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The Social Sciences collection forms a definitive resource for those entering, researching, or teaching in any of the many disciplines making up this interdisciplinary area of study. Written by experts and researchers from both Academic and Commercial domains, titles offer global scope and perspectives.

Key subject areas include: Library and Information Science; Transportation; Urban Studies; Geography, Planning, and Development; Security; Emergency Management.

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Comprehensive Energy Systems

  • 2nd Edition
  • June 1, 2025
  • Ibrahim Dincer
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 2 1 9 - 3
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 4 1 0 8 - 3
Comprehensive Energy Systems, Five Volume Set, provides a unique source of unified information covering the entire spectrum of energy from production to utilization in depth with basic to advanced levels of contents and addressing the critical issues that humanity face. This comprehensive book describes traditional and novel energy systems with thorough contents on system design, analysis and assessment, from single generation to multi-generation, also covering theory and applications. In addition, it also presents high-level coverage on energy policies and strategies, economic dimensions, environmental impact assessment and sustainable development.High-level sections include Energy Fundamentals, Energy Materials, Energy Production, Energy Conversion, and Energy Management. For this second edition, existing chapters have been improved and updated with new information, knowledge, technologies and applications. New chapters and case studies　have been added on topics such as Artificial Intelligence, energy trading, transport, transmission, consumption, and recent dynamics in the energy sector after COVID-19.

Handbook on New Paradigms in Smart Charging for E-Mobility

  • 1st Edition
  • April 1, 2025
  • Abhishek Kumar + 3 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 2 0 1 - 9
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 2 0 2 - 6
Handbook on New Paradigms in Smart Charging for E-Mobility: Global Trends, Policies and Practices provides a complete package for understanding and developing smart chargers for e-mobility applications. It discusses various concepts required for developing charging infrastructure and usage of different kinds of storage technologies, power electronics converters, controllers, communication requirements, grid infrastructure, sustainable technologies, policy frameworks, and all other related crucial aspects of E-mobility.Each part of the book covers a subdomain of e-mobility, beginning with an introductory chapter reviewing existing literature; the subsequent chapters are arranged to each follow the previous one. Other available books focus on specific technical subdomains of e-mobility, but none provides the wider outlook to meet the requirements of all audiences. This book uniquely brings together topics that are not otherwise easily accessible or available to these audiences.This book will be beneficial for engineers, scientists, and researchers, providing them with a comprehensive standard benchmark work to explore the evolving aspects of charging infrastructure for E-mobility. Further, it will also help policymakers, practitioners and government entities to formulate policies for successful implementations of E-motility for their masses. The techno-socio-economic focus will serve as standard literature for all.

Library Space Planning and Design

  • 1st Edition
  • April 1, 2025
  • Alexander H. Cohen + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 1 7 6 - 0
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 1 7 7 - 7
Library Space Planning and Design discusses library planning methods to improve academic libraries, learning commons, undergraduate and graduate studies, special collections, and archives. Often, these projects required difficult challenges. For example, how to integrate student success centers or create new learning commons into a library. The book shows how a library plan can be both sustainable and attractive to the users and how to integrate library functions, furniture, and equipment to enhance the learning environment. Case studies from the author's interactions with library staff, stakeholders, and community leadership in the planning process are also included for additional clarity.

Human Factors in Traffic Safety for Highway and Traffic Engineers

  • 1st Edition
  • April 1, 2025
  • Alexei Tsyganov
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 4 0 4 2 7 - 6
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 4 0 4 2 8 - 3
Human Factors in Traffic Safety for Highway and Traffic Engineers provides details on the human factors' principles and findings that enhance the work of highway and traffic engineers, allowing non-experts to more effectively bring consideration of road user capabilities and limitations into design, operations, and safety. The book provides data and insights from scientific literature on the needs, capabilities, and limitations of road users, including perception and effects of visual demands, cognition, and influence of expectations on driving behavior. It bridges the gap between human factors' research and practical application, presenting complex psychological insights in an accessible manner.Sections explain the significance of the traffic safety problem, giving an overview of the importance of human factors in highway design and traffic engineering, focus on different issues of driver information perception and processing, including driver perception of depth and speed, driver’s visual search, how road users search for information, and how mental and information load affects drivers’ performance, provide results of investigations of traffic crash causation and major driver errors, describe key principles of road users’ considerations during highway design and traffic operation, and focus on safety analysis and assessment.

The Visual Identity of the Book

  • 1st Edition
  • March 1, 2025
  • Christina Banou
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 9 1 6 7 - 1
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 6 1 3 2 - 2
The Visual Identity of the Book: From the Renaissance to the Digital Age provides a framework that considers the ‘materiality’ of the book (from printed to digital/electronic), the aspects of the stakeholders in the publishing chain, the traditional and ongoing promotion strategies, reader engagement, and personalized publishing services. The aim of the book is to interpret current issues in the publishing industry and to provide an overview of the evolution of the visual appearance/identity of the book in order to approach and explain current issues and to discuss aspects of visual information and aesthetics of the book.Other sections introduce promotion strategies, publish policies, and provide a methodological framework that can also be used in the book business.

Blockchain and Supply Chain Management

  • 2nd Edition
  • March 1, 2025
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 0 1 5 5 - 1
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 0 1 5 6 - 8
Blockchain and Supply Chain Management, Second Edition combines discussions of blockchain and supply chains, linking technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, satellite imagery, and machine vision. The book examines blockchain’s basic concepts, relevant theories, and its roles in meeting key supply chain objectives. The book addresses problems related to inefficiency, opacity, and fraud, helping the digitization process, simplifying the value creation process, and facilitating collaboration. The book is balanced between blockchain and supply chain application and theory, covering the latest technological, organizational and regulatory developments in blockchain from a supply chain perspective.The book discusses the opportunities, barriers, and enablers of blockchain in supply chain policy, along with legal and ethical implications. The second edition has been thoroughly updated with a new chapter on the luxury good industry supply chains, as well as updated data and statistics; new examples, case studies, and In-Focus boxes; and added regularly updates throughout the book.As supply chain management faces massive disruption with the dynamic changes in global trade, the impact of Covid-19, and technological innovation, scholars, students, and researchers, as well as practitioners such as analysts, consultants, executives, engineers, and managers, will find this a valuable resource for addressing problems related to inefficiency, opacity, and fraud, helping the digitization process, simplifying the value creation process, and facilitating collaboration.

Walking and Pedestrians

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 15
  • February 1, 2025
  • Winnie Daamen + 3 more
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 3 9 6 - 2
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 3 9 7 - 9
Walking and pedrestrians series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.

Developing China's Green Trade

  • 1st Edition
  • January 31, 2025
  • Kangyin Dong + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 7 3 8 6 - 5
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 7 3 8 7 - 2
Developing China's Green Trade: Comprehensive Evaluation, Impacts, and Advancement Trajectories gives an extensive exploration of the intricate dynamics of green trade and its consequences. The book establishes a comprehensive indexing system for China's green trade and calculates a green trade composite index. Sourcing data from the Chinese Customs import and export trade database, the National Bureau of Statistics of China, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and more, the book employs a range of econometric methods to empirically evaluate the economic, environmental, and social impacts of green trade. It also investigates advancement approaches through environmental regulation, technological innovation, financial inclusion, an more.The book primarily follows a framework of "measuring trade promotion paths." It begins by assessing the provincial green trade index in China after reviewing the concept and current state of green trade. Subsequently, it evaluates the potential impacts of green trade, considering its effects on the economy, environment, and society. Finally, it delves into a "five-pronged approach" of green trade advancement strategies, covering aspects of regulation, technology, finance, energy, and economy.

Smart City Standardization

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 2025
  • Leonidas Anthopoulos
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 4 1 4 4 - 7
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 4 1 4 5 - 4
Smart City Standardization: Smart City Standards Across the Globe contains numerous existing standards that have emerged for smart cities and helps readers understanding their complex processes. It presents the current state of smart city standards at both international and national levels, and it demonstrates how smart city innovation is clarified via standardization, as well as how competitive solutions compromise under international and national negotiations in standardization bodies. It helps practitioners and theorists understand the context and available solutions using a unique case study approach.The book starts with international and supranational levels and proceeds with the most important national approaches. It addresses the problem of smart city standardization and aims to provide answers to the crucial questions:1. What is the purpose of standardization in smart cities?2. How is smart city standardization established, and by whom?3. Which standards exist for smart cities?4. How do national standards transform international recommendations into smaller scale norms?Moreover, the standardization ecosystem is depicted, and the existing international standards are briefly explained. Finally, the interrelation between international and national standardization helps readers understand how the standardization is brought from high-level policymaking to national practices. These standards both clarify the smart city domain, and more importantly aim to homogenize the emerging intelligent solutions that cover the broad smart city scope, ranging from transportation and buildings, to waste, water, and energy.This book is a valuable resource for researchers, policymakers and other practitioners who need to understand how they can use smart city standards to support their communities to strengthen city resilience, as well as instructors of courses in urban studies, ICT, security, public health, engineering, public administration and business administration, and more, to understand the smart city context from practical examples and theoretical considerations.

Handbook of the Economics of Climate Change

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 1
  • December 13, 2024
  • Lint Barrage + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 1 3 2 4 - 0
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 1 3 2 5 - 7
The new Handbook of the Economics of Climate Change Volume 1 provides readers from a broad range of backgrounds – including students, researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners – with a central reference for core elements the economics of climate change: Integrated Climate-Economic Modeling, Empirical Approaches to Climate Change Impact Quantification, Discounting, Mitigation Costs, Adaptation, Climate Policy Options, International Cooperation, and Uncertainty. Leading scholars present timely and accessible overviews on each of these topics, providing interested readers with a broad understanding of key issues and engaged scholars with a foundation for embarking on research in this field.

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