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Resilience: A New Paradigm of Nuclear Safety

This book summarizes presentations and discussions from the two-day international workshop held at UC Berkeley in March 2015, ...

Resilient Urban Futures

This book addresses the way in which urban and urbanizing regions profoundly impact and are impacted by climate change. ...

Rethinking Scientific Change and Theory Comparison : Stabilities, Ruptures, Incommensurabilities?

The volume is a collection of essays devoted to the analysis of scientific change and stability. It explores the balance ...

Rethinking Sustainability Towards a Regenerative Economy

This book is based on work from the COST Action “RESTORE - REthinking Sustainability TOwards a Regenerative Economy'', ...

Rise and Decline of Industry in Central and Eastern Europe

In the course of the tremendous political and economic upheaval starting in 1989/1990 many industrial cities and regions ...

Risk Management

Dealing with all aspects of risk management that have undergone significant innovation in recent years, this book aims at ...

Risks in Modern Society

The main goal of this book is to make the reader familiar with the complexity and multi-dimensionality of the subject RISK, ...

Safety Cultures, Safety Models

The objective of this book is to help at-risk organizations to decipher the “safety cloud”, and to position themselves ...

Saltmarsh Conservation, Management and Restoration : Coastal Systems and Continental Margins

This book series looks at each of the main coastal habitats - salt marshes, sand dunes and sand/shingle shores, modified ...

Satellite Earth Observations and Their Impact on Society and Policy

The result of a workshop bringing together an international advisory board of experts in science, satellite technologies, ...

Science for Ecosystem-based Management : Narragansett Bay in the 21st Century

This volume will be of interest and importance to researchers, agency personnel, and natural resource managers who are contemplating ...

Seasonal Climate: Forecasting and Managing Risk

Formed around a set of lectures presented at a NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI), this book has grown in scope and in aspiration ...

Seasonal Forecasts, Climatic Change and Human Health : Health and Climate

Awareness that many key aspects of public health are strongly influenced by climate is growing dramatically, driven by new ...

Second Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin

This book is an update of the first BACC assessment, published in 2008. It offers new and updated scientific findings in ...

Semantic Web Services

Semantic Web services combine Web services communication technology with the intelligent processing of ontology-based metadata ...

Service Chain Management

Service chain management enables service organisations to improve customer satisfaction and reduce operational costs through ...

Shaping an Inclusive Energy Transition Editors (view affiliations) Margot P. C. WeijnenZofia LukszoSamira Farahani

This book makes a case for a socially inclusive energy transition and illustrates how engineering and public policy professionals ...

Sign-Changing Critical Point Theory

Many nonlinear problems in physics, engineering, biology, and social sciences can be reduced to finding critical points of ...

Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions Results of SSPCR 2019—Open Access Contributions

This book offers a selection of research papers and case studies presented at the 3rd international conference “Smart and ...

Snowflake Essentials : Getting Started with Big Data in the Cloud / Frank Bell, Raj Chirumamilla, Bhaskar B. Joshi

Understand the essentials of the Snowflake Database and the overall Snowflake Data Cloud. This book covers how Snowflake’s ...

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