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    • The Danube River and The Western Black Sea Coast

      • 1st Edition
      • July 4, 2025
      • Jürg Bloesch + 4 more
      • English
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      The Danube River and The Western Black Sea Coast: Complex Transboundary Management is a brand-new volume in the Elsevier Ecohydrology from Catchment to Coast series. The book focuses on the second largest river in Europe and the most transboundary river basin that encompasses 19 countries. Chapters focus on changes to the area in the past decade and a way forward. Made up of three parts, the book starts with an overview, covers The Danube River and its recipient, the Black Sea, including sediment balance, water quality, hydromorphology and aquatic biodiversity.Section two covers the key pressures and implementation of transboundary water management such as aquatic resources, invasive species, climate change, and stakeholder participation. Section three assess visions for a sustainable future in the Danube River Basin with a look to applicable sustainability, ecosystems, human interaction, and improving biodiversity through floodplains. The book concludes with a summary and outlook.
    • Handbook of the Economics of Matching

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 2
      • November 1, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Handbook of the Economics of Matching, Volume Two summarizes both classic results and the many recent advances on matching without transfers. Its seven chapters, written by leading researchers, cover both theoretical and empirical work and include sections on Matching under Non-transferable Utility: Theory, Empirical Approaches to Climate Change Impact Quantification, The large markets case, Matching under Non-transferable Utility: Applications, Allocating students to schools: theory and empirical methods, Matching with contracts, Matching with frictions, and Dynamic Matching.
    • Commercial Banking

      • 1st Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • Allen N. Berger + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Commercial Banking: Distinct Value, Roles, and Methods is a thorough, applied, and accessible introduction to the modern theory and practice of financial intermediation as enabled by commercial banks. This textbook considers key issues in banking, regulation, coping with bank risk, competition amongst banks, global banking, careers in banking, and future directions. Throughout the book, emphasis is placed on differentiating between bank and non-bank financial firms, the impact of technology on banking, evolving regulatory environments, the economic importance of banking, and innovation in banking services.Perfect for undergraduate, graduate level, and professional courses in banking, bank management, and commercial banking, this book is reinforced with full-color figures, charts, tables, learning objectives, and key term definitions, as well as lecture slides hosted on an accompany instructor site to support teaching and understanding.
    • Handbook of Labor Economics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 6
      • September 1, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Handbook of Labor Economics, Volume Six reviews the latest research topics, empirical findings, and methods that constitute frontier research in the field. The focus lies in the most important research advances that have taken place since the publication of the previous work. Chapters in this new release include Instrumental Variables with Unobserved Heterogeneity in Treatment Effects, Firm Wage Effects, Empirical Bayes Methods in Labor Economics, Minimum Wages in the 21st Century, The Micro and Macro Economics of Short-Time Work, Job Search, Unemployment Insurance, and Active Labor Market Policies, Families, Public Policies, and the Labor Market, and much more.Other chapters cover The Evolution of Gender in the Labor Market, Crime and the Labor Market, and Monopsony Power in the Labor Market.
    • Plate Heat Exchanger Enhancement Techniques

      • 1st Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • Sasan Zahmatkesh + 3 more
      • English
      Plate Heat Exchanger Enhancement Techniques: in Support of the Energy Transition and a Circular Economy provides fundamental knowledge on the applications of the plate heat exchanger (PHE) and how it can be optimized to make energy conversion more efficient. In addition, it introduces relevant studies that explain the heat transfer mechanism of the PHE, its design, and how developing more compact and evolved heat exchangers contributes to a sustainable, cleaner, and more energy-efficient future. Researchers, scientists, engineers, professionals, and students working in nanotechnology, materials science, and sustainability will find this volume valuable to their work.
    • Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 6
      • August 18, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics covers new developments in theoretical techniques, new sources of geographic information systems (GIS) data, rapid advances in computing power, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and renewed public policy interest in transportation infrastructure. New and innovative chapters in this new release include New Data and Insights in Regional and Urban Economics, Quantitative Regional Economics, Spatial Environmental Economics, Housing Supply and Housing Affordability, Spatial Economics for Low- and Middle- Income Countries, Spatial Dynamics, Spatial Sorting and Inequality, Transportation, Optimal Spatial Policies, Local Labor Markets, and Quantitative Urban Economics.
    • Navigating Decentralized Finance

      • 1st Edition
      • November 4, 2025
      • Pascal Egloff + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Navigating Decentralized Finance: From Blockchain to Crypto Assets and Tokenization provides an in-depth overview of how blockchain and digital assets drive financial economics with a truly global approach. This comprehensive textbook covers blockchain technologies, infrastructure, applications, and regulatory and legal aspects, offering both a quick introduction for beginners and numerous, practical case studies to engage advanced students and working professionals. Here, after discussing blockchain fundamentals, experts consider blockchain contracts, scalability, CBDCs, tokenization, stablecoins, NFTs, decentralized finance (DeFi), and the metaverse, among other topics, with applications explored across the financial world.Each chapter adopts a consistent structure and pedagogy accompanied by over 120 illustrations across the book, as well as a blockchain glossary. An instructor website includes a complete set of lecture slides supporting undergraduate, graduate, certificate, and faculty across the globe.
    • Green Imprinted Materials

      • 1st Edition
      • March 19, 2024
      • Rüstem Keçili + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Green Imprinted Materials: From Design to Environmental and Food Applications provides a comprehensive overview of green aspects to MIPs. With a strong focus on food and environment, this book provides insights into the state-of-the-art and practice of green chemistry and its approaches to imprinting. Methodologies for the preparation of these materials, as well as their potential in developing sustainable separation and sensing processes in analytical and bioanalytical chemistry are critically discussed throughout the book. Future perspectives of green imprinting technology is also evaluated.This book is a valuable resource for researchers and graduate students in molecular imprinting science and technology and those interested in green chemistry and all those who wish to broaden their knowledge in the allied field.
    • Biogeochemistry of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter

      • 3rd Edition
      • July 4, 2024
      • Dennis A. Hansell + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Biogeochemistry of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter, Third Edition is the most up-to-date revision of this fundamental reference on the biogeochemistry of marine dissolved organic matter. Since its original publication in June 2002, the science, questions, and priorities have advanced, and the editors of this essential guide have added nine new chapters, including one on the South China Sea. This indispensable manual edited by the most distinguished experts in the field is addressed to graduate students, marine scientists, and all professionals interested in advancing their knowledge of the field.
    • Improving Health and Nutrition through Bioactive Compounds

      • 1st Edition
      • November 20, 2024
      • Maira Rubi Segura Campos
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Improving Health and Nutrition through Bioactive Compounds: Benefits and Applications presents bioactive compounds and functional foods as a therapeutic approach to disease and overall health and well-being. It covers various bioactive compounds, including peptides, phenols, and flavonoids as foods to consider for complementary treatment in disease management. Written for nutrition researchers, food scientists, graduate students and other food science and health professionals, this book is a welcomed reference for those who wish to better understand the role of bioactive compounds and functional foods in the treatment and prevention of disease.