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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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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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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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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...

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Post-corona economy

Can we learn from the religious sector?

2022 || Paperback || Hans Geybels || VUBPRESS

The current economic crisis due to COVID-19 forces us to consider the implementation of an alternative value-based economy. Next to academic scholars, civil society organizations and policy makers, religious leaders have been advocating a social and economic transformation. However, in designing post-corona economics, can we learn from the religious sector? The religious sector influences the economy in multiple ways, for example through direct economic action (investments, employment…), th...

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How economics became the problem

An urgent call to legal action

2021 || Paperback || Koen Byttebier || VUBPRESS

The legal systems shaping capitalist societies worldwide contribute to a variety of fundamental societal problems, such as an ever-mounting public and private debt, environmental pollution, an increasing polarization between the rich and the poor, and an overall, globally unjust fiscal and financial order. These issues remain unaddressed by the capitalist system itself. However, the main legal building blocks of the capitalist socio-economic system are remarkably simple, the most important be...

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Study Guide

On your way to successful studying

2024 || Paperback || Kristina Denissen e.a. || VUBPRESS

"Are you about to enter higher education and feeling overwhelmed by the choice of courses and all the different terminology? Are you struggling to decide what to study? Do you want some tips on how to plan and organise your studies throughout the academic year and during the exam period? Are you worried about how to approach your studies and questioning your chances of success? Do you want to improve your writing skills? Are you finding it difficult to adapt to new living conditions or find y...