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Border Control and New Technologies
Addressing Integrated Impact Assessment
2024 || Paperback || J. Peter Burgess e.a. || VUBPRESS
This book presents the theory and practice of impact assessment tailored to new border control technologies that are increasingly employed at state borders with the aim of facilitating border checks. Experience has shown that their use often comes into conflict with societal values such as the respect for fundamental rights to privacy and personal data protection. As a result, there is a growing need to accommodate two requirements, the first being the deployment of new border control technol...
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Collective Housing
A new habitat for living in Brussels
2021 || Paperback || Joren Sansen e.a. || VUBPRESS || met inkijkexemplaar
Urban notebooks / Stadsschriften / Cahiers Urbains
In Brussels, the need for affordable and middleincome housing is entangled with the necessity to reduce the environmental impact of housing. The current climatological and health crises demand us to improve the resilience of our human habitat in the city. In planning and developing new collective housing projects, private and public developers alike are struggling to find the right answer to these questions.
In this book, we present a researc...
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Philosophy of war and peace
2024 || Paperback || Danny Praet || VUBPRESS
The topic of war and peace is as relevant today as it was several millennia ago. Though views on and motives for warfare have changed over the centuries, Philosophy of War and Peace proves that many past ideas still merit consideration today.
This exhaustive collection of essays addresses the historical, cultural and political background of various views on war and peace worldwide. It gives modern readings of ancient philosophers, such as Heraclitus, Renaissance writers, such as Niccolò Mach...
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The Future Polar Bear
The impact of the vanishing sea ice on an arctic ecosystem
2019 || Paperback || Louis Beyens e.a. || VUBPRESS
The spotlight is on the Arctic region. Crumbling glaciers, thawing permafrost and the vanishing sea ice cover are phenomena frequently discussed in the media. They are clear signs of the intense warming of the Arctic ecosystem. The dramatic decline in sea ice has consequences not only for the microorganisms, plants, animals and peoples that live there, but also for the climate at the middle latitudes. Inspired by their years of scientific research and experience in the field, the authors pres...
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Migration, Equality and Racisms
44 opinions
2021 || Paperback || Ilke Adam e.a. || VUBPRESS
Migration, Equality and Racisms trigger ever more salient societal debates. More than 80 VUB academics and co-authors joined forces. Philosophers, lawyers, psychologists, health scientists, sociologists, geographers, criminologists, communication and political scientists … Together they aim to contribute to an exercise of humanism as a praxis of criticism or a ‘technique of trouble-making’, in the words of Edward Said. Through 44 thought-provoking and informed opinion pieces, they quest...
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Curb your idealism
The European Union as seen from within
2018 || Paperback || Vincent Stuer || VUBPRESS
In Curb your idealism , Vincent Stuer goes in search of the essence of the European project and the worldview of the people who work for its institutions. He sketches an insightful and anecdotal picture of how the European Union has evolved in recent decades, based on the thinking of remarkable characters of the EU’s past and interviews with high-ranking officials and politicians who have witnessed the evolution first hand.
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Rules for Robots
Ethics and AI
2020 || Paperback || Katleen Gabriels || VUBPRESS
"Facebook’s timeline, Google’s search engine, Amazon’s Alexa: much of our everyday technology contains artificial intelligence (AI). Vacuum-cleaning and lawn-mowing robots ease household chores. Chatbots conduct therapy sessions and algorithms assist doctors with medical decision-making. We can even delegate moral decisions to algorithms. The combination of robots and AI, together with big data, opens up endless possibilities. However, which decisions should be delegated to machines and...
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Building a profession
A history of general contractors in Belgium (1870 - 1970)
2022 || Paperback || Jelena Dobbels || VUBPRESS
In Belgium, from the 1870s onwards, a client can engage one general contractor for a construction job. This general contractor is responsible for both the organisation and execution of a complete construction project.
Which preconditions initiated the establishment of this profession? What background(s) did these general contractors have? How was the collaboration with other building actors, such as architects and engineers? And how did the establishment of this professional group influence t...
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Homo Roboticus
30 questions and answers on man, technology, science & art
2019 || Paperback || An Jacobs e.a. || VUBPRESS
Are robots smarter than people? Will you end up with a robot as a workmate? Will you fall head over heels in love with a robot? Will robots be given a license to kill? Do robots make good surgeons? What if athletes become robots? Would you let a robot put your grandmother to bed? Won’t household robots wash your dirty linen in public?
Thanks to cutting-edge technology, our living environment is changing rapidly. The combination of robotics and artificial intelligence has opened up a seeming...
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Managerial Economics of Non-profit Organisations (5th revised edition)
2021 || Paperback || Marc Jegers || VUBPRESS
This is the fifth edition of a book bringing together the microeconomic insights on functioning of non-profit organisations, complementing the wide range of books on the management of non-profit organisations by focusing on both theoretical and empirical work.
Firstly, definitions of non-profit organisations are considered, after which the economic rationale behind their existence is examined, followed by a study of the demand for them and its implications for their functioning.The final chap...