These contributions discuss town planning issues, look at best practices and research findings across the broad spectrum of urban and transport planning, with particular attention to the safety of ped
This volume presents and interrogates both theoretical and artistic expressions of the revolutionary, militant spirit associated with '1968' and the aftermath, in the specific context of gender.
This book asks whether and how Europe matters in the fight against poverty and social exclusion by assessing the emergence and possible institutionalization of a European multi-level, multi-stakeholde
Western concepts and approaches to IR remain insufficient in explaining what happens globally. Aydinli and Biltekin propose a new form of theorizing, which effectively blends peripheral outlooks
This volume analyses and historicises the memory of 1968 (understood as a marker of an emerging will for social change around the turn of that decade, rather than as a particular calendar year), focus
High spatial remote sensing data have been often used as valuable sources of information throughout emergency management cycle. Information extracted in high spatial remote sensing data right after a
Making innovative products for energy generation that decreases carbon footprints are the need of the hour. Innovations in Engineered Porous Materials for Energy Generation and Storage Applications de
Rainer Maria Rilke once wrote, "We dont know the contour of a feeling; we only know what molds it from without." Inspired by the enigmatic shape of emotion, Ursula von Rydingsvard has become famous fo
This follow-up volume updates the arguments and significantly expands the coverage of Richardson et al.’s respected and seminal Policy Styles in Western Europe (1982) which shed valuable lig
This Third Edition thoroughly covers the basic principles of corrosion science a reader-friendly manner, and enlarges the scope of the content with expanded chapters on processes for various metals an
This book covers the theory and technology of optical wireless communication systems. It includes optical sources, transmitters, detectors, receivers, and other devices used in optical wireless commun
This companion volume to Design of High Strength Steel Reinforced Concrete Columns provides a large number of worked examples for the design of high-strength steel reinforced concrete structures.
The narrower range of concrete and steel material strengths permitted in Eurocode 4, alongside the enhanced ductility and buckling resistance of SRC columns, creates a need for an analysis that g
This book moves beyond legal compliance in European Union (EU) implementation research to shed light on the diversity of responses to EU policy, practical implementation patterns, and mechanisms
Dictatorships attempt to justify their rule in numerous ways. This book is about how they do so and why it matters. The chapters were originally published in a special issue of Contemporary Politics.
This connects basic earthquake engineering principles with practical structural design. It includes recent developments of RC structures and nonlinear analysis, structural intervention prior or post-e
The latest edition includes new topics on quasistatics, vector spherical wave functions, and wave matrices. Several application-oriented sections covering guided waves and transmission lines, particle
This volume sheds new light on the wave of protests and emerging social movements of Southeast Europe. Placing individual protests in a wider context it highlights connections between different social
This book looks at the worlding of the Global South in the process of assembling conflict resolution expertise. Anna Leander, Ole Waever and their contributors pursue this ambition by following t
This book explores our unique relationship with nature through the garden. From famous locations, such as Versailles, to the simplest home vegetable gardens, from worlds imagined by artists to vintage
Developments in and applications of laser spectroscopy and laser imaging are growing rapidly. This book is a concise collection of laser analysis and imaging techniques, providing a solid overview of
Addressing how and why the nature of security has changed and what this means for both society and the security actors involved, this book provides new theoretical and analytical insights into securit
The Handbook of RAMS in Railway Systems: Theory and Practice addresses the complexity in today's railway systems, which use computers and electromechanical components to increase efficiency while ensu
Coastal engineering and management for final year undergraduate and MSc students. With coverage of conceptual and detailed design; wave overtopping; calculation of extreme wave conditions; structural
The book covers chapters ranging from introduction to recent technological challenges, case studies of energy-efficient buildings with policy and awareness issues, fundamentals and present status alon
This book collects eight case studies on how regional and local government and non-political stakeholders can contribute to reconciliation, peace-building and cooperation across borders. The chapters
Drawing on on research conducted on Georgia and Armenia the book explores how regimes respond to voter preferences and how they adjust their policies accordingly. The volume was originally published a
This book is geared to scholars and practitioners of public policy administration and management who desire to understand the analytical reasons why policies are designed the way they are, and the pur
This book examines cross-border environmental security within the context of human security and regional integration. The originality of the book is its comparative research design which includes case
This book evaluates and challenges recent scholarly literature on the quality of democracy. It provides a critical assessment of the current state of the studies on the subject, identifying the key qu
This book presents the current state of the art of understanding the physics of optical gain in organic systems and provides a complete description of the most recent advances in organic lasers, inclu
This volume advances the current state of knowledge on global governance architecture, BRICS role in this system, and the benefits it has provided and can provide for world order.
This book presents efficient uncertainty quantification schemes following meta-model-based approaches for stochasticity in material and geometric parameters of laminated composite structures. Several
Exploring how the world’s oldest informal summit institution continues to respond to rising anti-globalisation, populism and protectionism, this book investigates the contribution the G7 makes to glob
This book aims to contribute to debates about the concept of ‘quality peace’, and provides an analytical framework to show how this concept can be used to evaluate post-confli
This book presents results showing the efficiency of stone siftings with high dust content as fillers for high quality concrete and mortars. Technological conditions and methodologies for design of co
