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Energy Demand Challenges in Europe : Implications for policy, planning and pr…
This open access book examines the role of citizens in sustainable energy transitions across Europe. It explores energy problem framing, policy approaches and practical responses to the challenge of securing clean, affordable and sustainable energy for all citizens, focusing on households as the main unit of analysis. The book revolves around ten contributions that each summarise national trend…
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- 9783030203399
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- XV, 157 hlm,: ill, lamp; 21 cm
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Resilienz als Erfolgsfaktor im Tourismus: Beiträge aus Wissenschaft und Prax…
Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch. Resilienz ist heute eines der zentralen Zukunftsthemen im Tourismus. Unter den Bedingungen anhaltender Krisenlagen und rasanter Veränderungsprozesse sind Fragen der Widerstands- und Anpassungsfähigkeit immer stärker in den Mittelpunkt gerückt. Was widerstandsfähigere Destinationen und touristische Akteure genauer auszeichnet und wie die notwendige Transfor…
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- 9783503212606
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People or Property: Legal Contradictions, Climate Resettlement, and the View …
This open access book explores the intersection of property law, relocation, and resettlement processes in the United States and among communities that grapple with migration as an adaptation strategy. As communities face the prospect of relocating because of rising seas, policy makers, disaster specialists, and community leaders are scrambling to understand what adaptation pathways are legally…
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- 978-3-031-36872-1
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- XXI, 242
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Liquidity, Markets and Trading in Action : An Interdisciplinary Perspective
This open access book addresses four standard business school subjects: microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance and information systems as they relate to trading, liquidity, and market structure. It provides a detailed examination of the impact of trading costs and other impediments of trading that the authors call “frictions”. It also presents an interactive simulation model of equity mark…
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- 9783030748173
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- XI, 103 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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IEA International Computer and Information Literacy Study 2018 Assessment Fra…
This open access book presents the assessment framework for IEA’s International Computer an Information Literacy Study (ICILS) 2018, which is designed to assess how well students are prepared for study, work and life in a digital world. The study measures international differences in students’ computer and information literacy (CIL): their ability to use computers to investigate, create, pa…
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- 9783030193898
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- VII, 74 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Vermin, Victims and Disease : British Debates over Bovine Tuberculosis and Ba…
This open access book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in British cattle. This question has plagued several professional generations of politicians, policymakers, experts and campaigners since the early 1970s. Questions of what is known, who knows, who cares, who to trust and what to do ab…
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- 9783030191863
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- XXIV, 366 hlm,: ill, lamp; 21 cm
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Wheat Improvement
Wheat is a staple for rich and poor alike. Its improvement as a discipline was boosted when statisticians frst distinguished heritable variation from environment effects. Many twentieth century crop scientists contributed to the Green Revolution that tripled yield potential of staple crops but yield stagnation is now a concern, especially considering the multiple challenges facing food s…
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- 9783030906733
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- LII, 629
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Development and Characterization of a Dispersion-Encoded Method for Low-Coher…
This work discusses an extension to conventional low-coherence interferometry by the introduction of dispersion-encoding. The extension facilitates the measurement of surface height profiles with sub-nm resolution. The selection of a dispersive element for encoding allows for tuning of the axial measurement range and resolution of the setup. The approach is theoretically designed and imple…
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- 9783658359263
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- XXIII, 163
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Health Dimensions of COVID-19 in India and Beyond
On January 30, 2020, India reported the first case of COVID-19 in Kerala. The index case was identified as a student returning from Wuhan. As of February 3, 2020, a total of three cases were confirmed in Kerala. However, after a month the number of cases in the country increased dramatically. On March 14, 2020, India reported its first two COVID-19-related deaths. India’s case fatality ra…
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- 9789811673856
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- XXXIV, 355
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Organization Management – Dynamic Creative Team Coordination
Stavros Georgiades is Professor W2 of Management at the Stuttgart Media University (Visiting Post), Assistant Professor of Management at Frederick University, a research collaborator of the University of Digital Science Berlin and the founder of the Anagnorisis Institute of Media Management (AIMM). He holds a PhD in Management from the Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK. Hi…
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- 9783658375096
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- XI, 81
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