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Population, Development, and the Environment: Challenges to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in the Asia Pacific

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book takes the reader into some of the most intransigent social, economic, and political issues that impact achieving sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific. Through meticulous analysis of the integrated relationships between population, development, and the environment, the chapters in this volume investigate the impacts of...

Institutions as Conscious Food Consumers: Leveraging Purchasing Power to Drive Systems Change

Academic Press, 2018

Institutions like schools, hospitals, and universities are not well known for having quality, healthy food. In fact, institutional food often embodies many of the worst traits of our industrialized food system, with long supply chains that are rife with environmental and social problems and growing market concentration in many stages...

Looseleaf for Criminal Investigation

McGraw-Hill, 2018

Swanson's Criminal Investigation, Twelfth Edition, is widely recognized as the most accurate and comprehensive text in the field. This practical, step-by-step introduction to criminal investigation gives students a logical framework for understanding the investigative process. Major sections cover current issues, such as...

Sustainable Meat Production and Processing

Academic Press, 2018

Sustainable Meat Production and Processing presents current solutions to promote industrial sustainability and best practices in meat production, from postharvest to consumption. The book acts as a guide for meat and animal scientists, technologists, engineers, professionals and producers. The 12 most trending topics of...

Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management (Lecture Notes in Logistics)

Springer, 2018

This book provides an overview of important trends and developments in logistics and supply chain research, making them available to practitioners, while also serving as a point of reference for academicians. Operations and logistics are cornerstones of modern supply chains that in turn are essential for global business and...

Remote Sensing of the Asian Seas

Springer, 2018

A wide variety of marginal basins, ranging from polar to equatorial regions, and a few sizeable enclosed basins, can all be included among the Asian Seas. The Arctic Ocean shelf seas off Siberia; the sheltered basins along the Pacific Ocean’s western rim; the coastal seas of the northernmost Indian Ocean, including the semi-enclosed Red...

Spatial Data Analysis in Ecology and Agriculture Using R

CRC Press, 2018

Key features:

Unique in its combination of serving as an introduction to spatial statistics and to modeling agricultural and ecological data using R

Provides exercises in each chapter to facilitate the book's use as a course textbook or for self-study

IAEG/AEG Annual Meeting Proceedings, San Francisco, California, 2018 - Volume 4: Dams, Tunnels, Groundwater Resources, Climate Change

Springer, 2018

This book is one out of six IAEG XIII Congress and AEG 61^st Annual Meeting proceeding volumes, and deals with topics related to dams, tunnels, groundwater resources, and climate change.

The theme of the IAEG/AEG Meeting, held in San Francisco from September 17-21, 2018, is Engineering Geology for a...

Climate Friendly Goods and Technologies in Asia: Opportunities for Trade (SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science)

Springer, 2019

This book investigates the potential trade opportunity of climate friendly goods and technology (CFGT) in Asia and South Asia region, and uses a case study of India to clarify India's position on global warming and efforts to mitigate climate change impacts regionally and globally. In four main sections, the book applies...

Throwaway Nation: The Ugly Truth about American Garbage

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019

Americans are burying ourselves in our own waste. It’s befouling our air, land, waters, food, and bodies. The US tosses out enough foodstuff to feed the rest of the world. America is the largest buyer of fashion and cosmetics, the second dirtiest industry in the world. We lead the planet in transportation usage and waste,...

Topical Issues of Rational Use of Natural Resources: Proceedings of the International Forum-Contest of Young Researchers, April 18-20, 2018, St. Petersburg, Russia

CRC Press, 2018

Topical Issues of Rational Use of Natural Resources contains the contributions presented at International Forum-Contest of Young Researchers 2018 (St. Petersburg Mining University, Russia, 18-20 April 2018). The Forum-Contest is an excellent opportunity for young researchers to present their work to the scientific community...

Project Management and Engineering Research: AEIPRO 2017 (Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering)

Springer, 2018

This is the Proceedings of the 20th International Congress on Project Management and Engineering, that was held at the Technical University of Cartagena, Spain, from July 13 to 15, 2016. It brings together a collection of recent works of researchers and professionals in the Project Management and Engineering fields of Civil Engineering and...

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