Industry and industrial studies

This Handbook presents opportunities, best practices, and case studies backed by cutting edge research on the drivers of continuous improvement of health, safety, and wellbeing in the architecture, engineering, construction, and facility management sector.

Current safety and risk management guidelines necessitate that organizations develop and formally manage their understanding and knowledge of the standards and protocols of risk management.

Global food security is a challenging issue.

Building on his decades of experience as a consultant and project manager in the automotive industry, the author develops comprehensive and pragmatic recommendations for action regarding the digital transformation of the automotive and supplier industries.

Dieses Buch zeigt, was unter Auto­matisierung und Personalisierung von Dienstleistungen zu verstehen ist und welche Fra­gestellungen und Konzepte zukünftig von Bedeutung sein werden.

This book describes the transformation of the agricultural sector in East-Central European countries after the collapse of the socialist system at the beginning of the 20th century.

The Science of Grapevines, Third Edition reflects the latest insights into cultivar relationships, vascular transport, hormone action, and stress responses of grapevines.

Exploring the concept of win-win agreements, this book analyses how they pose an important challenge for entrepreneurs, managers and advisors involved in complex negotiations among firms.

The book is a kaleidoscope of the rourism issues of the New Millennium.

This title was first published in 2002: The interrelationship between international trade and the environment has become the subject of much heated debate.

This book focuses on best management practices for drip irrigated crops.

First Published in 1987.

This book brings together scholars from the fields of politics, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and economics, to explore pathways towards implementing a Basic Income in Australia.

Die Autorinnen und Autoren des Tagungsbandes liefern aus Sicht des Marketing, der Kommunikationstheorie sowie des Tourismus Erklärungsansätze für die synergetische Verbindung von Events und touristischen Destinationen.

This book contributes to an ongoing debate about the EU as a global actor, the organization's ability to speak with one voice in energy affairs, and the external dimension of the regulatory state.

Tobacco addresses the many interrelated controversies surrounding the historical and current use of tobacco and presents a clear, objective, and thorough treatment of this contentious public health and legal issue.

An understanding of environmental gradients (physical, chemical, hydrological, and biological) is a prerequisite to the accurate delineation of wetland boundaries.

Television is changing almost beyond recognition.

With the advent of electronic medical records years ago and the increasing capabilities of computers, our healthcare systems are sitting on growing mountains of data.

This book explores the role of renewable energy sources in driving sustainable development, with a focus on their circular use in achieving environmental efficiency and an energy balance.

This volume discusses the need to adopt Climate-Resilient Agriculture (CRA) practices to address the increasing global impact that climate change has on agricultural productivity and agriculture-dependent communities.

This is a third edition of a successful textbook that provides a contemporary account of how social services in the UK are paid for.

This 2004 book is a comprehensive study of Australian corporate life over the past 150 years.

This book demonstrates how the Thalidomide catastrophe of the 1960s and the BSE crisis of the 1990s led to regulatory regimes for pharmaceuticals and foodstuffs in Europe.

The second edition of Arts Management has been thoroughly revised to provide an updated, comprehensive overview of this fast-changing subject.

Although 'VUCA' is not a new term, the features of the world it describes, a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment, have never been more valid.

This book presents the outcomes of the trans- and interdisciplinary research project NEMo (Nachhaltige Erfullung von Mobilitatsbedurfnissen im landlichen Raum - Sustainable Fulfilment of Mobility Needs in Rural Areas).

In the Summer of 1973, workers occupied the Lip watch and clock factory, sparking a national cause and controversy.

Most of the time, industrial wastes contain recoverable resources that would be useful in other applications.

Salinity is one of the acute problems causing enormous yield loss in many regions of the world.

Dieses Lehrbuch behandelt die wichtigsten multivariaten Analysemethoden, dies sind Regressionsanalyse, Varianzanalyse, Diskriminanzanalyse, Kreuztabellierung und Kontingenzanalyse, Faktorenanalyse, Clusteranalyse, Kausalanalyse (LISREL), multidimensionale Skalierung und Conjoint-Analyse.

Kirkuk is Iraq's most multilingual city, for millennia home to a diverse population.

The availability of low-cost energy from fossil fuels - in particular oil - has been the driving force behind postwar global economic growth, such that the petroleum industry has some of the world's largest companies.

Second Edition of a Shingo Prize Winner Based on the author's personal experience with Toyota's master teachers and with companies in the midst of great change, Andy and Me: Crisis and Transformation on the Lean Journey, now in its second edition, is a business novel set in a failing New Jersey auto plant focusing on the tribulations of Tom Pappas,

The concept of food and nutrition security has evolved and risen to the top of the international policy agenda over the last decade.

The account handler is a key person within an advertising agency, liaising between the client on the outside and the planning, creative and media function within.

Gastronomy is the art and science of good eating and drinking: a concept that extends outwards to embrace wider notions of tradition, culture, society and civilisation.

WILDLAND RECREATION THE AUTHORITATIVE GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING THE ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES IN WILDLANDS This third edition provides an updated and thorough examination of the ecological impacts of recreational use on wildlands and the best management practices to employ in places where recreation and preservation of natural conditions are important and often conflicting objectives.

Norges Bank has been an integrated part of Norwegian economic development from the complicated birth of the new nation-state after the Napoleonic wars to the present nouveau-richness of the Norwegian oil economy.

Dieses Buch zeigt Ihnen, wie Sie sich vor problematischen Mietern schützen.

There is much specialist material written about different elements of managing risks of hazardous industries, such as hazard identification, risk analysis, and risk management.

Originally published in 1973, this book tells the story of the English countryside and its inhabitants between 1560 and 1760; the time when British agriculture became the wonder and envy of the world.

Designed to be a stand alone desktop reference for the Stormwater manager, designer, and planner, the bestselling Municipal Stormwater Management has been expanded and updated.

The influence of the past, and of the future on current-time tradeoffs in the forest arena are particularly relevant given the long-term successions in forest landscapes and the hundred years' rotations in forestry.

This is the first comprehensive encyclopedia on the history of the vast and varied ways human beings have used the world's waterways for business, protection, and recreation.

Originally published in 1985, this book argues forcefully and practically for new relationship between science and the small farmer.