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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Climate change is a cause for concern both globally and locally. In order for it to be tackled holistically, its governance is an important topic needing scientific and practical consideration. Climate change governance is an emerging area, and one which is closely related to state and public administrative...
Climate-Smart Technologies
Integrating Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in Mitigation and Adaptation Responses
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
The book addresses the perceived need for a publication with looks at both, climate smart technologies and the integration of renewable energy and energy efficiency in mitigation and adaptation responses. Based on a set of papers submitted as part of the fifth on-line climate conference (CLIMATE...
Universities and Climate Change
Introducing Climate Change to University Programmes
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Climate change is a matter of global concern and specific sectors of society such as universities need to engage and be active in the search for regional and local solutions for what is a global problem. Despite the fact that many universities all around the world are undertaking remarkable efforts...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
A unique feature of this book is its strong practice-oriented nature: it contains a wide range of papers dealing with the social, economic and political aspects of climate change, exemplifying the diversity of approaches to climate change management taking place all over the world, in a way never...
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Release Date: October 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
Since the general acceptance of the field of corporate social responsibility worldwide, corporate entities and those who act for them either as executives or "ordinary" employees are expected to be socially responsible. Being socially responsible has a number of quantifiable and unquantifiable...
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Release Date: September 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
The book explores the geo-chemical, physical, social and economic impacts of climate change on water supplies. It contains examples and case studies from a wide range of countries, and addresses the need to promote sustainable water use across the world.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
There has been some degree of reluctance in the past to consider disaster risk management within the mainstream of adaptation to climate variability and climate change. However, there is now wide recognition of the need to incorporate disaster risk management concerns in dealing with such phenomena....
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Release Date: August 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
It is widely acknowledged that, in addition to global and regional efforts to cope with climate change by means of mitigation measures, adaptation initiatives can and perhaps should play a key role in enabling communities from across Africa to better handle the problems related to it. Due to the fact...
Public-Key Cryptography – PKC 2017
20th IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 28-31, 2017, Proceedings, Part II
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
The two-volume set LNCS 10174 and 10175 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th IACR International Conference on the Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2017, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in March 2017.
The 34 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected...
Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems -- CHES 2015
17th International Workshop, Saint-Malo, France, September 13-16, 2015, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, CHES 2015, held in Saint Malo, France, in September 2015. The 34 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 128 submissions. They are...
Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Information Technology and Software Engineering
Information Technology
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Information Technology and Software Engineering presents selected articles from this major event, which was held in Beijing, December 8-10, 2012. This book presents the latest research trends, methods and experimental results in the fields of information...
Management of Alliance Networks
Formation, Functionality, and Post Operational Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
Effective management is crucial to the success of the inter-firm cooperation, and may reduce the risk that is inherently associated with these strategies. If cooperative strategy is to be successful, managers must have knowledge of factors that should be taken into consideration during formation and...
by Michael Missbach, Josef Stelzel, Cameron Gardiner
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
This book provides an introduction to the various facets of building and operating an SAP infrastructure exploiting Cloud technologies. It describes and discusses the latest developments and challenges and suitable solutions, and also outlines future trends where possible. To ensure that this book...
Fast Software Encryption
23rd International Conference, FSE 2016, Bochum, Germany, March 20-23, 2016, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Fast Software Encryption, held in Bochum, Germany, in March 2016. The 29 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 initial submissions. The papers are...