Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes of Southeastern Brazil

The state of São Paulo, Brazil, is one of the most densely populated and developed areas in South America. Such development is evident both in terms of industrialization and urbanization, as well as in agriculture, which is heavily based on sugar cane, Eucalyptus plantations and livestock. This intense land use has resulted in great alteration of the original land cover and fragmentation of na…

Air Quality Research Using Remote Sensing

Air pollution is a worldwide environmental hazard that poses serious consequences not only for human health and the climate but also for agriculture, ecosystems, and cultural heritage, among other factors. According to the WHO, there are 8 million premature deaths every year as a result of exposure to ambient air pollution. In addition, more than 90% of the world's population live in areas wher…

Advances in Ceramics

The current book contains twenty-two chapters and is divided into three sections. Section I consists of nine chapters which discuss synthesis through innovative as well as modified conventional techniques of certain advanced ceramics (e.g. target materials, high strength porous ceramics, optical and thermo-luminescent ceramics, ceramic powders and fibers) and their characterization using a comb…

Advances in Flow Modeling for Water Resources and Hydrological Engineering

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Advances in Lasers and Electro Optics

Lasers and electro-optics is a field of research leading to constant breakthroughs. Indeed, tremendous advances have occurred in optical components and systems since the invention of laser in the late 50s, with applications in almost every imaginable field of science including control, astronomy, medicine, communications, measurements, etc. If we focus on lasers, for example, we find applic…

Placemaking in Practice Volume 1; Experiences and Approaches from a Pan-Europ…

Placemaking telah menjadi konsep kunci dalam banyak disiplin. Karena peningkatan digitalisasi, mobilitas, migrasi, dan perubahan cepat pada lingkungan perkotaan, penting untuk mempelajari bagaimana para ahli perencanaan dan sosial mempraktikkannya dalam konteks yang berbeda. Placemaking in Practice menyediakan inventaris praktik, mencerminkan berbagai isu terkait placemaking dari perspektif pan…

EU Foreign Policy in a Fragmenting International Order

This open access book delves into the responses of EU actors, such as member states, institutions, and political groups in the European Parliament, to the fragmentation of the liberal international order (LIO). The analytical framework adopted in this volume explores the diverse interpretations of this phenomenon and the various political initiatives associated with them. Among these interpreta…

The Visionary Preaching of Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534) = Ritual, Revelation,…

Step into the world of 16th-century Castile, where a devout community of Franciscan women preserved the public preaching of their visionary abbess, Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534), through writing. This groundbreaking book uncovers how her sermons were recorded, explores the materiality of the surviving codices, and reveals their role in the controversial censorship and blocking of Juana’s canon…

The Impact of EU Politicisation on Voting Behaviour in Europe

This open access book focuses on the importance that EU politicization has gained in European democracies and the consequences for voting behaviour in six countries of the EU: Belgium, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. Most of the studies which research the way the EU is being legitimised focus on the European Parliament elections. In this book we argue that to understand how EU acc…

EU Foreign Policy in a Fragmenting International Order

This open access book delves into the responses of EU actors, such as member states, institutions, and political groups in the European Parliament, to the fragmentation of the liberal international order (LIO). The analytical framework adopted in this volume explores the diverse interpretations of this phenomenon and the various political initiatives associated with them. Among these interpreta…