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Water Resources: A New Water Architecture (Challenges in Water Management Series)

John Wiley & Sons, 2017

Over 7 billion people demand water from resources that the changing climate is making more and more difficult to harness. Water scarcity and shortage are increasingly common and conditions are becoming more extreme. Inadequate and inappropriate management of water is already taking its toll on the environment and on the quality of life of...

Professional SharePoint 2010 Administration

Wrox Press, 2010

Thorough coverage of the improvements and changes to SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 boasts a variety of incredible new features that will challenge even the most experienced administrator who is upgrading from SharePoint 2007. Written by a team of SharePoint experts, this book places a takes aim at showing you how to make these...

Governance and Sustainable Urban Transport in the Americas

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This volume explores the governance patterns of three cities of the Americas, Seattle, Montreal, and Curitiba, which all present different but interesting cases in dealing with sustainable urban transport challenges. The authors study empirical data from these three cities to analyze how specific governmental and...

Recommender Systems for the Social Web (Intelligent Systems Reference Library, Vol. 32)

Springer, 2012

The emergence and deployment of new digital communication technologies (3G mobile networks, digital television, xDSL, home automation networks, etc.) has led to a gradual increase in speed while a steady decline in prices at Internet connections. Moreover, since much longer ago, the continuing advances in electronic technology...

Platforms, Markets and Innovation

Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010

`In her pioneering book Platform Leadership (with Michael Cusumano), Gawer gave us the strategy of building coalitions of customers, suppliers, and complementors. Now, she brings together a number of the leading researchers in the area of platform strategy to give us a book that will be a key reference for both practitioners and...

Renewable Energy Governance: Complexities and Challenges (Lecture Notes in Energy)

Springer, 2013

This book focuses on Renewable Energy (RE) governance - the institutions, plans, policies and stakeholders that are involved in RE implementation - and the complexities and challenges associated with this much discussed energy area. Whilst RE technologies have advanced and become cheaper, governance schemes rarely support those technologies...

Doing Business in 2005: Obstacles to Growth

World Bank Publications, 2004

Doing Business in 2005: Obstacles to Growth is the second in a series of annual reports investigating the scope and manner of regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. New quantitative indicators on business regulations and their enforcement can be compared across more than 130 countries, and over time. The indicators...

Global Networking, Communication and Culture: Conflict or Convergence?: Spread of ICT, Internet Governance, Superorganism Humanity and Global Culture (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control)

Springer, 2018

Pursuing an interdisciplinary approach, this book offers detailed insights into the empirical relationships between overall social key figures of states and cultures in the fields of information and communication technology (ICT) (digital divide/inequality), the economy, education and religion. Its goal is to bridge the ‘cultural...

The Audit Committee Handbook

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Since the publication of the third edition of The Audit Committee Handbook in
1999, a number of major accounting scandals (e.g., Enron,WorldCom, and others)
as well as the demise of the international accounting firm of Anderson LLP have
shaken the global capital markets. As a result, the U.S. Congress enacted the Sarbanes-
Oxley...

Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes

MIT Press, 2009

Today government agencies not only have official Web sites but also sponsor moderated chats, blogs, digital video clips, online tutorials, videogames, and virtual tours of national landmarks. Sophisticated online marketing campaigns target citizens with messages from the government—even as officials make news with digital gaffes involving...

Going Corporate: A Geek's Guide

Apress, 2011

Going Corporate: A Geek's Guide shows technology workers how to gain the understanding and skills necessary for becoming an effective, promotable manager or sought-after consultant or freelancer. Technology professionals typically dive deeply into small pieces of technology—like lines of code or the design of...

New Six Sigma®: A Leader's Guide to Achieving Rapid Business Improvement and Sustainable Results, The

Prentice Hall, 2002

The New Six Sigma shows how to transform Six Sigma to address today's most crucial business challenges: the challenge to execute and the challenge to maximize value. Discover how Six Sigma's inventors at Motorola have extended its benefits beyond defect reduction to the entire enterprise....

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