The Practice of Silviculture: Applied Forest Ecology, includes the most current information and the results of research on the many issues that are relevant to forests and forestry. The text covers such timely topics as biofuels and intensive timber production, ecosystem and landscape scale management of public lands, ecosystem services, surface drinking water supplies, urban and community greenspace, forest carbon, fire and climate, and much more.

In Understanding Scientific Understanding, Henk W. de Regt explores the nature of scientific understanding, arguing that it is a central goal of science alongside explanation and prediction. He challenges the traditional view that understanding is merely a psychological byproduct of scientific theories and instead proposes that it is a legitimate and necessary epistemic aim.

Sex matters. It is a crucial part of whom we are and what to do. So why do we police what is 'normal' and what is 'bizarre'? As the author argues in this insightful book, whenever we disapprove of others or ourselves in this way, we close our eyes to a deeper understanding of human nature. As a psychiatrist, she has also worked inside prisons with sex offenders, so she is familiar with the extremes of 'oddity'. Here, she uses a psychoanalytic framework with humour, insight and clarity to explore why we disapprove, and what we lose when we do.

This book employs recursivity and contingency as two principle concepts to investigate into the relation between nature and technology, machine and organism, system and freedom.

En esta obra colectiva, bajo el título La privacidad en el metaverso, la inteligencia artificial y el big data: protección de datos y derecho al honor, se reúnen nueve trabajos de investigación que estudian aspectos esenciales del derecho de protección de datos personales desde diversas ópticas bajo, si bien, esencialmente en el marco del Derecho privado, más necesitado de atención, habida de que son mucho más numerosos los trabajos que atienden a estos fenómenos, tanto desde el prisma del Derecho público, como desde otros enfoques.Nunca fue tan importante la tarea de exploración de las nue

Este libro explora las implicaciones conceptuales y normativas de esta divergencia. Se puede considerar como eje central del libro una pregunta ampliamente debatida: ¿Cómo debería un sistema liberal de derecho penal proteger adecuadamente a las personas en su derecho a no ser sometidas a ningún contacto sexual contra su voluntad, al tiempo que salvaguarda su derecho a participar en una conducta sexual (privada y consentida) en la que sí desean hacerlo?.

Philosophy has a strong presence in evidence law and the nature of evidence is a highly debated topic in both general and social epistemology; legal theorists working in the evidence law area draw on different underlying philosophical theories of knowledge, inference and probability. Core evidentiary concepts and principles, such as the presumption of innocence, standards of proof, and others, reply on moral and political philosophy for their understanding and interpretation.