North — South Trade and the Sustainability of Economic Growth: A Model with Environmental Constraints -- A Coupled Bottom-Up/Top-Down Model for GHG Abatement Scenarios in the Swiss Housing Sector -- Moderated Decision Support and Countermeasure Planning for Off-Site Emergency Management -- Hybrid Energy-Economy Models and Endogenous Technological Change -- The World-Markal Model and Its Appli…
Renewable Energy (RE), Energy Efficiency (EE) & Energy Services: The Energy Market Transformation -- Promoting Effective and Efficient Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) -- The Clean Development Mechanism: New Instrument in Financing Renewable Energy Technologies -- International Co-Operation on Energy Technologies Research and Development -- Market Deployment of Renewable Energy in Central Asi…
Eco-Design -- The Design for Environmental Compliance Workbench Tool -- Eco-Impact Anticipation by Parametric Screening of Machine System Components -- Man Machine Interaction and Man Machine Interface — Critical Issues for the Human Environment -- Integrating Eco-Design Into Business Environments -- Virtual Environments — the Eco-Friendly Approach to Product Design? -- A TRIZ Approach to D…
Summary -- Problem Definition, Tasks, Procedure and Derivation of Recommendations for Action -- Terminological and Conceptional Foundations -- Normative Criteria for Evaluation and Decision-Making -- Towards a Sustainable Energy System — Legal Basis, Deficits and Points of Reference -- Potentials for the Sustainable Development of Energy Systems -- The Reality of Sustainability: Conflicts of …
Nuclear Concepts -- Atomic Theory -- Nuclear Theory -- Radioactive Decay -- Interactions of Radiation with Matter -- Neutron Physics -- Neutron Transport -- Nuclear Reactor Control.Nuclear engineering plays an important role in various industrial, health care, and energy processes. Modern physics has generated its fundamental principles. A growing number of students and practicing engineers nee…
PartI: Foundations of Resilience -- Chapter1: Risk and Resilience: Similarities and Differences -- Chapter2: Resilience as Function of Space and Time -- Chapter3: Panarchy: Thinking in Systems and Networks -- Chapter4: Lessons from History -- PartII: Resilience Assessment: State of Science and Governance -- Chapter5: Resilience and Governance -- Chapter6: Resilience Quantification and Assessmen…
- Chapter 1 (Introduction) – New Rules: Old Lessons? -- Chapter 2 – A New Starting Point: ‘Values-up’ not ‘Numbers-down’ -- Chapter 3 - New stories: Frames and Narratives for building public engagement -- Chapter 4 - New social norms: breaking the ‘climate silence’ -- Chapter 5 – New Voices: Shifting the debate from scientific to social reality -- Chapter 6 – New Rules: A Bl…
Chapter1. Introduction -- Chapter2. Understanding contested energy spaces -- Chapter3. Zooming in on contested energy spaces: the study area -- Chapter4. Methodology -- Chapter5. Empirical cases -- Chapter6. Conclusions and contributions.This authored brief discusses how to conceptualize the socio-material complexity of contested energy spaces in the Canadian North, specifically in the context …
Category Ⅰ: Very small world (nanodeliveries) -- Chapter 1. Nanotechnology from Ancient Era to Today’s World (Ketaki Deshmukh) -- Chapter 2. Nano-deliverables (Indulekha Singaravelu, Arun Kumar Palaniappan) -- Chapter 3. Targeted phytochemicals conjugated gold nanoparticles in cancer treatment (Menka Khoobchandani, Alice Raphael Karikachery, Kavita Katti, Kattesh V. Katti) -- Category Ⅱ: …
- Chapter 1: The Narrative Dialogue -- Chapter 2: The Political Dialogue -- Chapter 3: The Business Dialogue -- Chapter 4: The Geo-Economic Dialogue -- Chapter 5: The Legal Dialogue -- Chapter 6: Conclusions: The Politics of Power.This book sheds new light on the complex EU-Russia relationship, by providing a comprehensive account of the EU-Russia Energy dialogue. The author examines why Moscow…