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Community Quality-of-Life Indicators

This book is second in a series covering best practices in community quality-of-life (QOL) indicators. The first volume in ...

Complex Nonlinearity : Chaos, Phase Transitions, Topology Change and Path Integrals

The book starts with a textbook-like expose on nonlinear dynamics, attractors and chaos, both temporal and spatio-temporal, ...

Computable Models of the Law : Languages, Dialogues, Games, Ontologies

This book originate from a workshop held at the European University Institute of Florence, Italy, in December 2006. The workshop ...

Conceptual Ecology and Invasion Biology: Reciprocal Approaches to Nature

In this edited volume, global experts in ecology and evolutionary biology explore how theories in ecology elucidate the invasion ...

Contemporary Family Lifestyles in Central and Western Europe Selected Cases

This introductory chapter approaches two basic categories of the whole monography which is a family and a lifestyle. The ...

Continental Scientific Drilling

Scientific drilling is an indispensable tool of modern Earth science - search, as it provides the only means of obtaining ...

Conviviality at the Crossroads The Poetics and Politics of Everyday Encounters

Conviviality has lately become a catchword not only in academia but also among political activists. This open access book ...

Corporate Restructuring

This book provides a current overview and discussion about the meaning of the financing of the companies. The book uses case ...

Corporate Sustainability as a Challenge for Comprehensive Management

Sustainability has become a topic of global relevance: Corporations and other economically acting organizations increasingly ...

Counteracting Urban Heat Island Effects in a Global Climate Change Scenario

Urban Heat Islands (UHIs) are a microclimatic phenomenon which manifests as a significant increase in the temperature of ...

Creating Resilient Futures : Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction, Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Change Adaptation Agendas

This excellent text recognises that efforts towards improving development outcomes must work in concert with strategies which ...

Critical Point Theory and Its Applications

The book include extrema, even valued functionals, weak and double linking, sign changing solutions, Morse inequalities, ...

Critical Point Theory and Its Applications

The book include extrema, even valued functionals, weak and double linking, sign changing solutions, Morse inequalities, ...

Cultural Convergence The Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928–1960

Based on extensive archival research, this book examines the poetics and politics of the Dublin Gate Theatre (est. 1928) ...

Databases, Information Systems, and Peer-to-Peer Computing

Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing promises to o?er exciting new possibilities in d- tributed information processing and database ...

Debris-flow Hazards and Related Phenomena

Debris Flow Hazards and Related Phenomena is set to become the standard reference on debris flows, debris avalanches and ...

Deltas in the Anthropocene

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

Demographic Change and Intergenerational Justice : The Implementation of Long-Term Thinking in the Political Decision Making Process

The book deals with the complex relationship between intergenerational justice and demographic change and is characterized ...

Demographic Change in Germany

Just as one might be inclined to thinkthat every thing about demographic change has been already said and heard, a new dimension ...

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 ...

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