This compendium contains a collection of key papers from the journal Energy Policy, offering a valuable reference point on the role of flexibility mechanisms in the mitigation of climate change. Originally published between December 1999 and August 2001, all of these articles concern particular aspects of the Kyoto mechanisms or variations on the theme of flexibility that have evolved elsewhere.

For better or for worse, flexibility mechanisms have become a part of the institutional architecture of energy policy in the 21^st Century.

As the contributions to this...

Arising from a research project funded by Danish International Development Assistance, Management and Change in Africa includes results of management surveys across 15 sub-Saharan countries and of organizational surveys taken across a range of sectors in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Cameroon. It combines methodology, theory and case examples to explore thoroughly the influences on management in Africa and attempts to push the boundaries of cross-cultural theory. In doing so, it explores how much can be learned from studying both the successes and failures of African management...

This book explains the basic concepts of neural computation and is about the whole field of neural networks, covering all the major approaches and their important results; more especially, it is an introduction, developing the concepts and ideas from their simple basics through their formulation into powerful computational systems.