Publications

COST Action C12 was launched in May 2000. About 100 scientists from 21 of the 35 COST member countries contributed to COST Action C12. The main objectives of COST Action C12 – and relevant to the urban civil engineering domain of COST – were: to develop, combine and disseminate new technical engineering technologies; to improve the quality of urban buildings; to propose new technical solutions to architects and planners; to reduce the disturbances of the construction process in urban areas, and finally to improve the quality of living in the urban habitat.

The main objective of COST Action E20 was to provide academia, applied researchers, forest breeders and wood processing industries with an improved understanding of the chemistry and ultra-structure of wood fibre cell walls. This increased knowledge is essential for development of new methods of industrial fibre modification and production of improved fibres.

Proceedings of the “International Conference on Heritage, Weathering and Conservation, which took place in Madrid, Spain on 21-24 June 2006.

The revitalisation of audience studies is not only about new approaches and methods; it entails a crossing of disciplines and a bridging of long-established boundaries in the field. The aim of this volume is to capture the boundary-crossing processes that have begun to emerge across the discipline in the form of innovative, interdisciplinary interventions in the audience research agenda. Contributions to this volume seek to further this process though innovative, audience-oriented perspectives that firmly anchor media engagement within the diversity of contexts and purposes to which people incorporate media in their daily lives, in ways often unanticipated by industries and professionals.

This book contains the major results of the EU COST Action 277.