Electronic Books

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Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage Past, Present and Future

This book, building on research initiated by scholars from the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development ...

Advances in Land Remote Sensing : System, Modeling, Inversion and Application

It systematically summarizes the past achievements and identifies the frontier issues as the research agenda for the near ...

African Cultural Astronomy : Current Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy research in Africa

Astronomy is the science of studying the sky using telescopes and light collectors such as photographic plates or CCD detectors. ...

Agent-Based Models of Energy Investment Decisions

This book demonstrates how bounded rational decision models can be standardized and parameterized by socio-economic data. ...

AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City : Phase 3: Civilian Participation – Including the Global Health Deal Proposition

This volume describes phase 3 of the AiREAS multidisciplinary cocreation effort to produce a Healthy City. Phase 1 referred ...

Applied Head and Neck Anatomy for the Facial Cosmetic Surgeon / Elie M. Ferneini, Michael T. Goupil, Margaret A. McNulty, Christine E. Niekrash

This multi-authored, multi-institutional, and multi-specialty based text is designed to inform and refresh practitioners ...

Applied Remote Sensing for Urban Planning, Governance and Sustainability

Despite the promising and exciting possibilities presented by new and fast-developing remote sensing technologies applied ...

Artery Guidebook

"Artery" is an initiative on a European scale, funded by the INTERREG IIIB NWE programme, which puts riverside restoration ...

Asian-Pacific Coasts and Their Management: States of Environment : States of Environment

The Asia-Pacific region is home to the world’s largest region of coral reefs and mangroves. It accommodates two-thirds ...

Aspects of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing in the Southern Ocean

Overfishing threatens the viability of high seas living resources. Furthermore, controls to prevent overfishing are inadequate. ...

Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin

This book offers an up-to-date overview of the latest scientific findings in regional climate research on the Baltic Sea ...

Between Peace and Conflict in the East and the West Studies on Transformation and Development in the OSCE Region

This book features various studies on democratization, transformation, socio-economic development, and security issues in ...

Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change

This book identifies and discusses biodiversity’s contribution to physical, mental and spiritual health and wellbeing. ...

Biomimetics for Architecture & Design : Nature - Analogies - Technology / Göran Pohl , Werner Nachtigall

Provides the readers with a timely guide to the application of biomimetic principles in architecture and engineering design. ...

Building a Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa

What are the challenges and action points for agricultural sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa? This collection of papers ...

Chasing the Chinese Dream Four Decades of Following China’s War on Poverty

This book explores the historical, cultural and philosophical contexts that have made anti-poverty the core of Chinese society ...

China and the World in a Changing Context : Perspectives from Ambassadors to China

This book aims to present an overview of China and the world from diverse angles. It brings together essays by ambassadors ...

Cities between Competitiveness and Cohesion : Discourses, Realities and Implementation

The book shows that spatial and urban policy continues to be a key site of policy intervention and experimentation. Different ...

Cities for people / Jan Gehl

Presents latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses ...

Climate Change - Environment and History of the Near East

When the ?rst edition of this book was published in 2004, the following year 2005 has happened to have been the warmest year ...

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