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  • Technopolis

    Best Practices for Science and Technology Cities

    Edición de Deog-Seong Oh, Fred Phillips ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Six years of UNESCO-World Technopolis Association workshops, held at various world cities and attended by government officials and scholars from nearly all the world’s countries, have resulted in a uniquely complete collection of reports on science park and science city projects in most of those countries. These reports, of which a selected few form chapters in this book, allow readers to compare ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

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  • Smart Energy in the Smart City

    Urban Planning for a Sustainable Future

    Edición de Rocco Papa, Romano Fistola ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book examines the energy dimension of the smart city from the perspective of urban planning, providing a complete overview that ranges from theoretical aspects to practical considerations and projects. In addition, it aims to illustrate how the concept of the smart city can enhance understanding of the urban system and foster new forms of management of the metropolis, including with respect ... Leer más

    $107.09 USD

  • Improving Sustainability During Hospital Design and Operation

    A Multidisciplinary Evaluation Tool

    Edición de Stefano Capolongo, Marta Carla Bottero, Maddalena Buffoli, Emanuele Lettieri ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book describes the Sustainable High Quality Healthcare (SustHealth) project, which had the goal of developing an original multidisciplinary evaluation tool that can be applied to assess and improve hospitals’ overall sustainability. The comprehensive nature of the appraisal offered by this tool exceeds the scope of most current rating systems, which typically permit a thorough evaluation of ... Leer más

    $89.09 USD

  • Modern Solid Waste Management in Practice

    The City of Malmö Experience

    de Anna Bernstad Saraiva Schott, Henrik Aspegren, Mimmi Bissmont, Jes la Cour Jansen ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book focuses on sustainable solid waste management in an urban context and gives an example of how a modern city can work with waste management for increased sustainability in close cooperation with the academy. The book describes challenges which the city is facing and presents a case on how these can be tackled based on several research and development projects performed in the City of ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Asset Management for Infrastructure Systems

    Energy and Water

    de Gerd Balzer, Christian Schorn ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    The book offers a broad overview of asset management processes for different utilities, with a special emphasis on energy and water. It provides readers with important practical considerations concerning the development of new competitive structures and procedures for guaranteeing a sufficient supply of energy and water in a regulated environment, using clearly defined technical and economic ... Leer más

    $125.09 USD

  • Greening Airports

    Advanced Technology and Operations

    de Milan Janić ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Greening Airports considers the “greening”, i.e., more sustainable development, of the entire air transport system – airports, air traffic control, and airlines – that could be achieved by the development and implementation of advanced operations and technologies.A broad overview of the general concept is given at the start of Greening Airports, which then goes on to provide a system for ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • Monetary Policy and the Oil Market

    Edición de Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary, Naoyuki Yoshino ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    While oil price fluctuations in the past can be explained by pure supply factors, this book argues that it is monetary policy that plays a significant role in setting global oil prices. It is a key factor often neglected in much of the earlier literature on the determinants of asset prices, including oil prices. However, this book presents a framework for modeling oil prices while incorporating ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Governing Sustainable Energies in China

    de Geoffrey Chun-fung Chen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines sustainable energy development in China, a non-liberal state, as a counterexample to conventional wisdom that effective policy outcomes are premised on the basis of decentralized governance. The use of sustainable energies as part of the solution for stabilising global warming has been promoted in industrialised countries for the past three decades. In the last ten years, China ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Emerging Economies

    Food and Energy Security, and Technology and Innovation

    Edición de Parthasarathi Shome, Pooja Sharma ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This volume brings together research on development in three major areas of contemporary global relevance: agriculture and food security, energy, and the institutions of national innovation. Covering six of the largest emerging and developing economies (EDEs) in the world, three Asian (China, India and Malaysia), two Latin American (Brazil and Mexico), and one African (South Africa), the book ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Production of Ethanol from Sugarcane in Brazil

    From State Intervention to a Free Market

    de Márcia Azanha Ferraz Dias de Moraes, David Zilberman ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The success of Brazil in the large-scale production and use of fuel ethanol has been widely discussed and analyzed by other countries interested in adopting policies designed to encourage the use of biofuels. Within this context, certain questions arise: Could the Brazilian experience be replicated in other countries? What were the conditions that enabled the creation of the Brazilian Proálcool ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Technologies for Sustainable Development

    A Way to Reduce Poverty?

    Edición de Jean-Claude Bolay, Silvia Hostettler, Eileen Hazboun ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Whilst scientific research can be crucial in guiding innovation and development throughout the world, it can be too detached from real world applications, particularly in developing and emerging countries. Technologies for Sustainable Development brings together the best 20 papers from the 2012 Conference of the EPFL-UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development with the aim to explore and discuss ... Leer más

    $143.09 USD

  • Development in India

    Micro and Macro Perspectives

    Edición de S. Mahendra Dev, P.G. Babu ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book examines various facets of the development process such as aid, poverty, caste networks, corruption, and judicial activism. It explores the efficiency of and distributional issues related to agriculture, and the roles of macro models and financial markets, with a special emphasis on bubbles, liquidity traps and experimental markets. The importance of finite changes in trade and ... Leer más

    $89.09 USD