Electronic Books

Total Books: 61 - 80 /142

Local Heroes in the Global Village

The book contributes to the debate what role public policies play in stimulating national and regional economic growth. ...

Managing Elevated Risk : Global Liquidity, Capital Flows, and Macroprudential Policy—An Asian Perspective

This book discusses the risks and opportunities that arise in Emerging Asia given the context of a new environment in global ...

Managing Protected Areas in Central and Eastern Europe Under Climate Change

This book addresses the need for sharing knowledge and experience in the field of biodiversity conservation and climate change. ...

Managing Socio-ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes for Sustainable Communities in Asia Mapping and Navigating Stakeholders, Policy and Action

This book presents up-to-date analyses of community-based approaches to sustainable resource management of SEPLS (socio-ecological ...

Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation How to Make Sense of Change

This book provides methodological devices and analytical frameworks for the study of societies in transformation. It explores ...

Modelling Environmental Dynamics : Advances in Geomatic Solutions

Modelling environmental dynamics is critical to understanding and predicting the evolution of the environment in response ...

Modelling Regional Scenarios for the Enlarged Europe

The aim of this book is to tackle the question of what the European territory will look like over the next fifteen years ...

Monetary Policy and Macroeconomic Stabilization in Latin America

Latin America is a very important region of the globe, which has been buffeted by successive waves of economic instability ...

Mountains: Sources of Water, Sources of Knowledge

This book addresses the major challenges in assuring globally sustainable water use. Paradoxically, water resources have ...

Multilateralism, Regionalism and Bilateralism in Trade and Investment

The present first volume of the World Report on Regional Integration is a timely product of the research undertaken at UNU-CRIS. ...

Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage Economic, Cultural and Social Identity

Our first contact with music is almost certainly in our childhood when our parents sing lullabies to us at bedtime. In a ...

Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land

This book addresses the various disciplinary aspects of nature-based solutions in flood risk management on private land. ...

Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Areas

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book brings together research findings and experiences from science, ...

New Methods for Measuring and Analyzing Segregation

This book introduces new methods for measuring and analyzing residential segregation. It begins by placing all popular ...

Northeast Asia

Can regional mechanisms better institutionalize the increasing complexity of economic and security ties among the countries ...

Object-Based Image Analysis : Spatial Concepts for Knowledge-Driven Remote Sensing Applications

This book discusses means, technologies and approaches related to the processing and analysis of multi-sensor, multi-resolution ...

Participatory Research and Planning in Practice

This book provides in-depth insights into participatory research and planning by presenting practical examples of its use. ...

Planning Theory

This book makes two really compelling arguments: Firstly, that planning theory has lost its focus on the planning process ...

Planning for Ecosystem Services in Cities

This book presents current knowledge about ecosystem services (ES) in urban planning, and discusses various urban ES topics ...

Plant Selection for Bioretention Systems and Stormwater Treatment Practices

As cities develop, more land is converted into impervious surfaces, which do not allow water to infiltrate. Careful urban ...

Total Books: 61 - 80 /142