Economy & Finance

This book investigates the social and cultural dimensions of climate change in Southern Africa, focusing on how knowledge about climate change is conceived and conveyed.

This book investigates the role of law in enabling and addressing the barriers to the development of Off-Grid Renewable Electricity (OGRE).

This book presents recent research on the adaptation and implementation of Blockchain technologies in supply chain management in Society 5.0. It discusses different applications of blockchain, its important role in connecting information technology with human lives.

The 12 studies in this volume show that the Muslim Tujjar played a major economic role in various regions of the Middle East during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Volumes 5 and 6 of the Handbook of Labor Economics will systematically review the research topics, empirical findings, and methods that constitute frontier research in the field. The focus will be on the most important research advances that have taken place since the publication of the previous Handbook Volume 4 almost 15 years ago.

It was with a great insight when Stephen Hawking uttered, "Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change." Incidentally, this also paraphrases Albert Einstein’s saying, "The measure of intelligence is the ability to change." Adaptive Engineering: A Sustainable Development Endeavor aims at complementing sustainable development and technologies with adaptation. This entails engineering innovations that go hand in hand with responsible human behavior change.The book presents various aspects of adaptive engineering in combination with civil and structural engineering, architecture, urban design and infrastructure, as well as environmental engineering, coastal engineering, climate change, ecology, energy management, and much more. It commences with a comprehensive review of the state of the art of adaptive engineering. It then elucidates multiple engineering fronts that have proven to be robust and versatile, paving the way to a resilient green tomorrow. The contributions from a diverse group of experts present a balanced reference compendium to keep professional engineers, students and researchers, policy makers, and various industry stakeholders abreast with the latest advancements.

This book presents an ethnographic study of contemporary ticket touts in the UK.

This book discusses IoT in healthcare and how it enables interoperability, machine-to-machine communication, information exchange, and data movement. It also covers how healthcare service delivery automates patient care with the help of mobility solutions, new technologies, and next-gen healthcare facilities with challenges faced.

This book scrutinizes the role of Hong Kong in the expansive, and contested, vision of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

This book focuses on cutting-edge innovations and core theories, principles, and algorithms applicable to a wide area. Real-life applications, case studies, and examples are included along with emerging trends, design, and optimized solutions pivoting around the needs of Society 5.0.

This book presents issues faced by planners of production and distribution operations in terms of smart manufacturing and sustainability, using efficient quantitative techniques in a variety of decision-making situations.

The handbook seeks to illuminate the key concepts in the study of development-environment by showcasing some of the Majoritarian (formerly "Developing") world's scholars in order to explore theoretical connections through critical/radical theory, "small" theory, various conceptual frameworks, and non-western and subaltern viewpoints.

This book articulates a clear and persuasive argument for the development of compassion in higher education in a global climate of increasing competition, complexity and uncertainty.Drawing upon a range of interdisciplinary, theoretical and professional perspectives, the book addresses the key challenges facing the 21st century university.

This book is about deploying Industry 4.0 technologies for business excellence and moving towards society 5.0. The book addresses the topics related to applications of Industry 4.0 in the domain of Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance and HR for achieving business excellence.

This book addresses the reliability, risk, and safety issues of real industrial systems with application of the latest reliability and riskbased modelling. Related topics such as maintenance decision-making, risk and safety modelling are also addressed with the implementation of decision-making techniques.

This book analyses the challenges of long-term care (LTC) policy development and implications from advanced LTC systems and a current trajectory in emerging economies in Asia.

This second part of the 2 volume collection compromises a collection of essays in English by leading scholars on 19th century academia and trade presenting the latest developments in international scholarship on the numismatic world in the long 19th century.

This first part of a 2 volume collection compromises a collection of essays in English by leading scholars on 19th century academia and trade presenting the latest developments in international scholarship on the numismatic world in the long 19th century.

This is the first book to discuss managerial, mathematical, and the conceptual framework of influencing factors on demand along with accurate mathematical analysis to evaluate and raise revenue.

The GUHA is a method of mechanizing hypothesis formation. The input of the GUHA procedure consists of analysed data and several parameters defining a large set of relevant patterns. The output is a representation of a set of all relevant patterns satisfying the given true condition.

With growing environment and consciousness of "Outcome-Based Education", importance of this subject has increased many folds. This book, in a single volume, presents recent advancements and developments in the field of Engineering Pedagogy.