Tag: Sustainable

The Enclave Economy Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Mexico’s Silicon Valley


Free Download Lyuba Zarsky, "The Enclave Economy: Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Mexico’s Silicon Valley"
English | 2007 | pages: 225 | ISBN: 0262072858, 0262572427 | PDF | 2,7 mb
Analyzes the extent to which foreign investment in Mexico’s information technology sector brought economic, social, and environmental benefits to Guadalajara.

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Sustainable and Resilient Critical Infrastructure Systems Simulation, Modeling, and Intelligent Engineering


Free Download Srinivas Peeta, "Sustainable and Resilient Critical Infrastructure Systems: Simulation, Modeling, and Intelligent Engineering"
English | 2010 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 3642114040 | PDF | 6,2 mb
Sustainable and resilient critical infrastructure systems is an emerging paradigm in an evolving era of depleting assets in the midst of natural and man-made threats to provide a sustainable and high quality of life with optimized resources from social, economic, societal and environmental considerations. The increasing complexity and interconnectedness of civil and other interdependent infrastructure systems (electric power, energy, cyber-infrastructures, etc.) require inter- and multidisciplinary expertise required to engineer, monitor, and sustain these distributed large-scale complex adaptive infrastructure systems. This edited book is motivated by recent advances in simulation, modeling, sensing, communications/information, and intelligent and sustainable technologies that have resulted in the development of sophisticated methodologies and instruments to design, characterize, optimize, and evaluate critical infrastructure systems, their resilience, and their condition and the factors that cause their deterioration.

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Harnessing Data Science for Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819777615 | 368 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 85 MB
This book is a comprehensive resource that handles the issues of sustainable agriculture and natural resource management, aligned with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The book is organized into five sections, Understanding the Problem, Data Collection and Cleaning, Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualization, Model Building, and Model Deployment. Each section covers a critical aspect of data science in this context and addresses specific SDGs 2-zero hunger, 6-clean water and sanitation, 12-responsible consumption and production, 13-climate action, and 15-Life on land. The organized sections are arranged to seamlessly follow the data science pipeline and provide practical guidance from problem understanding to its model deployment and stakeholder management. The book is useful for researchers, students, practitioners, and policymakers.

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Role of Edge Analytics on Sustainable Smart City Development Challenges and Solutions


Free Download Role of Edge Analytics on Sustainable Smart City Development: Challenges and Solutions (Next Generation Computing and Communication Engineering) edited by G. R. Kanagachidambaresan
English | August 4, 2020 | ISBN: 1119681286 | True EPUB/PDF | 345 pages | 11.5/18.7 MB
This book addresses the recent real time challenges faced in sustainable smart city development and provides novel solutions to such problems.

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Greenhouse Gardening for Sustainable Living


Free Download Greenhouse Gardening for Sustainable Living: A Beginner’s Guide to Transforming Your Backyard Into a Year-Round Growing Powerhouse by Juliana Arlowe
English | October 8, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DJR5MZNH | 163 pages | EPUB | 4.17 Mb
Cultivating Your Garden Dreams: The Greenhouse Grow-Getters’ Guide to Glory!

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