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Ingenieure der Kartenkunst
(2025)Die Publikation gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über 170 Jahre Kartografie an der ETH Zürich und würdigt die Persönlichkeiten, die zur Entwicklung des Fachs beigetragen haben. Sie wird aus Anlass des 100jährigen Bestehens des Instituts für Kartografie und Geoinformation herausgegeben und beleuchtet dessen Beitrag zur Wissenschaft und Praxis.Edited Volume -
Engineers of Map Art
(2025)This publication provides a comprehensive overview of 170 years of cartography at ETH Zurich and pays tribute to the personalities who have contributed to the development of the discipline. It is published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation and highlights its contribution to science and practice.Edited Volume -
Architecture in Islamic Countries
(2022)Source materialThe second Venice Architecture Biennale, directed by Paolo Portoghesi, raised questions about a postmodernity throughout realms extending south and east from the Mediterranean, where modernity and decolonisation were converging. Though the exhibition on architecture in Islamic countries was largely forgotten, these questions are ever more relevant. Selected texts by Portoghesi, Mehdi Kowsar and Udo Kultermann from the original exhibition ...Edited Volume -
Arab Modern
(2025)gta editionThe Arab world’s modern built environment was shaped largely during a period when several Arab countries were on the cusp of gaining independence from colonial rule. Contributions in this volume present Arab modern architecture based on previously overlooked figures, narratives, and experiences. Projects from North Africa, the Levant, and the Arabian Gulf show critical moments of postcolonial nation-building. The travel of ideas and figures ...Edited Volume -
Sicherheit 2025
(2025)SicherheitThe annual survey "Sicherheit", which is a joint publication by the Military Academy at ETH Zurich and the CSS, evaluates long-term public opinion tendencies and trends on foreign, security and defense policy issues in Switzerland. Overall, it can be said that voters in 2025 are more likely to give preference to security than freedom and that little has changed in the assessment of freedom and security compared to 2022.Edited Volume -
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Strategic Trends 2025
(2025)Strategic TrendsStrategic Trends, the annual flagship publication of the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich, examines in 2025 the pivotal forces and developments shaping global security, offering critical analysis of the challenges and opportunities in a world undergoing profound transformationEdited Volume -
Cooperatives in an Uncertain World
(2024)Contributions to Management ScienceThis book focuses on different aspects of cooperatives in Switzerland and its neighboring countries, and their contribution to meeting overarching societal challenges. It seeks to identify how cooperatives can tackle grand societal challenges and extends the body of research on cooperatives. The discussions are highlighted in the context of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The respective chapters cover topics such as cooperatives ...Edited Volume -
Integrity and Sustainability in Sport
(2025)This is the first book to examine the critically important topic of sustainability in sport through the lens of integrity. Adopting a holistic view on sustainability, it argues that integrity is the foundation on which sustainable sports organisations, actions and processes must be built. This book shows how the interconnected values of integrity and sustainability can be embedded in sporting organisations, policies and activities. Featuring ...Edited Volume -
Ceasefires
(2025)Almost all intrastate conflicts involve ceasefire agreements, yet little is known about which factors make a ceasefire effective in stopping violence and ultimately ending intrastate conflict. Ceasefires explores the complex relationship between the ceasefire and political negotiation processes and examines how they can either reinforce or impede each other. Case studies from the joint perspectives of practitioners and scholars cover ...Edited Volume -
Rote Liste der Bienen
(2024)Umwelt-Vollzug UVThe Red List of the bees of Switzerland was updated following the guidelines of the IUCN, replacing the list published in 1994. Of the 615 species assessed, 279 (45,4 %) are considered as threatened or extinct, with a particularly high proportion of threatened species among flower specialists, ground nesting, summer-flying and lowland species. A further 58 species (9,4 %) are categorised as near threatened. Compared to other groups of ...Edited Volume -
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Christian Kerez 2015-2024: espacios fundamentales = ultimate spaces
(2024)El CroquisEdited Volume -
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The Urban Concrete Innovation
(2023)This book is the joint and highly acknowledged effort of members of EU-projects URBCON and DuRSAAM. Basic insights and more detailed information are provided on eco-friendly concrete targeting to be free of traditional Portland cement and targeting to be free of primary resourced construction minerals, so to avoid using Earths primary minerals, lower CO2 impact and keep excellent technical performance. Examples of concrete compositions ...Edited Volume -