Publications
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EASyQuart - Energieeffiziente Auslegung und Planung dezentraler Versorgungsnetze von Stadtquartieren
(2024)
Das Open-Access-Buch bietet ein Entscheidungshilfesystem für die Beheizung/Kühlung von Stadtteilen durch oberflächennahe geothermische Ressourcen. Die Energieversorgung von Stadtquartieren spielt eine Schlüsselrolle bei ...
Secularization and China's Modernization
(2025)
This open access book examines from the perspective of secularization. Since the publication of Max Weber's Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism, how to realize modernization in developing countries has become ...
Wissenschaft kommuniziert
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch steht der akademische Group-Talk als Format der wissenschaftsinternen Wissenskommunikation im Fokus. Group-Talk ist die Feldbezeichnung für das wöchentliche Arbeitstreffen einer teilnehmend ...
How to Build a Modern Tontine
(2022)
This open access book introduces the modern tontine and its applications in retirement and decumulation. Personal financial management in the later stages of life presents unique challenges, and renowned retirement planning ...
Regulating the Metaverse Economy
(2024)
This open access book examines regulating an environment that has no jurisdiction, is fully anonymous and infinitely vast? Welcome to the Metaverse, an online virtual reality that is expected to add billions to the global ...
The Responsible University
(2019)
This book explores how the notion of the responsible university manifests itself at various levels within Nordic higher education. As the impetus of the knowledge society has catapulted the higher education sector to the ...
Duale Schriftnutzung: Brailleschrift und Schwarzschrift
(2022)
In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden die schriftsprachlichen Kompetenzen von Schülerinnen und Schülern mit dualer Schriftnutzung untersucht. Von einem dualen Schriftspracherwerb spricht man, wenn Kinder oder Jugendliche mit ...
New Living Cases on Corporate Governance
(2021)
This unique open access book features a selection of Living Cases on Corporate Governance, which were developed and compiled by chairpersons, members of the board of directors, and CEOs in various countries, working in ...
Professoren mit Migrationshintergrund
(2021)
Ole Engel untersucht in diesem Open-Access-Buch erstmalig auf der Grundlage einer großen Studie die Bildungs-/Berufsverläufe, die Arbeitssituation, internationale Aktivitäten sowie die gesellschaftliche Teilhabe von ...
Global Challenges in Cardiovascular Prevention in Populations with Low Socioeconomic Status
(2025)
Cardiovascular Prevention (CVP) has included important technological advances and determined improvements in morbidity and mortality since the last 70 and 60 years. However, in populations with socioeconomic limited resources ...
Liberal Democracy
(2020)
This open access book aims to show which factors have been decisive in the rise of successful countries. Never before have so many people been so well off. However, prosperity is not a law of nature; it has to be worked ...
The Ethics of Cybersecurity
(2020)
This open access book provides the first comprehensive collection of papers that provide an integrative view on cybersecurity. It discusses theories, problems and solutions on the relevant ethical issues involved. This ...
Louisiana's Response to Extreme Weather
(2020)
Earth sciences; Natural disasters; Climate change; Coasts; Environmental management; Environmental law; Environmental policy; Social justice; Human rights
Rational Use of Intravenous Fluids in Critically Ill Patients
(2024)
This open access book, published by Springer under the Open Access CC BY 4.0 Licence in collaboration with the International Fluid Academy (IFA, www.fluidacademy.org), explores rationalized intravenous fluid therapy for ...
Modern IoT Onboarding Platforms for Advanced Applications
(2023)
This is an open access book. The book starts with an introductory IoT overview related to its selected scope of applications. There is no doubt that digitalization solutions from Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things ...
Transformational Change for People and the Planet
(2022)
This Open Access book deals with the pressing question of how to achieve transformational change that reconciles development with environmental sustainability. It particularly focuses on the role of evaluation in finding ...
The Leading World’s Most Innovative Universities
(2021)
This open access book is unique in its contents. No other title in the book market has tackled this important subject. It introduces innovation as a way of practice for world-class universities. It, then, discusses the ...
Machine Learning for Cyber Physical Systems
(2019)
This Open Access proceedings presents new approaches to Machine Learning for Cyber Physical Systems, experiences and visions. It contains some selected papers from the international Conference ML4CPS – Machine Learning for ...
The Sanitation Triangle
(2022)
This open access book deals with global sanitation, where SDG 6.2 sets a target of enabling access to sanitation services for all, but has not yet been achieved in low- and middle-income countries. The transition from the ...
50 Years World Heritage Convention: Shared Responsibility – Conflict & Reconciliation
(2022)
This open access book identifies various forms of heritage destruction and analyses their causes. It proposes strategies for avoiding and solving conflicts, based on integrating heritage into the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable ...
Enhanced Living Environments
(2019)
This open access book was prepared as a Final Publication of the COST Action IC1303 “Algorithms, Architectures and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments (AAPELE)”. The concept of Enhanced Living Environments (ELE) ...
Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility
(2025)
This is an open access book. It gathers the proceedings of the 10th edition of Transport Research Arena (TRA 2024), held on 15-18 April, 2024, in Dublin, Ireland. Contributions cover a wide range of research findings, ...
Safety Cultures, Safety Models
(2018)
The objective of this book is to help at-risk organizations to decipher the “safety cloud”, and to position themselves in terms of operational decisions and improvement strategies in safety, considering the path already ...
Closing Rice Yield Gaps in Asia
(2023)
This open access book contributes not only to the scientific literature on sustainable agricultural development and in particular rice agriculture but also is highly valuable to assist practitioners, projects, and policymakers ...
Teaching Multiplication with Lesson Study
(2021)
This open access book is intended to assist teachers, teacher trainers, curriculum designers, editors and authors of textbooks in developing strategies to teach the multiplication of natural numbers based on the experience ...
The Rise of China’s Innovation Economy
(2024)
This open access book provides a comprehensive review of technological innovation in China, focusing on some existing challenges and the debate on the role of public policies in promoting innovation. Technological innovation ...
Das zukunftsfähige Familienunternehmen
(2024)
Die Zukunftsfähigkeit eines Unternehmens, also das langfristige Überleben bei adäquatem Erfolg, erfordert finanzielle Nachhaltigkeit (finanzielle Stärke), eine robuste Strategie und resiliente Leistungserstellung sowie ...
Orthogeriatrics
(2021)
This new open access edition supported by the Fragility Fracture Network aims at giving the widest possible dissemination on fragility fracture (especially hip fracture) management and notably in countries where this ...
Journeys Towards Intercultural Capability in Language Classrooms
(2022)
This open access book presents an account of five teacher educators who, over a two-year period, undertook a research project with five teachers of languages other than English in pre-secondary schools in New Zealand. Their ...
Prehistoric Wetland Sites of Southern Europe
(2025)
This is an open access book. Unique in its scope, this book provides for the first time a Southern European perspective on prehistoric wetland settlements and their natural environment. These are dwellings originally built ...
Biographical Life Course Research
(2023)
This open access book explores an approach that connects individual and societal processes throughout history and shifting trends in sociological perspectives, influenced by C. Wright Mills’ theories of time and temporality. ...
Mapping selfies and memes as Touch
(2022)
This open access book offers a rich and nuanced analysis of digitally networked socialities as culturally meaningful relationships of Touch. Focusing on the ways Touch is practised in everyday social interactions serves ...
Under Pressure?
(2025)
This open access book gathers different case studies of resilience and coping strategies in hunter-gatherer societies who were confronted with natural hazards. Joined in this book, authors display a range of strategies how ...
Social Protection in Latin America
(2024)
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of social protection in Latin America, its origins, institutions, and outcomes. The chapters are organised in three groups. The earlier chapters discuss in turn appropriate methods, ...
Social Accountability Initiatives in Morocco, Tunisia, and Lebanon
(2024)
This Open Access Pivot represents the first extensive exploration of social accountability within the Arab world following the 2011 Arab uprisings. Drawing on insights from development studies, comparative politics, and ...
Creativity and Critique in Digital Learning and Teaching
(2025)
This open access edited collection is aimed at educators, student services staff, and university management. It is timely in adopting a forward-facing view of various aspects of digital teaching and learning in business ...
Cultural Policy is Local
(2023)
This Open Access edited collection calls for a greater understanding of ‘the local’ within the ways the arts, culture and creative practices are governed, promoted, regulated, resourced and valued. Cultural policy studies ...
Governance of Arctic Shipping
(2020)
This open access book is a result of the Dalhousie-led research project Safe Navigation and Environment Protection, supported by a grant from the Ocean Frontier Institute’s the Canada First Research Excellent Fund (CFREF). ...
Transforming Gender Equality and Inclusion Within Higher Education in Ireland
(2025)
This open access book thematically reflects on and analyses the nature of change and transformation with respect to gender equality, inclusion and diversity across higher education in Ireland, from the perspectives of those ...
Knowledge and Institutions
(2018)
This open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions in shaping geographical contexts, and in creating new knowledge. It includes theorizations as ...