Product Development within Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Legal Risk

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Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 3 Issue 1, 2024

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Planetary Hinterlands

This open access book considers the concept of the hinterland as a crucial tool for understanding the global and planetary present as a time defined by the lasting legacies of colonialism, increasing labor precarity under late capitalist regimes, and looming climate disasters. Traditionally seen to serve a (colonial) port or market town, the hinterland here becomes a lens to attend to the times…

The Restless Compendium

This interdisciplinary book contains 22 essays and interventions on rest and restlessness, silence and noise, relaxation and work. It draws together approaches from artists, literary scholars, psychologists, activists, historians, geographers and sociologists who challenge assumptions about how rest operates across mind, bodies, and practices. Rest’s presence or absence affects everyone. Neve…

Photographic Elicitation and Narration in Teachers Education and Development

This open access book discusses the functionality of the use of the language of photography in teachers' initial and ongoing training. It analyzes the nature of photography as a representation system, facilitating inquiry and reflection on its practice for teachers and evocating on theories and beliefs that may guide their work in classrooms. Photography is used to represent symbolically and af…

Einführung in die Ethik

Der Band stellt die maßgeblichen Theorien der Ethik vor: die Kantische Ethik, den Utilitarismus, die Tugendethik und den Kontraktualismus. Diskutiert werden auch die wesentlichen Probleme der Moraltheorie, wie z.B. die Ursprünge und die Reichweite moralischer...

Stochastic Dynamic Response Analysis and Performance-Based Seismic Safety Eva…

This open access book provides a complete probabilistic analysis method and a performance-based seismic safety evaluation for high concrete faced rockfill dam (CFRD). Combined with random sample generation and reliability analysis methods, the dynamic response characteristics and reliability level of CFRD under various random factors are comprehensively described. In Chapter 2, a random ground …

Marine Exploration and Exploitation of Hydrocarbons

The book analyzes the environmental regulation of upstream marine exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons, at the international, regional MERCOSUR and Argentine national level. It uses the concept of normative integration as a methodological approach, critically assessing the interaction between the law of the sea, maritime law, environmental law and human rights law in the field of study.…

Contemporary Housing Struggles

We would like to dedicate this book to Professor Chris Pickvance, who passed away in autumn of 2021. As an urban sociologist and one of the first scholars to lead a comparative research project on housing movements in Central and Eastern Europe just after 1989, Chris has been a great inspiration for our work. He also generously commented on our draft manuscript as part of our advisory …

Theory and Practice of Sociosensitive and Socioactive Systems

We would like to thank our project executing agency VDI/VDE-IT and especially Constantin von Dewitz for their constructive collaboration, as well as the Federal Ministry of Education and Research for its support, especially Katrin Nostadt and Annette Eickmeyer-Hehn. Cornelius Höller participated in the project as a substitute for parental leave, after previously also contributing as an …