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Decision Making for Complex Socio-Technical Systems

The long-term governance of radioactive waste continues to be a major complex and contentious socio-technical issue worldwide. ...

Decision Modeling and Behavior in Complex and Uncertain Environments

This text is devoted to examining new research at the interface of operations research, behavioral and cognitive sciences, ...

Deformation and Gravity Change: Indicators of Isostasy, Tectonics, Volcanism, and Climate Change

During the last decades, measurements of various geodynamic processes have gained ever increasing importance. Temporal variations ...

Deltas in the Anthropocene

The Anthropocene is the human-dominated modern era that has accelerated social, environmental and climate change across the ...

Demands of Expanding Populations and Development Planning : Clean Air, Safe Water, Fertile Soils

This book brings together three topics that interact to affect the quality of life on Earth. First, it examines expanding ...

Democratization of Expertise?

Scientific knowledge and the ‘experts’ that represent it no longer command the unquestioned authority and public trust ...

Demystifying Climate Models : A Users Guide to Earth System Models

This book demystifies the models we use to simulate present and future climates, allowing readers to better understand how ...

Desert Dust in the Global System

Dust storms, produced by the removal of surface materials from the world’s drylands, are a vital component of the environment. ...

Desertification in the Mediterranean Region. A Security Issue

This book focuses on two basic concepts: security and desertification in the Mediterranean Region and their linkages. Desertification ...

Design Build with The Scarcity and Creativity Studio / Christian Hermansen Cordua, Solveig Sandness

Scarcity and Creativity Studio has developed a teaching method which reaffirms a commitment to architecture as a service ...

Design Science and Its Importance in the German Mathematics Educational Discussion

This ICME-13 Topical Survey reviews the state-of-the-art by first exploring the roots and scope of design science. Second, ...

Design Technology in Contemporary Architectural Practice / Dominik Holzer

Offers rare insights about how these firms apply technology to purposefully disrupt and support their creative design processes ...

Design and Construction of Tunnels : Analysis of controlled deformation in rocks and soils (ADECO-RS)

It uses the advance core (the core of ground ahead of the face) as a structural tool for the long and short term stabilisation ...

Design for Environmental Sustainability

Design for Environmental Sustainability is a technical and operative contribution to the United Nations "Decade on Education ...

Design of Advanced Manufacturing Systems

The aim of this book is to provide a framework and speci?c methods and tools for the selection and con?guration of capacity ...

Design of Hybrid Structures : Where Steel Profiles Meet Concrete / Andre Plumier, Herve Degee

Focuses on design approaches for concrete structures reinforced in an unconventional way by steel profiles. It explains force ...

Design of Industrial Structures : Reinforced Cement Concrete and Steel / Ashoke Kumar Dasgupta

Bridges the gap between academic and professional field pertaining to design of industrial reinforced cement concrete and ...

Design of Integrally-Attached Timber Plate Structures / Yves Weinand

Outlines a new design methodology for digitally fabricated spatial timber plate structures, presented with examples from ...

Design of Structural Elements : Concrete, Steelwork, Masonry and Timber Designs to Eurocodes / Chanakya Arya

Topics include the philosophy of design, sustainable development, basic structural concepts, and material properties. After ...

Design to Value : The architecture of holistic design and creative technology / Mark Bryden, John Dyson, Jaimie Johnston, Martin Wood

Design to Value is a commitment to process above all else. Well understood and applied in the manufacturing industries, its ...

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