A comprehensive guide to over 100 remarkable and curious sites, buildings and structures from around the county. It includes mysterious rock carvings, a garden designed around John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, a giant's grave, a village based around the manufacture of cigars, as well as the architecture of Richard Harding Watts' Knutsford.
A comprehensive guide to over 100 remarkable and curious sites, buildings and structures from around the county. It includes mysterious rock carvings,...
Existing coastal management and defense approaches are not well suited to meet the challenges of climate change and related uncertanities. Professionals in this field need a more dynamic, systematic and multidisciplinary approach. Written by an international group of experts, Coastal Risk Management in a Changing Climate provides innovative, multidisciplinary best practices for mitigating the effects of climate change on coastal structures. Based on the Theseus program, the book includes eight study sites across Europe, with specific attention to the most vulnerable coastal...
Existing coastal management and defense approaches are not well suited to meet the challenges of climate change and related uncertanities. Professi...
Infrastructure forms the economic backbone of modern society. It is a key determinant of economic competitiveness, social well-being and environmental sustainability. Yet infrastructure systems (energy, transport, water, waste and ICT) in advanced economies globally face serious challenges. For the first time, a leading team of researchers sets out a systematic approach to making long-term choices about national infrastructure systems. Great Britain is used as a case study to demonstrate how the methodologies and accompanying models can be effectively applied in a national infrastructure...
Infrastructure forms the economic backbone of modern society. It is a key determinant of economic competitiveness, social well-being and environmental...
