2010 | Action Number: E55

Assessment of Timber Structures

• Author(s): P. Dietsch and J. Köhler (Ed)
• Publisher(s): Shaker Verlag
• http://www.shaker.de/de/content/catalogue/index.asp?ID=8&ISBN=978-3-8322-9513-4
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-3-8322-9513-4

2010 | Action Number: B35

Acta Biochimica Polonica Vol.57 No 2/2010

• Author(s): G. Wegrzyn (Ed)
• Publisher(s): Polish Biochemical Society & Polish Academy of Sciences
• Download from external website
• ISBN/ISSN: 1734-154X

2010 | Action Number:

About COST 2010

• Author(s): COST Office
• Download (PDF, 1 MB)

The aim of this pocket guide is to bring together all relevant information about COST into an "easy to use" publication. This guide covers the whole of the COST system for research cooperation in Europe, including information about COST governance, contact points and financial instruments plus, most importantly, the COST Actions.

2010 | Action Number:

Annual Report 2009

• Author(s): COST Office
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The 2009 Annual Report presents the yearly achievements, Domain activities, publications, and more. The document is available in pdf and can be obtained in hard copy from the COST Office.

2010 | Action Number: B24

The COST Manual of Laboratory Animal Care and Use – Refinement, Reduction, and Research

• Author(s): B. Howard, T. Nevalainen and G. Perretta (ed)
• Publisher(s): CRC Press
• http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781439824924
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-1-4398-2492-4

In laboratory animal science, four working groups were established to discuss the housing of animals, environmental needs, refinement of procedures, genetically modified animals, and cost-benefit analysis. Based on the activities of these working groups, this book provides the European best practices for individuals and institutions working with laboratory animals. The text also provides a guide for the ethical evaluation of experiments and procedures involving animals.

2010 | Action Number: A27

Heritage, Images, Memory of European Landscapes

• Pages: 394
• Author(s): L. Lévêque, M. Ruiz Arbol, L. Pop
• Publisher(s): L'Harmattan
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-2-296-10887-5

How we can tell apart the shifting, interlocking patterns of the landscapes past or present - this is the challenge of this book taking the reader to the heart of the various societies of this cultural heritage that we call the European landscapes. Across the braod panel selected by the researchers it is the long-trailing memory of European history itself that emerges in the profuse scope of images and representations. By presenting some thirty cases the book displays the plurality of approaches undertaken in the research and analysis that has come to be part and parcel of the protection and safeguarding policies for the environmental and landscape heritage as well as the valorisation practices of this common cultural non-renewable asset.

2010 | Action Number: A27

From Present to Past through Landscape

• Pages: 287
• Author(s): A. Orejas, D. Mattingly and M. Clavel-Lévêque
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-84-00-08908-5

The major axes that articulate the different papers collected in this publication are:

• the construction of a theory for landscape studies, able to connect funademntal and applied research;
• strategies for recording and characterising landscapes and landmarks;
• specific proposals for protection and management;
• scientific and social approaches to landscape through perception, presentation and valorisation and
• landscape studies and policies.

This book is the result of a desire of the members of Action A27 to contribute to the construction of an interdisciplinary and socially relevant research field on cultural landscape studies. Transnational collaborations ensure an added value and open new possiblities of common understanding and shared initiatives beyond the different academic traditions and legal/administrative frames. This cooperative approach should constitute the core of the innovative and imaginative issues to be raised.

2010 | Action Number: 358

COST 358 – Pedestrians’ Quality Needs Final Report

• Author(s): R. Methorst, H. Monterde i Bort, R. Risser, D. Sauter, M. Tight and J. Walker
• Download from external website
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-9566903-0-2

The Pedestrians' Quality Needs Project (PQN) established what people need to choose to walk. This summary provides an understanding of those needs and how they can be met and supported by policy.
It is hoped that this summary will help practitioners:

1. Improve their understanding of how the management of public space, the transport network and the social, legal and political context interrelate to influence pedestrian behaviour.

2. Advance the effectiveness of future policy to support and encourage more walking

3. Enthuse relevant organisations to work collaboratively at a local level to ensure the full potential for more walking is realised.

4. Stimulate further research projects to benefit pedestrians in Europe.

The PQN Final Report consists of 3 main parts. Part A (Introduction and conceptual framework) and Part B (Documentation) contain the detailed project results. Part C, the report in front of you, gives general information about the project results. Part A and B are an integral part of the PQN Final Report, but, because of the large volume of the report parts, they are captured on a CD, which also contains a folder with additional documentation that was produced in the context of the project such as the Country Reports, a Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) report about pedestrian conditions in the PQN countries, a literature study, that was carried out to support substantiation of the PQN model policy
process and the results of a survey on data availability in European countries.

2010 | Action Number: C23

Strategies for a Low Carbon Urban Built Environment

• Author(s): Vincent Buhagiar (Ed)
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-99932-7-293-9

This publication is the outcome from the mid-term conference held in Munich on 24 - 25 September 2008.

2010 | Action Number: C22

Urban Flood Management

• Author(s): C. Zevenbergen, A. Cashman, N. Evelpidou, E. Pasche, S. Garvin and R. Ashley
• Publisher(s): CRC Press
• http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9780415559447
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-415-55944-7

Along with windstorms, floods are the most common and widespread of all natural disasters. Although they can often be predicted, they cause loss of life, damage and destruction, as many urban communities are located near coasts and rivers. In terms of victims, floods are responsible for more than half the deaths caused by natural catastrophes. As flood events appear to be rapidly increasing world-wide, an advanced and universal approach of urban flood and how to manage will help reducing flood impact. This textbook integrates the expertise from disciplines such as hydrology, sociology, architecture, urban design, construction and water resources engineering. The subject is approached from an international perspective and various case studies, exercises, expert advises and literature recommendations are included to support the theory and illustrations.

2010 | Action Number: A34

Gender Inequalities, Households and the Production of Well-being in Modern Europe

• Author(s): T. Addabbo, M-P. Arrizabalaga, C. Borderias and A. Owens (Eds)
• Publisher(s): Ashgate
• https://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&pageSubject=413&title_id=9688&edition_id=12750
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-7546-7968-4

This book explores the role of the family household in the production of well-being through labour – both remunerated and non-remunerated – as well as through the use of public institutions. The family mediates the relationship between individuals and the economy and its organization is a key means by which people experience material well-being (Horrell, Meredith and Oxley 2009: 94). Thus the book also considers the ‘distribution’ of well-being among members of the family household. It explores these themes within a European context, with essays focusing on both historical and contemporary situations. Another key focus is on
the role of gender in the production of well-being within the family. Feminist scholars have long pointed out the relevance of the unpaid work that goes on within the household to sustain processes of social reproduction. Care work and domestic labour remain unremunerated and unequally distributed by gender, so that women undertake the majority of this work. Some scholars have sought to identify, measure and value this labour and to see it as a significant contribution to well-being that is different from, but no less valuable than, market production (for example, Picchio 1992). Nevertheless, conventional approaches still tend to neglect the contribution of unpaid work to well-being and to interpret the family
as a homogeneous and systemic unit – a haven of benevolence and altruism that stands in sharp contrast to the competition and selfishness of the wider economy. Such perspectives ignore or obscure conflicts and inequalities in the distribution of resources between family members or within households.

2010 | Action Number: E49

Wood-Based Panels: An Introduction for Specialists

• Author(s): H. Thoemen, M. Irle and M. Sernek (eds)
• Publisher(s): Brunel University Press
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-1-902316-82-6

Wood-based panels is a general term for a variety of different board products, which have an impressive range of engineering properties. While some panels types are relatively new on the market, others have been developed and successfully introduced more than hundred years ago. However, even those panel types having a long history of continuous optimization are still a long way from being fully developed and they probably never will be. Technological developments on the one hand and new market and regulative requirements, combined with a steadily changing raw material situation, drive continuous improvements of wood-based panels and their manufacturing processes.

The intention of this book is to give a general description of modern panel manufacture, but to also provide some state of the art information on a selected list of fundamental topics. This book may be used as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate students, as assistance for practitioners, and as reference work for scientists working in the field.

2010 | Action Number: IS0805

Mapping Research on European Peace Missions

• Author(s): M.R. Freire et Al.
• Publisher(s): Clingendael
• http://www.clingendael.nl/cscp/
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-90-5031-153-3

2010 | Action Number: A21

Restorative Justice Realities- Empirical Research in a European Context

• Author(s): I. Vanfraechem, I. Aertsen and J. Willemsens (Eds)
• Publisher(s): Boom Uitgevers Den Haag
• http://www.boomuitgeversdenhaag.nl/?view=books&id=12682&menutree=4|2|9999999&show_book_in_serie
• ISBN/ISSN: 978-90-8974-361-9

The purpose of this book is to offer an analysis of empirical research carried out within European countries with regard to restorative justice. This is not another collection of theoretical essays on restorative justice. Neither is the book dealing with international research projects (apart from the work presented in Chapter 2 and references made in the chapter on Italy), which have been implemented in Europe during the last ten years mainly with financial support from the EU. Furthermore,‘restorative justice’ is investigated through its operational models; in particular the focus will be on VOM and conferencing since they are considered to be the most restorative practices (McCold and Wachtel, 2002). In the respective chapters, authors may briefly refer to other practices that are considered as restorative in their country.
The nine countries included in the book have developed research on the topic,to a varying extent. Reviewing this research and its results offers an insight on the state of affairs, not only of the research but also of the restorative practices and policies in those countries. The concluding chapter provides an overview of research results and furthermore reflects upon the difficulty of collecting comparable research materials in Europe.
Each country contributor was given a template delineating three common types of research: descriptive-inventory research, action-research and evaluative research. After a general introduction on the state of affairs with regard to the practices and legislation on VOM and FGC in their country, the authors present the different types of research conducted so far in that country in detail, including the setup, research methodology and main results. Not all authors could strictly adhere to the scheme because of differences in restorative justice and research developments between countries, various research cultures and modes of cooperation, and combinations of the abovementioned research types. Nevertheless, the template was used as a common framework to present the available research.