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Winner of the Gold Axiom Business Book Award 2024 in the Philanthropy / Non Profit / Sustainability category. A Top 10 Best New Management Book for 2024 (Thinkers50) Tech For Good reveals how Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies will help solve the world’s greatest challenges like climate change biodiversity loss inequality and poverty. Tech For Good presents a unique perspective on how business can successfully apply advanced technologies in a purpose-driven manner while unlocking new markets and seizing business opportunities. Packed with 75 real-life business cases of companies from all over the world this inspiring book unfolds a compelling narrative about how businesses commercially synergize technology and sustainability. The purpose of this book is to imagine the unprecedented possibilities advanced technologies offer business to drive sustainable growth. Tech for Good will be vital for realizing our Global Goals. |Tech For Good Imagine Solving the World’s Greatest Challenges | Business

This is the first book of its kind to examine Schibsted one of the largest traditional media and newspaper companies in the Nordic region which is today considered a regional and international digital media pioneer. The book examines the rise and role of Schibsted - an early mover and proactive media company in terms of technology adoption digitization and online expansion - in its home region along with its major international ventures. The book focuses on its position in the Nordic digital media landscape one of the world’s most digitally mature media markets and most digitally networked region which is today influenced by fierce competition from expanding global internet giants and platform infrastructure. Drawing on a wealth of sources including original interviews with senior Schibsted executives which allow unprecedented insight into the company the book also details its digital expansion internationally and particularly its pioneering role as originator of the world’s largest online classified advertising company. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of global media and communication studies particularly those specializing in international communication and media industries in a global context. |Schibsted The Digital Transformation of a Nordic Media Giant | Media & Cultural Studies

Domestic violence legislation is a key response to the entrenched social problem of intimate partner violence across the globe yet little is known about the legal players who implement these laws in terms of their perceptions of intimate partner violence and femicide. Through in-depth critical analysis of judicial transcripts this book demonstrates that legal understandings of intimate partner femicide continue to be based upon outdated notions of 'couple conflict' and gender-neutral constructions of intimate partner violence. Contending that judicial understandings of ‘what happened’ must be re-aligned with feminist understandings of intimate partner violence and femicide Intimate Partner Femicide: Contesting the Legal Story ... represents a call to uphold the rights of women to live free from male-perpetrated violence and femicide. This book will therefore appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in gendered violence law social justice and criminology. |Intimate Partner Femicide Contesting the Legal Story | Sociology

Volume IV of the Six Volume Remote Sensing Handbook Second Edition is focused on the use of remote sensing in forestry biodiversity ecology land use and land cover and global terrestrial carbon mapping and monitoring. It discusses remote sensing studies of multi-scale habitat modeling forest informatics tree and stand height studies land cover and land use (LCLU) change mapping forest biomass and carbon modeling and mapping and advanced image analysis methods and advances in land remote sensing using optical radar Li DAR and hyperspectral remote sensing. This thoroughly revised and updated volume draws on the expertise of a diverse array of leading international authorities in remote sensing and provides an essential resource for researchers at all levels interested in using remote sensing. It integrates discussions of remote sensing principles data methods development applications and scientific and social context. FEATURES Provides the most up-to-date comprehensive coverage of remote sensing science for forests biodiversity land cover and land use change (LCLUC) biomass and carbon. Discusses and analyzes data from old and new generations of satellites and sensors spread across 60 years. Extensive forestry LCLUC studies biomass and carbon using optical radar Li DAR and hyperspectral data. Includes numerous case studies on advances and applications at local regional and global scales. Introduces advanced methods in remote sensing such as machine learning cloud computing and AI. Highlights scientific achievements over the last decade and provides guidance for future developments. This volume is an excellent resource for the entire remote sensing and GIS community. Academics researchers undergraduate and graduate students as well as practitioners decision makers and policymakers will benefit from the expertise of the professionals featured in this book and their extensive knowledge of new and emerging trends. |Remote Sensing Handbook Volume IV Forests Biodiversity Ecology LULC and Carbon

What is internal communication? What role does it play in contemporary organizations? What are the consequences of malfunctioning internal communication? There are many aspects of internal communication – work related social formal informal vertical horizontal between coworkers between coworkers and managers communication before and under organizational changes internal crisis communications and so forth. We think of different forms of communication channels such as intranet staff magazines electronic billboards and internal television. This book interconnects these different parts and emphasizes the strategic value and importance of internal communication. We understand internal communication as an unused capital with a large potential for organizational success. Further we understand internal communication as a basic prerequisite of organizations that is performed by all members of an organization – managers coworkers and communication professionals. Traditionally there has been too much emphasis on the work and function of communication professionals when internal communication is discussed but most of the communication value is actually produced by managers and coworkers. However communication professionals are the communication experts in organizations that strategically facilitate the organization. This book is based on a cooperation between Susanne Dahlman senior communication consultant and Mats Heide Professor in Strategic Communication at Lund University. Hence this book has a unique approach that covers both practical and academic aspects of internal communication. This book is a response to the demand for a book that covers the strategic aspects of internal communication in practice and as such is ideal reading for both practitioners and advanced students. |Strategic Internal Communication A Practitioner’s Guide to Implementing Cutting-Edge Methods for Improved Workplace Culture | Business

Imagine if every architect had an apprentice who could consistently observe and understand their intentions take over routine tasks and monitor technical environmental and economic constraints. This apprentice would continually improve freeing the architect to concentrate on truly creative work. This book outlines a plan to turn this vision into reality. It evaluates the development of artificial intelligence from its inception to the present focusing on the last two decades of applying AI in architectural design and planning; the current state of architectural practice is also examined. Integrating architecture computer science AI robotics economics law neurobiology and philosophy the vision is built on three key premises: (i) authentic poetic creativity that transcends parameterization and algorithmizing (ii) innovative learning strategies and training approaches not yet applied concerning architectural design and (iii) the convergence of architecture’s inherent spatiality with virtual reality technology and new theories of human thinking and intelligence poised for implementation in machine learning. |Artificial Intelligence in Architecture and the Built Environment The Revolution Yet to Come

Malaria is one of most serious infectious diseases today and has afflicted humankind for thousands of years. A significant number of people still die from this mosquito-borne disease despite the use of various malaria prevention and control methods over hundreds of years and more than a century of coordinated global control efforts using modern tools together with research into and development of new strategies for prevention diagnosis and disease treatment. Genetic approaches that focus on the vector mosquitoes to prevent malaria parasite transmission have been considered for many decades. Genetic control strategies received a significant boost with the successful development of gene drive systems genetic methods for rapidly spreading beneficial genes and phenotypes through mosquito populations. This book reviews some concepts of gene drive systems and describes pioneering applications to control mosquito populations and prevent parasite transmission. |Mosquito Gene Drives and the Malaria Eradication Agenda | Science Client Lines

The goals of this text are to develop the skills and an appreciation for the richness and versatility of modern time series analysis as a tool for analyzing dependent data. A useful feature of the presentation is the inclusion of nontrivial data sets illustrating the richness of potential applications to problems in the biological physical and social sciences as well as medicine. The text presents a balanced and comprehensive treatment of both time and frequency domain methods with an emphasis on data analysis. Numerous examples using data illustrate solutions to problems such as discovering natural and anthropogenic climate change evaluating pain perception experiments using functional magnetic resonance imaging and the analysis of economic and financial problems. The text can be used for a one semester/quarter introductory time series course where the prerequisites are an understanding of linear regression basic calculus-based probability skills and math skills at the high school level. All of the numerical examples use the R statistical package without assuming that the reader has previously used the software. |Time Series A Data Analysis Approach Using R | Statistics

This guidebook is a practical and essential tool covering all the necessary steps for structural design engineers to create detailed and accurate calculations in accordance with Australian and international standards. General project requirements are explained in terms of project management and document control. Calculation methods and details are shown for actions (wind seismic dead and live loads). Design details are then provided for steel concrete timber and geotechnical calculations (footings piles retaining walls etc.). Detailed worked example calculations are included throughout the text as well as typical CAD details for design drawings. Design items are explained for typical items of equipment found across various industries (e.g. piping vessels lifting machine foundations access composite structures bunds and more). Design aids are provided including guides and examples for popular engineering programs (Space Gass Strand7 and Rhinoceros 3D). Comprehensive capacity tables are also included for steel and concrete elements. This edition has been updated to include the latest design requirements from Australian Standards including Steel Structures (AS 4100–2020) Concrete Structures (AS 3600–2018) (including steel fibre reinforced concrete slabs) Earthquake Actions (AS 1170.4–2024) and basic requirements from Timber Structures (AS 1720.1–2010). Requirements from many more Australian Standards and international standards are also provided in the context of typical design projects. |Australian Guidebook for Structural Engineers

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is widely used in society today. The (mis)use of biased data sets in machine learning applications is well‑known resulting in discrimination and exclusion of citizens. Another example is the use of non‑transparent algorithms that can’t explain themselves to users resulting in the AI not being trusted and therefore not being used when it might be beneficial to use it. Responsible Use of AI in Military Systems lays out what is required to develop and use AI in military systems in a responsible manner. Current developments in the emerging field of Responsible AI as applied to military systems in general (not merely weapons systems) are discussed. The book takes a broad and transdisciplinary scope by including contributions from the fields of philosophy law human factors AI systems engineering and policy development. Divided into five sections Section I covers various practical models and approaches to implementing military AI responsibly; Section II focuses on liability and accountability of individuals and states; Section III deals with human control in human‑AI military teams; Section IV addresses policy aspects such as multilateral security negotiations; and Section V focuses on ‘autonomy’ and ‘meaningful human control’ in weapons systems. Key Features: Takes a broad transdisciplinary approach to responsible AI Examines military systems in the broad sense of the word Focuses on the practical development and use of responsible AI Presents a coherent set of chapters as all authors spent two days discussing each other’s work This book provides the reader with a broad overview of all relevant aspects involved with the responsible development deployment and use of AI in military systems. It stresses both the advantages of AI as well as the potential downsides of including AI in military systems.|Responsible Use of AI in Military Systems | Computer Science

This book is a reference guide for healthcare executives and technology providers involved in the ongoing digital transformation of the healthcare sector. The book focuses specifically on the challenges and opportunities for health systems in their journey toward a digital future. It draws from proprietary research and public information along with interviews with over one hundred and fifty executives in leading health systems such as Cleveland Clinic Partners Mayo Kaiser and Intermountain as well as numerous technology and retail providers. The authors explore the important role of technology and that of EHR systems digital health innovators and big tech firms in the ongoing digital transformation of healthcare. 　 Importantly the book draws on the accelerated learnings of the healthcare sector during the COVID-19 pandemic in their digital transformation efforts to adopt telehealth and virtual care models. 　 Features of this book: Provides an understanding of the current state of digital transformation and the factors influencing the ongoing transformation of the healthcare sector. Includes interviews with executives from leading health systems. Describes the important role of emerging technologies; EHR systems digital health innovators and more. Includes case studies from innovative health organizations. Provides a set of templates and frameworks for developing and implementing a digital roadmap. Based on best practices from real-life examples the book is a guidebook that provides a set of templates and frameworks for digital transformation practitioners in healthcare. |Healthcare Digital Transformation How Consumerism Technology and Pandemic are Accelerating the Future | Business Improvement

In this ground-breaking book pre-eminent thought leader in the fields of sustainability and flourishing John R. Ehrenfeld critiques the concept of sustainability as it is understood today and which is coming more and more under attack as unclear and ineffective as a call for action. Building upon the recent work of cognitive scientist Iain Mc Gilchrist who argues that the human brain’s two hemispheres present distinct different worlds this book articulates how society must replace the current foundational left-brain-based beliefs – a mechanistic world and a human driven by self interest – with new ones based on complexity and care. Flourishing should replace the lifeless metrics now being used to guide business and government as well as individuals. Until we accept that our modern belief structure is itself the barrier we will continue to be mired in an endless succession of unsolved problems. |The Right Way to Flourish Reconnecting to the Real World | Business

New Dramaturgies of Contemporary Opera is the first and only book that approaches the dramaturgy of contemporary opera from the unique perspectives of living practitioners (composers librettists directors producers singers dramaturgs and administrators) who provide valuable first-hand insight into the coming into being of an opera today. The edited collection captures the ethos of contemporary opera-making in the global context and serves as a timely intervention in addressing the array of heterogenous dramaturgical practices that go into making an opera today in an era of flux. The collection is split into four parts: Part I presents the new dramaturgical considerations that the field is currently exploring; Part II investigates the ways in which non-Western cultures and perspectives can and have been represented; Part III explores the roles of space nature and environment in contemporary opera; and finally Part IV looks at the ways in which technology has intersected with the creation of contemporary opera. With perspectives from practitioners throughout this collection is essential reading for advanced students researchers and scholars of contemporary opera as well as practicing dramaturgs in this field. |New Dramaturgies of Contemporary Opera The Practitioners’ Perspectives | Theatre and Performance

Hamilton explores in a short history how all men gained the vote self-government and the secret ballot in South Australia (1856) Victoria (1857) and New South Wales (1858). Australia permanently democratised without a violent revolution and at a very early time. In 1851–1858 local parliaments in the British colonies of New South Wales Victoria and South Australia gave all men the vote including Aboriginal and Chinese men the secret ballot and self-government of local affairs. Britain approved this book examines the parliamentary debate which led to these radical democracies. Debates covered voting eligibility the secret ballot the upper house of parliament equal electorates multiple voting illiterate voters control of Crown lands terms of parliament payment of members and separation of Church and State. British parliamentary tradition was combined with the advanced liberal thinking of the time Chartism with the British constitution. The democratisation of 1851–1858 in the three largest Australian colonies was as fundamental to Australian prosperity as the ‘mixed’ market economy. This is a vital text for scholars of democracy as well as those interested in Australian Studies Australian History Political Science Constitutional Law and the building blocks of first-world prosperity. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license. |The Australian Horn of Plenty How Britain's Australian Colonies Began Democracy

Despite improvements in the last 20 years we still have a long way to go before all of our buildings places and spaces are easy and comfortable for all of us to use. This book puts forward a powerful case for a totally new attitude towards inclusivity and accessibility. Exploring both the social and the business cases for striving for better this book will empower architects to have more enlightened discussions with their clients about why we should be striving for better than the bare minimum and challenging the notion that inclusive design should be thought of reductively as simply a list of “special features” to be added to a final design or that inclusivity is only about wheelchair access. This book will be to help make inclusive design business as usual rather than something that is added on to address legislation at the end of the development process. Accessible and engaging this book will be an invaluable resource for students as well as practicing architects richly illustrated with case studies showing both good and bad examples of inclusive design and celebrating inclusion. |Are you an inclusive designer? | Architecture

This new volume explores important recent approaches and advanced techniques for the effective management and treatment of wastewater. The book provides a range of diverse techniques for achieving optimum water quality management for restoration of water bodies for the improvement of a circular water economy and for effective water reuse. Many of the new methods and technologies included in the book focus on sustainable phytoremediation techniques such as the use of earthworms ecological floating beds and anaerobic biovalorization. The book also comprehensively discusses the scope of nanomaterials for wastewater treatment. Some of the least explored aspects of water quality improvement such as use of eco-roofs the role of remote sensing in water quality management and biosand filters for household wastewater treatment are discussed as well. |Advanced Technologies for Water Quality Treatment and Management | Science Client Lines

Apulian limestones constitute the historic building constructions of the Puglia region (in the south of Italy) named trulli (representing an outstanding universal value for UNESCO) but also other stone buildings of the well-known Itria Valley. Trulli are drywall (mortarless) constructions made of roughly worked limestone blocks collected from neighbouring fields. The limestone for trulli is quarried from different Apulian localities and together with another local lithotype represents the stone heritage of the Itria Valley. This book begins with an introduction to the region of southern Italy where trulli and other typical stone architecture can be found. The Itria Valley with its towns and landscape and the town of Alberobello are described from an architectural point of view. The second section describes the different examples of building constructions in local stone of the Itria Valley focusing on ancient and contemporary quarries. In this part petrographic and physical mechanical characteristics of the main kind of limestones are reported and discussed. The third part focuses on the main examples of stone architecture of Itria Valley distinguishing the historical rural buildings from the other historical civil ones. In this section particular attention is given to best practices of evaluation action protection rules and restoration methods for stone heritage in Itria Valley and Alberobello. This book serves as a useful source of information to geologists archaeologists architects historians and stone industry operators specifically and to academic and non-academic communities travellers and tourism industry operators in general. The book will also be of interest to students researchers and rock enthusiasts spanning all age groups and academic levels. |Natural Stone and World Heritage Itria Valley and Alberobello Apulia Region Italy | Balkema Reference Books

The world’s challenges are becoming more and more complex and adapting to those challenges will increasingly come from teams of people innovating together. The Practitioner’s Handbook of Team Coaching provides a dedicated and systematic guide to some of the most fundamental issues concerning the practice of team coaching. It seeks to enhance practice through illustrating and exploring an array of contextual issues and complexities entrenched in it. The aim of the volume is to provide a comprehensive overview of the field and furthermore to enhance the understanding and practice of team coaching. To do so the editorial team presents synthesizes and integrates relevant theories research and practices that comprise and undergird team coaching. This book is therefore an invaluable specialist tool for team coaches of all levels; from novice to seasoned practitioners. With team coaching assuming an even more prominent place in institutional and organizational contexts nowadays the book is bound to become an indispensable resource for any coaching training course as well as a continuing professional development tool. This book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in coaching in both practice and educational settings. It will be of use not only for professional coaches but also for leaders managers HR professionals learners and educators in the business public independent and voluntary sectors.|The Practitioner’s Handbook of Team Coaching | Business

Historically security managers have tended to be sourced from either the armed forces or law enforcement. But the increasing complexity of the organisations employing them along with the technologies employed by them is forcing an evolution and expansion of the role and security managers must meet this challenge in order to succeed in their field and protect the assets of their employers. Risk management crisis management continuity management strategic business operations data security IT and business communications all fall under the purview of the security manager. This book is a guide to meeting those challenges providing the security manager with the essential skill set and knowledge base to meet the challenges faced in contemporary international or tech-oriented businesses. It covers the basics of strategy risk and technology from the perspective of the security manager focussing only on the 'need to know'. The reader will benefit from an understanding of how risk management aligns its functional aims with the strategic goals and operations of the organisation. This essential book supports professional vocational accreditation and qualifications such as the Chartered Security Professional (CSy P) or Certified Protection Professional (CPP) and advises on pathways to higher education qualifications in the fields of security and risk management. It is ideal for any risk manager looking to further their training and development as well as being complementary for risk and security management programs with a focus on practice. |Professional Security Management A Strategic Guide | Business

This up-to-date reliable introductory account and interpretation of early medieval art combines art history and ideas from around 600 to 1050. Diebold describes diversity and complexity of early medieval art by examining the relationship of word and image. The concept of word and image is broad enough to encompass the Anglo-Saxon art and oral cu |Word And Image The Art Of The Early Middle Ages 600-1050 | Visual Studies

The Everglades Handbook: Understanding the Ecosystem Fifth Edition is packed with scientific information about the greater Everglades ecosystem taking into account how drastically the Everglades has changed. The book covers disciplines ranging from ecology geology climatology hydrology simplified biogeochemistry and anthropology to conservation biology. The fifth edition of this bestselling guide presents expanded treatment of subjects where our knowledge of the Everglades and its restoration has greatly improved as well as updates throughout. This more detailed coverage includes a new chapter ‘Everglades Chemistry – A Primer’ and an expanded section on the role of human intervention in Everglades restoration as well as numerous new graphics that bring the science to life. Written in Tom Lodge’s trademark accessible style combined with the expertise of new coauthor Stephen E. Davis III Chief Science Officer with the Everglades Foundation this extensively researched text is essential reading for anybody trying to understand the challenges we face in restoring this unique ecosystem. |The Everglades Handbook Understanding the Ecosystem | Life Science