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The state of local infrastructure investment in Europe : EIB Municipalities Survey 2024–2025 -

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101297

Published: May 11, 2025 04:00

Local governments are on the front lines of some of today’s biggest challenges – climate change, affordable housing and equitable and effective education. But are they ready to invest at the scale needed? Our latest EIB Municipalities Survey asks local…

Global Resource Scarcity : Catalyst for Conflict or Cooperation? - Edited by: Dawson, Marcelle C.; Rosin, Christopher; Wald, Nave

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101294

Published: May 11, 2025 04:00

A common perception of global resource scarcity holds that it is inevitably a catalyst for conflict among nations; yet, paradoxically, incidents of such scarcity underlie some of the most important examples of international cooperation. This volume…

Violence Elsewhere 2 : Imagining Distant Violence in Germany since 2001 - Edited by: Bielby, Clare; Davies, Mererid Puw

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101251

Published: May 9, 2025 04:00

Examines ideas of violence in German culture after 9/11 through the lens of "violence elsewhere" - exploring works and discourses about violence in distant locations or times. Following the Nazi era, the Holocaust, and the Second World War, in postwar…

Chapter 10 Listening Performances as Transformative Mechanisms in the Context of Restorative Transitional Justice Scenarios : The Colombian case - Sotelo Castro, Luis Carlos

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101216

Published: May 9, 2025 04:00

This book explores the role of listening in community engagement and peacebuilding efforts, bridging academic research in communication and practical applications for individual and social change. For all their differences, community engagement and…

Landscape experiences as a cultural ecosystem service in a Nordic context: Concepts, values and decision-making - Lindhjem, Henrik; Reinvang, Rasmus; Zandersen, Marianne

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32902

Published: May 8, 2025 04:00

Cultural ecosystem services in the form of experiences derived from landscapes are potentially important, but often overlooked. Given the large and unprecedented landscape changes many of the Nordic countries are undergoing, there is a need to find ways of…

Listening, Community Engagement, and Peacebuilding : International Perspectives - Edited by: Beyene, Zenebe; Bodie, Graham D.; Worthington, Debra L.

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101215

Published: May 8, 2025 04:00

This book explores the role of listening in community engagement and peacebuilding efforts, bridging academic research in communication and practical applications for individual and social change. For all their differences, community engagement and…

Lex Ad Astra : Non-State Actor Accountability for Space Pollution - Cvetkovič, Iva Ramuš; Gillett, Matthew; Grunfeld, Katja

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101065

Published: May 7, 2025 04:00

Outer space has long been considered the last untouched wilderness. However, non-State actors are increasingly active in space, heightening the risk of space pollution. Space law, designed during the Cold War, is State-centric and makes inadequate…

Understanding and Addressing Disaster Risk : Who Speaks? Who Suffers? - Alcántara-Ayala, Irasema; Gaillard, JC; Kelman, Ilan; Marchezini, Victor; Wisner, Ben

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101202

Published: May 7, 2025 04:00

In Understanding and Addressing Disaster Risk, the authors explain how people modify the environment and exert power over each other in ways that make nature potentially harmful and put people in harm’s way. Opportunities and challenges faced by those…

Inventor of Britain : The Work and Legacies of Humphrey Llwyd - Edited by: Schwyzer, Philip

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101200

Published: May 7, 2025 04:00

The work of the map-maker and historian Humphrey Llwyd (1527–68) were a crucial contribution to a new vision of Britain in the early modern period. It lies close to the roots of the emerging ideology of British Empire, and Llwyd’s influence is to be found…

Communicating Science, Climate Change and the Environment in Hybrid Media : Constructed Facts, Contested Truths - Edited by: Jönsson, Anna Maria; Rantasila, Anna; Roslyng, Mette Marie

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101203

Published: May 7, 2025 04:00

This volume examines how a new hybrid mediascape represents and contributes to the construction of facts and knowledge in relation to science, environment, and climate controversies, providing a new, critical perspective to the bourgeoning field of science…

Proceedings of 12th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production (WCGALP) : Technical and species orientated innovations in animal breeding, and contribution of genetics to solving societal challenges - Edited by: Veerkamp, R.F.; de Haas, Y.

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101072

Published: May 7, 2025 04:00

The proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production provide you with 816 papers representing the leading research in livestock genetics around the globe. This book covers all aspects of genetics applied to livestock…

Coral Conservation : Global Evidence for the Effects of Actions - Bladon, Eleanor K; Smith, Rebecca K; Sutherland, William J.; Thornton, Ann

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101194

Published: May 6, 2025 04:00

Coral Conservation: Global evidence for the effects of actions provides an essential resource for anyone dedicated to conserving or restoring corals. This comprehensive synthesis of global scientific evidence examines the effectiveness of conservation and…

Digital Capitalism and its Limits : Technotopia, power and risk - Bauwens, Michel; Castel-Branco, Ruth; Daaboul, Mayssam; Duncan, Jane; Kranjc, Rok; Kwet, Michael; Mohubetswane Mashilo, Alex; Mokhema, Seipati; Nana, Constantine N; Satgoor, Ujala; Siwawa, Vincent; Webster, Edward Edited by: Satgar, Vishwas

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101192

Published: May 6, 2025 04:00

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) has been described as the next big leap in digital capitalism. Digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, 3D printing and robotisation, we are led to believe, will bring more progress,…

Ineffective Policies : Causes and Consequences of Bad Policy Choices - Edited by: Campbell-Verduyn, Malcolm; McKeen-Edwards, Heather; Roberge, Ian

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/100327

Published: May 6, 2025 04:00

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Bad policies have repercussions that can be felt for decades. But what makes a bad policy? And how can it be reversed or improved? Bringing together scholars from Europe and North America, this…