Buku akses terbuka ini mengulas air-agro-pangan dan sosial-eko-sistem cekungan Sungai Seine (76.000 km2), dan menawarkan perspektif historis tentang kontaminasi jangka panjang sungai. Cekungan Seine dihuni oleh sekitar 17 juta orang dan dipengaruhi oleh praktik pertanian intensif dan kegiatan industri. Tekanan-tekanan ini secara bertahap telah mempengaruhi fungsi hidrologis, kimia dan ekologisn…
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…
Buku akses terbuka ini menyajikan kumpulan makalah yang berfokus pada digitalisasi 3D dalam ranah warisan budaya. Penggunaan teknologi akuisisi data dalam digitalisasi warisan budaya memiliki potensi besar untuk melestarikan dan menyebarluaskan sejarah umat manusia. Namun, untuk memanfaatkan peluang ini secara penuh, diperlukan pedoman yang komprehensif untuk mendokumentasikan proses digitalisa…
Buku akses terbuka ini merupakan makalah terpilih yang telah direvisi dari Konferensi Internasional Pertama tentang Menjembatani Kesenjangan antara AI dan Realitas, Penyelarasan Sosial-Hukum Kecerdasan Buatan (AISoLA, Artificial Intelligence Socio-Legal Alignment) 2023, yang berlangsung di Kreta, Yunani, pada bulan Oktober 2023. Makalah-makalah yang disertakan dalam buku ini berfokus pada topi…
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 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…
This open access book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in British cattle. This question has plagued several professional generations of politicians, policymakers, experts and campaigners since the early 1970s. Questions of what is known, who knows, who cares, who to trust and what to do ab…
This open access book presents innovative strategies to address cross-cutting topics and foster transversal competences. The modernization of European legal education presents a compelling challenge that calls for enhanced interdisciplinary collaboration among academic disciplines and innovative teaching methods. The volume introduces venues towards education innovation and engages with complex…
This open access book offers a new approach to understandings of welfare in modern Britain. Foregrounding the agency individuals and groups claimed through experiential expertise, it traces deep connections between personal experience, welfare, and activism across diverse settings in modern Britain. The experiential experts studied in this collection include women, students, children, women who…