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Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
This book describes Smart Cities and the information technologies that will provide better living conditions in the cities of tomorrow. It brings together research findings from 27 countries across the globe, from academia, industry and government. It addresses a number of crucial topics in state...
Advances in Computing and Data Sciences
First International Conference, ICACDS 2016, Ghaziabad, India, November 11-12, 2016, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Advances in Computing and Data Sciences, ICACDS 2016, held in Ghaziabad, India, in November 2016.
The 64 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 502 submissions. The papers are organized in...
Environmental Resources Use and Challenges in Contemporary Southeast Asia
Tropical Ecosystems in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
This edited volume introduces dynamic approaches to the study of Southeast Asia’s environmental diversity from different disciplinary perspectives at the interface between the natural and social sciences. It brings together research on the region’s environmental resource use and shared ecological...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
This book contains papers presented at the 6th Global Workshop on Digital Soil Mapping, held 11-14 November 2014 at the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences of Nanjing, China. Digital soil mapping is advancing on different fronts at different paces throughout the world. The researches...
by Adam Rose
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
This volume presents an economic framework for the analysis of resilience in relation to societal, environmental, and personal security perspectives. It offers a rigorous definition of economic resilience and an operational metric, and it shows how they can be applied to measuring and applying the...
by Kin-Ling Tang
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
This book proposes an alternative approach to understanding development and discusses the possibilities of alternative development in the age of global capitalism from a socio-cultural perspective. Tracing the development of Mui Wo, a rural town on the outskirts of Hong Kong, for more than a decade,...
Understanding Built Environment
Proceedings of the National Conference on Sustainable Built Environment 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
This book is a comprehensive document visualizing the future of built environment from a multidisciplinary dimension, with special emphasis on the Indian scenario. The multidisciplinary focus would be helpful for the readers to cross-refer and understand others' perspectives. The text also includes...
Emerging Trends in Electrical, Communications and Information Technologies
Proceedings of ICECIT-2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2016
This book includes the original, peer-reviewed research from the 2nd International Conference on Emerging Trends in Electrical, Communication and Information Technologies (ICECIT 2015), held in December, 2015 at Srinivasa Ramanujan Institute of Technology, Ananthapuramu, Andhra Pradesh, India. It...
Social Media for Government
A Practical Guide to Understanding, Implementing, and Managing Social Media Tools in the Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
This book provides practical know-how on understanding, implementing, and managing main stream social media tools (e.g., blogs and micro-blogs, social network sites, and content communities) from a public sector perspective. Through social media, government organizations can inform citizens, promote...
by Mrinila Singh, Keshav Lall Maharjan
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This book explores the sustainability aspect of organic and conventional farming systems, which is commonly categorized into three sub-aspects: social, environmental and economic. The social structure of a given area, organic friendly technologies, soil properties, crop diversification and income...
Citizen’s Right to the Digital City
Urban Interfaces, Activism, and Placemaking
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Edited by thought leaders in the fields of urban informatics and urban interaction design, this book brings together case studies and examples from around the world to discuss the role that urban interfaces, citizen action, and city making play in the quest to create and maintain not only secure and...
Sustainable Energy Technology and Policies
A Transformational Journey, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
This book presents a state-of-the-art compilation focusing on both technological and policy aspects of sustainable energy production and consumption, which deals with issues like the need for and planning of smart cities, alternative transport fuel options, sustainable power production, pollution...
China's Energy Efficiency and Conservation
Household Behaviour, Legislation, Regional Analysis and Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
This Brief identifies various aspects of energy challenges faced by the Chinese central/local governments, and also provides an opportunity to study how best to achieve green growth and a low-carbon transition in a developing country like China. The progress of China’s carbon mitigation policies...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
This book systematically describes the development of manufacturing servitization in the Asia-Pacific region. It offers a practical and theoretical reference guide to the manufacturing companies in the Asia-Pacific region, which is now a major global manufacturing center. Servitization is a fairly...