ilość książek w kategorii: 25869
2019 International Bamboo Construction Competition: From the Concepts to the Realized Pavilions
ISBN: 9783030919924 / Angielski / Miękka / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume builds upon the 2019 International Bamboo Construction Competition (IBCC 2019) from the Concepts to the Realized Pavilions. Several designed projects are described, and particular attention is devoted to the realized prototypes. It also presents the Bamboo Eye, an important example of architecture realized by INBAR for the 2019 Beijing Horticultural Expo. As such, the volume provides an overview of the use of bamboo poles and engineered bamboo products for temporary and normal constructions, and represents a compact review of the applications of bamboo poles and/or engineered...
This volume builds upon the 2019 International Bamboo Construction Competition (IBCC 2019) from the Concepts to the Realized Pavilions. Several desig...
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585,00 zł |
Governing Groundwater: Between Law and Practice
ISBN: 9783030927806 / Angielski / Miękka / 169 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book empirically examines a diverse range of groundwater issues and different approaches to deal with such concerns taking into account responses from government bodies, community organizations, scientists, private sector, and academia. The overarching objective of this book is to empirically examine groundwater governance and groundwater law. It aims to provide a better understanding of the complexities surrounding groundwater governance in order to reconceptualize and retheorize the governance of subterranean resources having as entry points equity and sustainability concerns. This...
This book empirically examines a diverse range of groundwater issues and different approaches to deal with such concerns taking into account responses...
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467,99 zł |
Hydropower Screws: Calculation and Optimal Design of Archimedean Screws
ISBN: 9783031276415 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Water screw conveyors have been in use for centuries. Their invention is attributed to Archimedes. However, the idea of using this Archimedean screw also as a hydropower screw to convert hydraulic energy into electrical energy did not emerge until the 1990s. More recently, hydropower screws have been used very frequently at hydropower sites and have now also attracted increasing interest from scientists and users worldwide. This is due to the machine's very good efficiency, it's simple and inexpensive design, and its fish compatibility.This book provides calculation fundamentals for...
Water screw conveyors have been in use for centuries. Their invention is attributed to Archimedes. However, the idea of using this Archimedean screw a...
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545,99 zł |
Green Finance Instruments, FinTech, and Investment Strategies: Sustainable Portfolio Management in the Post-COVID Era
ISBN: 9783031290305 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the COVID 19 post-pandemic era, sustainable financial systems are increasingly getting the attention they deserve, and policymakers are now moving toward investment and financing decisions based on sustainable development. Green finance plays an important role in mobilizing financial resources and hedging against environmental risk to achieve financially sustainable systems. Moreover, green financial instruments offer viable alternatives for investors and regulators with regard to portfolio management and risk minimization. Over the last few years, financial technology (FinTech) has grown...
In the COVID 19 post-pandemic era, sustainable financial systems are increasingly getting the attention they deserve, and policymakers are now moving ...
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389,98 zł |
Sustainable Excellence in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: Continuous Improvement Approaches that Matter
ISBN: 9789811903731 / Angielski / Miękka / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a collection of the up-to-date experience and knowledge about the implementation of sustainable business excellence in a particular context of SMEs. The book uses empirical and practical approach to tackle this issue, which is underdeveloped in the literature. Hence, it could constitute a relevant reference for SMEs managers seeking to manage their operations sustainably, efficiently and resiliently. The book also integrates the smart component to the sustainable business excellence and proves for those who are still skeptical that SMEs could benefit from smart and digital...
This book is a collection of the up-to-date experience and knowledge about the implementation of sustainable business excellence in a particular conte...
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233,97 zł |
Perspectives on Ecological Degradation and Technological Progress
ISBN: 9781668467275 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In economics, researchers have stated that there is a limit to growth because natural resources are finite. However, with technological developments and the discovery of new natural resource reserves, the limits on growth and development have begun to disappear. New technologies promoting energy efficiency provide growth opportunity in new directions, and the development of technologies have a positive effect on the environment. Perspectives on Ecological Degradation and Technological Progress explores the economic and social impacts of technological progress on environmental degradation...
In economics, researchers have stated that there is a limit to growth because natural resources are finite. However, with technological developments a...
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1285,13 zł |
The Role of Design, Construction, and Real Estate in Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals
ISBN: 9783031287381 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited book brings together insights from scholars and practitioners from many different fields to uncover the role of the construction and real estate sectors and how they align with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It follows a lifecycle-based approach to the topic, addressing the design, construction, management, investment, and regulatory dimensions of projects in the area. It expands the reader’s understanding of the built environment beyond the design and construction phases, which enables the collection to explore the links and transitions between different project...
This edited book brings together insights from scholars and practitioners from many different fields to uncover the role of the construction and real ...
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585,00 zł |
Urban Informality: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
ISBN: 9783031298264 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyzes the informal practices of contemporary cities through a close dialogue between different research perspectives, with the shared goal of giving voice to informality and evaluating its benefits and potential in a multidimensional key of social factors.Recently, the human sciences have seen the emergence of this new term “informality,” at first sight in conflict with their function of giving order and form to social phenomena. A term with which, in this book, the authors, having as reference the Italian and European experience, specifically identify those unsatisfied...
This book analyzes the informal practices of contemporary cities through a close dialogue between different research perspectives, with the shared goa...
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506,99 zł |
Der Weg zur nachhaltigen Unternehmensführung: Wie Sie Verantwortung für Menschen, Umwelt und Wirtschaft übernehmen
ISBN: 9783658410506 / Niemiecki Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dieses Buch zeigt, wie Verantwortliche auf allen Unternehmensebenen die Herausforderungen einer nachhaltigen Unternehmensführung souverän meistern können. Hierzu werden konkrete Handlungskonzepte präsentiert.Die Welt ist im Umbruch – politisch, gesellschaftlich und hinsichtlich der natürlichen Ressourcen. Immer mehr Menschen und Institutionen legen ihren Kaufentscheidungen Kriterien zugrunde, die im weiteren Sinne auf Nachhaltigkeit einzahlen. Ralf T. Kreutzer erklärt, wie Unternehmen das Drei-Säulen-Modell der Nachhaltigkeit umsetzen können, um den Anforderungen der Wirtschaft, der...
Dieses Buch zeigt, wie Verantwortliche auf allen Unternehmensebenen die Herausforderungen einer nachhaltigen Unternehmensführung souverän meistern k...
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200,43 zł |
Geotechnical Engineering and Sustainable Construction: Sustainable Geotechnical Engineering
ISBN: 9789811662799 / Angielski / Miękka / 816 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contains selected articles from the Second International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering-Iraq (ICGE-Iraq) held in Akre/Duhok/Iraq from June 22 to 23, 2021, to discuss the challenges, opportunities, and problems of geotechnical engineering in projects. Also, the conference includes modern applications in structural engineering, materials of construction, construction management, planning and design of structures, and remote sensing and surveying engineering. The ICGE-Iraq organized by the Iraqi Scientific Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering (ISSSMFE) in...
This book contains selected articles from the Second International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering-Iraq (ICGE-Iraq) held in Akre/Duhok/Iraq fro...
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1170,03 zł |
Emerging Biofuels: Stationary and Mobile Applications
ISBN: 9780323995474 / Angielski / 01-05-2024 Książka dostępna od: 01-05-2024 Emerging Biofuels: Stationary and Mobile Applications presents a comprehensive assessment of supply chains and conversion pathways of the promising biofuels in the 21st century. Highlighting the potential of emerging biofuels, the book covers the latest breakthroughs and process intensification strategies for the development of near to mid-term commercialization. Chapters provide readers with an overview of emerging biofuels, key advantages, and major drivers for the biofuel industry. The majority of the book is dedicated to assessing each emerging biofuel, including renewable diesel,...
Emerging Biofuels: Stationary and Mobile Applications presents a comprehensive assessment of supply chains and conversion pathways of the promising bi...
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686,27 zł |
National Geographic Atlas of Wild America
ISBN: 9781426222351 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the deep forests of the Canadian Northwest to the red-rock deserts of the American Southwest, North America offers a myriad of opportunities for hiking, camping, trekking, and simply enjoying the abundance of the natural world. This opulent volume highlights 41 of those wilderness locations.
From the deep forests of the Canadian Northwest to the red-rock deserts of the American Southwest, North America offers a myriad of opportunities for ...
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279,14 zł |
Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century
ISBN: 9781469676234 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers a sweeping history of US foreign disaster assistance, highlighting its centrality to twentieth-century US foreign relations. Spanning over seventy years, the book examines how the US government, US military, and their partners in the American voluntary sector responded to major catastrophes around the world.
Offers a sweeping history of US foreign disaster assistance, highlighting its centrality to twentieth-century US foreign relations. Spanning over seve...
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601,51 zł |
Catastrophic Diplomacy: Us Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century
ISBN: 9781469677231 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Catastrophic Diplomacy offers a sweeping history of US foreign disaster assistance, highlighting its centrality to twentieth-century US foreign relations. Spanning over seventy years, from the dawn of the twentieth century to the mid-1970s, it examines how the US government, US military, and their partners in the American voluntary sector responded to major catastrophes around the world. Focusing on US responses to sudden disasters caused by earthquakes, tropical storms, and floods—crises commonly known as "natural disasters"—historian Julia F. Irwin highlights the complex and messy...
Catastrophic Diplomacy offers a sweeping history of US foreign disaster assistance, highlighting its centrality to twentieth-century US foreign relati...
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162,06 zł |
Learning from agri-environment schemes in Australia: Investing in biodiversity and other ecosystem services on farms
ISBN: 9781760460150 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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142,63 zł |
Intelligent Decarbonisation: Can Artificial Intelligence and Cyber-Physical Systems Help Achieve Climate Mitigation Targets?
ISBN: 9783030862176 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book explains the need to decarbonise energy supplies, urban systems and industrial processes to reduce global greenhouse gases and meet the ambitious emissions reduction goals set out in the Paris Agreement 2016. It discusses how the introduction of AI to cyber-physical systems (CPS) can do this, using illustrations throughout to highlight the potential impacts.Intelligent Decarbonisationcomprehensively assesses the current and future impact of digital technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) on the decarbonisation of key economic sectors.The book is divided into four parts –...
The book explains the need to decarbonise energy supplies, urban systems and industrial processes to reduce global greenhouse gases and meet the ambit...
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467,99 zł |
Global Plant Invasions
ISBN: 9783030896867 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Invasive species have inspired concern for many reasons, including economic and environmental impacts in specific jurisdictions within particular countries. However, it is apparent that for some invasive plant species, political borders offer only weak barriers because these species have succeeded in invading many countries, emerging as threats at a global level. With this level of threat, a number of books on invasive plants and invasive species in general have been published in recent years, but none explicitly provides “global” coverage, perhaps because it is only recently that the...
Invasive species have inspired concern for many reasons, including economic and environmental impacts in specific jurisdictions within particular coun...
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702,00 zł |
Proceedings of the International Conference Engineering Innovations and Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9783030908454 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contains contributions from the international conference “Engineering Innovations and Sustainable Development,” organized by three Russian universities on June 17–18, 2021. By presenting international research on various sustainability issues, it includes topics such as current trends in industrial and agricultural development, innovations in the construction and transport sectors, problems concerning the financing of innovative activities and governmental support for innovations, and engineering competences and skills in the era of new technologies. It also covers the...
This book contains contributions from the international conference “Engineering Innovations and Sustainable Development,” organized by three Russi...
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897,02 zł |
Remote Sensing of Agriculture and Land Cover/Land Use Changes in South and Southeast Asian Countries
ISBN: 9783030923679 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book sheds new light on the remote sensing of agriculture in South/Southeast Asian (S/SEA) countries. S/SEA countries are growing rapidly in terms of population, industrialization, and urbanization. One of the critical challenges in the region is food security. In S/SEA, although total food production and productivity have increased in previous decades, in recent years, the growth rate of food production has slowed down, mostly due to land use change, market forces and policy interventions. Further, the weather and climate systems in the region driven primarily by monsoon variability are...
This book sheds new light on the remote sensing of agriculture in South/Southeast Asian (S/SEA) countries. S/SEA countries are growing rapidly in term...
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858,01 zł |
Circular Economy for Renewable Energy
ISBN: 9783031307997 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the role of renewable energy sources in driving sustainable development, with a focus on their circular use in achieving environmental efficiency and an energy balance. The authors highlights the significance of renewable energy in reducing costs for producers and consumers while also ensuring the production of clean energy that can be integrated seamlessly into the national power grid without compromising reliability or energy security.Readers are introduced to the circular economy model and its importance in the context of renewable energy. The book sheds light on the...
This book explores the role of renewable energy sources in driving sustainable development, with a focus on their circular use in achieving environmen...
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585,00 zł |