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Bengale, 1943-44: Famine Relief in Times of War
(2017)Online Atlas on the History of Humanitarianism and Human RightsEncyclopedia Entry -
Overcoming the Challenges of Communicating Uncertainties Across National Contexts
(2017)Oxford library of psychology ~ The Oxford Handbook of the Science of Science CommunicationThe goal of risk communication is to provide information about risks and uncertainties in a way that enables people to make the best decisions, based on their own values. Various factors influence the success of risk communication. This chapter first highlights risk communication methods and formats that determine successful risk communication. For example, laypeople do not understand all presentation formats of numbers equally well, and ...Encyclopedia Entry -
Cognitive geoengineering
(2017)The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and TechnologyEncyclopedia Entry -
Switzerland
(2017)The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science PerspectivesThe history of the Swiss Confederation began in the 14th century with a network of alliances between cities, rural communities, and principalities situated between the Alps and the Rhine, and the Lakes of Geneva and Constance. Even the earliest Federal Charters of 1291 and 1315 focused on the member cantons providing mutual military assistance at their own expense. In the turbulent transitional period from 1798 to 1848, Switzerland ...Encyclopedia Entry -
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Polybenzimidazole Fuel Cell Technology: Theory, Performance, and Applications
(2017)Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Science and TechnologyEncyclopedia Entry -
Stone House: Herzog & de Meuron
(2017)Companion to the History of Architecture ~ Twentieth-Century ArchitectureEncyclopedia Entry -
"The Science of the Plan": House-Building and the Like, 1860–1930
(2017)Companion to the History of Architecture ~ Nineteenth‐Century ArchitectureEncyclopedia Entry -
Glacier modeling
(2017)International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and TechnologyEncyclopedia Entry