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Maritime Security: International Law and Policy Perspectives from Australia and New Zealand
Maritime Security: International Law and Policy Perspectives from Australia and New Zealand

Maritime security is of vital importance to Australia and New Zealand as both countries depend on maritime transport for their economic survival. Since the events of September 11th 2001, significant questions have been raised as to whether Australia and New Zealand are adequately prepared for the consequences of a major disruption to...

Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance (Food, Health, and the Environment)
Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance (Food, Health, and the Environment)

In today's globally integrated food system, events in one part of the world can have multiple and wide-ranging effects, as has been shown by the recent and rapid global rise in food prices. Transnational corporations (TNCs) have been central to the development of this global food system, dominating production, international trade, processing,...

Markovian Demand Inventory Models (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science)
Markovian Demand Inventory Models (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science)

Inventory management is concerned with matching supply with demand and a central problem in Operations Management. The problem is to find the amount to be produced or purchased in order to maximize the total expected profit or minimize the total expected cost. Over the past two decades, several variations of the formula appeared, mostly in trade...

New Frontiers in Integrated Solid Earth Sciences (International Year of Planet Earth)
New Frontiers in Integrated Solid Earth Sciences (International Year of Planet Earth)

Man’s intensifying use of the Earth’s habitat has led to an urgent need for scientifically advanced ‘geo-prediction systems’ that accurately locate subsurface resources and forecast the timing and magnitude of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and land subsidence.

As advances in the earth sciences lead to...

Andrology: Male Reproductive Health and Dysfunction
Andrology: Male Reproductive Health and Dysfunction

This is the 3rd, totally revised edition of a well-known textbook that continues to represent the gold standard in the literature on clinical andrology. It examines in depth all aspects of male reproductive health, encompassing the basic physiology of male reproductive function and a wide range of disorders. Each of the chapters is...

Ecdysone: Structures and Functions
Ecdysone: Structures and Functions

Ecdysone is the steroidal prohormone of the major insect moulting hormone 20-hydroxyecdysone. It groups with its homologues the steroidal molting hormones in arthropods, but they also occur in other phyla where they can play different roles. Besides ecdysteroids appear in many plants mostly as protection agents (toxins or antifeedants) against...

Handbook of Behavior Genetics
Handbook of Behavior Genetics

Behavior Genetics is an interdisciplinary area combining behavioral sciences and genetics.  The study of behavior genetics has become increasingly important as we see growth spurts in finding genes involved in complex behaviors following on advances in molecular genetic techniques. This domain has now become a vast common ground for...

Success Stories in Asian Aquaculture
Success Stories in Asian Aquaculture

The stories presented in Success Stories in Asian Aquaculture reflect the unique nature of Asian aquaculture, providing first-time insight into how and why it has become so successful. Overall, the book demonstrates how the resilience, adaptability, and innovation of small-scale aquaculture farmers have been crucial to this success. It...

Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility: Oil Multinationals and Social Challenges
Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility: Oil Multinationals and Social Challenges
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has emerged as an important approach for addressing the social and environmental impact of company activities. Yet companies are increasingly expected to go beyond this. They are now often expected to assist in addressing many of the world's most pressing problems, including climate change, poverty and...
Past Climate Variability in South America and Surrounding Regions: From the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene
Past Climate Variability in South America and Surrounding Regions: From the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene

This book groups together overviews and original research papers dealing with South American climate variability from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene. The contributions deal with tropical, temperate and high latitudes climate variability in South America and in surrounding regions (including Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and Antarctica)....

Hierarchical Voronoi Graphs: Spatial Representation and Reasoning for Mobile Robots
Hierarchical Voronoi Graphs: Spatial Representation and Reasoning for Mobile Robots

Voronoi graphs and their hierarchical extensions have become a widely used tool for deriving abstract spatial representations from environmental data. They are currently being studied and applied in several subfields of computer science such as AI and robotics, computational geometry, and geoinformatics.

This book investigates the...

Handbook of Brewing: Processes, Technology, Markets
Handbook of Brewing: Processes, Technology, Markets

This comprehensive reference combines the technological know-how from five centuries of industrial-scale brewing to meet the needs of a global economy. The editor and authors draw on the expertise gained in the world's most competitive beer market (Germany), where many of the current technologies were first introduced.

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