Coastal Hazards in Bangladesh: Non-Structural and Structural Solutionsprovides a review of the study of Bangladesh's coastal region, an area whose location and physical geography present the prefect microcosm for the study of coastal hazards and for the development of tactics th…
Taking the LEAP: The Methods and Tools of the Linked Engineering and Manufacturing Platform (LEAP)shows how to use the LEAP methodology to organize all product lifecycle information needed to drive engineering and manufacturing processes, and also provides knowledge exploitation…
Developing the Global Bioeconomy: Technical, Market, and Environmental Lessons from Bioenergybrings together expertise from three IEA-Bioenergy subtasks on pyrolysis, international trade, and biorefineries to review the bioenergy sector and draw useful lessons for the full deplo…
Visibility: The Seeing of Near and Distant Landscape Featuresreviews the science of visibility from how to measure it quantitatively to its impacts by one of the foremost experts in the field. Carefully designed pedagogy allows a diversity of readers, from regulators to research…
Microbehavioral Econometric Methods and Environmental Studiesuses microeconometric methods to model the behavior of individuals, then demonstrates the modelling approaches in addressing policy needs. It links theory and methods with applications, and it incorporates data to conn…
Rural Water Systems for Multiple Uses and Livelihood Securitycovers the technological, institutional, and policy choices for building rural water supply systems that are sustainable from physical, economic, and ecological points-of-view in developing countries. While there is ab…
Handbook of Frontier Markets: The European and African Evidence provides novel insights from academic perspectives about the behavior of investors and prices in several frontier markets. It explores finance issues usually reserved for developed and emerging markets in order to g…
Computational Finance Using C and C#: Derivatives and Valuation, Second Editionprovides derivatives pricing information for equity derivatives, interest rate derivatives, foreign exchange derivatives, and credit derivatives. By providing free access to code from a variety of com…
Smart Cities and Homes: Key Enabling Technologiesexplores the fundamental principles and concepts of the key enabling technologies for smart cities and homes, disseminating the latest research and development efforts in the field utilizing numerous case studies and examples thro…
More often than not, it is difficult or even impossible to obtain directly the specific rock parameters of interest using in situmethods. The procedures for measuring most rock properties are also time consuming and expensive. Engineering Properties of Rocks, Second Edition, exp…
Foreign Direct Investment in Brazil: Post-Crisis Economic Development in Emerging Marketsexplores both the inward and outward ways foreign direct investment (FDI) can help Brazil sustain economic growth and development in the sometimes hostile post-global crisis era. Inward and …
by Li, Qinghai, Zhang, Yanguo, Zhou, Hui
Theory and Calculation of Heat Transfer in Furnacescovers the heat transfer process in furnaces, how it is related to energy exchange, the characteristics of efficiency, and the cleaning of combustion, providing readers with a comprehensive understanding of the simultaneous phys…
East Asian Business in the New World: Helping Old Economies Revitalizediscusses how to conduct business in East Asia. The main objective of the book is to help American workers and businesses gain competitive advantages in a global marketplace in which the emerging Asian economi…
Business Networks in East Asian Capitalisms: Enduring Trends, Emerging Patternsbuilds on the foundational studies conducted in the 1990s by gathering contemporary empirical and theoretical chapters which explore these themes in a comparative perspective. The book includes contri…
Start-Up Creation: The Smart Eco-efficient Built Environmentprovides a state-of-the-art review on high-technology applications and explains how these can be applied to improve the eco-efficiency of the built environment. Divided into four main parts, the book explains the key fa…
by Tan, Yong
fromChandos Asian studies series
Efficiency and Competition in Chinese Bankinggives a comprehensive analysis of the industry, including cost, technical, profit, and revenue efficiency. The Chinese banking industry is of global importance. The book estimates the competitive condition of the sector using the Boon…
Emergypresents the fundamentals of emergy, proposing the definition and representation of emergy diagrams and 'spreading.' Embodied energy is the energy consumed by all of the processes associated with the production of a building, from the mining and processing of natural resou…
Color Trends and Selection for Product Design: Every Color Sells a Story speaks to the needs of the manufacturing level where colorants are developed, helping manufacturers to understand where their colors will sell and for what period of time these products will be viable. It c…
