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Austenitic TRIP/TWIP Steels and Steel-Zirconia Composites Design of Tough, Transformation-Strengthened Composites and Structures

This book presents a collection of the most up-to-date research results in the field of steel development with a focus on ...

Beyond the Limits to Growth : New Ideas for Sustainability from Japan

This book offers an optimistic view of the future and provides a road map for societies to get there. Drawing upon extensive ...

Bio-based Building Skin

This book provides a compendium of material properties, demonstrates several successful examples of bio-based materials’ ...

Bioeconomy

This book defines the new field of "Bioeconomy" as the sustainable and innovative use of biomass and biological knowledge ...

Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Biomass Sourcing and Production

This book explores bioeconomy and bioenergy policies across South America, Asia and Europe. It discusses how a transition ...

Biofuels, Solar and Wind as Renewable Energy Systems : Benefits and Risks

With shortages of fossil energy, especially oil and natural gas, and heavy biomass energy use occurring in both developed ...

Biogeochemical Cycles in Globalization and Sustainable Development

This valuable study of environmental subsystems functioning under various climatic and anthropogenic conditions provides ...

Biosurveillance and Biosecurity : International Workshop, BioSecure 2008, Raleigh, NC, USA, December 2, 2008. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Biosurveillance and Biosecurity, BioSecure ...

Blood Traces: Interpretation of Deposition and Distribution / Peter R. De Forest

Blood Traces provides an authoritative resource that reviews many of the aspects of the interpretation of blood traces that ...

Building Theories : Architecture as the Art of Building / Franca Trubiano

Discusses the content of treatises, essays, articles, and letters by those who have been, throughout history, committed to ...

Building With Earth: Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture / Gernot Minke

Offers a practical systematic overview of the many uses of earth and techniques for processing it. Its properties and physical ...

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 ...

Building from Tradition: Local Materials and Methods in Contemporary Architecture / Elizabeth Golden

Examines the recent resurgence of interest in the handmade building and the use of local and renewable materials in contemporary ...

Building to Suit the Climate: A Handbook / Petra Liedl, Gerhard Hausladen, Michael Saldanha

Serves as a concrete aid to planning and design. With the planning process as its roadmap, it accompanies the planner from ...

CSR and Codes of Business Ethics in the USA, Austria (EU) and China and their Enforcement in International Supply Chain Arbitrations

Analyzes the implementation of CSR reporting and codes of business conduct and ethics in the legal systems of the USA, Austria ...

Case Studies in Building Rehabilitation / J.M.P.Q. Delgado

Presents recent research and practical insights relating to building pathology. As such it contributes toward the systematization ...

Challenges and Solutions for Sustainable Smart City Development / R. Maheswar, M. Balasaraswathi, Ravi Rastogi, A. Sampathkumar, G. R. Kanagachidambaresan

Discusses advances in smart and sustainable development of smart environments. The authors discuss the challenges faced in ...

Challenges to Marine Ecosystems

This volume presents a representative sample of contributions to the 41st European Marine Biology Symposium held in September ...

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 ...

Chemistry for the Protection of the Environment 4

This volume is the proceedings of the first CPE conference in the new millennium and the thirteenth in a well-established ...

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