
This open access book explores the experience of working as a craftsperson or designer maker in the contemporary creative economy. The authors utilise evidence from the only major empirical study to explore the skills required and the challenges facing contemporary makers in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Drawing upon 180 interviews with peak organisations, established and emerging makers…

This open access book is geared towards providing insights and stimulating new thinking about the changing nature of services, service work and workers, and service experiences during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, particularly focusing on digital service technology. This book serves as a useful resource for business practitioners and academics in the areas of service and human resour…

This open access book applies a social ecological systems (SES) lens to conservation-based development in Patagonia, bringing together authors with historical, contemporary, and future-oriented perspectives in order to increase understanding of the social and environmental implications of nature-based tourism and other forms of conservation-based territorial development. By focusing on Patagoni…

Buku akses terbuka ini merangkum dua dekade pertama Lembaga Uji Coba Informatika dan Komunitas untuk Penelitian Akses Informasi (Institute of Informatics Testbeds and Community for Information access Research, NTCIR). NTCIR adalah serangkaian forum evaluasi yang dijalankan oleh tim peneliti global dan diselenggarakan oleh Institut Teknologi Informasi Nasional (National Institute of Informatics,…

Pada tahun 1922, Harald Bohr dan Johannes Mollerup membuat karakterisasi fungsi gamma Euler yang luar biasa menggunakan sifat log-konveksitasnya. Satu dekade kemudian, Emil Artin menyelidiki hasil ini dan menggunakannya untuk memperoleh sifat dasar fungsi gamma menggunakan metode dasar kalkulus. Teorema Bohr-Mollerup kemudian diadopsi oleh Nicolas Bourbaki sebagai titik awal untuk pemaparannya …

Volume ini berfokus pada serpihan plastik mikroskopis, yang juga disebut mikroplastik, yang telah terdeteksi di lingkungan perairan di seluruh dunia dan karenanya telah menimbulkan kekhawatiran serius. Buku ini membahas apakah mikroplastik merupakan kontaminan baru dalam sistem air tawar, suatu area yang masih kurang terwakili hingga saat ini. Mengingat kompleksitas masalah ini, buku ini membah…

This open access book examines the role of citizens in sustainable energy transitions across Europe. It explores energy problem framing, policy approaches and practical responses to the challenge of securing clean, affordable and sustainable energy for all citizens, focusing on households as the main unit of analysis. The book revolves around ten contributions that each summarise national trend…

This open access book explores the intersection of property law, relocation, and resettlement processes in the United States and among communities that grapple with migration as an adaptation strategy. As communities face the prospect of relocating because of rising seas, policy makers, disaster specialists, and community leaders are scrambling to understand what adaptation pathways are legally…

This open access book addresses four standard business school subjects: microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance and information systems as they relate to trading, liquidity, and market structure. It provides a detailed examination of the impact of trading costs and other impediments of trading that the authors call “frictions”. It also presents an interactive simulation model of equity mark…

The open access book discusses human health and wellbeing within the context of built environments. It provides a comprehensive overview of relevant sources of literature and user complaints that clearly demonstrate the consequences of lack of attention to health in current building design and planning. Current designing of energy-efficient buildings is mainly focused on looking at energy probl…