This comprehensive compendium is about managing information systems and focuses on relationships between information, information systems, people and business.
This volume focuses on the implementation of the 2011 UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL approach), designed to foster the integration of heritage management in regional and urban planning and management, and strengthen the role of heritage in sustainable urban development.
This book documents through first-hand experience and academic research the historical, cultural and economic interactions affecting land use in Singapore.
The book aims to provide a comprehensive view of advanced environmental approaches for wastewater treatment, heavy metal removal, pesticide degradation, dye removal, waste management, microbial transformation of environmental contaminants etc.
This book addresses up-to-date urban health issues from a systems perspective and provides an appealing integrated urban development strategy based on a 10-year global interdisciplinary research programme created by the International Council for Science (ICSU), and sponsored by the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the United Nations University (UNU).
The economic liberalization of India, changes in global structures, and the rapid emergence of India on the global landscape have been accompanied by the dramatic rise in popular, public, and elite discourses that offer the promise to imagine India.
This beautifully illustrated book explains how water influences our culture; the many phases of water from ice to gas, its simple but still so unpredictable nature, and water resources on Earth; how water is distributed in ice, oceans, rivers, lakes and more; how it creates transport possibilities; how it produces and absorbs energy; how it is constantly changing the surface of the Earth; how there is enough water on Earth, yet sometimes there is too much or too little; the role of water in recreation; and how water supplies us with food in a myriad of ways.
This book offers an in-depth description and analysis of Chinese coin-like charms, which date back to the second century CE and which continued to be used until mid 20th century.
This book explores aspects of the ancient civilization in West Asia, which has had a great impact on modern human society-agriculture, metallurgy, cities, writing, regional states, and monotheism, all of which appeared first in West Asia during the tenth to first millennia BC.
The publication seeks to establish how information professionals are providing information services in in a sustainable society in an era of information disorder.
This book is based on the topics, questions and results of the international conference "e;Aesthetics of Transformation - Arts Education Research and the Challenge of Cultural Sustainability"e;.
Esta obra presenta un enfoque innovador que le permite al lector introducirse en la gestion del conocimiento en ambientes educativos, principalmente de instituciones de educacion superior.
La humanidad ha llegado a ser la más poderosa fuerza trasformadora del planeta, con lo cual ha creado un nuevo periodo: el Antropoceno o la "era humana".
Este es un libro con unos lenguajes visuales exuberantes, que entraña una metáfora sobre el arte prehispánico colombiano, la creatividad y la belleza de las mujeres y hombres que vivieron en nuestro territorio 3000 años antes de enfrentar su realidad estética, con otra traída allende del océano.
La imposición de códigos culturales uniformes permite organizar e intercambiar la materia de la cual está formada la cultura: informaciones que circulan entre individuos y que les permiten actuar.
Infancia y habilidades STEM: herramientas para su desarrollo es un libro de texto que contiene actividades ludicas para que padres y docentes puedan acompanar a ninos a partir de los 4 anos en el mundo de la creacion con tecnologia y, en general, en la educacion STEM.
Presenta algunas ideas que podrian fundamentar la mediacion tecnologica como una estrategia para generar procesos de apropiacion de contenidos sobre el patrimonio cultural, en el contexto de las sociedades de la informacion y el conocimiento.
En la actualidad, escribir es un reto para maestros y para estudiantes de todos los niveles de formación, y se convierte en un desafío mayor cuando se requiere sustentar una idea y contrastarla con la de otra persona.
Esta obra desarrolla, en su primera parte, contenidos teóricos relativos al estudio y la interpretación de los sistemas sociales y a los conceptos básicos de las ciencias de la información.
This book offers a ready solution for those who wish to learn more about this fascinating part of our water history and makes accessible to the wider world the traditional knowledge gained from building and maintaining qanats for more than 2,500 years.
Until researchers and theorists account for the complex relationship between resilience and culture, explanations of why some individuals prevail in the face of adversity will remain incomplete.
In this preface I will include explanations of three factors: the intended audience of this book, the structure of the book, and the acknowledgement of many who contributed to its fruition.
Terrain has a profound effect upon the strategy and tactics of any military engagement and has consequently played an important role in determining history.
By Terry Eastwood This book reports the findings of a research project on the means of protecting the integrity of active and semi-active electronic records.
Interdisciplinary inquiry has become more pervasive in recent decades, yet we still know little about the conduct of this type of research or the information problems associated with it.
