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Managing Water Resources under Climate Uncertainty: Examples from Asia, Europ…
This book aims to come up with views to address the queries of planners, policymakers, and general people for water resources management under uncertainty of climate change, including examples from Asia and Europe with successful adaptive measures to change the challenge of climate change into opportunities. The availability of clean water is a major global challenge for the future due to a rap…
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- 978-3-319-10467-6
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Managing Uncertainty, Mitigating Risk: Tackling the Unknown in Financial Risk…
Managing Uncertainty, Mitigating Risk proposes that financial risk management broaden its approach, maintaining quantification where possible, but incorporating uncertainty. The author shows that by using broad quantification techniques, and using reason as the guiding principle, practitioners can see a more holistic and complete picture.
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- 978-1-137-33454-1
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Wireless Communications, Networking and Applications Proceedings of WCNA 2014
This book is based on a series of conferences on Wireless Communications, Networking and Applications that have been held on December 27-28, 2014 in Shenzhen, China. The meetings themselves were a response to technological developments in the areas of wireless communications, networking and applications and facilitate researchers, engineers and students to share the latest research results and …
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- 978-81-322-2580-5
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- XXI, 1310
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Wire Ropes Tension, Endurance, Reliability
The main goal of this book is to present the methods used to calculate the most important parameters for ropes, and to explain how they are applied on the basis of numerous sample calculations. The book, based on the most important chapters of the German book DRAHTSEILE, has been updated to reflect the latest developments, with the new edition especially focusing on computational methods for wi…
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- 978-3-642-54996-0
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- IX, 336
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Winning the Institutional Investing Race A Guide for Directors and Executives
The complexity of investments continues to grow, and institutional pools of capital from endowments to pension funds are suffering from too much risk and not enough return. Yet managing these investments and creating and implementing governance structures are seldom an integral part of the organization’s core mission or its operations. "That’s the way it has always been," say many directors…
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- 978-1-4842-0832-8
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- XVII, 132
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Winning at Litigation through Decision Analysis Creating and Executing Winni…
This book is the first in-depth guide to applying the philosophy, theory, and methods of decision analysis to creating and executing winning legal strategies. With explanations that progress from introductory to advanced and practice problems at the end of each chapter, this is a book the reader will want to use and refer to for years to come. Practicing decision analysts, operations research …
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- 978-3-319-30040-5
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- XX, 456
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Wine Queens Understanding the Role of Women in Wine Marketing
This book explores a fairly unique wine marketing topic by examining the role and historic function of Wine Queens and Wine Kings. The author charts the history of Wine Queens in Europe, the Americas and Asia, while also focusing on cases from Slovenia. The difference between Wine Queens and Beauty Queens is also described in light of marketing approaches used in the wine industry. The book con…
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- 978-3-319-16661-2
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- XIII, 49
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Wind and Wildlife Proceedings from the Conference on Wind Energy and Wildlif…
This book gathers papers presented and discussions held at the Conference on Wind Energy and Wildlife Impacts in Melbourne, Australia on 9th October 2012. The purpose of the conference was to bring together researchers, industry, consultants, regulators and Non-Government Organizations to share the results of studies into wind farm and wildlife investigations in Australia and New Zealand. The a…
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- 978-94-017-9490-9
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- XX, 151
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Wildland Fuel Fundamentals and Applications
A new era in wildland fuel sciences is now evolving in such a way that fire scientists and managers need a comprehensive understanding of fuels ecology and science to fully understand fire effects and behavior on diverse ecosystem and landscape characteristics. This is a reference book on wildland fuel science; a book that describes fuels and their application in land management. There has nev…
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- 978-3-319-09015-3
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- XI, 191
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Wild Edible Vegetables of Lesser Himalayas Ethnobotanical and Nutraceutical …
Our intention with this book was to present the reader with the most accurate, significant, and up-to-date background and knowledge in the areas of ethnomedicinal and nutraceutical vegetation for the Lesser Himalayas in a comprehensive text. Wild Edible Vegetables of Lesser Himalayas provides a complete review of over 50 important plants of this region and details each species including photogr…
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- 978-3-319-09543-1
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