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Decarbonizing Freight Transport
This Open-Access-Book analyzes the acceptance of sustainable freight transport and suggests a new framework for policy measures to decarbonize freight transport. Despite intense political endeavors, the environmental performance of the transport system has not improved in the previous years. It seems that the existing measures are not sufficient to motivate transport users to implement sustaina…
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- 978-3-658-37103-6
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The Governance of Insurance Undertakings
This open access volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation brings together contributions from authors with different legal cultures. It aims to identify the legal issues that arise from the intersection of two disciplines: insurance law and corporate/company law. These legal issues are examined mainly from the perspective of European Union (EU) law. However, ther…
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- 978-3-030-85817-9
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Higher Education in Romania: Overcoming Challenges and Embracing Opportunities
This open access book includes a series of relevant policy research articles, elaborared in the framework of the “Quality in higher education: internationalisation and databases to enhance the Romanian education system” project, implemented by the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI), together with the Ministry of Education. The proj…
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- 978-3-030-94496-4
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Recovering Civility during COVID-19
This Open Access book examines many of the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic through the distinctive lens of civility. The idea of civility appears often in both public and academic debates, and a polarized political climate frequently leads to allegations of uncivil speech and behaviour. Norms of civility are always contested, even more so in moments of crisis such as a global pandemic…
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- 978-981-33-6706-7
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Northern Lights on Civic and Citizenship Education
This open access book presents an in-depth analysis of data from ICCS. An international group of scholars critically address the state of civic and citizenship education in the four Nordic countries that participated in the IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) in 2009 and 2016. The findings are of particular relevance to educators at all levels, from school education t…
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Die österreichische Gesellschaft während der Corona-Pandemie
Wolfgang Aschauer ist assoziierter Professor an der Abteilung Soziologie und Kulturwissenschaft der Universität Salzburg. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen im Bereich der sozialen Integrationsforschung (Werte, gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt, Wellbeing) mit einem Fokus auf quantitative Methoden (insbesondere ländervergleichende Umfragen). Christoph Glatz ist Doktorand an der Karl-Franzen…
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- 978-3-658-34491-7
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Special Topics in Information Technology
This open access book presents thirteen outstanding doctoral dissertations in Information Technology from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Information Technology has always been highly interdisciplinary, as many aspects have to be considered in IT systems. The doctoral studies program in IT at Politecnico di Milano emphasizes this inte…
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- 978-3-030-62475-0
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Revisualising Intersectionality
lahe Haschemi Yekani is Professor of English and American Literature and Culture with a Focus on Postcolonial Studies at the Department of English and American Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Haschemi Yekani is the author of Familial Feeling and The Privilege of Crisis. Magdalena Nowicka is a sociologist and Professor of Migration and Transnationalism at the Institute of Social S…
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- 978-3-030-93209-1
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Women, Migration and Gendered Experiences
Ermira Danaj, a feminist sociologist, holds a PhD in human and social sciences from the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland. In spring 2013, she was a Fulbright visiting scholar in gender and sociology at the Transregional Centre for Democratic Studies, The New School in New York, USA. Currently she is a visiting researcher at the CIES-Iscte (Centre for Sociological Studies), ISCTE, Lisbon, Po…
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Modes of Esports Engagement in Overwatch
Maria Ruotsalainen is a PhD candidate at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her dissertation focuses on Overwatch Esports, gender, and nationality. She has had articles published by the Men and Masculinities, European Journal of Cultural Studies, and Games and Culture. Dr. Maria Törhönen is a researcher and a project manager at Tampere University, Finland. Maria’s research focuses …
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