The Hackable City : Digital Media and Collaborative City-Making in the Networ…

This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making that are firmly rooted in empirical findings about the actual practices of citizens, designers and policy makers. It explores the affordances of new media technologies for em…

Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage: Past, Present and Future

This Open Access book, building on research initiated by scholars from the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development (CHGD) and ICOMOS Netherlands, presents multidisciplinary research that connects water to heritage. Through twenty-one chapters it explores landscapes, cities, engineering structures and buildings from around the world. It describes how people have actively …

The Ethics of Cybersecurity

This open access book provides the first comprehensive collection of papers that provide an integrative view on cybersecurity. It discusses theories, problems and solutions on the relevant ethical issues involved. This work is sorely needed in a world where cybersecurity has become indispensable to protect trust and confidence in the digital infrastructure whilst respecting fundamental values l…

Recommender Systems: Legal and Ethical Issues

This open access contributed volume examines the ethical and legal foundations of (future) policies on recommender systems and offers a transdisciplinary approach to tackle important issues related to their development, use and integration into online eco-systems. This volume scrutinizes the values driving automated recommendations - what is important for an individual receiving the recommendat…

Designing Sustainable Technologies, Products and Policies : From Science to I…

This open access book provides insight into the implementation of Life Cycle approaches along the entire business value chain, supporting environmental, social and economic sustainability related to the development of industrial technologies, products, services and policies; and the development and management of smart agricultural systems, smart mobility systems, urban infrastructures and energ…

Oxygen-Carrier-Aided Combustion Technology for Solid-Fuel Conversion in Fluid…

This open access book surveys the development of OCAC technology in the last decade for solid fuel conversion in fluidized beds. The scientific concerns, including combustion and emission characteristics, ash-related problems, OC aging, and so on, are summarized and analyzed. Beyond this, new concepts like OCAC with Oxy-PFBC, OCAC coupled with staged fuel conversion, OCAC in rotatory kilns and …

Ecological Risk Assessment for Chlorpyrifos in Terrestrial and Aquatic System…

Introduction CONTENTS Preface Foreword by Keith Solomon and John Giesy Foreword by Coordinating Board of Editors Ecological Risk Assessment of the Uses of the Organophosphorus Insecticide Chlorpyrifos, in the United States John P. Giesy, Keith R. Solomon, G. Christopher Cutler, Jeffrey M. Giddings, Don Mackay, Dwayne Moore, John Purdy, W. Martin Williams Properties and Uses of Chlorpyrifos in t…

Goods and Services of Marine Bivalves

The aim of this open access book is to review and analyse the goods and services of bivalve shellfish. How they are defined, what determines the ecological functions that are the basis for the goods and services, what controversies in the use of goods and services exist, and what is needed for sustainable exploitation of bivalves from the perspective of the various stakeholders. The book is foc…

Human and Organisational Factors : Practices and Strategies for a Changing World

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Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering: 24th International Conference…

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2021, which took place during March 27–April 1, 2021, and was held as part of the Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2021. The conference was planned to take place in Luxembourg but changed to an online format due to the COVID-…