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Understanding Society and Natural Resources : Forging New Strands of Integration Across the Social Sciences

In this edited open access book leading scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds wrestle with social science integration ...

Understanding the Bigger Energy Picture

This book gives an overview of today’s energy problem in the context of a rising world population, climate change and the ...

Urban Environmental Management and Technology

This book examines the importance of urban environmental management in the face of formidable challenges. It offers a comprehensive ...

Urban Planning Against Poverty How to Think and Do Better Cities in the Global South

This book revisits the theoretical foundations of urban planning and the application of these concepts and methods in the ...

Urban Transport Development

Urban Transport Development is a contribution to the ongoing global discussion on the future of urban transport. The main ...

User Behavior and Technology Development

The book User Behavior and Technology Development explores these relationships between technology and behavior from an interdisciplinary ...

Venezuela: A Petro-State Using Renewable Energies : A Contribution to the Global Debate about New Renewable Energies for Electricity Generation

In spite of the economic role of oil, Venezuela has started developing hydroelectricity since the 1950s. At present, the ...

Vision 2050 : Roadmap for a Sustainable Earth

Hiroshi Komiyama's "Vision 2050" is a plan for paving a road to global sustainability. "Vision 2050" is built upon three ...

Warranty Chain Management : Digitalization and Sustainability / Albert Liao

Aims to provide a systemic viewpoint for enterprise to establish the warranty chain management system. This book includes ...

Well-being, Sustainability and Social Development

This open access book examines more than two centuries of societal development using novel historical and statistical approaches. ...

Wellbeing and Devolution

In this book, Wallace offers a practical and balanced analysis of the evolution of wellbeing as a policy narrative and framework ...

When Can Oil Economies Be Deemed Sustainable?

This book questions the stereotype depicting all Gulf (GCC) economies as not sustainable, and starts a critical discussion ...

White Gold: The Commercialisation of Rice Farming in the Lower Mekong Basin

This book is about understanding the processes involved in the transformation of smallholder rice farming in the Lower Mekong ...

Why care for Nature?

this book, resulting from a comprehensive inquiry into the ethical and politico-philosophical dimensions of environmental ...

Wicked Problems in Public Policy : Understanding and Responding to Complex Challenges

This book offers the first overview of the ‘wicked problems’ literature, often seen as complex, open-ended, and intractable, ...

Wood and wood joints building traditions in Europe, Japan and China / Klaus Zwerger, Valerio Olgiati

Wood and Wood Joints puts today s world in touch with the diverse know-how of Western and Eastern cultures about the creative ...

Workers, Managers, Productivity Kaizen in Developing Countries

This book explores how improving management techniques can support firms’ productivity and quality. Given its wide range ...

e-Science Open, Social and Virtual Technology for Research Collaboration

This book shows the breadth and various facets of e-Science, while also illustrating their shared core. Changes in scientific ...

olution Sets for Net Zero Energy Buildings: Feedback from 30 Buildings Worldwide / Françios Garde, Joseph Ayoub, Laura Aelenei, Daniel Aelenei, Alessandra Scognamiglio

Presents a unique study of 30 NZEBs that have been constructed and have had their performance measured for at least 12 months. ...

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