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Globalization and Urban Implosion
Creating New Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
In the past twenty years, globalization has rendered many economic and social urban functions obsolete. Large cities face a form of implosion, which necessitates a rethinking of both contents and containers. This book will mainly concentrate on the latter aspect. Thus, the need to replace old functions...
Ways Towards Sustainable Management of Freshwater Resources
Annual Report 1997
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
atmosphere and vegetation. In what ways can key ural and cultural functions of water, primarily elements of the water balance and the hydrological through direct interference by agriculture and cycle be altered by climate change? To answer this through pollutant loads emanating from point and question,...
Resource Curse or Cure ?
On the Sustainability of Development in Western Australia
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Globalisation and rapid social and environmental change in recent decades have brought into sharper focus not only the benefits but also the costs of economic development. The once assumed link between economic development and societal well-being is being increasingly questioned in the face of growing...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
During the last century, we have witnessed the birth and evolution of sport as an economic activity, which has created jobs on the one hand, but also problems of management on the other. This process has not been immune from the parti- lar characteristics associated with sport, typically united here...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
"Completing Transition: The Main Challenges" was the topic around which the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and the Joint Vienna Institute organized a high-level conference in 2000, in a continuation of long-standing efforts to promote the dialogue and understanding between various regions...
Spatial Econometrics
From Cross-Sectional Data to Spatial Panels
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
This book provides an overview of three generations of spatial econometric models: models based on cross-sectional data, static models based on spatial panels and dynamic spatial panel data models. The book not only presents different model specifications and their corresponding estimators, but...
A Concise Guide to Market Research
The Process, Data, and Methods Using IBM SPSS Statistics
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
This accessible, practice-oriented and compact text provides a hands-on introduction to market research. Using the market research process as a framework, it explains how to collect and describe data and presents the most important and frequently used quantitative analysis techniques, such as ANOVA,...
European Ship Recycling Regulation
Entry-Into-Force Implications of the Hong Kong Convention
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
This study provides an in-depth analysis of the Hong Kong Ship Recycling Convention as adopted in May 2009 and a thorough analysis of the overall status quo of ship recycling regulations. It investigates the lack of sufficient ratifications of the Convention from both a legal and an economic perspective....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
This book reflects the shift in design paradigm in automobile industry. It presents future innovations, often referred as “automotive systems engineering”. These cause fundamental innovations in the field of driver assistance systems and electro-mobility as well as fundamental changes in the...
The Future of Public Housing
Ongoing Trends in the East and the West
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013
Public housing was once an important strand in western housing policies, but is seldom seen as a mainstream policy instrument for the future. In contrast, in many East Asian countries large public housing programs are underway. Behind these generalizations, there are exceptions, too. By including...
by Claudius Gros
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Complex system theory is rapidly developing and gaining importance, providing tools and concepts central to our modern understanding of emergent phenomena. This primer offers an introduction to this area together with detailed coverage of the mathematics involved.
All calculations are presented...
Meeting the Challenge of Sustainable Mobility
The Role of Technological Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Providing new insights into the relationship between transport and the environment, and the meaning of the concept of sustainable development for the transport sector, special attention is paid to the relationship between technological progress and policy. The different theoretical approaches are...
Integrated Business Information Systems
A Holistic View of the Linked Business Process Chain ERP-SCM-CRM-BI-Big Data
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Business Intelligence (BI) and Big Data Analytics (BDA) are business related tasks and processes, which are supported by standardized software solutions. The book explains that this requires...
Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems XXX
Special Issue on Cloud Computing
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This, the 30th issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, contains six in-depth papers focusing on the subject of cloud computing. Topics covered within this context include cloud storage, model-driven development, informative modeling, and security-critical systems.