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Urban Living Lab for Local Regeneration
This open access book provides an integrated overview of the challenges and resources of large-scale social housing estates in Europe and outlines possible interdisciplinary approaches and tools to promote their regeneration. It especially focuses on the tool of urban living labs, as promising in promoting new and more effective local governance and in including the different actors into the pl…
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- 978-3-031-19748-2
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- The Urban Book Series
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- IX, 205
Special Topics in Information Technology
This open access book presents 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 interdiscipli…
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- 978-3-031-15374-7
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
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- VIII, 152
Europe in the Age of Post-Truth Politics
This open access book is the product of three years of academic research that has been carried out in the EU-funded Jean Monnet Network on “Post-Truth Politics, Nationalism and the Delegitimation of European Integration” since 2019. Drawing on the multidisciplinary expertise of the network’s members, the book explores the impact of the phenomenon of post-truth politics on European integra…
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- 978-3-031-13694-8
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- Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
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- XVII, 259
The Evolution of China’s Anti-Poverty Strategies
This open access book presents the findings of the author’s 3 decades of studying China’s evolving anti-poverty strategies. It argues that much of the billions that nations spend yearly on economic aid is used inefficiently or to treat the symptoms but not the root causes of poverty. China, however, has evolved an effective sustainable alternative by providing the means for self-reliance to…
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- 978-981-19-7281-2
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- X, 127
Older Workers and Labour Market Exclusion Processes
This open access book addresses the important and neglected question of older workers who are excluded from the labour market. It challenges post-capitalist discourses of active ageing with a focus on restrictive end-of-career and retirement measures. The book demonstrates how a paradigm shift is generating real processes of exclusion for important sectors of the population. By providing strong…
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- 978-3-031-11272-0
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- Life Course Research and Social Policies
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- IX, 214
Geflüchtete in ländlichen Regionen Deutschlands
Die Open-Access-Publikation präsentiert umfangreiche empirische Analysen zu Halte- und Bleibeorientierung Geflüchteter und richtet den Blick dabei besonders auf die Situation der ländlichen Regionen Deutschlands.
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- 978-3-658-36689-6
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- Studien zur Migrations- und Integrationspolitik
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- XVIII, 265
Polizei(en) in Umbruchsituationen
Der Umbruch steht für einen tiefgreifenden Wandel, der sich auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen vollziehen kann. Bezogen auf die Polizei spielen neben politischen Zäsuren auch gesellschaftliche und kulturelle Umbrüche eine wesentliche Rolle. Dabei kann die Institution zum Objekt der Forschung oder aber als Subjekt (Akteur) in einer historischen Konstellation analysiert werden. Dieser Ansatz wird in…
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- 978-3-658-35163-2
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- Geschichte und Ethik der Polizei und öffentlichen Verwaltung
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- VII, 414
Liberating Energy from Carbon: Introduction to Decarbonization
Liberating Energy from Carbon analyzes energy options in a carbon-constrained world. Major strategies and pathways to decarbonizing the carbon-intensive economy are laid out with a special emphasis on the prospects of achieving low-risk atmospheric CO2 levels. The opportunities and challenges in developing and bringing to market novel low and zero-carbon technologies are highlighted from techni…
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- 978-1-4939-0545-4
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- Lecture Notes in Energy
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- 978-1-4939-0545-4
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
This book presents the reader with a comprehensive and structured understanding of the ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It describes the main ethical questions that arise from the use of AI in different areas, as well as the contribution of various academic disciplines such as legal policy, environmental sciences, and philosophy of technology to the study of AI. AI has become ubiquitous …
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- 978-3-031-48135-2
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- The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology
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- VIII, 255
Datenwirtschaft und Datentechnologie
In diesem Open-Access-Buch stehen die wirtschaftliche Verwertung von Daten und die dazu gehörenden technischen und organisatorischen Prozesse und Strukturen in Unternehmen im Fokus. Es behandelt Themen wie Datenmonetarisierung, Datenverträge, Data Governance, Informationssicherheit, Datenschutz und die Vertrauenswürdigkeit von Daten.
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- 978-3-662-65232-9
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- -
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- 12 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
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- XI, 303
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