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Toward Sustainable Operations of Supply Chain and Logistics Systems
This book addresses critical issues in today’s logistics operations and supply chain management, with a special focus on sustainability. In dedicated chapters the authors address aspects concerning multimode logistics operations, reverse network configuration, forward and reverse supply chain integration, improvement of the production operations and management of the recovery activities, as w…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-19005-1
- Collation
- XI, 550
- Series Title
- EcoProduction
- Call Number
- -
Adaptive Management of Social-Ecological Systems
Adaptive management is an approach to managing social-ecological systems that fosters learning about the systems being managed and remains at the forefront of environmental management nearly 40 years after its original conception. Adaptive management persists because it allows action despite uncertainty, and uncertainty is reduced when learning occurs during the management process. Often termed…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-94-017-9682-8
- Collation
- XIII, 264
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 574.5 ADA a
Adaptation to Climate Change and Sea Level Rise: The Case Study of Coastal Co…
The book provides a concise and interdisciplinary outlook on the impacts of climate change on coastal areas and how coastal communities adapt to them. The first chapter analyses how sea level rise, changing ocean conditions, or increased climate variability and the socio-environmental context of the coastal zone leads to vulnerable communities. The second chapter addresses adaptation strategies…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-017-9888-4
- Collation
- VI, 100
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
- Call Number
- 551.6 WEI a
Realising the 'Triple Dividend of Resilience': A New Business Case for Disast…
Why aren’t we investing more in disaster resilience, despite the rising costs of disaster events? This book argues that decision-makers in governments, businesses, households, and development agencies tend to focus on avoiding losses from disasters, and perceive the return on investment as uncertain – only realised if a somewhat unlikely disaster event actually happens. This book develo…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-40694-7
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- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 333.7
Surface Models for Geosciences
The aim of the conference is to present and discuss new methods, issues and challenges encountered in all parts of the complex process of gradual development and application of digital surface models. This process covers data capture, data generation, storage, model creation, validation, manipulation, utilization and visualization. Each stage requires suitable methods and involves issues that m…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-18407-4
- Collation
- XXII, 308
- Series Title
- Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
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- -
A Violent World: Modern Threats to Economic Stability
During the 1990s Francis Fukuyama announced the end of history. The 2000s showed how it is an illusion to imagine a peaceful world without conflict. In this book the authors explore how six major constraints are set to fix the trajectory of the global economy. Three of them are new: the aging population, the failure of technical progress, and the scarcity of savings. The other three have b…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-137-58993-4
- Collation
- XIV, 181
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- -
- Call Number
- 339 LOR v
A Study of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident Process: What caused the co…
Written by an expert in the field, this book is perfect for those who would like to know what happened at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Part 1 of the book studies how core melts occurred in Fukushima Daiichi units 1, 2, and 3, respectively, based on evidence from the Three-Mile Island core melt accident and fuel behavior experiments performed in the 1970s under the cooperation betw…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-4-431-55543-8
- Collation
- XVI, 231
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 621.38 ISH s
Study on Climate Change in Southwestern China
This thesis confirms many changes, including sharp temperature rise, interannual variability of precipitation, extreme climate events and significant decreases of sunshine duration and wind speed in southwestern China, and systemically explores the action mechanism between large-scale atmospheric circulation systems, the complicated topography, human activities and regional climate changes. Thi…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-662-44742-0
- Collation
- XXVII, 243
- Series Title
- Springer Theses
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- -
Genetically Modified Crops and Agricultural Development
“This book is the second publication in the ‘Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy’ series, and targets both professional and lay audiences. … this book can be recommended to a wide readership; excellently written, it is one of the first books to address both the technical and policy dimensions of GMCs in development.” (George H. L. Rothschild, Food Security, Vol.…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-349-56167-4
- Collation
- XVII, 206
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 330 QAI g
Environmental and Social-economic Impacts of Sewage Sludge Treatment The Evi…
This book presents an experimental simulation of sewage treatment, which is designed to evaluate the environmental and social-economic impacts of integrated sewage treatment policies. The author puts forward a comprehensive linear optimization simulation model that takes the environmental, energy and economic systems into consideration. Beijing was selected as a typical Chinese city for the pur…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-287-948-6
- Collation
- 28 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
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- -
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