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Sustainable Learning in Higher Education
The demands of today’s society represent a major challenge for universities and their teaching staffs. Professors need to adapt their teaching methods to meet these new challenges. For example, universities need to prepare new generations of students with the ability to select, update and use knowledge, rather than processing facts and formulas. Students need to be capable of learning in diff…
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- 978-3-319-10804-9
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- XVIII, 172
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- Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management
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Sustainable Future Energy Technology and Supply Chains
This book provides a valuable resource for anyone who wishes to understand how sustainable use of energy can lead to increased efficiency of industrial supply chains and improved financial profitability. The book is organized around real examples and case studies that can be applied to real-world problems. Furthermore, insight is provided by an international panel of contributors, and the book …
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- 978-3-319-02696-1
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- X, 170
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- Green Energy and Technology
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Geomorphic Approaches to Integrated Floodplain Management of Lowland Fluvial …
This volume provides a comprehensive perspective on geomorphic approaches to management of lowland alluvial rivers in North America and Europe. Many lowland rivers have been heavily managed for flood control and navigation for decades or centuries, resulting in engineered channels and embanked floodplains with substantially altered sediment loads and geomorphic processes. Over the past decade, …
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- 978-1-4939-2379-3
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- IX, 356
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- 658 GEO
Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems XXI
The LNCS journal Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems focuses on data management, knowledge discovery, and knowledge processing, which are core and hot topics in computer science. Since the 1990s, the Internet has become the main driving force behind application development in all domains. An increase in the demand for resource sharing across different sites connecte…
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- 1
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- 978-3-662-47804-2
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- XIII, 185
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems XVIII
The LNCS journal Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems focuses on data management, knowledge discovery, and knowledge processing, which are core and hot topics in computer science. Since the 1990s, the Internet has become the main driving force behind application development in all domains. An increase in the demand for resource sharing across different sites connecte…
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- 978-3-662-46485-4
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- XI, 207
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems XVII
The LNCS journal Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems focuses on data management, knowledge discovery and knowledge processing, which are core and hot topics in computer science. Since the 1990s, the Internet has become the main driving force behind application development in all domains. An increase in the demand for resource sharing across different sites connected…
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- 1
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- 978-3-662-46335-2
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- XIII, 129
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Sustainable Fashion Supply Chain Management
This handbook is a compilation of comprehensive reference sources that provide state-of-the-art findings on both theoretical and applied research on sustainable fashion supply chain management. It contains three parts, organized under the headings of “Reviews and Discussions,” “Analytical Research,” and “Empirical Research,” featuring peer-reviewed papers contributed by researchers …
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- 978-3-319-12703-3
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- X, 201
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- Springer Series in Supply Chain Management
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Sustainable Energy Resources and Economics in Iceland and Greenland
This book provides fascinating examples of the ways renewable and sustainable energy can support economic growth, which will be illuminating for academic researchers and students, as well as those interested in green investment opportunities. The distinctive glacial, volcanic and oceanic environments of Iceland and Greenland supply abundant renewable energy resources in the form of hydropower a…
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- 978-3-319-15174-8
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- VII, 79
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- SpringerBriefs in Energy
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Trade Credit and Temporary Employment
This book presents an empirical investigation into the relationship between companies' short-term response to capital and labor market frictions and performance. Two different kinds of performance measures are considered, namely innovation performance and firm performance. The author focuses on two major topics: first, on the relation between innovation performance and the use of trade credit. …
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- 978-3-319-29850-4
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- XIV, 102
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- Contributions to Management Science
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Sustainable Development for the Healthcare Industry
This volume addresses the dynamics of sustainable development in the healthcare industry, covering all major aspects, including R&D, manufacturing, regulation, market access, commercialization, and general management. Healthcare markets are evolving under demographic and economic pressures. In mature markets, patients navigate complex systems with limited control on healthcare quality and outc…
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- 978-3-319-12526-8
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- X, 154
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- Perspectives on Sustainable Growth
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