Publications
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Human Rights Politics
(2024)
The book offers a comprehensive and clear introduction for students and those interested in human rights, written by a renowned human rights expert. It not only provides an introduction to the diversity of issues, actors ...
Threats to Our Ocean Heritage: Bottom Trawling
(2024)
This open access book focuses on the destruction of our Ocean Heritage from bottom trawling. It brings together the natural and cultural sides of the marine environment to further our understanding of the importance of ...
Transformation Towards Sustainability
(2024)
The global environmental crisis, technological developments, the COVID-19 pandemic, and ongoing economic and political globalization are just a few of the developments that are massively increasing the pressure for ...
Staging Interspaces in Contemporary British Theatre
(2024)
This open access book considers how relationships to place and spatial ecologies more broadly are becoming redefined in light of intersecting climate, health, identity and care crises. Through an interdisciplinary, ...
Hydraulics in Civil Engineering
(2024)
On the one hand, the book closes the gap between applied civil engineering hydraulics books and standard fluid mechanics works; on the other hand, it is designed as a course that can be applied modularly. The goal is to ...
Energy Efficient Servers
(2015)
Computer science
Becoming Citizens in a Changing World: IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study 2016 International Report
(2018)
Civic education; ICCS; IEA Educational Achievement; Civic knowledge; Civics and citizenship; Attitudes to civic life; Engagement with civic life; Civic participation
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems: 24th International Conference, TACAS 2018, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 14-20, 2018, Proceedings, Part II
(2018)
computer architecture; computer software selection and evaluation; formal logic; formal methods; model checker; model checking; multi core processors; program compilers; programming languages; semantics; software ...
The Future of Manufacturing: The Italian Roadmap
(2024)
This book is an open access publication. This book explores innovation paths for improving the positioning of the manufacturing sector in the international arena. The roadmap is the result of intense work over two years, ...
25 Years of Transformations of Higher Education Systems in Post-Soviet Countries
(2018)
USSR countries; Soviet higher education reform; Soviet higher education policy; Post-Soviet higher education; vertical system differentiation; horizontal system differentiation
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming
(2024)
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2024, which took place in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, during June 04-07, 2024. XP is the premier agile ...
The Mathematics Education of Prospective Secondary Teachers Around the World
(2017)
Mathematics Education; Teaching; Teacher Education
Solving PDEs in Python: The FEniCS Tutorial I
(2017)
computer science; algorithms; visualization; software; programming
Vulnerability and Transformation of Indonesian Peatlands
(2023)
This open access book deals with restoring degraded peatlands to help mitigate global warming, to which SDG 15 and SDG 13 are directly related. The book analyzes peatland degradation and restoration of the Indonesian ...
Blue Planet Law
(2023)
Blue Planet Law is the global and future-oriented environmental law that is necessary to face the global environmental crisis in the Anthropocene, assuming especially the link between climate action (SDG 13) and ocean ...
Making Medicines in Africa
(2015)
Life Sciences, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Economics, Political Economy, Development, International Relations, International Political Economy, African Studies, African Economics
Decided Return Migration
(2024)
This open access book creates conceptual links between political emotions, citizenship, home and belonging. The book describes that, in the case of decided return and reintegration to a post-conflict society and a fragmented ...
Chinese Mental Health Scale Translation
(2024)
This open access book illustrates the key steps and procedures of developing mental health scales into linguistically and culturally appropriate translations. Through illustrative case studies, we demonstrate that traditional ...
The InfoSec Handbook
(2014)
Computer science
Innovative Medicine: Basic Research and Development
(2015)
molecular medicine; immunology; cell biology
Dissenting Church
(2024)
This book challenges the prevailing notion of stability, cohesiveness, and uniformity within Christian communities, inviting readers to view contestation and disagreement as integral to theological reflection and church ...
Space–Time Conservation Element and Solution Element Method
(2023)
This open access book introduces the fundamentals of the space–time conservation element and solution element (CESE) method, which is a novel numerical approach for solving equations of physical conservation laws. It ...
Contemporary Issues in Human Rights Law: Europe and Asia
(2017)
EU fundamental rights; constitutional law; international
The Illiberal Public Sphere
(2024)
This open access book provides the first systematic analysis of the role of the media in the rise of illiberalism, based on an original theoretical framework and extensive empirical research in Eastern Europe – a region ...
Masterpieces on Japan by Foreign Authors
(2023)
This open access book includes forty-one chapters about foreign observers’ discourses on Japan. These include a wide range of perspectives from the travelogues of curious visitors to academic theses by scholars, which offer ...
Building a Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2018)
Sustainable agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa; Agricultural economics; Climate change economics; Agricultural productivity; Modern technology adoption by farmers; Agricultural sustainability; Bioenergy Crop Adoption; ...
A Decade of Research Activities at the Department of Industrial Engineering (UniNa-DII)
(2024)
This open access book celebrates the decennial of the Department of Industrial Engineering of Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy. It covers the main research achievements developed at the department in the fields of ...
Financial Crisis Management and Democracy
(2021)
This open access book discusses financial crisis management and policy in Europe and Latin America, with a special focus on equity and democracy. Based on a three-year research project by the Jean Monnet Network, this ...
Bioeconomy
(2018)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book defines the new field of "Bioeconomy" as the sustainable and innovative use of biomass and biological knowledge to provide food, feed, industrial products, ...
Freshwater Microplastics
(2018)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume focuses on microscopic plastic debris, also referred to as microplastics, which have been detected in aquatic environments around the globe and have accordingly ...
Unsettling Responsibility in Science Education
(2021)
This open access book engages with the response-ability of science education to Indigenous ways-of-living-with-Nature. Higgins deconstructs the ways in which the structures of science education—its concepts, categories, ...
Guardians of Public Value
(2021)
This open access book presents case studies of twelve organisations which the public have come to view as institutions. From the BBC to Doctors Without Borders, from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra to CERN, this ...
Ethics and Drug Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health
(2020)
This Open Access volume provides in-depth analysis of the wide range of ethical issues associated with drug-resistant infectious diseases. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is widely recognized to be one of the greatest threats ...
Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (Volume 1)
(2020)
This first open access book in a series of three volumes provides an in-depth analysis of social protection policies that EU Member States make accessible to resident nationals, non-resident nationals and non-national ...
Taming the Big Green Elephant
(2021)
In this open access publication it is shown, that sustainable low carbon development is a transformative process that constitutes the shifting from the initially chosen or taken pathway to another pathway as goals have ...
Öffentliche Mobilität
(2021)
European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918–1948
(2021)
This open access book investigates the transnationally connected history of Arab Christian communities in Palestine during the British Mandate (1918-1948) through the lens of the birth of cultural diplomacy. Relying ...
The Innovation Revolution in Agriculture
(2021)
This open access book is an important reframing of the role of innovation in agriculture. Dr. Campos and his distinguished coauthors address the need for agriculture to feed a growing global population with a reduced ...