Publications
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High Mountain Conservation in a Changing World
(2017)
Pyrenees; nature conservation; species distribution; lakes; forests
White Gold: The Commercialisation of Rice Farming in the Lower Mekong Basin
(2020)
This open access book is about understanding the processes involved in the transformation of smallholder rice farming in the Lower Mekong Basin from a low-yielding subsistence activity to one producing the surpluses needed ...
Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
(2018)
This open access book surveys drinking in Britain between the Licensing Act of 1869 and the wartime regulations imposed on alcohol production and consumption after 1914. This was a period marked by the expansion of the ...
Designing Sustainable Energy for All: Sustainable Product-Service System Design Applied to Distributed Renewable Energy
(2018)
Design for Sustainability; Product-Service System; Distributed Energy; Renewable Energy; Business Models for DRE Systems
3D Recording and Interpretation for Maritime Archaeology
(2019)
This open access peer-reviewed volume was inspired by the UNESCO UNITWIN Network for Underwater Archaeology International Workshop held at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia in November 2016. Content is based on, but ...
Rethinking Health Care Ethics
(2018)
The goal of this open access book is to develop an approach to clinical health care ethics that is more accessible to, and usable by, health professionals than the now-dominant approaches that focus, for example, on the ...
Umwelt- und Bioressourcenmanagement für eine nachhaltige Zukunftsgestaltung
(2020)
In diesem Open Access-Buch werden fünf zentrale Themenbereiche des Umwelt- und Bioressourcenmanagement (UBRM) vorgestellt. Umwelt- und Bioressourcenmanagerinnen und -manager kennen die Herausforderungen des 21. Jahrhunderts, ...
Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime
(2019)
Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime discusses the relationship between the novel and architecture during the Fascist period in Italy (1922-1943). By looking at two profoundly diverse aesthetic ...
Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos
(2020)
This open access book gives an overview of the sessions, panel discussions, and outcomes of the Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos conference, held in February 2018 in San Antonio, Texas, USA, and hosted by the ...
Solving PDEs in Python: The FEniCS Tutorial I
(2017)
computer science; algorithms; visualization; software; programming
Environmental Leadership Capacity Building in Higher Education: Experience and Lessons from Asian Program for Incubation of Environmental Leaders
(2013)
Environmental Management; Business Ethics; Environmental Science and Engineering; Science Education; Non-Profit Enterprises/Corporate Social Responsibility
Play-Responsive Teaching in Early Childhood Education
(2019)
This open access book develops a theoretical concept of teaching that is relevant to early childhood education, and based on children’s learning and development through play. It discusses theoretical premises and research ...
Computer and Information Sciences
(2016)
Information Systems and Communication Service; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Communication Networks; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Probability and Statistics in Computer ...
Goods and Services of Marine Bivalves
(2019)
The aim of this open access book is to review and analyse the goods and services of bivalve shellfish. How they are defined, what determines the ecological functions that are the basis for the goods and services, what ...
Proceedings of the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education: ICME-13
(2017)
teaching mathematics; learning mathematics; mathematics education
Knowing the Salween River: Resource Politics of a Contested Transboundary River
(2019)
This open access book focuses on the Salween River, shared by China, Myanmar, and Thailand, that is increasingly at the heart of pressing regional development debates. The basin supports the livelihoods of over 10 million ...
Atlas of Challenges and Opportunities in European Neighbourhoods
(2016)
Human Geography; World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions); Political Science; Economic Geography
The Values of Independent Hip-Hop in the Post-Golden Era
(2019)
Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, this book uncovers the historical trajectory of U.S. independent hip-hop in the post-golden era, seeking to understand its complex relationship to mainstream hip-hop culture and U.S. ...
Counteracting Urban Heat Island Effects in a Global Climate Change Scenario
(2016)
Climate Change; Energy Efficiency; Remote Sensing; Photogrammetry; Physics
Earth Observation Open Science and Innovation
(2018)
geospatial analytics; social observatory; big earth data; open data; citizen science; open innovation; earth system science; crowdsourced geospatial data; citizen science; science in society; data science
Computational Thinking Education
(2019)
This This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book offers a comprehensive guide, covering every important aspect of computational thinking education. It provides an in-depth discussion of computational ...
Early Geometrical Thinking in the Environment of Patterns, Mosaics and Isometries
(2016)
Mathematics Education; Teaching; Learning and Instruction
Coming to Terms with Superdiversity
(2019)
This open access book discusses Rotterdam as clear example of a superdiverse city that is only reluctantly coming to terms with this new reality. Rotterdam, as is true for many post-industrial cities, has seen a considerable ...
Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
(2018)
This open access collection examines how higher education responds to the demands of the automation economy and the fourth industrial revolution. Considering significant trends in how people are learning, coupled with the ...
Energy in Africa
(2018)
This open access book presents a picture of the current energy challenges on the African continent (and the Sub-Saharan region in particular) and proposes pathways to an accelerated energy transition. Starting with an ...
Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights
(2020)
This open access book analyses the interplay of sustainable development and human rights from different perspectives including fight against poverty, health, gender equality, working conditions, climate change and the role ...
Chapter The Price of Uncertainty in Present-Biased Planning
(2017)
The tendency to overestimate immediate utility is a common cognitive bias. As a result people behave inconsistently over time and fail
to reach long-term goals. Behavioral economics tries to help affected individuals
by ...
Sepsis Management in Resource-limited Settings
(2019)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. It constitutes a unique source of knowledge and guidance for all healthcare workers who care for patients with sepsis and septic shock in resource-limited settings. More ...
Zukunft der Arbeit in Industrie 4.0
(2015)
Industrial and Production Engineering; Robotics and Automation; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing; Manufacturing, Machines, Tools; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
Sustainable Manufacturing: Challenges, Solutions and Implementation Perspectives
(2017)
Manufacturing, Machines, Tools; Sustainable Development; Energy Efficiency; Production
A City in Blue and Green
(2019)
This open access book highlights Singapore’s development into a city in which water and greenery, along with associated environmental, technical, social and political aspects have been harnessed and cultivated into a ...
National Constitutions in European and Global Governance: Democracy, Rights, the Rule of Law
(2019)
This two-volume book, published open access, brings together leading scholars of constitutional law from twenty-nine European countries to revisit the role of national constitutions at a time when decision-making has ...
White Paper on Joint Replacement: Status of Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Care in Germany
(2017)
joint replacement; hip arthroplasty; knee arthroplasty
Protocols for Pre-Field Screening of Mutants for Salt Tolerance in Rice, Wheat and Barley
(2016)
Agriculture; Plant
Sustainable Living with Environmental Risks
(2014)
Earth System Sciences; Environmental Management; Sustainable Development; Environmental Risk Management; Sustainable Society; Biodiversity and Environment; Interdisciplinary Science; Leadership Education; Sustainable ...
Pre-Field Screening Protocols for Heat-Tolerant Mutants in Rice
(2018)
This open access book presents simple, robust pre-field screening protocols that allow plant breeders to screen for enhanced tolerance to heat stress in rice. Two critical heat-sensitive stages in the lifecycle of the rice ...
Los Angeles and the Summer Olympic Games
(2020)
This open access book describes the three planning approaches and legacy impacts for the Olympic Games in one locale: the city of Los Angeles, USA. The author critically compares the similarities and differences of the LA ...
The Amazing Journey of Reason
(2020)
This Open Access book explores questions such as why and how did the first biological cells appear? And then complex organisms, brains, societies and –now– connected human societies? Physicists have good models for describing ...
Optics in Our Time
(2016)
Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices; Quantum Optics; Popular Science in Physics; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
Research Assessment in the Humanities
(2016)
This book analyses and discusses the recent developments for assessing research quality in the humanities and related fields in the social sciences. Research assessments in the humanities are highly controversial and the ...