Mengapa ada keberhasilan yang tidak merata dalam mengurangi polusi udara bahkan di wilayah yang sama dari waktu ke waktu?. Buku ini menawarkan teori inovatif tentang bagaimana insentif politik lokal dapat memengaruhi regulasi birokrasi. Dengan menggunakan bukti empiris, ia mengkaji dan membandingkan pengendalian berbagai polutan udara di China-sebuah otokrasi-dan, pada tingkat yang lebih rendah…
This book is an approachable introduction to calculus with applications to biology and environmental science. For example, one application in the book is determining the volume of earth moved in the 1959 earthquake that created Quake Lake. Another application uses differential equations to model various biological examples, including moose and wolf populations at Isle Royale National Park, rana…
Light from Ancient Campfires is the first book in twenty years to gather together a comprehensive prehistoric archaeological record of the Northern Plains First Nations. In this important examination of the region’s earliest inhabitants, author Trevor Peck reviews the many changes of interpretation that have occurred in relevant literature published during the last two decades. Beginning with…
This book represents the HELS (Helmholtz equation least squares) theory and its applications for visualizing acoustic radiation from an arbitrarily shaped vibrating structure in free or confined space. It culminates the most updated research work of the author and his graduate students since 1997. The book contains six chapters. The first serves as a review of the fundamentals in acoustics and …
Culminating in a suggested step-by-step guide to enable service organization’s managers to understand and implement the concepts of service innovation and manage its evolutionary processes effectively, this book will prove a valuable resource to a wide reaching audience including researchers, practitioners, managers, and students who aspire to create a deeper scientific foundation for service…
Membahas sejarah produksi dan penerimaan puisi abad pertengahan yang agung, Piers Ploughman, Lawrence Warner mengungkapkan banyak cara di mana para sarjana, editor, dan kritikus selama berabad-abad menciptakan narasi spekulatif mereka sendiri tentang puisi tersebut, yang lambat laun dianggap sebagai benar secara faktual. Warner memulai dengan mempertimbangkan kemungkinan Langland menulis roman …
Over the past decade the transition towards sustainable agriculture has been a central theme in the work of many organisations, including government bodies, NGOs, professional organisations and research institutions. Various publications, including White Papers by the EU and different national governments, have defined future targets and objectives to improve sustainability in various subs…
This open access book disseminates some of the results of the European H2020 AiRT Project (Technology transfer of RPAs for the creative industry). In particular, it presents findings related to mitigating safety and security concerns when civil drones are piloted by the service sector (mainly, the creative industry). European policies regarding drones generally focus on outdoor drones, but they…
The first volume of this handbook explores different aspects of sustainable luxury textiles and fashion, broadly based on the following topics: Sustainability and business management, Value chain management, Use of materials and Sustainable production processes.
Buku ini memberikan studi empiris mendalam pertama tentang kekuasaan pengawasan Parlemen Eropa terhadap eksekutif di Uni Eropa (UE), dengan fokus pada bidang politik yang menonjol dari Uni Ekonomi dan Moneter. Perluasan pengambilan keputusan eksekutif selama krisis euro disertai dengan pemberdayaan Parlemen Eropa melalui pengawasan legislatif. Buku ini mengkaji bagaimana Parlemen Eropa menjalan…