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This open access book explains in detail systems and technologies for assisted and automated driving. It also provides an overview of the limitations of such systems concerning development processes and test tools.This description covers today’s advanced driver...
This groundbreaking open access volume introduces eco-social contracts as a bold and actionable vision for addressing the major, interconnected crises of our time—climate change, biodiversity loss, rising inequality, and the erosion of public trust and democratic...
This is an open access book. With the deepening of globalization and informatization, the relationship between management science, informatization and economic development becomes more and more close and complex. The application of information technology in the field of...
This open access book is China's first new-energy vehicle (NEV) research report based on static indicators and dynamic big data from local electric vehicles. By the end of 2024, China's National Monitoring and Management Platform for NEVs has accumulated access to over...
This open access book contains review/research papers authored by fourteen plenary/invited speakers to the 10th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Tokyo, August 20–25, 2023). Written by top-level scientists recognized worldwide, this...
This open access handbook offers a state-of-the-art overview of theoretical perspectives, empirical insights and scholarly debates into the relationship between beauty and inequality: how does beauty shape and reproduce social inequalities, and how does social...
This open access book sheds new light on the challenges and opportunities of downstream diversification in countries rich in critical minerals. Written by leading experts, the book highlights examples of successful downstream diversification and assesses strategies and...
This is an open access book. The 7th International Conference on Applied Economics and Social Science (ICAESS) is an international scientific forum that explores economics and social sciences in the era of globalization. With the theme "Beyond Sustainability:...
This open-access book is a practical and accessible guide for students, early-career researchers, and technical staff who need to collect environmental data but lack formal training in meteorology, physics, or instrumentation. Whether you're setting up a rural weather...
This open access book examines the intricate connection between family and corruption within both the realms of business and government. While corruption is conventionally characterized as a socially harmful and ethically wrong phenomenon, and family is typically viewed...
This Open Access book shows how individuals and organizations can turn constraints into strengths and achieve meaningful results. Based on over two decades of research and fieldwork in Japan and Vietnam—covering topics like disability entrepreneurship, student...
This open access book offers an array of educational perspectives aimed at fostering inclusive, multicultural, critical, dialogical, and sustainable approaches to developing children’s literature in university classrooms. Its core pillars—environmental...
This open access book examines international law from a critical perspective, at a time when some would say that it is under an existential threat. The modern international institutions — collective security through the UN, the monetary order of the Bretton Woods...
The book offers a comprehensive analysis of the legal implementation and impacts of the European Green Deal (EGD), introduced in 2019 to transform the EU towards a sustainable, carbon-neutral economy. Covering key research areas such as energy transition, biodiversity,...
This Open Access book explores the contemporary socio-economic challenges that European non-urban areas face, illuminating how collaborative workspaces (CWS) contribute to tackling them in multiple ways. Collaborative workspaces (such as coworking spaces, fab labs,...
This book is the first study to consider findings from sociology, legal anthropology, ethnology, legal pluralism, comparative law and theology in order to gain a better understanding of the diverse cultures of global Catholicism and the cross-cultural challenges arising...
In this open access book, the editors bring together leading experts from around the globe to examine current trends and key developments concerning digitalization policies and mechanisms in nine federal and decentralized countries. Despite the concept of digitalization...
In this open access book, contributors explore current challenges and opportunities to improve drinking water regulation, governance, management, environmental justice, and more.In 2024, the United States marked the 50th anniversary of the Safe Water Drinking Act, its...
This is an Open access book which provides a comprehensive framework for identifying monopolistic behaviors in the digital economy, with a focus on discriminatory pricing as one manifestation of these practices. As digital platforms increasingly dominate markets and...
This is an open access book. What holds societies together—and what drives them apart? As worry over political polarization and social cohesion intensifies across the globe, this volume explores timely and vital questions of social cohesion and polarization...
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