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National Informatics Center (NIC) is a premier science & technology institution of India. This is the first time that a government institution is coming up with a book which will holistically cover the journey of transformation in governance. It combines multiple sectors and presents an overall picture of multiple initiatives.

This Handbook showcases the rich varieties of legislatures that exist in Asia and explains how political power is constituted in seventeen jurisdictions in East, Southeast and South Asia.

This handbook explores the digital methods and tools scholars use to observe, interpret and manage nature in several different academic fields. Essential reading for those interested in the use of digital tools in study of the environment from a wide range of disciplines, and for those working in the environmental humanities.

This handbook provides a comprehensive, state of the art overview of urban water governance. It addresses the key questions of how urban water governance works, how is it shaped and what the impacts are.

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Food Governance is the first collection to reflect on and compile the currently dispersed histories, concepts and practices involved in the increasingly popular field of urban food governance.

Explores dynamics of water and the built environment in the urban and ecological landscapes of South Asia. Case studies from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka offer guidance to improve climate resilience through water-sensitive development, integrated urban design, and resource management in cities, wetlands and ecosystems.

This volume brings together a collection of case studies examining wildlife ecology and conservation across India.

This handbook focuses on the practices, initiatives and innovations of urban planning in response to the rapid urbanisation in Indonesian cities & is an invaluable resource to Urban Studies, Development Studies, Asian & Southeast Studies & policy-makers in Indonesia and the Global South.

The Routledge Handbook of Social Change provides an interdisciplinary primer to the intellectual approaches that hold the key to understanding the complexity of social change in the twenty-first century.

This Routledge Handbook on Cairo simultaneously provides a single text that narrates the Cairo of yesterday and of today and provides both the general and the specialized reader with an authoritative reference for the city.

This book is a snapshot of information on oleoresins-production, composition, properties, applications (medicinal & health properties), and more. It is designed to be a practical tool for the various professionals who develop and market spices and oleoresins.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research and developments in the field of root and tuber crops from a sustainable production and protection perspective. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sustainable agriculture, crop management and plant sciences.

This Handbook inverts the lens on development, asking what Indigenous communities across the globe hope and build for themselves. In contrast to earlier writing on development, this volume focuses on Indigenous peoples as inspiring theorists and potent political actors who resist the ongoing destruction of their livelihoods.

Urban Alchemy delves into the pressing challenges and unique opportunities facing developing countries in their quest for sustainable urban transformation. Readers are introduced to a comprehensive framework designed to guide policymakers, urban planners, and scholars in reimagining the future of cities.

The Financialization of Latin American Real Estate Markets: A Research Companion provides an authoritative overview of the real estate asset class in Latin America with chapters covering Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Columbia, Nicaragua and Chile.

This book explores the complex relationship between urban commons and the local state. It critiques the dominant neo-institutionalist and neo-Marxist perspectives for their deterministic and siloed views, as well as their insufficient attention to the municipal scale.

The book examines the connection between computers and sustainability. It covers a variety of eco-friendly computing-related subjects, such as power management, virtualization, cloud computing, data center optimization, green software development, and more.

This book is aimed at covering all aspects of the evaluation, certification and reduction of the energy and carbon footprint of the built environment from the scale of the city and its neighbourhoods, to the building level and finally to the level of single building materials and components.

This book is aimed at covering all aspects of the evaluation, certification and reduction of the energy and carbon footprint of the built environment from the scale of the city and its neighbourhoods, to the building level and finally to the level of single building materials and components.

This book approaches the topic of environmental biotechnology in a clear, integrated, and meaningful way, covering both the fundamentals and biochemical processes involved including technologies. It also provides thorough description of the pollution and pollution control & role of microbes in different ecosystems and deterioration processes.

This book covers sustainable composites and bio-composites in terms of proper selection of reinforcements, methods to improve the thermal and mechanical properties, techniques for uniform dispersion of the reinforcements and its tribological performance. Also, it details the testing and damage characterization methods of these composites.

This handbook is focused on geospatial applications used to study, assess, and monitor the Himalayan mountains. With advanced remote sensing and GIS tools, in-depth analyses, and interdisciplinary approaches, this book studies all ecosystems, anthropogenic disturbances, and climate change in the region.