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Book Proceedings of the 2023 2nd International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Economy  UPRE 2023

Download or read book Proceedings of the 2023 2nd International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Economy UPRE 2023 written by Reza Lotfi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access book. As a leading role in the global megatrend of scientific innovation, China has been creating a more and more open environment for scientific innovation, increasing the depth and breadth of academic cooperation, and building a community of innovation that benefits all. These endeavors have made new contribution to globalization and creating a community of shared future. To adapt to this changing world and China's fast development in this new era, 2023 2nd International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Economy (UPRE 2023) is to be held on April 21-23, 2023 in Beijing, China. Urban planning can change the functional structure of a city. Urban planning plays a very important role in regional economic development. Urban planning contains various factors of urban economic development. Urban economic development can effectively improve the speed and quality of urban planning formulation and implementation. The two affect and interact with each other. The meeting will focus on "urban planning" and "regional economy", and discuss their interdependence, mutual promotion and mutual restriction. UPRE 2023 aims to build a platform for scholars to discuss the relationship between urban planning and economy, aims to promote the exchange of different cutting-edge research in the field of information and connection at home and abroad the most advanced academic resources. Conference topics include Traffic management and supply chain, regional policy and local economic transformation, Scenic spot development and tourism economy, Urban modernization and high-tech economy, Environmental protection and sustainable economy, Resource development and industrial structure.

Book Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence  Internet and Digital Economy  ICAID 2022

Download or read book Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Internet and Digital Economy ICAID 2022 written by Nebojša Radojević and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 1259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access book.With the continuous upgrading of network information technology, especially the combination of information technology such as Internet - cloud computing - blockchain - Internet of Things and in social and economic activities, through artificial intelligence, Internet and big data with high quality and fast processing efficiency improvement, economic form from industrial economy to information economy. This will greatly reduce social transaction costs, improve the efficiency of resource optimization, increase the added value of products, enterprises and industries, and promote the rapid development of social productivity. The 2022 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Internet and Digital Economy (ICAID 2022) will focus on the latest research on "Artificial Intelligence, Internet and Digital Economy", which brings together experts, scholars, researchers and related practitioners from around the world to share research results, discuss hot issues, and provide attendees with cutting-edge technology information to keep them abreast of industry developments, the latest technologies, and broaden their research horizons.

Book Strategic Planning Kit For Dummies

Download or read book Strategic Planning Kit For Dummies written by Erica Olsen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create a roadmap for your company’s future success—the For Dummies way Strategic Planning Kit For Dummies not only teaches you how to build a solid business strategy, but it gives you the tools to do it. Checklists, worksheets, and real-life examples guide you through answering your most pressing questions. Plus, all-new online resources make creating a lasting strategy easier than ever. Build a company vision statement, assess your strategic position, engage your team, and execute your plan—with easy-to-understand instructions and explanations that anyone can follow. This revised edition shows you how to adapt your strategy, plan for the unknown, and stay resilient through all the changes facing today’s businesses. Advice from For Dummies experts will make any business leader’s strategic dreams a reality. Learn the basics of how to create a long-term business strategy Create your mission and vision statements and a strategic framework Get organized, engage your team, and deploy your strategy through objectives and key results Access resources, worksheets, checklists and more—in the book and online This is the For Dummies guide for business owners and C-suite executives who are building or rethinking their company’s strategy and planning a path for growth. It’s a big job, but you don’t have to do it alone. Dummies has your back.

Book The Equity Planner

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jason King
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2023-11-30
  • ISBN : 1000993442
  • Pages : 251 pages

Download or read book The Equity Planner written by Jason King and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic development is intended to benefit everyone in a community; however, in many cases, increased public and private investment can result in the pricing out and displacement of existing residents and businesses. How do we achieve more equitable outcomes? The Equity Planner provides a toolkit of practical solutions for planners and all those involved in placemaking to promote thoughtful, inclusive planning. Each chapter of The Equity Planner examines one particular aspect of inequity in the urban planning sphere, covering issues such as identity retention, affordability, and the protection and enhancement of local assets. While each chapter offers practicable solutions to these issues, the "Notes from the Field" sections describe how these same tools have been used (either successfully or unsuccessfully) in projects the author has been involved in, with a particular focus on the local resistance each project encountered. These real-world case studies are used to suggest methods to overcome such resistance, which the reader can then apply to their present initiatives. This book is written for urban planners, local activists, social scientists, policymakers, and anyone with an interest in equity planning. This book will be of use to both practicing and training urban planners and architects who seek to add equity planning to their professional repertoire.

Book Critical Planning and Design

Download or read book Critical Planning and Design written by Camilla Perrone and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-23 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book interprets and recombines, within a subjective trajectory, some roots, pathways and conceptual frames of the planning thought that worked either as dissenting imaginations or generative source to critically question the modernist epistemologies. ‘Critical planning and design’ is presented in this book as a field of research inspired by critical urban theory and developed along with ideas and theories that prove to be radical, alternative, dialectical to the mainstream history of planning. In this book, scholars present what they consider as the most important books in the field of planning, public policy and design. They have been asked to write about a book and its author, in their preferred manner. This freedom allowed passionate and original contributions. Three main threads - the three parts of the book - shape the choices of the authors. The first concerns the reconstruction of some genealogical roots of planning (including Cerdà, Yona Friedman, Alberto Magnaghi, and Ian McHarg). The second thread groups the authors who dialogue with contemporary protagonists of the planning debate (including John Friedmann, Leonie Sandercock, Doreen Massey, David Harvey, Tom Sievert, and Patzy Healey). The third thread includes authors who dig into relevant writings in social and philosophical sciences (including Max Weber, Charles Lindblom, Henri Lefebvre, Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Georges Didi-Huberman, Robert Nozick, Pand hilip K Dick). The book is addressed to researchers of planning and urban studies, who value the critical re-reading of some fundamental books. Including thoughtful and critical arguments on influential thinkers of the past two centuries, the book will enable students, scholars and researchers of planning, design, political science, geographical, environmental, and urban studies to better understand the socio-spatial and ecological transformations under the contemporary transition while relying on a “usable past”. The book is also addressed to a wider audience of readers interested in the problems of the city and space.

Book Railway Planning  Management  and Engineering

Download or read book Railway Planning Management and Engineering written by V Profillidis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-05 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a rapidly changing world, with increasing competition in all sectors of transportation, railways are currently restructuring their planning, management, and technology. As commercial and pricing policies change and new methods of organization are introduced, a more entrepreneurial spirit is required. At the same time, new high-speed tracks are being constructed and old tracks are being renewed, magnetic levitation trains are in operation, hyperloop systems are being planned, high-comfort rolling stock vehicles are being introduced, logistics and combined transport are being developed. Awareness of environmental issues and the search for greater safety attribute a new role to the railways within the transportation system. Meanwhile, methods of analysis have evolved significantly, principally due to computer applications, the internet revolution, satellite technologies, and artificial intelligence, all of which offer new ways of thinking about and addressing old problems. Railway Planning, Management, and Engineering aims to fulfill the need for a new scientific approach for railways. It is intended to be of use to railway planners, managers, economists, engineers, and students in engineering, transportation, economics, and management. The book is divided into three parts, which deal successively with planning, management, track, rolling stock, safety, and the environment.

Book Frogs of the United States and Canada

Download or read book Frogs of the United States and Canada written by C. Kenneth Dodd Jr. and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 991 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The premiere reference book on the 108 species of frogs inhabiting North America north of Mexico. An unparalleled synthesis of the biology and behavior of all native and nonindigenous species, this two-volume, extensively referenced resource has been called the most important book ever published on North American anura. Color photographs and range maps accompany species accounts detailing information on etymology, nomenclature, identification, distribution, fossil record, systematics and geographic variation, life history and ecology, behavior, population and community biology, and conservation. This new edition of the text contains the following updates: Literature citations have been added from 2012 to 2021, now spanning from 1709 to 2021. Distribution maps have been updated, recording the decreased ranges due to declining amphibian populations. Photographs have been revised to ensure the highest digital quality. Anaxyrus williamsi and Lithobates kauffeldi, newly described species, have been included. An account is also included for Gastrophryne mazatlanensis, now recognized as occurring within the United States. Generic keys have been added. A brief section on N.A. frogs in history and art have been added. Nomenclature has been updated (Incilius for Ollotis). Now the only up-to-date and comprehensive resource for those trying to protect amphibians in the US and Canada, as well as for researchers and wildlife managers who study biodiversity"--

Book The Codex of the Endangered Species Act  Volume II

Download or read book The Codex of the Endangered Species Act Volume II written by John F. Organ and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) is one of the most cherished and reviled laws ever passed. It mandates protection and preservation of all the nation’s species and biodiversity, whatever the cost. It has been a lightning rod for controversy and conflicts between industry/business and environmentalists. In this volume, leading Endangered Species Act experts interpret and propose legislative and administrative changes to prepare the ESA for future challenges. They explore regulations on avoiding harm to and producing benefits for species, cooperation between state and federal agencies, scientific analyses, and the necessary politics to enact their ideas. This is a call to action to chart an enlightened future for the Endangered Species Act that embraces the nation’s moral commitment of 50 years ago to address species extinction constructively, mindful of biodiversity, and as a fixture among the nation’s values and needs. The interconnected web of life includes all living species that depend on each other for survival, us among them. The stakes—our very future—are too high to ignore.

Book Humanitarian extractivism

Download or read book Humanitarian extractivism written by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the digital transformation of aid as a form of humanitarian extractivism. It focuses on how practices of data extraction shift power towards states, the private sector and humanitarians. Digital initiatives aimed towards ‘fixing’ the humanitarian system, making it better and more secure, also create risk and harm for vulnerable individuals and communities. Central to the digital transformation of aid is the digital body – with digital identities becoming a prerequisite for receiving aid and protection – and the centralisation of vulnerability arising from enormous databases holding ever more humanitarian data. Cyber-attacks, human error and technological problems generate risks for humanitarians, but also mean that humanitarians themselves can put populations in need at risk. The book explores new humanitarian spaces and practices such as the humanitarian drone airspace, wearable innovation challenges and ethics in global disaster innovation labs.

Book Frog Gig

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Smith
  • Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
  • Release : 2022-06-22
  • ISBN : 1636614426
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Frog Gig written by Robert Smith and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frog Gig By: Robert Smith When journalist Jeff Stewart gets an anonymous call from a college student about endangered tree frogs, he does not think much of it. However, as he dives further into the lead, and becomes more and more entrenched in the movement and its various characters, he discovers that it goes much deeper than some little frogs, leading him on a chase to uncover a local government conspiracy and potentially an unsolved murder.

Book Sustainable Design and Manufacturing 2023

Download or read book Sustainable Design and Manufacturing 2023 written by Steffen G. Scholz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Calling BS on Busy

Download or read book Calling BS on Busy written by Andrew Mellen and published by First Line Press. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolutionary system that gives you back 1 hour or more of lost time every day People think they can manage time the way they manage money and other tangible things. But Andrew Mellen, the “Most Organized Man in America,” has discovered that the only way to increase productivity sustainably is to change our relationship with time—our most precious and nonrenewable resource. Combining cutting-edge neuroscience with common sense and compassionate tough love, Mellen will help you call BS on the cultures of FOMO and wearing “busy” as a badge of honor. By getting real about how you’re currently spending your time, you will learn how to quickly set yourself free from the stories that have kept you stuck—feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and stressed out every day. Transform your life as you learn the most effective ways to: • Break free from procrastination’s grip • Stop multitasking • Manage interruptions, distractions, and time wasters like social media • Unclog your email inbox fast • Avoid time-wasting meetings and run effective ones instead • Treat “no” as a complete sentence • Tame the other deadly time thieves, including poor planning and overcommitting Calling BS on Busy unleashes the power of a radically positive mindset paired with simple, practical actions you can take to instantly reclaim your life

Book The Customer Driven Playbook

Download or read book The Customer Driven Playbook written by Travis Lowdermilk and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the wide acceptance of Lean approaches and customer-development strategies, many product teams still have difficulty putting these principles into meaningful action. That’s where The Customer-Driven Playbook comes in. This practical guide provides a complete end-to-end process that will help you understand customers, identify their problems, conceptualize new ideas, and create fantastic products they’ll love. To build successful products, you need to continually test your assumptions about your customers and the products you build. This book shows team leads, researchers, designers, and managers how to use the Hypothesis Progression Framework (HPF) to formulate, experiment with, and make sense of critical customer and product assumptions at every stage. With helpful tips, real-world examples, and complete guides, you’ll quickly learn how to turn Lean theory into action. Collect and formulate your assumptions into hypotheses that can be tested to unlock meaningful insights Conduct experiments to create a continual cadence of learning Derive patterns and meaning from the feedback you’ve collected from customers Improve your confidence when making strategic business and product decisions Track the progression of your assumptions, hypotheses, early ideas, concepts, and product features with step-by-step playbooks Improve customer satisfaction by creating a consistent feedback loop

Book Night of the Undead Frogs

Download or read book Night of the Undead Frogs written by Katie Schenkel and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2021 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy's looking forward to the frog dissections at school (so delightfully gross!), but his disrespectful behavior toward his teacher (whom he thinks is a witch) and the frogs earns him detention--so he sneaks back at night planning revenge, only to find that the dissected frogs have come back to life, multiplied, and are out to get their revenge on him.

Book Frog on the Log

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leyland Perree
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9781847507068
  • Pages : 24 pages

Download or read book Frog on the Log written by Leyland Perree and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frog loves his log, so when a storm washes away his home, he tries everything to hang an as he drifts downstream. But when Frog has to abandon his log, he finds another ...or so it seems.

Book Museum Resilience

Download or read book Museum Resilience written by Susan Guyette and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focused on multiple-scenario planning method, Museum Resilience gets to the “how” for expanding inclusivity and decolonization efforts, as well as adapting in a time of visitation and financial challenges. Unique features of the book include explaining worldview differences, value-based planning techniques (adaptive and multiple-scenario), the specifics of expanding museum income through collaborations, and ways of developing learning programs that support cultural continuance. The author has field-tested these methods for 30 years (over 50 plans completed), blending her graduate degrees in Cultural Anthropology and Urban and Regional Planning to design methods for cross-cultural planning. Integral to the book are planning processes for museums to use with communities in addressing these issues. Each chapter contains an annotated “Further Readings” feature, useful for textbook readers. Another feature of the book is the integration of examples concerning potential roles museums can take in opening environmental awareness. The author is an experienced leader in culturally diverse issues, focusing on value-based planning and designing techniques that work across cultures.