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Climate adaptation and resilience across scales : from buildings to cities
Climate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales provides professionals with guidance on adapting the built environment to a changing climate. This edited volume brings together practitioners and researchers to discuss climate-related resilience from the building to the city scale. This book highlights North American cases that deal with issues such as climate projections, public health, adaptiv…
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- 9781003030720
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- xxii, 264p. : ill.
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- 338.927 RAJ c
Environmental management in construction : a quantitative approach
Demands on the construction industry are changing, and it is now virtually essential for environmental management to be considered at all stages of a project. Many construction managers are finding a quantitative approach useful, and this book outlines four quantitative methods which can be applied at different construction stages, and which fit within a comprehensive framework of dynamic Envir…
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- 9781138968899
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- xx. ;ill. :233 p.
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- 690.0286. ZHE e
Construction supply chain economics
This is the first comprehensive investigation of the industrial sourcing and procurement practices throughout sixty-eight construction industry supply channels across seven major commodity sectors at all levels. London presents real-world case studies to combine theory and practice to describe the economic structural and behavioural characteristics of sectors integral to the construction indust…
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- 9780203962480
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- vi. ;481 p.
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- 690.0687 KER c
Monuments of merv : traditional buildings of the karakum
Archaeological research and ancient records have been combined in this work to provide a comprehensive account of the buildings of Merv, an oasis city in the middle of the Turkmenistani desert. Founded in the sixth century BC, Merv was a key staging post along the Central Asian trade routes linking Europe and India, and its buildings - palaces, pavilions, gardens and towers springing from the s…
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- 9780854312757
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- xiii. :ill. ; 260 p.
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- 913.42. GEO m
Operationalisation of hybrid peacebuilding in Asia : from theory to practice
This open access book explores common critiques in the literature of hybrid peacebuilding, especially the lack of connection between hybridity in theory and practice. Through using a complexity-informed framework, the foundation for introducing the mid-space actor typology is established. Mid-space actors as insider-partial mediators are perceived to be vital agents for peace processes in confl…
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- 9783030677589
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- xix, 203p. : ill.
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- 327.17209596 OPE o
The state of peacebuilding in Africa : lessons learned for policymakers and p…
This open access book on the state of peacebuilding in Africa brings together the work of distinguished scholars, practitioners, and decision makers to reflect on key experiences and lessons learned in peacebuilding in Africa over the past half century. The core themes addressed by the contributors include conflict prevention, mediation, and management; post-conflict reconstruction, justice and…
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- 9783030466350
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- xix, 431 p.; ill
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- 327.172096 THE t
Future space-transport-system components under high thermal and mechanical lo…
This open access book presents the findings of Collaborative Research Center Transregio 40 (TRR40), initiated in July 2008 and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Gathering innovative design concepts for thrust chambers and nozzles, as well as cutting-edge methods of aft-body flow control and propulsion-component cooling, it brings together fundamental research undertaken at univers…
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- 9783030538477
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- ix, 419p. : ill.
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- 629.47522 FUT f
Academic ableism: Disability and Higher Education
Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education, and rewrites the spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher education to place disability front and center. For too long, argues Jay Timothy Dolmage, disability has been constructed as the antithesis of higher education, often pos…
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- 9780472123414
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- x, 244p.: ill.
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- 378.0087 DOL a
The peacebuilding puzzle : political order in post-conflict states
Transformative peace operations fall short of achieving the modern political order sought in post-conflict countries because the interventions themselves empower post-conflict elites intent on forging a neopatrimonial political order. The Peacebuilding Puzzle explains the disconnect between the formal institutional engineering undertaken by international interventions, and the governance outcom…
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- 9781316718513
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- xiv, 265p. : ill.
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- 355.357 BAR p
Rising powers and peacebuilding : breaking the mold?
This edited volume examines the policies and practices of rising powers on peacebuilding. It analyzes how and why their approaches differ from those of traditional donors and multilateral institutions. The policies of the rising powers towards peacebuilding may significantly influence how the UN and others undertake peacebuilding in the future. This book is an invaluable resource for practition…
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- 9783319606217
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- xv, 276p. : ill.
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- 327.172 RIS r
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