Springer Singapore: 3660 books
Green Fashion
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
This book deals with the important aspects of green fashion including Animal Welfare in Ethical Fashion, Sustainable Processing of Textiles, Sustainable design case studies, Wool Composting, Consumer behaviour in sustainable clothing market, industrial case studies related to green fashion, etc.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
This book provides a comprehensive description of traditional and innovative forest-based bioproducts, from pulp and paper, wood-based composites and wood fuels to chemicals and fiber-based composites. The descriptions of different types of forest-based bioproducts are supplemented by the environmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
This book pursues a comprehensive approach so as to arrive at a better understanding of the implications of climate change on sustainable development, focusing on the perspective of water. Climate change is one of today’s most pressing global issues and will become increasingly important in the...
Robust Control for Grid Voltage Stability: High Penetration of Renewable Energy
Interfacing Conventional and Renewable Power Generation Resources
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
This book makes the area of integration of renewable energy into the existing electricity grid accessible to engineers and researchers. This is a self-contained text which has models of power system devices and control theory necessary to understand and tune controllers in use currently. The new...
Data Science Landscape
Towards Research Standards and Protocols
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The edited volume deals with different contours of data science with special reference to data management for the research innovation landscape. The data is becoming pervasive in all spheres of human, economic and development activity. In this context, it is important to take stock of what is being...
Globalization of Indian Industries
Productivity, Exports and Investment
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2015
This book focuses on Indian manufacturing industries and analyses the impact of inward foreign direct investment on the domestic sector on the one hand, and exports and outward foreign direct investment by Indian companies on the other. Although the emphasis is mostly general, specific industries,...
Embedded System Technology
13th National Conference, ESTC 2015, Beijing, China, October 10-11, 2015, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th National Conference on Embedded System Technology, ESTC 2015, held in Beijing, China, in October 2015.
The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 papers. The topics cover a broad range of fields...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
This book addresses the emerging area of cloud computing, providing a comprehensive overview of the research areas, recent work and open research problems. The move to cloud computing is no longer merely a topic of discussion; it has become a core competency that every modern business needs to embrace...
Globalization of Low-Carbon Technologies
The Impact of the Paris Agreement
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This book explores the opportunities and barriers within the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) framework of the Paris Agreement for low-carbon technology diffusion. Further, it proposes appropriate and feasible mechanisms required at local, national and regional levels to achieve...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This book, compiles, presents, and explains the most important meta-heuristic and evolutionary optimization algorithms whose successful performance has been proven in different fields of engineering, and it includes application of these algorithms to important engineering optimization problems. In...
Sustainable Energy and Transportation
Technologies and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This book presents an integrated approach to sustainably fulfilling energy requirements, considering various energy-usage sectors and applicable technologies in those sectors. It discusses smart cities, focusing on the design of urban transport systems and sources of energy for mobility. It also shares...
by Zheng Li, Angelo Amorelli, Pei Liu
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
This book describes the scale and complexity of China’s energy system, using Sankey diagrams to visualize the energy flows across the economy and categorizing the differences between provinces. China’s provinces extend over a vast area and are at different stages of economic development. Regional...
by Ayse Kucuk Yilmaz, Triant Flouris
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This book presents research on how businesses can be empowered to manage their company’s risk exposure in international settings. It elaborates on approaches that advocate the minimizing of threats and sizing opportunities as the best strategy through which corporate objectives are maximized. With...
The Evolving Relationship between Economy and Environment
Theory and the Japanese Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
This book sheds new light on the relationship between economy and the environment by approaching the issue from evolutionary and institutional economics. Building a framework of theory and empirical analysis, it provides an in-depth perspective on how economic growth and environmental policy interact...