This title provides a panoramic view over China's climate-related regulations, laws and policies as well as various government and non-government actors involved in the climate politics.

This volume of Annual Review Of Heat Transfer (ARHT) is devoted to thermal transport processes in the manufacturing of advanced materials. Topics covered include laser-assisted the formation of semiconductor nanomaterials, flame synthesis of nanomaterials deposited on different substrates, thermal spray coatings, heat and mass transfer processes in optical fiber drawing, and many more. In advanced materials manufacturing, energy is required to transform materials from one form to another. Often, heat is involved in the process. Heat may be an energy input and may also be either released or...

This volume of Annual Review Of Heat Transfer (ARHT) is devoted to the work of some of the past recipients of Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Awards. Topics covered include phonon transport in two-dimensional and organic-inorganic hybrid materials, synchrotron-based characterization of materials, evaporation in nanostructures, adsorption systems for automobile climate control and many more. Papers in this volume reflect the significant evolution of the field of heat transfer over the past few decades. It has expanded to include more studies on materials. These materials and associated...

In China's 4,000-year-long history and modern development, natural disaster management has been about not only human combat against devastating natural forces, but also institutional building, political struggle, and economic interest redistribution among different institutional players. A significant payoff for social scientists studying disasters is that they can reveal much of the hidden nature of political and economic processes and structures, particularly those in non-democracies, which are normally covered up with great care. This book reviews the problems and progress in the politics...

The noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH), also known as noise and vibration (N&V), is a critical feature for customers to assess the performance and quality of vehicles. NVH characteristics are higher among factors that customers use to judge the vehicle's quality.This book sets out to introduce the basic concepts, principles, and applications of the NVH development and refi nement of Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV), Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV), and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles. Each type comes with its own set of challenges.