Novel Developments for Sustainable Hydropower

olicies are crucial in determining and improving the state of our environment. Policies set goals (including targets, indicators and time frames) while policy instruments are the specific means or measures to translate the policy intent into action (Jacob et al. 2019). In discussions on the sustainability of hydropower production, knowledge of the currently existing regulations at different…

Speciesism in Biology and Culture

peciesism is to species as racism is to race. The tenets of both are baseless on all grounds. Although our consciousness is currently raised toward the latter, the former remains persistent and infectious. Speciesism begins with how we view ourselves in relation to the natural world, and leads to behavior that challenges our future on this planet. Our naïve exceptionalism has repercussi…

Towards the “Perfect” Weather Warning

We outline the objectives of the book, setting them in the context of disaster risk management in a changing world and introducing the role of warnings in mitigating weather-related disasters. We describe the warning value chain, linking the needs of the decision-maker with forecasting capability; identify the blockages where information is lost, which we call the “valleys of death”; …

Climate Smart Agriculture: Building Resilience To Climate Change

Buku ini menggunakan lensa ekonomi untuk mengidentifikasi fitur utama dari pertanian cerdas iklim (CSA), dampak yang mungkin terjadi, dan tantangan yang terkait dengan implementasinya. Mengandalkan teori dan konsep dari pengembangan pertanian, ekonomi institusi, dan ekonomi sumber daya, buku ini memperluas dan memformalkan dasar-dasar konseptual CSA. Dengan fokus pada dimensi adaptasi/kesiapsia…

EU Cohesion Policy Implementation - Evaluation Challenges and Opportunities

This work is mainly aimed at evaluating the reasons behind the inefficient execution of Operational Programs (OPs) aimed at promoting research and innovation (R&I), especially in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). To achieve this goal, we employed a three-stage slack-based measure (SBM) data envelopment analysis (DEA) model combined with Stochastic Frontier analysis (SFA), which i…

Data Spaces

igital transformation, data ecosystems, and Data Spaces are inevitable parts of our future. The book aims to educate the reader on data sharing and exchange techniques using Data Spaces. It will address and explore the cuttingedge theory, technologies, methodologies, and best practices for Data Spaces for both industrial and personal data. The book provides the reader with a basis for unde…

Innopolis University - From Zero to Hero

The first part of the book focuses on the early days of the project: Innopolis University before the construction of Innopolis city. We present the concept, the motivation, and the objectives for the development of a new university. We share memories of the initial set-up of the university in the center of Kazan and the period of the construction of the city. We confronted the challenges of…

Muslim*innen- und Islamfeindlichkeit

Dieses Open-Access-Buch zeigt, dass feindliche Einstellungen gegenüber Muslim*innen oder als Muslim*innen markierten Menschen und gegenüber der Religion des Islams oftmals nur wenig differenziert betrachtet werden. Die mangelnde Trennschärfe zwischen Einstellungen gegenüber Menschen auf der einen und einer Religion auf der anderen Seite manifestiert sich etwa in Definitionen, in denen Islam…

Wellbeing Economics

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Wellbeing and Devolution

It has been over twenty years since the people of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland voted for devolution. Over that time, the devolved legislatures have established themselves and matured their approach to governance. At different times and for different reasons, each has put wellbeing at the heart of their approach – codifying their values and goals within wellbeing frameworks. This open …