Author: Vladimir Novotny
Publisher: IWA Publishing
ISBN: 1843391368
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
This book is developed from and includes the presentations of leading international experts and scholars in the 12-14 July, 2006 Wingspread Workshop. With urban waters as a focal point, this book will explore the links between urban water quality and hydrology, and the broader concepts of green cities and smart growth. It also addresses legal and social barriers to urban ecological sustainability and proposes practical ways to overcome those barriers. Cities of the Future features chapters containing visionary concepts on how to ensure that cities and their water resources become ecologically sustainable and are able to provide clean water for all beneficial uses. The book links North American and Worldwide experience and approaches. The book is primarily a professional reference aimed at a wide interdisciplinary audience, including universities, consultants, environmental advocacy groups and legal environmental professionals.
Cities of the Future
Author: Vladimir Novotny
Publisher: IWA Publishing
ISBN: 1843391368
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
This book is developed from and includes the presentations of leading international experts and scholars in the 12-14 July, 2006 Wingspread Workshop. With urban waters as a focal point, this book will explore the links between urban water quality and hydrology, and the broader concepts of green cities and smart growth. It also addresses legal and social barriers to urban ecological sustainability and proposes practical ways to overcome those barriers. Cities of the Future features chapters containing visionary concepts on how to ensure that cities and their water resources become ecologically sustainable and are able to provide clean water for all beneficial uses. The book links North American and Worldwide experience and approaches. The book is primarily a professional reference aimed at a wide interdisciplinary audience, including universities, consultants, environmental advocacy groups and legal environmental professionals.
Publisher: IWA Publishing
ISBN: 1843391368
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
This book is developed from and includes the presentations of leading international experts and scholars in the 12-14 July, 2006 Wingspread Workshop. With urban waters as a focal point, this book will explore the links between urban water quality and hydrology, and the broader concepts of green cities and smart growth. It also addresses legal and social barriers to urban ecological sustainability and proposes practical ways to overcome those barriers. Cities of the Future features chapters containing visionary concepts on how to ensure that cities and their water resources become ecologically sustainable and are able to provide clean water for all beneficial uses. The book links North American and Worldwide experience and approaches. The book is primarily a professional reference aimed at a wide interdisciplinary audience, including universities, consultants, environmental advocacy groups and legal environmental professionals.
Cities and Flooding
Author: Abhas K. Jha
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821394770
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 639
Book Description
Urban flooding is an increasing challenge today to the expanding cities and towns of developing countries. This Handbook is a state-of-the art, user-friendly operational guide that shows decision makers and specialists how to effectively manage the risk of floods in rapidly urbanizing settings--and within the context of a changing climate.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821394770
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 639
Book Description
Urban flooding is an increasing challenge today to the expanding cities and towns of developing countries. This Handbook is a state-of-the art, user-friendly operational guide that shows decision makers and specialists how to effectively manage the risk of floods in rapidly urbanizing settings--and within the context of a changing climate.
Saline Lakes
Author: John M. Melack
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781402005671
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publications from 7th International Conference on Salt Lakes, held in Death Valley National Park, California, USA, September 1999
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781402005671
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publications from 7th International Conference on Salt Lakes, held in Death Valley National Park, California, USA, September 1999
Data Analytics in Reservoir Engineering
Author: Sathish Sankaran
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781613998205
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Data Analytics in Reservoir Engineering describes the relevance of data analytics for the oil and gas industry, with particular emphasis on reservoir engineering.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781613998205
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Data Analytics in Reservoir Engineering describes the relevance of data analytics for the oil and gas industry, with particular emphasis on reservoir engineering.
Safer Homes, Stronger Communities
Author: Abhas K. Jha
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821382683
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This handbook is designed to guide public sector managers and development practitioners through the process of large-scale housing reconstruction after major disasters, based on the experiences of recent reconstruction programs in Aceh (Indonesia), Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Gujarat (India) and Bam (Iran).
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821382683
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This handbook is designed to guide public sector managers and development practitioners through the process of large-scale housing reconstruction after major disasters, based on the experiences of recent reconstruction programs in Aceh (Indonesia), Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Gujarat (India) and Bam (Iran).
Natural Hazards and Disaster Justice
Author: Anna Lukasiewicz
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811504660
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
This book explores policy, legal, and practice implications regarding the emerging field of disaster justice, using case studies of floods, bushfires, heatwaves, and earthquakes in Australia and Southern and South-east Asia. It reveals geographic locational and social disadvantage and structural inequities that lead to increased risk and vulnerability to disaster, and which impact ability to recover post-disaster. Written by multidisciplinary disaster researchers, the book addresses all stages of the disaster management cycle, demonstrating or recommending just approaches to preparation, response and recovery. It notably reveals how procedural, distributional and interactional aspects of justice enhance resilience, and offers a cutting edge analysis of disaster justice for managers, policy makers, researchers in justice, climate change or emergency management.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811504660
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
This book explores policy, legal, and practice implications regarding the emerging field of disaster justice, using case studies of floods, bushfires, heatwaves, and earthquakes in Australia and Southern and South-east Asia. It reveals geographic locational and social disadvantage and structural inequities that lead to increased risk and vulnerability to disaster, and which impact ability to recover post-disaster. Written by multidisciplinary disaster researchers, the book addresses all stages of the disaster management cycle, demonstrating or recommending just approaches to preparation, response and recovery. It notably reveals how procedural, distributional and interactional aspects of justice enhance resilience, and offers a cutting edge analysis of disaster justice for managers, policy makers, researchers in justice, climate change or emergency management.
Earthquake Engineering for Structural Design
Author: Victor Gioncu
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1482266288
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
Developments in Earthquake Engineering have focussed on the capacity and response of structures. They often overlook the importance of seismological knowledge to earthquake-proofing of design. It is not enough only to understand the anatomy of the structure, you must also appreciate the nature of the likely earthquake.Seismic design, as detailed in
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1482266288
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
Developments in Earthquake Engineering have focussed on the capacity and response of structures. They often overlook the importance of seismological knowledge to earthquake-proofing of design. It is not enough only to understand the anatomy of the structure, you must also appreciate the nature of the likely earthquake.Seismic design, as detailed in
Space Planning for Commercial and Residential Interiors
Author: Sam Kubba
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071428917
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
* A single-source, on-the-job resource to help interior designers and architects solve any space planning problem * Simplifies code compliance (International Building Code, ADA, and more) * Includes hundreds of plans and details for every building type * Checklists and guidelines throughout
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071428917
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
* A single-source, on-the-job resource to help interior designers and architects solve any space planning problem * Simplifies code compliance (International Building Code, ADA, and more) * Includes hundreds of plans and details for every building type * Checklists and guidelines throughout
Encyclopedia of Big Data
Author: Laurie A. Schintler
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783319320090
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This encyclopedia will be an essential resource for our times, reflecting the fact that we currently are living in an expanding data-driven world. Technological advancements and other related trends are contributing to the production of an astoundingly large and exponentially increasing collection of data and information, referred to in popular vernacular as “Big Data.” Social media and crowdsourcing platforms and various applications ― “apps” ― are producing reams of information from the instantaneous transactions and input of millions and millions of people around the globe. The Internet-of-Things (IoT), which is expected to comprise tens of billions of objects by the end of this decade, is actively sensing real-time intelligence on nearly every aspect of our lives and environment. The Global Positioning System (GPS) and other location-aware technologies are producing data that is specific down to particular latitude and longitude coordinates and seconds of the day. Large-scale instruments, such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), are collecting massive amounts of data on our planet and even distant corners of the visible universe. Digitization is being used to convert large collections of documents from print to digital format, giving rise to large archives of unstructured data. Innovations in technology, in the areas of Cloud and molecular computing, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing (NLP), to name only a few, also are greatly expanding our capacity to store, manage, and process Big Data. In this context, the Encyclopedia of Big Data is being offered in recognition of a world that is rapidly moving from gigabytes to terabytes to petabytes and beyond. While indeed large data sets have long been around and in use in a variety of fields, the era of Big Data in which we now live departs from the past in a number of key respects and with this departure comes a fresh set of challenges and opportunities that cut across and affect multiple sectors and disciplines, and the public at large. With expanded analytical capacities at hand, Big Data is now being used for scientific inquiry and experimentation in nearly every (if not all) disciplines, from the social sciences to the humanities to the natural sciences, and more. Moreover, the use of Big Data has been well established beyond the Ivory Tower. In today’s economy, businesses simply cannot be competitive without engaging Big Data in one way or another in support of operations, management, planning, or simply basic hiring decisions. In all levels of government, Big Data is being used to engage citizens and to guide policy making in pursuit of the interests of the public and society in general. Moreover, the changing nature of Big Data also raises new issues and concerns related to, for example, privacy, liability, security, access, and even the veracity of the data itself. Given the complex issues attending Big Data, there is a real need for a reference book that covers the subject from a multi-disciplinary, cross-sectoral, comprehensive, and international perspective. The Encyclopedia of Big Data will address this need and will be the first of such reference books to do so. Featuring some 500 entries, from "Access" to "Zillow," the Encyclopedia will serve as a fundamental resource for researchers and students, for decision makers and leaders, and for business analysts and purveyors. Developed for those in academia, industry, and government, and others with a general interest in Big Data, the encyclopedia will be aimed especially at those involved in its collection, analysis, and use. Ultimately, the Encyclopedia of Big Data will provide a common platform and language covering the breadth and depth of the topic for different segments, sectors, and disciplines.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783319320090
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This encyclopedia will be an essential resource for our times, reflecting the fact that we currently are living in an expanding data-driven world. Technological advancements and other related trends are contributing to the production of an astoundingly large and exponentially increasing collection of data and information, referred to in popular vernacular as “Big Data.” Social media and crowdsourcing platforms and various applications ― “apps” ― are producing reams of information from the instantaneous transactions and input of millions and millions of people around the globe. The Internet-of-Things (IoT), which is expected to comprise tens of billions of objects by the end of this decade, is actively sensing real-time intelligence on nearly every aspect of our lives and environment. The Global Positioning System (GPS) and other location-aware technologies are producing data that is specific down to particular latitude and longitude coordinates and seconds of the day. Large-scale instruments, such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), are collecting massive amounts of data on our planet and even distant corners of the visible universe. Digitization is being used to convert large collections of documents from print to digital format, giving rise to large archives of unstructured data. Innovations in technology, in the areas of Cloud and molecular computing, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing (NLP), to name only a few, also are greatly expanding our capacity to store, manage, and process Big Data. In this context, the Encyclopedia of Big Data is being offered in recognition of a world that is rapidly moving from gigabytes to terabytes to petabytes and beyond. While indeed large data sets have long been around and in use in a variety of fields, the era of Big Data in which we now live departs from the past in a number of key respects and with this departure comes a fresh set of challenges and opportunities that cut across and affect multiple sectors and disciplines, and the public at large. With expanded analytical capacities at hand, Big Data is now being used for scientific inquiry and experimentation in nearly every (if not all) disciplines, from the social sciences to the humanities to the natural sciences, and more. Moreover, the use of Big Data has been well established beyond the Ivory Tower. In today’s economy, businesses simply cannot be competitive without engaging Big Data in one way or another in support of operations, management, planning, or simply basic hiring decisions. In all levels of government, Big Data is being used to engage citizens and to guide policy making in pursuit of the interests of the public and society in general. Moreover, the changing nature of Big Data also raises new issues and concerns related to, for example, privacy, liability, security, access, and even the veracity of the data itself. Given the complex issues attending Big Data, there is a real need for a reference book that covers the subject from a multi-disciplinary, cross-sectoral, comprehensive, and international perspective. The Encyclopedia of Big Data will address this need and will be the first of such reference books to do so. Featuring some 500 entries, from "Access" to "Zillow," the Encyclopedia will serve as a fundamental resource for researchers and students, for decision makers and leaders, and for business analysts and purveyors. Developed for those in academia, industry, and government, and others with a general interest in Big Data, the encyclopedia will be aimed especially at those involved in its collection, analysis, and use. Ultimately, the Encyclopedia of Big Data will provide a common platform and language covering the breadth and depth of the topic for different segments, sectors, and disciplines.
2012 4th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CYCON 2012)
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781467312707
Category : Computer security
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Legal implications of territorial sovereignty in cyberspace / Wollff Heintschel von Heinegg -- When "Not my problem" isn't enough: political neutrality and national responsibility in cyber conflict / Jason Healey -- Neutrality in cyberspace / Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg -- Impact of cyberspace on human rights and democracy / Vittorio Fanchiotti, Jean Paul Pierini -- Russia's public stance on cyber/information warfare / Keir Giles -- French cyberdefense policy / Patrice Tromparent -- A treaty for governing cyber-weapons: potential benefits and practical limitations / Louise Arimatsu -- Internet as a critical infrastructure: a framework for the measurement of maturity and awareness in the cyber sphere / Assaf Y. Keren, Keren Elazari -- The significance of attribution to cyberspace coercion: a political perspective / Forrest Hare -- The militarisation of cyberspace: why less may be better / Myriam Dunn Cavelty -- Beyond domains, beyond commons: the context and theory of conflict in cyberspace / Jeffrey L. Caton -- Applying traditional military principles to cyber warfare / Samuel Liles, J. Eric Dietz, Marcus Rogers, Dean Larson -- The principle of maneuver in cyber operations / Scott D. Applegate -- Countering the offensive advantage in cyberspace: an integrated defensive strategy / David T. Fahrenkrug -- An analysis for a just cyber warfare / Mariarosaria Taddeo -- Socially engineered commoners as cyber warriors: Estonian future or present? / Birgy Lorenz, Kaido Kikkas -- The notion of combatancy in cyber warfare / Sean Watts -- Direct participation in cyber hostilities: terms of reference for like-minded states? / Jody Prescott -- Attack trends in present computer networks / Robert Koch, Björn Stelte, Mario Golling -- "Attack" as a term of art in international law: the cyber operations context / Michael N. Schmitt -- Ius ad bellum in cyberspace: some thoughts on the "Schmitt-criteria" for use of force / Katharina Ziolkowski --The "Use of force" in cyberspace: a reply to Dr. Ziolkowski / Michael N. Schmitt -- A methodology for cyber operations targeting and control of collateral damage in the context of lawful armed conflict / Robert Fanelli, Gregory Conti -- Command and control of cyber weapons / Enn Tyugu -- A case study on the Miner botnet / Daniel Plohmann, Elmar Gerhards-Padilla -- Natural privacy preservation protocol for electronic mail / Kim Hartmann, Christoph Steup -- Paradigm change of vehicle cyber-security / Hiro Onishi -- Sensing for suspicion at scale: a Bayesian approach for cyber conflict attribution and reasoning / Harsha K. Kalutarage, Siraj A. Shaikh, Qin Zhou, Anne E. James -- The role of COTS products for high security systems / Robert Koch, Gabi Dreo Rodosek -- Conceptual framework for cyber defense information sharing within trust relationships / Diego Fernández Vázquez, Oscar Pastor Acosta, Christopher Spirito, Sarah Brown, Emily Reid
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781467312707
Category : Computer security
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Legal implications of territorial sovereignty in cyberspace / Wollff Heintschel von Heinegg -- When "Not my problem" isn't enough: political neutrality and national responsibility in cyber conflict / Jason Healey -- Neutrality in cyberspace / Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg -- Impact of cyberspace on human rights and democracy / Vittorio Fanchiotti, Jean Paul Pierini -- Russia's public stance on cyber/information warfare / Keir Giles -- French cyberdefense policy / Patrice Tromparent -- A treaty for governing cyber-weapons: potential benefits and practical limitations / Louise Arimatsu -- Internet as a critical infrastructure: a framework for the measurement of maturity and awareness in the cyber sphere / Assaf Y. Keren, Keren Elazari -- The significance of attribution to cyberspace coercion: a political perspective / Forrest Hare -- The militarisation of cyberspace: why less may be better / Myriam Dunn Cavelty -- Beyond domains, beyond commons: the context and theory of conflict in cyberspace / Jeffrey L. Caton -- Applying traditional military principles to cyber warfare / Samuel Liles, J. Eric Dietz, Marcus Rogers, Dean Larson -- The principle of maneuver in cyber operations / Scott D. Applegate -- Countering the offensive advantage in cyberspace: an integrated defensive strategy / David T. Fahrenkrug -- An analysis for a just cyber warfare / Mariarosaria Taddeo -- Socially engineered commoners as cyber warriors: Estonian future or present? / Birgy Lorenz, Kaido Kikkas -- The notion of combatancy in cyber warfare / Sean Watts -- Direct participation in cyber hostilities: terms of reference for like-minded states? / Jody Prescott -- Attack trends in present computer networks / Robert Koch, Björn Stelte, Mario Golling -- "Attack" as a term of art in international law: the cyber operations context / Michael N. Schmitt -- Ius ad bellum in cyberspace: some thoughts on the "Schmitt-criteria" for use of force / Katharina Ziolkowski --The "Use of force" in cyberspace: a reply to Dr. Ziolkowski / Michael N. Schmitt -- A methodology for cyber operations targeting and control of collateral damage in the context of lawful armed conflict / Robert Fanelli, Gregory Conti -- Command and control of cyber weapons / Enn Tyugu -- A case study on the Miner botnet / Daniel Plohmann, Elmar Gerhards-Padilla -- Natural privacy preservation protocol for electronic mail / Kim Hartmann, Christoph Steup -- Paradigm change of vehicle cyber-security / Hiro Onishi -- Sensing for suspicion at scale: a Bayesian approach for cyber conflict attribution and reasoning / Harsha K. Kalutarage, Siraj A. Shaikh, Qin Zhou, Anne E. James -- The role of COTS products for high security systems / Robert Koch, Gabi Dreo Rodosek -- Conceptual framework for cyber defense information sharing within trust relationships / Diego Fernández Vázquez, Oscar Pastor Acosta, Christopher Spirito, Sarah Brown, Emily Reid