Suchergebnisse

From the Middle-Income Trap to the Threshold Effect -- How Does China Avoid "Secular Stagnation? -- Establishing a New Development Paradigm by Strengthening Comparative Advantage -- Dynamic Balance of Regional Economic Growth -- Productivity, New Growth Drivers and the Manufacturing Industry -- Tales of Cities: Fundamentals of Urban Development -- Human-Centered Macroeconomic Policies -- Innovation and Protection: Why We Should Prioritize Income Redistribution -- Moving Upward: Quality-oriented Development and Social Mobility -- Unlocking the Second Demographic Dividend.

Chapter 1 Didactic/Methodological Proposal -- Chapter 2 Bionics and Design -- Chapter 3 Bio-digital 'material systems' -- Chapter 4 Echinodesign -- Chapter 5 Biodigital Product Design -- Chapter 6 Method and processes for abstraction of natural micro-structures for new product development -- Chapter 7 Biomimetics and 4D Printing -- Chapter 8 Innovative trends in academic pavilions -- Chapter 9 Levels of access to biomimetics -- Chapter 10 Biodesign as a tool to achieve sustainable construction through additive manufacturing.

Chapter 1. Assessment of land cover change impacts (1987-2022) over environmental degradation using NDVI index and GIS tools within upstream part of Oum Err Bia basin (Morocco) (Halouan Said) -- Chapter 2. Use of biological parameters of Mytilus galloprovincialis and modelling investigation tools for installing potential future zones of mussel farming after improvement of Anza-Taghazout seawater quality (Youssef El Mourabit) -- Chapter 3. Building a Greener World: Harnessing the Power of IoT and Smart Devices for Sustainable Environment (Wasswa Shafik) -- Chapter 4. The application of solar distillation technology as a sustainable solution for seawater desalination in the arid regions of the world (Souad NASRDINE) -- Chapter 5. Study of energy production by the anaerobic digestion system of Waste Management (Soukaina Agoud) -- Chapter 6. Predictive Deep Neural Network model of Doukkala Coastal domain Land Use with Remote Sensing data (Mustapha Skittou) -- Chapter 7. Digitalization of a system transport and distribution of drinking water by designing an online digital model on a virtual platform (Oumaima EL-GHAMMAD) -- Chapter 8. Impact of Firing Temperature on Energy Efficiency, Durability, and Performance in Clay Brick Manufacturing with Diverse Clay Types (ABOULOIFA Walid) -- Chapter 9. Rosa canina aqueous extract: chemical characterization and green synthesis of silver and copper nanoparticles (Meriem OUTAKI) -- Chapter 10. Management and valuation of rainwater by alternative techniques, Zone 1 of the University of Settat (Abdelhadi EL BOUZIDI) -- Chapter 11. Characterization and valorization of Recycled Textile Waste: Application for treatment of wastewater from the textile industry (SAKINI Salma) -- Chapter 12. Studying the effect of integration intelligent dust detection and cleaning system on the efficiency of monocrystalline photovoltaic panels (Mohammed Benchrifa) -- Chapter 13. Thermal-oxidative Ageing and lifetimeprediction of the High-Density Polyethylene Pipes (Ihssan Srii) -- Chapter 14. Performance Nanopesticides in Agriculture: Scopes and Limitations (Ahmed Sayantani Nanda) -- Chapter 15. Sustainability in integrated water resources management: systematic literature review (Oumaima RBAIBI) -- Chapter 16. Towards aerogel blanket for thermal insulation in buildings – Short review (Ait khouya Oumaima).

Foreword: The importance of integrating cultural heritage into the UN Ocean Decade -- 1. Introduction -- 2. History of Trawling and Ecological Impact -- 3. The Duty to Protect Our Ocean Heritage from Bottom Trawling -- 4. Quantification of bottom trawl damage to ancient shipwrecks: A case study from the coastal waters of Turkey -- 5. Wreck sites as systems disrupted by trawling -- 6. Multi-use and Multi-vocal Challenges of Preserving Underwater Cultural Heritage in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary -- 7. Underwater Cultural Heritage and Fishing Communities: safeguarding heritage and safeguarding fishers -- 8. Beneath a Façade: The Unscientific Justification of Treasure Salvage -- 9. Conclusion: Looking Forward.

Introduction -- Part I -- Is the American Form of Government a Democracy? Signs of Systemic Oligarchy in Direct and Representative Democracy -- Truth Matters: Factual Accuracy, Theoretic Rationality, and the Legitimacy of Political Decision-Making -- Learning How to Read: Legal Hermeneutics -- Deference without Virtue: A Concern for Common Good Constitutionalism -- Dworkinian Protestantism, Civil Disobedience, and Democratic Citizenship -- Constructive Interpretation, Democracy, and the Protestant Attitude -- Part II -- Structural Injustices in the Educational System, Inequality, and its Effects on Democracy -- The Black Scare -- Representative Democracy, the Right to Vote and the Weighting of Votes -- The Importance of Condorcet Consistency in Preserving Democracy -- Comprehensive Pluralism, Liberalism, and Religious Liberty.

Chapter 1. Landslide Risk and Vulnerability; Real issues, Thoughts and Perspectives -- Chapter 2. Landslide Susceptibility Mapping by Using Geospatial Technique: Reference from Hofu City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan -- Chapter 3. Landslide hazard risk and vulnerability monitoring – GIS based Approach -- Chapter 4. Landslide Susceptibility Mapping Methods – A Review -- Chapter 5. Mapping of Landslide Susceptibility using state-of-the-art method and Geospatial Techniques in the Rangamati District in the Chattogram Hill Tracts region of Bangladesh -- Chapter 6. Towards Artificially Intelligent Landslide Susceptibility Mapping: A Critical Review and Open Questions -- Chapter 7.Landslide Susceptibility Analysis by Frequency Ratio Model and Analytical Hierarchical Process in Mirik and Kurseong, Darjeeling Himalaya, India -- Chapter 8.Suitability analysis of landslide susceptibility model of Uttarkashi District in Uttarakhand, India: a comparative approach between weighted overlay and multi-criteria decision analysis -- Chapter 9. Determining Land induced factors for landslide susceptibility in Indian cities -- Chapter 10.Moisture-Driven Landslides and Cascade Hazards in the Himalayan Region: A Synthesis on Predictive Assessment -- Chapter 11. Landslide susceptibility map showing the spatial relationship between various landslide factors and landslide using remote sensing and GIS-based Frequency Ratio method in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India -- Chapter 12. Landslide susceptibility using weighted regression model: A Geo-spatial approach -- Chapter 13. Assessment of climate change impact on landslides in Darjeeling district of West Bengal: a geospatial, geostatistical and ecosystem service based approach.-Chapter 14. Landslide vulnerability analysis of tourist spots through Shannon Entropy model : A case study on Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand -- Chapter 15. Landslide Hazard Susceptibility Analysis and Modelling in the Vicinity of the Proposed Subansiri Lower HE Project, Arunachal Pradesh.-Chapter 16. Land Use and Land Cover as a Conditioning Factor in Landslide Susceptibility: A Literature Review -- Chapter 17. A Geospatial Review Analysis of Increased Frequency of Large Glacier-Related Landslides in Mountainous Regions -- Chapter 18. Landslide Detection Using DInSAR Technique: A Case Study -- Chapter 19. Landslide Hazard Risk Assessment Using GIS and Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) Approach: Evidence from 2017 Rangamati Hill Tracts Landslide Event, Bangladesh -- Chapter 20. Landslide risk assessment, awareness, and risk mitigation: case studies and major insights -- Chapter 21. Community-based Landslide Disaster Mitigation on The Northern Slope of "Telaga Lele" Hill, Banjarnegara Regency, Indonesia -- Chapter 22. Evaluation of Double Fusion Satellite Rainfall Dataset in Establish Rainfall Thresholds for Landslide Occurrences over Badung regency - Bali -- Chapter 23. Landslide Susceptibility and Risk Assessment in Hilly Regions of Bangladesh: A Geostatistical and Geospatial Modeling Approach for Sustainability -- Chapter 24. Landslide Hazard and Risk Management Framework for Alaknanda Basin in the Indian Himalayan Region.

Chapter 1: The Problem of Standpoint in Phenomenology -- Chapter 2: Standpoint Epistemology/Standpoint Phenomenology -- Chapter 3: Three Methodologies: Breakdown, Sign, & Wonder -- Chapter 4: The Methodology of Breakdown as a Standpoint Approach -- Chapter 5: Of Signs and Signals -- Chapter 6: Wonder and Standpoint -- Chapter 7: Finding Out Who We are Together.

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