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A Handbook for Wellbeing Policy-Making
(2021)
Around the world, governments are starting to directly measure the subjective wellbeing of their citizens and to use it for policy evaluation and appraisal. What would happen if a country were to move from using GDP to ...
Artery
(2025)
Austin Zeiderman unearths how the fraught past and future of Colombia’s Magdalena River articulate the mirrored hierarchies of race and environment to explore global entanglements of race, nature, and capital.
Chapter 9 Becoming Common – Ecological Resistance, Refusal, Reparation
(2024)
This chapter thinks through international law and
posthuman theory by way of an example of ‘posthumanist
commoning’. It explores the posthumanist and the
commoning dimensions of the legal and political collective
actions ...
Mastering Uncertainty in Mechanical Engineering
(2021)
This open access book reports on innovative methods, technologies and strategies for mastering uncertainty in technical systems. Despite the fact that current research on uncertainty is mainly focusing on uncertainty ...
Cultivating political and public identity: Why plumage matters
(2017)
Throughout the twentieth century, everyone from Marxists to economic individualists assumed that social and political activity was driven by the rational pursuit of material gain. Today, the fundamental importance of the ...
The Edge of Sentience
(2024)
Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects, or spiders? How do we tell whether a person unresponsive after severe brain injury might be suffering? When does a fetus in the womb start to have ...
Proofs and Research Programmes: Lakatos at 100
(2025)
This open access book offers new insights into issues raised in philosophy of mathematics and in philosophy of science by Imre Lakatos. Lakatos was one of the most significant philosophers of the 20th Century, and his ideas ...