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Assessment Framework for People-Centred Solutions to Carbon Neutrality : A Co…
This open access book presents a catalogue of over one thousand indicators which can be used by cities' public administrators to monitor and evaluate social innovation action plans to support people-centred, collaborative or co-designed solutions to lower carbon emissions. Indicators are clustered according to a framework of social innovation solutions for climate neutrality at city level, deve…
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- 978-3-031-53111-8
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- IX, 110
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
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- 338 BRE a
Metric Algebraic Geometry
Metric algebraic geometry combines concepts from algebraic geometry and differential geometry. Building on classical foundations, it offers practical tools for the 21st century. Many applied problems center around metric questions, such as optimization with respect to distances. After a short dive into 19th-century geometry of plane curves, we turn to problems expressed by polynomial equatio…
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- 9783031514623
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- XIV, 215
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- 53
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Agroecological Transitions: From Theory to Practice in Local Participatory De…
This Open Access book presents feedback from the ‘Territorial Agroecological Transition in Action’- TATA-BOX research project, which was devoted to these specific issues. The multidisciplinary and multi-organisation research team steered a four-year action-research process in two territories of France. It also presents: i) the key dimensions to be considered when dealing with agroecologi…
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- 1
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- 9783030019532
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- XVI, 335 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life
This open access book seeks to understand why we consume as we do, how consumption changes, and why we keep consuming more and more, despite the visible damage we are doing to the planet. The chapters cover both the stubbornness of unsustainable consumption patterns in affluent societies and the drivers of rapidly increasing consumption in emerging economies. They focus on consumption patterns …
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- 978-3-031-11069-6
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Consumption and Public Life
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- 306
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This open access book builds a framework that holds together numerous open issues in territorial planning: from the understanding of territorial, landscape, environmental and climatic dynamics to the analysis of local vulnerabilities, to the use of modern survey techniques to support planning. What is the role of urban and regional planning in achieving the sustainable development goals of our …
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- 978-3-031-33894-6
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- The Urban Book Series
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- 324
Technological Imagination in the Green and Digital Transition
This open access book addresses the pressing need for sustainability in urban development and the use of technology, with cities to serve as the main stage for strategies that seek to meet the targets and the cross-sector priorities indicated in the EU’s Next Generation program, all in pursuit of a solid recovery on the part of the European economy, along lines of ecological transition, digit…
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- 978-3-031-29515-7
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- The Urban Book Series
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- 320
Resilient Urban Futures
This open access book addresses the way in which urban and urbanizing regions profoundly impact and are impacted by climate change. The editors and authors show why cities must wage simultaneous battles to curb global climate change trends while adapting and transforming to address local climate impacts. This book addresses how cities develop anticipatory and long-range planning capacities for …
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- 978-3-030-63131-4
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- The Urban Book Series
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- 307
Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had a crucial role in the history of medicine, and the history of crime, and great symbolic resonance in literature and popular culture.…
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- 978-3-319-77908-9
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- -
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- Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting (‘hanging in chains’), since the nineteenth century. Gibbeting involved placing the executed body of a malefactor in an iron cage and suspending it from a tall post. A body might remain in the gibbet for many decades, while it gradually fell to pieces. H…
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- 978-1-137-60089-9
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- Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740–1834
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book provides the most in-depth study of capital punishment in Scotland between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth century to date. Based upon an extensive gathering and analysis of previously untapped resources, it takes the reader on a journey from the courtrooms of Scotland to the theatre of the gallows. It introduces them …
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- 978-3-319-62018-3
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- Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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