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  • Managing the Global Health Response to Epidemics

    Social science perspectives

    Edited by Mathilde Bourrier, Nathalie Brender, Claudine Burton-Jeangros ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Public Health
    Recent epidemics have prompted large-scale international interventions, aimed at mitigating the spread of disease in a globalized world. During a crisis, however, global health actions including planning and organizing, communicating about risk, and cost benefit evaluations aren’t usually part of a single, integrated global response. Arguing that an uncoordinated approach can be challenged by ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Trapping Safety into Rules

    How Desirable or Avoidable is Proceduralization?

    by Mathilde Bourrier ...
    Rules and procedures are key features for a modern organization to function. It is no surprise to see them to be paramount in safety management. As some sociologists argue, routine and rule following is not always socially resented. It can bring people comfort and reduce anxieties of newness and uncertainty. Facing constant unexpected events entails fatigue and exhaustion. There is also no doubt ... Read more

    $234.99 USD

  • Governing Risk in GM Agriculture

    Edited by Mathilde Bourrier, Michael Baram ...
    This book addresses the issues and methods involved in governing risks posed by genetically modified (GM) agriculture. It examines the evolution of policies intended to ensure the safety of GM crops and food products in the United States and Europe and the regulatory approaches and other social controls employed to protect human health, the environment, conventional farming and foods, and the ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Decommissioning Aging Installations and Declining Technologies

    Burden or Inspiration?

    Edited by Mathilde Bourrier ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Safety Management
    This open-access brief tackles the idea, prevalent in some industrial sectors, that decommissioning, de-pollution and waste management are a necessary evil rather than a predictable phase of industry for which preparations can and should be made in advance. The brief forms the beginning of a conversation on the conditions under which current examples of decommissioning and phasing-out could help ... Read more

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  • Risk Communication for the Future

    Towards Smart Risk Governance and Safety Management

    Edited by Mathilde Bourrier, Corinne Bieder ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
    The conventional approach to risk communication, based on a centralized and controlled model, has led to blatant failures in the management of recent safety related events. In parallel, several cases have proved that actors not thought of as risk governance or safety management contributors may play a positive role regarding safety. Building on these two observations and bridging the gap between ... Read more

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  • Elements of Robotics

    by Mordechai Ben-Ari, Francesco Mondada ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This open access book bridges the gap between playing with robots in school and studying robotics at the upper undergraduate and graduate levels to prepare for careers in industry and research. Robotic algorithms are presented formally, but using only mathematics known by high-school and first-year college students, such as calculus, matrices and probability. Concepts and algorithms are explained ... Read more

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  • AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City

    Phase 3: Civilian Participation – Including the Global Health Deal Proposition

    Edited by Jean-Paul Close ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume describes phase 3 of the AiREAS multidisciplinary cocreation effort to produce a Healthy City. Phase 1 referred to making visible the invisible from an air quality and human exposure perspective. Phase 2 studies air quality related to health and Phase 3 looks at air quality, health and lifestyle from the perspective of persuasion to innovative change.The three books together describe ... Read more

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  • A Short History of European Law

    The Last Two and a Half Millennia

    by Tamar Herzog ...
    A Short History of European Law brings to life 2,500 years of legal history, tying current norms to the circumstances of their conception. Tamar Herzog describes how successive legal systems built upon one another, from ancient times through the European Union. Roman law formed the backbone of each configuration, though the way it was used and reshaped varied dramatically from one century and ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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  • The Ethical Engineer

    Contemporary Concepts and Cases

    by Robert McGinn ...
    An exploration of the ethics of practical engineering through analyses of eighteen rich case studiesThe Ethical Engineer explores ethical issues that arise in engineering practice, from technology transfer to privacy protection to whistle-blowing. Presenting key ethics concepts and real-life examples of engineering work, Robert McGinn illuminates the ethical dimension of engineering practice and ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • Politics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Kenneth Minogue ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In this provocative but balanced essay, Kenneth Minogue discusses the development of politics from the ancient world to the twentieth century. He prompts us to consider why political systems evolve, how politics offers both power and order in our society, whether democracy is always a good thing, and what future politics may have in the twenty-first century. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Smart Cities

    Social and Environmental Challenges and Opportunities for Local Authorities

    Edited by Fateh Belaïd, Anvita Arora ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This edited volume discusses the socioeconomic, environmental, and policy implications of smart cities. Written by international experts in energy economics and policy, the chapters present wide range of high quality theoretical and empirical studies at the nexus of social, entrepreneurial, governmental and ecological transformation. The book covers a wide range of topics, with a view towards ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Urban Metabolism

    by Paulo Ferrao, John E. Fernandez ...
    A unified framework for analyzing urban sustainability in terms of cities' inflows and outflows of matter and energy.Urbanization and globalization have shaped the last hundred years. These two dominant trends are mutually reinforcing: globalization links countries through the networked communications of urban hubs. The urban population now generates more than eighty percent of global GDP. Cities ... Read more

    $24.99 USD