methods in business ethics. By looking at critical jokes and cartoons on management consultants, their business practice and their clients’ demands, ...
Chapter Bottom-Up Fabrication of Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbons
(2018)
Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) make up an extremely interesting class of
materials. On the one hand GNRs share many of the superlative properties of
graphene, while on the other hand they display an exceptional degree of ...
China: Surpassing the “Middle Income Trap”
(2021)
This open access book explores one of the most fiercely debated issues in China: if and how China will surpass the middle income trap that has plagued many developing countries for years. This book gives readers a clear ...
Visual Methodology in Migration Studies
(2021)
This open access book explores the use of visual methods in migration studies through a combination of theoretical analyses and empirical studies. The first section looks at how various visual methods, including photography, ...
Water and Earthquakes
(2021)
This open access book explores the interactions between water and earthquakes, including recent concerns about induced seismicity. It further highlights that a better understanding of the response of the water system to ...
Transition and Opportunity
(2022)
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Multinational corporations (MNCs) have long played a crucial role in the Chinese economy. This role is one that is set to continue in the post-pandemic era as China ...
Strand Corrosion in Prestressed Concrete Structures
(2023)
This is an open access book. This book focuses on the durability problems of existing prestressed concrete (PC) structures caused by strand corrosion, clarifies the mechanical behavior of corroded prestressing strands, ...
Library and Information Sciences: Trends and Research
(2014)
Information Profession; Information Literacy; LIS Education; Trends; Information Retrieval; Informatrics
Values for a Post-Pandemic Future
(2022)
This open access book shows how value sensitive design (VSD), responsible innovation, and comprehensive engineering can guide the rapid development of technological responses to the COVID-19 crisis. Responding to the ethical ...
Bioethics Across the Globe
(2020)
This open access book addresses a variety of issues relating to bioethics, in order to initiate cross-cultural dialogue. Beginning with the history, it introduces various views on bioethics, based on specific experiences ...
Becoming a World-Class University: The case of King Abdulaziz University
(2016)
Higher Education; Administration, Organization and Leadership; Educational Policy and Politics; International and Comparative Education; Knowledge - Discourse; Universities; Research; Community
Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe
(2020)
This open access book explores the conceptual challenges posed by the presence of migrants with irregular immigration status in Europe and the evolving policy responses at European, national and municipal level. It addresses ...
Surveying Human Vulnerabilities across the Life Course
(2016)
Sociology
Chapter 6 Prevention
(2015)
This work contains updated and clinically relevant information about tuberculosis. It is aimed at providing a succinct overview of history and disease epidemiology, clinical presentation and the most recent scientific ...
The Future of Transport Between Digitalization and Decarbonization
(2020)
Energy systems are rapidly transitioning towards decarbonization, thanks in part to innovative digital technologies and changing mobility demands. This open access book examines the decarbonization and digitalization ...
Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Modeling and Simulation, plus Econophysics Colloquium 2014
(2015)
Springer Proceedings in Complexity
Evaluation der Besonderen Versorgung nach § 140a SGB V
(2023)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden die politischen Ziele der Ambulantisierung und der sektorengleichen Vergütung den aktuellen Herausforderungen in der Chirurgie gegenübergestellt. Die unzureichend an die steigenden Kosten ...