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Climate Change and Safety in High-Risk Industries
This open access book directs attention to the safety implications of disruptive, sustainability-driven changes in sociotechnical systems resulting from climate-change considerations in high-risk industries. It addresses not only the dismantling of currently prevalent systems and structures and the achievement of a stable future state but also the management of processes for establishing new pr…
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- 978-3-031-56995-1
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- VII, 98
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
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- 620 CLI
Assessment Framework for People-Centred Solutions to Carbon Neutrality : A Co…
This open access book presents a catalogue of over one thousand indicators which can be used by cities' public administrators to monitor and evaluate social innovation action plans to support people-centred, collaborative or co-designed solutions to lower carbon emissions. Indicators are clustered according to a framework of social innovation solutions for climate neutrality at city level, deve…
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- 978-3-031-53111-8
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- IX, 110
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
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- 338 BRE a
Evolution of New Working Spaces : Changing Nature and Geographies
This open access book provides multidisciplinary perspectives on the changing dynamics of new working spaces, with insights from various European countries and observing critical theoretical approaches. Divided into two main parts, the first part focuses on the different typologies of new working spaces, identifying the changing nature of these spaces and associated concepts, taxonomies, and sp…
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- 978-3-031-50868-4
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- VIII, 141
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
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- 330 EVO
The Regulator–Regulatee Relationship in High-Hazard Industry Sectors : New …
This open access book addresses relationships that develop from the complex set of legislative, regulatory, and institutional arrangements that arise in the governance of high-hazard industries, especially those connected with safety. It analyses the difference in practices between high-hazard sectors such as nuclear power, chemical processing, and transport with those in the finance and health…
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- 978-3-031-49570-0
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- VI, 114
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- 330 REG
Compliance and Initiative in the Production of Safety : A Systems Perspective…
This open access book addresses the idea that there are two ways to go about achieving a safe working environment. The text challenges the prevailing notion that compliance with a rule system, imposed from the top of an organization and designed to anticipate possible hazards in system operation, is really incompatible with the idea that the professional expertise of front-line workers is what …
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- 978-3-031-45055-6
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- VII, 87
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
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- 330 COM
Safe Performance in a World of Global Networks : Case Studies, Collaborative …
This open access book provides an analytical and critical outlook, by leading scholars, of the impact of various trends in the quality of collaboration and resulting safety outcomes that arise from the evolution of traditional integrated production within a single firm into a complex web of partnerships and supply chains. In the face of increasing fragmentation within industrial production and …
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- 978-3-031-35163-1
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- V, 106
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
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- 330 SAF
Visualising Safety, an Exploration : Drawings, Pictures, Images, Videos and M…
This open access book explores the role visual tools and graphical models play in safety management. It explains the importance of visualising safety, for teaching concepts, communicating ideas to peers, and raising awareness of potential threats through posters. Visualising Safety, an Exploration introduces graphical models which have been influential in promoting ideas of safety, and impac…
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- 978-3-031-33786-4
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- VI, 117
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
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- 620 VIS
Systemic Risk and Complex Networks in Modern Financial Systems
This open access book is a groundbreaking exploration of systemic risk in modern financial systems. Through its theoretical and empirical investigations, it reveals the multidimensionality of systemic risk, the transmission channels of crises, and the interlinkages between physical, transition, and financial risks. It introduces cutting-edge methodologies, including prediction and optimization …
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- 9783031649165
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- XXIII, 412
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Future Space-Transport-System Components under High Thermal and Mechanical Lo…
This open access book presents the findings of Collaborative Research Center Transregio 40 (TRR40), initiated in July 2008 and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Gathering innovative design concepts for thrust chambers and nozzles, as well as cutting-edge methods of aft-body flow control and propulsion-component cooling, it brings together fundamental research undertaken at univers…
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- 9783030538477
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- IX, 419
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- 146
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Visualization of Time-Oriented Data
This is an open access book. Time is an exceptional dimension with high relevance in medicine, engineering, business, science, biography, history, planning, or project management. Understanding time-oriented data via visual representations enables us to learn from the past in order to predict, plan, and build the future. This second edition builds upon the great success of the first editi…
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- 9781447175278
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- XIX, 441
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