Land and Disaster Management Strategies in Asia

This book focuses on land and disaster governance in Asian countries. The Asian region has become increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters, including floods, cyclones, storms, earthquakes, drought, typhoons and tsunamis. Further, as a result of unsustainable changes being made in patterns of land use, catchment and coastal zones, increasing population density, migration patterns, and the sp…

Governing Climate Change: Polycentricity in Action?

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Evolution and Transitions in Complexity The Science of Hierarchical Organiza…

This book discusses several recent theoretic advancements in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary integration in the field of evolution. While exploring novel views, the text maintains a close link with one of the most broadly held views on evolution, namely that of “Darwinian evolution.” This work puts forth a new point of view which allows researchers to define in detail the concep…

Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century

The world today is facing unprecedented challenges of governance far beyond what the United Nations (UN), established 75 years ago, was designed to face. The grave effects of global climate change are already manifesting themselves, requiring rapid, far-reaching, and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society to arrest catastrophic and probably irreversible consequences.

Global Challenges for Innovation in Mining Industries

People have been digging in the ground for useful minerals for thousands of years. Mineral materials are the foundation of modern industrial society. As the global population grows and standards of living in emerging and developing countries rises, the demand for mineral products is increasing.

Mobility Modeling for Vehicular Communication Networks

This brief presents a stochastic microscopic mobility model that describes the temporal changes of intervehicle distances. The model is consistent with simulated and empirical vehicle traffic patterns. Using stochastic lumpability methods, the proposed mobility model is mapped into an aggregated mobility model that describes the mobility of a group of vehicles. In addition, the proposed mobilit…

Mobile Services for Toy Computing

The goal of this book is to crystallize the emerging mobile computing technologies and trends by focusing on the most promising solutions in services computing. The book will provide clear proof that mobile technologies are playing an increasingly important and critical role in supporting toy computing. The goal of this book is to bring together academics and practitioners to describe the use a…

Trends in Practical Applications of Scalable Multi-Agent Systems, the PAAMS C…

Latest research trends in Practical Applications Scalable Multi-Agent System Results of the workshops of the 14th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS 2016) held in Sevilla, Spain, from 1st to 3rd June 2016 Brings together researchers and developers articles from industry and the academic world reporting on the latest scientific and technic…

Trends in Practical Applications of Scalable Multi-Agent Systems, the PAAMS C…

Latest research trends in Practical Applications Scalable Multi-Agent System Results of the workshops of the 14th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS 2016) held in Sevilla, Spain, from 1st to 3rd June 2016 Brings together researchers and developers articles from industry and the academic world reporting on the latest scientific and techni…

Trends and Challenges in Science and Higher Education Building Capacity in La…

The first volume to focus on science and higher education in Latin America as a whole Presents perspectives that give direction to policy-making in Latin America Discusses fundamental issues and challenges of science policy Provides an encompassing analysis of multi-level relations in Latin America