Buku "History of Construction Cultures, Volume 2" yang disunting oleh João Mascarenhas-Mateus dan diterbitkan oleh CRC Press pada tahun 2021, merupakan karya yang menggambarkan perkembangan budaya konstruksi dari berbagai negara dan zaman. Buku ini merupakan kelanjutan dari volume sebelumnya dan memberikan wawasan mendalam tentang sejarah konstruksi dari perspektif budaya. Volume ini mengekspl…
Buku "History of Construction Cultures, Volume 1" yang disunting oleh João Mascarenhas-Mateus dan diterbitkan oleh CRC Press pada tahun 2021, merupakan sebuah karya yang mengungkapkan perkembangan budaya konstruksi dari berbagai negara dan zaman. Buku ini memberikan wawasan yang mendalam tentang sejarah konstruksi dari perspektif budaya. Volume pertama ini menjelajahi berbagai budaya konstruks…
This open access book examines whether a distinctly Nordic procedural or court culture exists and what the hallmarks of that culture are. Do Nordic courts and court proceedings share a distinct set of ideas and values that in combination constitute the core of a regional legal culture? How do Europeanisation, privatisation, diversification and digitisation influence courts and court proceedings…
Digital agriculture is an emerging concept of modern farming that refers to managing farms using modern Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies (EICT) aiming at increasing the overall efficiency of agricultural production, improving the quantity and quality of products, and optimizing the human labor required and natural resource consumption in operations. This encyclopedia is d…
Since the global financial crisis, the world has seen a stark rise in financial investment in farming and agricultural production. Indeed, finance has been identified as one of the main causes of the so-called "global land rush". In a world with a growing population that needs to be fed, the financial returns from agriculture are sold as safe bets. The debate that this has prompted has been fre…
Sustainable agriculture aims to achieve the goal of food security, also maximizing the socio-economic benefits, and minimizing environmental drawbacks. Farming systems mostly relying on ecological processes and the reduced application of external inputs (fertilizers and pesticides), such as organic farming and integrated farming, can even contribute to the mitigation of global warming and of th…
The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC) is an interdisciplinary, transhistorical, and global project. It brings together upwards of 1,000 scholars to write critical essays on women, Muslim and non-Muslim, and Islamic cultures in every region where there have been significant Muslim populations. It aims to cover every topic for which there is significant research, examining these r…
With Volume II, EWIC launches the first of four volumes dedicated to substantive topics of relevance to women and Islamic cultures globally. These four volumes, Volumes II–V (Volume VI is the cumulative index), are unusual in that each volume is topically organized. Within each volume, we maintain the conventional alphabetical listing of entries. Volume II brings together over 360 entries on …
Agricultural intensification, or the increase in crop production per unit of input or land area to meet the needs of a growing population, has resulted in a landscape dominated by large scale monoculture cropping. Pollinators, specifically, are impacted by the lack of diverse floral and habitat resources associated with this type of farming. Agriculture must develop practices that diversify the…
Penskalaan robotika pertanian dapat membantu kita mencapai transisi pertanian berkelanjutan di seluruh dunia, memecahkan tantangan produksi, lingkungan, dan sosial-politik. Namun, ada aspek sosial dan etika yang perlu dipertimbangkan sebelum menempuh jalan menuju pengembangan dan implementasi. Bab ini menggunakan kerangka kerja inovasi yang bertanggung jawab untuk mengantisipasi kemungkinan tan…