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Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident (III)
(2019)
This open access book presents the findings from on-site research into radioactive cesium contamination in various agricultural systems affected by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in March 2011. This ...
Technical, Economic and Societal Effects of Manufacturing 4.0
(2020)
This open access book is among the first cross-disciplinary works about Manufacturing 4.0. It includes chapters about the technical, the economic, and the social aspects of this important phenomenon. Together the material ...
Conceptualizing Environmental Citizenship for 21st Century Education
(2020)
This Open Access book is about the development of a common understanding of environmental citizenship. It conceptualizes and frames environmental citizenship taking an educational perspective. Organized in four complementary ...
R&D Management Practices and Innovation: Evidence from a Firm Survey
(2022)
This Open Access book provides a detailed account of firms’ research and development (R&D) management practices, and whether and how R&D management practices are associated with the success and the nature (explorative or ...
The Blue Compendium
(2023)
Home to over 80 percent of all life on Earth, the ocean is the world’s largest carbon sink and a key source of food and economic security for billions of people. The relevance of the ocean for humanity's future is undisputed. ...
Migration, Displacement, and Higher Education
(2023)
This open access book is a nuanced introduction to Forced Migration Studies and a toolkit for faculty and undergraduate students, with a special emphasis on community-engaged learning. Experts from the social sciences, ...
Guidebook to Carbon Neutrality in China
(2022)
This Open Access publication focuses on China’s goal of achieving peak carbon emissions in 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. The book is the first to systematically build a framework combining a top-down and bottom-up ...
English Medium Instruction as a Local Practice
(2023)
From the perspective of translanguaging and instruction theories, this Open Access book examines Chinese English Medium Instruction (EMI) lecturers’ linguistic and pedagogical characteristics. This book demonstrate that ...
Brain and Human Body Modelling 2021
(2023)
This open access book describes modern applications of computational human modelling to advance neurology, cancer treatment, and radio-frequency studies including regulatory, safety, and wireless communication fields. ...
New Metropolitan Perspectives
(2020)
This open access book presents the outcomes of the symposium “NEW METROPOLITAN PERSPECTIVES,” held at Mediterranea University, Reggio Calabria, Italy on May 26–28, 2020. Addressing the challenge of Knowledge Dynamics and ...
Ray Tracing Gems II
(2021)
"The digital version of this book is available now for free – with the print version following very soon!
This Open Access book is a must-have for anyone interested in real-time rendering. Ray tracing is the holy ...
Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident: The First Three Years
(2016)
Environmental Monitoring/Analysis; Agriculture; Plant Sciences; Ecology
A Transition to Sustainable Housing
(2023)
This open access book explores the environmental, social, and financial challenges of housing provision, and the urgent need for a sustainable housing transition. The authors explore how market failures have impacted the ...
Rechtsgemeinschaft mit Tieren
(2024)
Dieses Open-Access-Buch fragt, ob die alten Begründungen, mit denen Tiere traditionell aus der Rechtsgemeinschaft ausgeschlossen wurden, noch tragen und zeigt, welche Fragen sich heute stellen. Die Grenzen der Rechtsgemeinschaft ...
Early Geometrical Thinking in the Environment of Patterns, Mosaics and Isometries
(2016)
Mathematics Education; Teaching; Learning and Instruction
Evidenzbasiertes Wildtiermanagement
(2023)
Diese Open Access Publikation hat das Spannungsfeld zwischen Menschen und Wildtieren, die sich ihren Lebensraum teilen, zum Thema. Dies kann zu Konflikten führen, die wirksame Managementmaßnahmen erfordern. Einerseits ...
Rethinking Graduate Employability in Context
(2023)
This open access book offers critical, multidisciplinary analyses on graduate employability. The book examines employability at the macro, meso and micro levels: higher education policy, the labour market, higher education ...
Perspectives on Nuclear Medicine for Molecular Diagnosis and Integrated Therapy
(2016)
nuclear medicine; diagnostic radiology
Illustrated Pollen Terminology
(2018)
This open access book offers a fully illustrated compendium of glossary terms and basic principles in the field of palynology, making it an indispensable tool for all palynologists. It is a revised and extended edition of ...
North Sea Region Climate Change Assessment
(2016)
Atmospheric Sciences; Marine & Freshwater Sciences; Environmental Management
Embedded Firmware Solutions
(2015)
Computer science
A Macroeconometric Model for Saudi Arabia
(2023)
This Open Access Brief presents the KAPSARC Global Energy Macroeconometric Model (KGEMM). KGEMM is a policy analysis tool for examining the impacts of domestic policy measures and global economic and energy shocks on the ...
Agricultural Value Chains in India
(2022)
This open access book provides a clear holistic conceptual framework of CISS-F (competitiveness, inclusiveness, sustainability, scalability and access to finance) to analyse the efficiency of value chains of high value ...
United Nations Peace Operations in a Changing Global Order
(2019)
“I have seen the UN perform on a changing global stage in many UN missions. This book examines how the UN must continue to evolve amongst changing state actors, differing regional organisations and a constant global paradigm ...
United Nations Peace Operations in a Changing Global Order
(2019)
“I have seen the UN perform on a changing global stage in many UN missions. This book examines how the UN must continue to evolve amongst changing state actors, differing regional organisations and a constant global paradigm ...
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)
Scaling of Differential Equations
(2016)
Differential equations; Simulation and modeling
Zivilgesellschaftliche Performanz von religiösen und säkularen Migrantenselbstorganisationen
(2022)
Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch trägt in theoretischer und empirischer Hinsicht zu einem besseren Verständnis der Eigenschaften und zivilgesellschaftlichen Verortung von religiösen und säkularen Migrantenselbstorganisationen ...
Opening Science: The Evolving Guide on How the Internet is Changing Research, Collaboration and Scholarly Publishing
(2014)
Job Careers in Science and Engineering; Computers and Society; Communication Studies; Web 2.0 and interoperability; Scientific micro blogging; Social networking platforms; Creative commons; Dynamic publication ...
Interlocal Adaptations to Climate Change in East and Southeast Asia
(2022)
This Open Access book’s main focus is agriculture and natural resource management, disaster risk reduction, and human resource development in the countries of East and Southeast Asia and Japan. Asia is one of the regions ...
The Blue Compendium
(2023)
Home to over 80 percent of all life on Earth, the ocean is the world’s largest carbon sink and a key source of food and economic security for billions of people. The relevance of the ocean for humanity's future is undisputed. ...
Struggles for Reproductive Justice in the Era of Anti-Genderism and Religious Fundamentalism
(2023)
This open access book engages with the concept of reproductive justice by exploring case studies of struggles around abortion in the context of rising anti-genderism, religious fundamentalism, and ethno-nationalism. Based ...
Remembering Marielle Franco from a Theological Perspective
(2024)
In this Open Access book, Katharina Merian discusses memories of Marielle Franco from the perspective of the concept of dangerous memory introduced by the political theologian Johann Baptist Metz. Franco was an Afro-Brazilian ...
History Education and Conflict Transformation
(2017)
civil society organisations; textbook studies; history textbooks; textbook writing; post-conflict societies; perpetrators; victims
Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson
(2015)
History of Computing; Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities; Data Structures; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
Sustainable Mobility for Island Destinations
(2022)
This open access book presents the findings of the CIVITAS DESTINATIONS project regarding the link between mobility and tourism in urban areas and the complications tourist destinations face in becoming more sustainable. ...
Making Sense of Immigrant Work Integration
(2022)
This open access book explores the wicked problem of immigrant work integration, with specific examples from Canada. Bringing together a variety of disciplinary perspectives, it discusses immigrant work integration as a ...
The EBMT Handbook
(2024)
This Open Access new edition of the EBMT handbook with its new format, addresses the latest developments and innovations in hematopoietic cell transplantation and cellular therapy. Consisting of 94 chapters, it has been ...
Innopolis University - From Zero to Hero
(2022)
This open access book describes the development of Innopolis, a young Russian university established in 2012 to focus on teaching excellence in computer science, engineering, and robotics. It reports on the problems that ...
Insurance Distribution Directive
(2021)
This open access volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation offers the first comprehensive legal and regulatory analysis of the Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD). The IDD came into force ...
Conceptualizing Environmental Citizenship for 21st Century Education
(2020)
This Open Access book is about the development of a common understanding of environmental citizenship. It conceptualizes and frames environmental citizenship taking an educational perspective. Organized in four complementary ...
Technical, Economic and Societal Effects of Manufacturing 4.0
(2020)
This open access book is among the first cross-disciplinary works about Manufacturing 4.0. It includes chapters about the technical, the economic, and the social aspects of this important phenomenon. Together the material ...
Finance 4.0 - Towards a Socio-Ecological Finance System
(2021)
This Open Access book outlines ideas for a novel, scalable and, above all, sustainable financial system. We all know that today’s global markets are unsustainable and global governance is not effective enough. Given this ...
The Physics of Laser Plasmas and Applications - Volume 2
(2024)
This open access book (Volume 2) is part of the series "The Physics of Laser Plasmas and Applications." It serves as an introduction to the physics of compressible hydrodynamics, which is used to describe the temporal ...
Interlocal Adaptations to Climate Change in East and Southeast Asia
(2022)
This Open Access book’s main focus is agriculture and natural resource management, disaster risk reduction, and human resource development in the countries of East and Southeast Asia and Japan. Asia is one of the regions ...
Design Thinking as a Strategic Approach to E-Participation
(2025)
This open access book examines how the adoption of Design Thinking (DT) can support public organisations in overcoming some of the current barriers in e-participation. Scholars have discussed the adoption of technology to ...
Design Thinking as a Strategic Approach to E-Participation
(2025)
This open access book examines how the adoption of Design Thinking (DT) can support public organisations in overcoming some of the current barriers in e-participation. Scholars have discussed the adoption of technology to ...
Sustainable Commodity Use
(2022)
This open access book examines the governance and legal landscape of the global commodity sector. For that purpose, the author conceptualises both Global Commodity Governance (GCG) as well as Transnational Commodity Law ...
IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study 2016 Assessment Framework
(2016)
Education policy and politics; Assessment, testing and evaluation
North Sea Region Climate Change Assessment
(2016)
Atmospheric Sciences; Marine & Freshwater Sciences; Environmental Management
Reading Breath in Literature
(2019)
This open access book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, geographical and cultural environments. Breath, for all its ubiquity in literary ...
Resilienz
(2023)
Resilienz ist in aller Munde. Egal, ob es sich um gesellschaftliche, wirtschaftliche, technologische oder ökologische Themen handelt: Der Begriff bestimmt zunehmend den Diskurs über die Zukunftsfähigkeit unserer Gesellschaft ...
New Metropolitan Perspectives
(2020)
This open access book presents the outcomes of the symposium “NEW METROPOLITAN PERSPECTIVES,” held at Mediterranea University, Reggio Calabria, Italy on May 26–28, 2020. Addressing the challenge of Knowledge Dynamics and ...
Queering Asylum in Europe
(2021)
This two-volume open-access book offers a theoretically and empirically-grounded portrayal of the experiences of people claiming international protection in Europe on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity ...
Development, Sexual Cultural Practices and HIV/AIDS in Africa
(2019)
This open access book introduces the theoretical frameworks and academic debates concerning sexual cultural practices and HIV/AIDS in Africa. It shows how these frameworks have been applied in a practical sense in Africa ...
Interdisciplinary Insights for Digital Touch Communication
(2020)
Communication is increasingly moving beyond ‘ways of seeing’ to ‘ways of feeling’. This Open Access book provides social design insights and implications for HCI research and design exploring digitally mediated touch ...
Chapter 3 Environmental Entanglements
(2015)
This book offers a provocative account of interdisciplinary research across the neurosciences, social sciences and humanities. Setting itself against standard accounts of interdisciplinary 'integration,' and rooting itself ...
Paths to the Emerging State in Asia and Africa
(2019)
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book addresses the issue of how a country, which was incorporated into the world economy as a periphery, could make a transition to the emerging state, capable of ...
Paths to the Emerging State in Asia and Africa
(2019)
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book addresses the issue of how a country, which was incorporated into the world economy as a periphery, could make a transition to the emerging state, capable of ...
Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia
(2015)
Development Economics; Economic Policy; Social Policy; Climate Change Management and Policy