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Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems : 8th International Symposium, W2GIS 2008, Shanghai, China, December 11-12, 2008. Proceedings

This book includs but not limited to Conceptual and logical models, Data management and retrieval, Geographical search engines, ...

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 Economics

Economists have long sought to maximise economic growth, believing this to be their best contribution to improving human ...

Wellbeing and Devolution

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

Wetlands and Natural Resource Management

We have given the organizers of these symposia the opportunity to produce one chapter for these books with the integrated ...

Wetlands and Water Framework Directive : Protection, Management and Climate Change

This book compares the lessons learned from a wetland-perspective approach to the changing climate and the requirements of ...

What Do Children Need to Flourish?

Regardless of its validity, many adults share a belief that today’s youth face an inauspicious future. Drugs, sex, violence, ...

What Have We Learned?: Macroeconomic Policy after the Crisis

Since 2008, economic policymakers and researchers have occupied a brave new economic world. Previous consensuses have been ...

What Sustains Life?

What Sustains Life? How can something so seemingly improbable and fragile as life exist in such hardy and resilient forms? ...

Wheat Production in Stressed Environments

The book comprises the proceedings of the 7th International Wheat Conference at the end of 2005. Leading scientists from ...

Wheeler's Dental Anatomy, Physiology and Occlusion / Stanley J. Nelson

Provides illustrated coverage of dentitions, pulp formation, the sequence of eruptions, and clinical considerations. The ...

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 ...

When There Was No Money

The largest retail branch bank network is built in one of the most formidable environments in the world. This book takes ...

When Things Don't Fall Apart: Global Financial Governance and Developmental Finance in an Age of Productive Incoherence

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- I. Crises, Change, and Productive Incoherence -- 1. ...

White Biotechnology

The successful launch of polylactide marked white biotechnology’s break-through into the field of polymers and synthetics.Today ...

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 ...

Who Owns the Moon? : Extraterrestrial Aspects of Land and Mineral Resources Ownership

This work investigates the permissibility and viability of property rights on the celestial bodies, particularly the extraterrestrial ...

Who’s Who in Fluorescence 2008

"Who’s Who in Fluorescence 2008 is a guide to scientists and workers in the academic, industrial and government sectors ...

Why Knowing What To Do Is Not Enough

This book sets out to explain the reasons for the gap between “knowing” and “doing” in view of self-reliance, which ...

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, ...

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