Account
Orders
Advanced search
This Open Access book explores an issue that has received little attention in human rights research: organised criminal groups (OCGs) as perpetrators of human rights violations, especially disappearances. It takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining doctrinal legal...
This is an open access book. 2024 International Conference on Social Sciences and Educational Development(ICSSED 2024) will be held on on December 21-22, 2024 in Cangzhou, China. ICSSED 2024 aims to bring together scholars, educators, and policymakers to discuss...
This open access book investigates human-environment relations in the context of the anthropocenic Arctic. Through an archaeological and anthropological study of landscape, it wields “weirding” – a creative mode of engagement with the world – as a means of coming to...
This open access book presents groundbreaking research, offering new empirical findings, showcasing a range of different methods, and advancing theoretical perspectives relating to science communication and trust. The investigation of science communication and...
This open access volume provides the first-ever comprehensive framework of indicators to measure progress in the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It analyses the development of thinking in the field of children’s rights on the significance...
This is an open access book. Culture is the spiritual activity and product of human society relative to economy and politics. The traditional concept of human beings believes that culture is a social phenomenon, a product created by human beings for a long time, and at...
The open access volume stems from a conference held during the Indian G20 Presidency in New Delhi on 28-29 July 2023, featuring 40 leading experts from 14 countries across the world. It addresses issues, such as climate adaptation, global health, technology, and...
This open access edited volume addresses the multi-layered relations between migration, transnational flows, and the contested meanings of race in Asia. It tries to answer the following questions: how do migration and transnational flows from the Western world impact...
This open access edited volume focuses on fairness issues concerning the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for social service provision in national welfare systems. With this, it touches upon important questions in the innovation agenda of countries across continents...
This is an Open Access book. Interprofessional communication remains both under-theorized and under-researched in healthcare contexts.This book aims to fill that gap by offering practitioners, policy makers, interprofessional curriculum builders, and students in the...
This book is an Open Access Publication. The Guidelines for Trustworthy AI developed by the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI is a framework that has been developed to promote and achieve the trustworthiness of AI systems. It provides seven ethical...
This is an open access book. Welcome esteemed colleagues, scholars, and practitioners to the 1st International Conference on Social Environment Diversity (ICOSEND). In today’s rapidly evolving world, the intricate interplay between social environments and...
This book focuses on health risks, a domain in which risk expansion has been particularly prolific. As a result of massive gains in scientific knowledge, made possible by statistical developments, data accumulation and computerisation over the last decades, more and...
This open access book offers a structured approach that aligns indicators of social value and provides a stable foundation amidst the dynamic and ever-changing social complexities. From detailed system scales of participation to an overview of how it works, this book...
1. Challenges in Current Research on Immigrant Health: Insights from Spain (Mikolaj Stanek, Sol P. Juárez and Miguel Requena).- 2. Caught up in a Broader Struggle: Expansions and Restrictions of Migrants’ Healthcare Entitlements in the Spanish Decentralised System...
This Open Access book “Ocean Governance (Beyond) Borders” is concerned with the persistence of bordering in ocean space, and the possibilities that might arise if we think beyond borders for modes of oceanic management, engaging the ocean’s fluid physicality and the...
This open access book critically revisits 30 years of debate surrounding the evolution of crime trends, aiming to reconcile various hypotheses and controversies. It scrutinizes the concept of the "crime drop," highlighting the methodological pitfalls in understanding...
This open access book explores the link between African languages, decolonisation and transformation. It has its origins in a survey of students and instructors at higher education institutions both inside and outside Africa, and takes as a starting point the 2015...
This is an open access book. In the spotlight of contemporary discourse, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices have emerged as a captivating focal point. Yet, how ready are we as a society for the socio-economic and environmental risks facing the nation...
This is an open access book. The Open Society Conference is the annual conference hosted by the Faculty of Law, Social, and Political Sciences, Universitas Terbuka, Indonesia. The conference has been held 5 times, starting from a national conference, and escalating into...
Sign up to get our latest ebook recommendations and special offers