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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
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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Recent Advances in Game Theory and Applications: European Meeting on Game The…
This contributed volume contains fourteen papers based on selected presentations from the European Conference on Game Theory SING11-GTM 2015, held at Saint Petersburg State University in July 2015, and the Networking Games and Management workshop, held at the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Petrozvavodsk, Russia, also in July 2015. These papers cover a wide range…
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- 978-3-319-43838-2
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- 658.001
Towards Energy Transparent Factories
This monograph provides a methodological approach for establishing demand-oriented levels of energy transparency of factories. The author presents a systematic indication of energy drivers and cost factors, taking into account the interdependencies between facility and production domains. Particular attention is given to energy flow metering and monitoring. Readers will also be provided with an…
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- 978-3-319-20868-8
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- XXXII, 284
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- Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management
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Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands: An International Perspective on their E…
Wetlands are among the world’s most valuable and most threatened habitats, and in these crucially important ecosystems, the invertebrate fauna holds a focal position. Most of the biological diversity in wetlands is found within resident invertebrate assemblages, and those invertebrates are the primary trophic link between lower plants and higher vertebrates (e.g. amphibians, fish, and birds).…
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- 978-3-319-24978-0
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Inventory Control
This third edition, which has been fully updated and now includes improved and extended explanations, is suitable as a core textbook as well as a source book for industry practitioners. It covers traditional approaches for forecasting, lot sizing, determination of safety stocks and reorder points, KANBAN policies and Material Requirements Planning. It also includes recent advances in inventory …
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- 978-3-319-15729-0
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