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Digital Futures: Living in a dot.com World

Earthscan, 2001

Beyond the hype about dot-coms, WAP phones and dot-com entrepreneurs, what impacts will e-commerce have on society? How will it affect jobs and local communities? What will it mean for energy use, transport and the future shape of our cities? How can we ensure that everyone enjoys the benefits of the new digital technologies?

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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...

Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies

For Dummies, 2007

When it comes to addressing most of the challenges we face as a society, it is often said that change begins at home. This is an exciting prospect—that we can make a difference around the world by changing the way we live our daily lives—and nowhere is it truer than in our efforts to improve the health of our planet,...

Sustainability Issues in Environmental Geotechnics: Proceedings of the 2nd GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition on Sustainable Civil ... Interaction Group in Egypt (SSIGE)

Springer, 2018

This edited volume deals with the attempts made by the scientists and practitioners to address contemporary issues in geoenvironmental engineering such as characterization of dredged sediments, geomaterials and waste, valorization of waste, sustainability in waste management and some other geoenvironmental issues that are becoming quite relevant...

Waste Treatment in the Process Industries

CRC Press, 2005

Increasing demand on industrial capacity has, as an unintended consequence, an accompanying increase in harmful and hazardous wastes. Recognizing the need for a comprehensive reference on the technologies and strategies available for waste treatment in specific industries, four esteemed editors gathered to produce the highly popular Handbook of...

CISSP Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, 4th Ed. (All-in-One)

McGraw-Hill, 2007

All-in-One is All You Need

Fully revised for the latest exam release, this authoritative volume offers thorough coverage of all the material on the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam. Written by a renowned security expert and CISSP, this guide features complete details on all 10 exam domains...

Audel HVAC Fundamentals, Heating System Components, Gas and Oil Burners and Automatic Controls

Audel, 2004

The purpose of this series is to provide the layman with an introduction to the fundamentals of installing, servicing, troubleshooting, and repairing the various types of equipment used in residential and light-commercial heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. Consequently, it was written not only for the...

Foundation Flash Cartoon Animation

Friends of Ed, 2007

Whether you are an experienced Flash designer or developer looking for a guide to doing animation in Flash, or a novice to Flash who is looking for an effective way to create and distribute animations, this book will prove invaluable to you. Covering every aspect of Flash animation, the book is a fast-paced yet thorough review of the Flash...

Three Paths to Profitable Investing: Using ETFs in Healthcare, Infrastructure, and the Environment to Grow Your Assets

FT Press, 2010

Discover Today’s Newest, Best Paths to Sustainable Wealth

Master lower-cost, lower-risk ETF investing in tomorrow’s hottest growth areas: healthcare, infrastructure, and green technology

Profit from demographic change and other powerful global trends

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Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist, Second Edition: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL

Morgan Kaufmann, 2011

Since the first edition of Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist came out in June 2008, we have been encouraged by the reception the book has received. Practitioners from a wide variety of industries— health care, energy, environmental science, life sciences, national intelligence, and publishing, to name a few—have told...

Cadmium Toxicity: New Aspects in Human Disease, Rice Contamination, and Cytotoxicity (Current Topics in Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine)

Springer, 2019

This volume focuses on cadmium (Cd) exposure, its effects on human health, the mechanism of Cd accumulation and the development of mitigation technologies. Further, it discusses clinical, epidemiological, agricultural, toxicological, and biochemical aspects of Cd pollution and presents recent biochemical studies on molecular...

Spatial Interpolation for Climate Data: The Use of GIS in Climatology and Meterology

ISTE Publishing Company, 2007

The COST 719 European research program (“The use of GIS in climatology and meteorology”) began in 2001 and ended in 2006. 20 European countries participated. Its main objective was to establish interfaces between GIS and data in climatology and meteorology and in order to reach this objective, three working groups were defined:
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