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Software ecosystem :understanding an indispensable technology and industry
Software has gone from obscurity to indispensability in less than fifty years. Although other industries have followed a similar trajectory, software and its supporting industry are different. In this book the authors explain, from a variety of perspectives, how software and the software industry are different--technologically, organizationally, and socially. The growing importance of software …
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- 9780262256667
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Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa: How a Continent Is Escaping Silicon Valle…
The hope and hype about African digital entrepreneurship, contrasted with the reality on the ground in local ecosystems. In recent years, Africa has seen a digital entrepreneurship boom, with hundreds of millions of dollars poured into tech cities, entrepreneurship trainings, coworking spaces, innovation prizes, and investment funds. Politicians and technologists have offered Silicon Valley…
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- 9780262362849
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- 338.04 FRI d
Their World: A Diversity of Microbial Environments
This volume summarizes recent advances in environmental microbiology by providing fascinating insights into the diversity of microbial life that exists on our planet. The first two chapters present theoretical perspectives that help to consolidate our understanding of evolution as an adaptive process by which the niche and habitat of each species develop in a manner that interconnects individua…
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- 978-3-319-28071-4
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Micro-Behavioral Economics of Global Warming
This book presents a foundation for studying the micro-behavioral economics of global warming. The author develops an empirical model, named the Geographically-scaled Micro econometric model of Adapting Portfolios (G-MAP) in response to climatic changes and risks. The G-MAP model is applied to observed decisions of agricultural and natural resource enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Am…
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- 978-3-319-15945-4
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- IX, 102
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- Advances in Global Change Research
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The Drama of Conservation
In sum, the book demonstrates how ecological study, combined with a respect for people and for nature plus a flexible, interdisciplinary approach to both local history and current scientific priorities, can be welded into a consistently effective strategy for addressing the pressing forest-ecology questions of our time.
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- 978-3-319-18410-4
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- XVII, 357
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Living with Biodiversity in an Island Ecosystem: Cultural Adaptation in the S…
This book presents a detailed case study of ecological and cultural interactions between the people and their natural environment at Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands, a land of rich biodiversity. This volume documents the subsistence lifestyle of the people and their indigenous ecological knowledge, analyzes the effects of recent socioeconomic changes on the people and ecosystem, and proposes fu…
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- 978-981-287-904-2
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The Coral Reef Era: From Discovery to Decline
Relying heavily on primary source material Part 1 traces the sequential evolution of scientific thought and practice as the author explores the way this evolution is reflected in the search for understanding corals. At each stage, answers lead to fresh questions that challenge investigators to solve the riddle and new branches of science emerge. Then, with the first enigma finally understood, a…
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- 978-3-319-07479-5
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- XV, 195
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- Humanity and the Sea
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Ecosystem Services – Concept, Methods and Case Studies
Nature provides us with many services seemingly for free: recharged groundwater, fertile soil and plant biomass created by photosynthesis. We human beings draw extensive benefits from these “ecosystem services,” or ES – food, water supply, recreation and protection from natural hazards. Major international studies, such as the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, have addressed the enormous r…
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- 978-3-662-44142-8
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- 53 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour 53 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour 53 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour 53 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
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- XII, 312
Ecosystem Services and River Basin Ecohydrology
This book provides an integrated analysis of the methodologies and main processes occurring at the entire river basin, from upstream until the coast, by merging the biological and hydrological processes with the social and economic components, thus providing an integrated framework for river basin management, integrating the ecohydrology approach with the ecosystem services concept.
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- 978-94-017-9845-7
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- XIII, 341
Economic and Ecological Significance of Arthropods in Diversified Ecosystems
Arthropods play an important role in maintaining the health of ecosystems, provide livelihoods and nutrition to human communities, and are important indicators of environmental change. Yet the population trends of several arthropods species show them to be in decline. Arthropods constitute a dominant group with 1.2 million species influencing earth’s biodiversity. Among arthropods, insects ar…
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- 978-981-10-1523-6
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- XXII, 422
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