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Freshwater Governance for the 21st Century
The objective of this book is to broadly illustrate the key aspects of water governance, mapping the spectrum of decision-making from techno-centric and eco-centric approaches, to hybrid concepts and people-centric approaches. Topics covered include the challenges for water-governance models, the polycentric model, the integration challenge, water in the decision-making hierarchy, and the rise …
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- 978-3-319-43350-9
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- XXVII, 250
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- 6
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Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 18th Interna…
This book is open access under a CC BY license. The volume constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2017, held in Cologne, Germany, in May 2017. The 14 full and 6 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: improving agile processes; agil…
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- 9783319576336
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- XIII, 306
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- 283
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What People Leave Behind : Marks, Traces, Footprints and their Relevance to K…
This open access book focuses on a particular but significant topic in the social sciences: the concepts of “footprint” and “trace”. It associates these concepts with hotly debated topics such as surveillance capitalism and knowledge society. The editors and authors discuss the concept footprints and traces as unintended by-products of other (differently focused and oriented) actions th…
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- 978-3-031-11756-5
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- XIII, 359
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- Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research (FSSR, volume 7)
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Agile Processes, in Software Engineering, and Extreme Programming: 17th Inter…
This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2016, held in Edinburgh, UK, in May 2016. While agile development has already become mainstream in industry, this field is still constantly evolving and continues to spur an enormous interest both in industry and academia. To this end, the XP conference attracts a large number o…
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- 9783319335155
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- XIII, 334
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- 251
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Resilient Governance of Urban Redevelopment : State, Market and Communities i…
To examine the origins, characteristics, and outcomes of resilient governance with Chinese characteristics, this open access book takes Guangzhou, a typical Chinese city from 1990 to 2015, as an example. Through participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and the collection of secondary data, this book finds that (1) the institutional context can be described as an authoritarian land-o…
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- 978-981-99-2928-3
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- X, 77
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- SpringerBriefs in Geography (BRIEFSGEOGRAPHY)
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Urban and Regional Cooperation and Development : Challenges and Strategies fo…
This is an open access book. This book, first of all, introduces the new unveiled Guangdong-Macao Intensive Cooperation Zone with details as a special mode of the regional collaborative development that is committed to be mutually beneficial to both sides with different political and economic systems. China's central authorities have recently issued a masterplan for constructing the Guangdong-M…
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- 978-981-19-8061-9
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- IX, 94
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- SpringerBriefs in Geography (BRIEFSGEOGRAPHY)
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Proceeding of 2021 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Netwo…
This open access proceedings includes original, unpublished, peer-reviewed research papers from the International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Applications (WCNA2021), held in Berlin, Germany on December 17-19th, 2021. The topics covered include but are not limited to wireless communications, networking and applications.The papers showcased here share the latest finding…
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- 978-981-19-2456-9
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- XXXV, 1223
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Smart Cities in Asia : Regulations, Problems, and Development
This open access book examines different aspects of smart cities, including technology, urban development, sustainable development, finance, and privacy and data protection. It also covers a wide range of jurisdictions in Asia-Pacific: Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The book consists of two main parts. The first part includes general chapters that conceptualiz…
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- 978-981-19-1701-1
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- IX, 124
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- SpringerBriefs in Geography (BRIEFSGEOGRAPHY)
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Digital Transformation in Semiconductor Manufacturing: Proceedings of the 1st…
This open access book reports on cutting-edge electrical engineering and microelectronics solutions to foster and support digitalization in the semiconductor industry. Based on the outcomes of the European project iDev40, which were presented at the two first conference editions of the European Advances in Digital Transformation Conference (EADCT 2018 and EADTC 2019), the book covers different,…
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- 9783030486020
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- VIII, 146
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- 670
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Los Angeles and the Summer Olympic Games : Planning Legacies
This open access book describes the three planning approaches and legacy impacts for the Olympic Games in one locale: the city of Los Angeles, USA. The author critically compares the similarities and differences of the LA Olympics by reviewing the 1932 and 1984 Olympics and by analyzing the concurrent planning process for the 2028 Olympics. The author unravels the conditions that make (or do n…
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- 978-3-030-38553-8
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- XV, 60
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- SpringerBriefs in Geography (BRIEFSGEOGRAPHY)
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