Climate, Science and Society: A Primer makes cutting-edge research on climate change accessible to student readers. The primer consists of 37 short chapters organized within 11 parts written by Science and Technology Studies (STS) and other social science scholars. It covers a range of key topics including communication, justice and inequality, climate policy, and energy transitions, situati…
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.routledge.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license. Motion structures are simply assemblies of resistant bodies connected by movable joints. Unlike conventional structures, they allow large shape transformations to satisfy practical requirements an…
Sementara negara-negara Nordik tercantum di peringkat teratas dalam sebagian besar peringkat internasional tentang kesetaraan gender dan rasa aman warga negara, studi tentang prevalensi viktimisasi seksual menyajikan gambaran yang berbeda, yang menunjukkan bahwa negara-negara yang telah banyak berinvestasi dalam membangun kesetaraan gender justru mengalami prevalensi kekerasan seksual yang ting…
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Catastrophic events such as the Bhopal, India tragedy and rising incidences of cancer in areas neighboring industrial facilities have heightened concern over the use of toxic chemicals in manufacturing and industry. Based on the authors' research conducted in Sao Paulo, Brazil, this book explores the history of toxic chemical release reporting programs, presents data on the toxicity of chemical…
ABSTRACT Exploring current and future opportunities in PV polymeric packaging, this work offers an insider's perspective on the manufacturing processes and needs of the solar industry and reveals opportunities for future material development and processing. Suitable for nonspecialists in polymer science, it provides a basic understanding of polymeric concepts, fundamental properties, and proce…
In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a great number of publications.The main objective of the ICSEM Project on which this book is based was to show that the social enterprise field would benefit much more from linking conceptualisation efforts to the huge diversity of social enterprises than from an additional and a…