OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2023)In 2015, the United Nations decided to establish the goal of achieving “zero hunger” in the world by 2030 through “outcome targets” such as eliminating hunger and improving access to food, ending all forms of malnutrition, ...
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(2023)This volume brings together a series of contributions produced, both from history and sociology and from cultural and literary studies, within the framework of the commemoration of the bicentennial of Central American ...
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(2024)This book addresses some of the most significant aspects of Miguel Delibes, such as his human dimension, the presence of nature in his works, the projection of the historical context and society in his narrative, or the ...
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(2023)Reflection on the literary genre has been a constant in the constitution of literary history. In this case, the book by Santiago Fernández Mosquera demands attention to the issue with different approaches to traditional ...
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(2024)Age is a central characteristic of literary characters. It determines their scope of action, their behavioral repertoire, their social relationships with others and much more. The category of age is particularly significant ...
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(2024)Security, Religion, and the Rule of Law argues that true, substantive, and sustainable national security is only possible through respect for the rule of law, human rights, and religious freedom. Despite the emphasis on ...
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(2024)Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book draws on ethnographic research in two UK secondary schools, considering the shifting roles of migration status, language, ethnicity, religion and precarity ...
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(2024)Babies in Groups examines the consequences for science, for childcare policy, and for adult psychotherapy, of findings that young babies capably enjoy participating in groups. The authors’ research on preverbal infants’ ...
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(2024)Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-BD licence. Based on the findings of the Innovate Project, a four year pan-UK study to identify the processes of innovation in care, this book asks: how can services be re-envisioned ...
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(2023)This book is about the development of the Norwegian natural ice industry in the period 1870 to 1930, with a particular focus on one of Norway’s largest ice exporters, Thomas Johannes Wiborg (1845–1929). In addition to ...
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(2024)Researchers engage in increasingly complex relationships with society and business in the process of conducting research. Can qualitative research produce high-quality results when there are close ties between the researchers ...
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(2024)Transport and energy infrastructures - roads, motorways, railways, inland waterways and high-voltage lines - have been major technical, economic and political markers of progress. But the upheavals caused by climate change ...
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(2024)Where and how will we do our shopping tomorrow? With the rise of digital platforms, self-service is being called into question, in the food sector as elsewhere. And yesterday's customer journey is being groped and reinvented. ...
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(2024)Food and nutritional security refers to the challenge of providing sustainable, healthy and accessible food to all people. It has four interconnected dimensions: availability, access, utilization and stability. Tackling ...
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(2024)Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, resulting from the combustion of fossil fuels by human activity, reinforce the greenhouse effect and cause climate disruption. While public awareness of this global problem is growing, ocean ...
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(2024)What are the causes of vegetation and soil degradation? What are the consequences for ecosystems, biodiversity, water resources and the climate? What are the impacts on human societies and the economy? Often wrongly perceived ...
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(2023)Floods, heatwaves, fires and other extreme weather events are all in the news. Their frequency, duration and intensity are accelerating as a result of climate change. Local and regional authorities are in the front line, ...
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(2023)Forests are receiving increasing attention from public authorities and civil society. They provide raw materials and valuable reserves of biodiversity. They also have recreational and ecosystem functions. The law is also ...
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(2024)The extant corpus of research on supply chain sustainability in the Arctic exhibits a conspicuous neglect of the social dimension, rendering it the most underprivileged among the three pillars of sustainability. A deep ...
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(2019)Academics Writing recounts how academic writing is changing in the contemporary university, transforming what it means to be an academic and how, as a society, we produce academic knowledge. Writing practices are changing ...
