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Book Sustainable Regeneration of Former Military Sites

Download or read book Sustainable Regeneration of Former Military Sites written by Samer Bagaeen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable Regeneration of Former Military Sites is the first book to analyze a profound land use change happening all over the world: the search for sustainable futures for property formerly dedicated to national defense now becoming redundant, disposed of and redeveloped. The new military necessity for rapid flexible response requires quite different physical resources from the massive fixed positions of the Cold War, with huge tracts of land and buildings looking for new uses. The transition from military to civilian life for these complex, contaminated, isolated, heritage laden and often contested sites in locations ranging from urban to remote is far from easy. There is very little systematic analysis of what follows base closures, leaving communities, governments, developers, and planners experimenting with untested land use configurations, partnership structures, and financing strategies. With twelve case studies drawn from different countries, many written by those involved, Sustainable Regeneration of Former Military Sites enables the diverse stakeholders in these projects to discover unique opportunities for reuse and learn from others’ experiences of successful regeneration.

Book I Swear I Use No Art at All

Download or read book I Swear I Use No Art at All written by Joost Grootens and published by 010 Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book displays and dissects the career and design motives of graphic designer Joost Grootens. In a systematic fashion it charts the first 100 books designed by Grootens over the past ten years. In the first chapter, '10 years', Grootens uses timelines, lists and graphs to map the course of his career as a designer, the people he worked with and the places where the work took place. In '100 books', the designer dissects his book designs. He details the grids, formats, paper stocks, colours and typefaces, and charts the books' structures and compositions. '18,788 pages' shows at actual size a selection of spreads from books designed by Grootens, including the internationally acclaimed atlases. In the text 'I swear I use no art at all' Joost Grootens gives a personal account of making books and the ideas behind his designs.

Book Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage

Download or read book Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage written by Carola Hein and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Open Access book, building on research initiated by scholars from the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development (CHGD) and ICOMOS Netherlands, presents multidisciplinary research that connects water to heritage. Through twenty-one chapters it explores landscapes, cities, engineering structures and buildings from around the world. It describes how people have actively shaped the course, form and function of water for human settlement and the development of civilizations, establishing socio-economic structures, policies and cultures; a rich world of narratives, laws and practices; and an extensive network of infrastructure, buildings and urban form. The book is organized in five thematic sections that link practices of the past to the design of the present and visions of the future: part I discusses drinking water management; part II addresses water use in agriculture; part III explores water management for land reclamation and defense; part IV examines river and coastal planning; and part V focuses on port cities and waterfront regeneration. Today, the many complex systems of the past are necessarily the basis for new systems that both preserve the past and manage water today: policy makers and designers can work together to recognize and build on the traditional knowledge and skills that old structure embody. This book argues that there is a need for a common agenda and an integrated policy that addresses the preservation, transformation and adaptive reuse of historic water-related structures. Throughout, it imagines how such efforts will help us develop sustainable futures for cities, landscapes and bodies of water.

Book Radial Foraminifera

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cornelis Willem Drooger
  • Publisher : North Holland
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Radial Foraminifera written by Cornelis Willem Drooger and published by North Holland. This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paperback. In the past sixty years morphometric research on larger, radial foraminifera has generated a tremendous but scattered amount of information which, in its details, is unparalleled in paleontology. This book describes the main roads of evolution, presenting a comprehensive account of evolution patterns and problems in nine unrelated stocks of radial foraminifera. In addition, it gives explanations for the speciation and cladogenesis in connection with the role of environment. The book will be of great value to all (micro)paleontologists, evolutionary biologists, and (paleo)ecologists.

Book Habitat Preferences  Diet  Feeding Strategy and Social Organization of the Black Spider Monkey  Ateles Paniscus Paniscus Linnaeus 1758  in Surinam

Download or read book Habitat Preferences Diet Feeding Strategy and Social Organization of the Black Spider Monkey Ateles Paniscus Paniscus Linnaeus 1758 in Surinam written by Marc G. M. van Roosmalen and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adult males do have core areas, which are larger than dominant-female core areas and even may, combine those of two dominant females.

Book Architectuur in Nederland

Download or read book Architectuur in Nederland written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book HRM and Performance

Download or read book HRM and Performance written by J. Paauwe and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a thought-provoking book for HRM students, academics and practitioners alike. It adopts a broad perspective that takes into account not only the strategic dimension of HRM, but the professional & societal dimension, & combines academic research with a focus on practical conclusions & recommendations.

Book Well being  Sustainability and Social Development

Download or read book Well being Sustainability and Social Development written by Harry Lintsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book examines more than two centuries of societal development using novel historical and statistical approaches. It applies the well-being monitor developed by Statistics Netherlands that has been endorsed by a significant part of the international, statistical community. It features The Netherlands as a case study, which is an especially interesting example; although it was one of the world’s richest countries around 1850, extreme poverty and inequality were significant problems of well-being at the time. Monitors of 1850, 1910, 1970 and 2015 depict the changes in three dimensions of well-being: the quality of life 'here and now', 'later' and 'elsewhere'. The analysis of two centuries shows the solutions to the extreme poverty problem and the appearance of new sustainability problems, especially in domestic and foreign ecological systems. The study also reveals the importance of natural capital: soil, air, water and subsoil resources, showing their relation with the social structure of the ‘here and now ́. Treatment and trade of natural resources also impacted on the quality of life ‘later’ and ‘elsewhere.’ Further, the book illustrates the role of natural capital by dividing the capital into three types of raw materials and concomitant material flows: bio-raw materials, mineral and fossil subsoil resources. Additionally, the analysis of the institutional context identifies the key roles of social groups in well-being development. The book ends with an assessment of the solutions and barriers offered by the historical anchoring of the well-being and sustainability issues. This unique analysis of well-being and sustainability and its institutional analysis appeals to historians, statisticians and policy makers.

Book Design for Regenerative Cities and Landscapes

Download or read book Design for Regenerative Cities and Landscapes written by Rob Roggema and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the way to design and plan for regenerative cities and landscapes. Where sustainability aims to safeguard the resources for future generations, and the resilience concept focuses on dealing with shocks to keep the system functioning, regeneration aims to give back more than it takes from the system. This principle is often used in analytical and assessment literature, but not yet elaborated in a spatial planning and design context, which this book does. It offers insights from a range of perspectives, spatial scales, such as the country level, neighbourhood public space, streets and the building levels, scientific fields and continents, amongst which Africa, Oceania, and Europe.

Book The Rise and Decline of Dutch Technological Leadership  2 Vols

Download or read book The Rise and Decline of Dutch Technological Leadership 2 Vols written by Karel Davids and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-09-17 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a wide-ranging overview of Dutch technological leadership in the early modern Europe, it explains whence this leadership came about and why it ended and it explores to what extent the Dutch case illuminates the evolution of technological leadership in general.

Book ICMLG2016 4th International Conference on Management  Leadership and Governance

Download or read book ICMLG2016 4th International Conference on Management Leadership and Governance written by Dmitry Vasilenko and Natalia Khazieva and published by Academic Conferences and publishing limited. This book was released on with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dynamic Enterprise Architecture

Download or read book Dynamic Enterprise Architecture written by Roel Wagter and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-02-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an approach to enterprise architecture, which enables corporations to achieve their business objectives faster. Focusing on the governance of IT in the organization, it provides tangible tools, advice and strategies for implementing and designing the architectural process within a corporation that will make a major contribution in driving the business forward and achieve its goals.

Book Third RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication

Download or read book Third RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication written by Richard Buswell and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-24 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 3rd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication (Digital Concrete), held in Loughborough, UK, on June 27-29, 2022. Focusing on additive and automated manufacturing technologies for the fabrication of cementitious construction materials, such as 3D concrete printing, powder bed printing, and shotcrete 3D printing, the papers highlight the latest findings in this fast-growing field, addressing topics like mixture design, admixtures, rheology and fresh-state behavior, alternative materials, microstructure, cold joints & interfaces, mechanical performance, reinforcement, structural engineering, durability and sustainability, automation and industrialization.

Book Advances in Concurrent Engineering

Download or read book Advances in Concurrent Engineering written by Biren Prasad and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1996-08-22 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transforming the Dutch welfare state

Download or read book Transforming the Dutch welfare state written by Yerkes, Mara A. and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2011-06-29 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study provides a thorough account of important policy developments in the Netherlands that are significant beyond the borders of the Dutch welfare state. It demonstrates the dramatic changes that have taken place in the protection of old and new social risks, exploring the mechanisms behind these changes in the context of corporatist welfare state institutions. This book is essential for welfare state scholars, graduate students and policy makers.

Book A Planner s Encounter with Complexity

Download or read book A Planner s Encounter with Complexity written by Gert de Roo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial planning is about dealing with our 'everyday' environment. In A Planner's Encounter with Complexity we present various understandings of complexity and how the environment is considered accordingly. One of these considerations is the environment as subject to processes of continuous change, being either progressive or destructive, evolving non-linearly and alternating between stable and dynamic periods. If the environment that is subject to change is adaptive, self-organizing, robust and flexible in relation to this change, a process of evolution and co-evolution can be expected. This understanding of an evolving environment is not mainstream to every planner. However, in A Planner's Encounter with Complexity, we argue that environments confronted with discontinuous, non-linear evolving processes might be more real than the idea that an environment is simply a planner's creation. Above all, we argue that recognizing the 'complexity' of our environment offers an entirely new perspective on our world and our environment, on planning theory and practice, and on the raison d'être of the planners that we are. A Planner's Encounter with Complexity is organized into 17 chapters. It begins with the interplay of planning and complexity from the perspective of contemporary planning theory. It continues by critically assessing planning theory and practice in the light of the interdisciplinary debate regarding complexity thinking. As the book progresses, it positions itself ever closer to the perspective of complexity thinking, looking at the planning discipline 'from the outside in', clarifying the facets of complexity and its importance in planning. Finally, conceptual and theoretical developments towards more applied examples are identified in order to see the interplay of planning and complexity in practice. This book emphasizes the importance of complexity in planning, clarifies many of the concepts and theories, presents examples on planning and complexity, and proposes new ideas and methods for planning.

Book The Rhine

    Book Details:
  • Author : M. H. Bik
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9783540293934
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book The Rhine written by M. H. Bik and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: