Publications

This timely volume reviews key issues and developments in the controversial area of public sector information (PSI). It addresses the fundamental themes, challenges and conflicts surrounding the access to, and use of, PSI in the new digital era. Using detailed empirical analyses and case studies from across Europe and the USA, the authors focus on the crucial policy, economic, legal and social issues.

Migrants and ethnic minorities form a growing part of the population of Europe. They often have higher than average exposure to health risks, while facing barriers to accessing appropriate health care. International bodies have called for policy measures to tackle these inequities.

Weather radars provide a prompt overview of falling precipitation over large areas and are therefore of great interest to the hydrological community. The COST Action 717 “Use of radar observation in hydrological and NWP models” considerably facilitated communication among experts of radar meteorology, numerical weather prediction (NWP) and hydrology. The working Group 1 (WG1) of COST Action 717 dealt with the use of weather radar in hydrological modelling and one of its tasks was to set up a summary of the current methods for radar-based quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE).