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Sustainable and Smart Cities
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges modern cities face in the context of climate change and urban development. By integrating varied viewpoints, it delves into the concept of sustainable and smart cities and sheds light on the opportunities for innovative and effective solutions, underscoring the interconnected nature of urban challenges and the necessity of a holistic approach. Contributors present diverse perspectives and methodologies, including empirical studies, modelling, simulation, policy analysis, and case studies, to offer insights into innovative and effective solutions for urban sustainability challenges. Chapters are grouped according to themes of gover...
The Economics of Regional Integration
This book develops a new methodological framework for measuring the efficiency of regional integration and the integration profile of member states. It includes rich case studies, which offer a comparative analysis of ten integrations spanning four continents - The Americas, the European Union, Africa and Asia. The Economics of Regional Integration shows the importance of regional (economic) integration in the world economy, based partially on descriptive analyses, the authors’ new methodological framework, and a new composite index integration profile. It implements and quantifies relevant theories (e.g. integration maturity, competitiveness, economic development, convergence) to one fram...
The European Green Deal and the Eastern Partnership
The Eastern Partnership (EaP) was launched in 2009 to strengthen institutional, economic and political relations between the European Union (EU) and the six Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine). Further, the adoption of the European Green Deal (EGD) for these countries can be seen as a turning point in policymaking, as well as an indication that the Green Deal will become a guide to transforming the economy and making it more sustainable. This book presents an innovative, geopolitical, multidimensional survey of EaP-EU relations and the future of Europe. It analyses the situation of the Partnership countries in the context of sustainable develop...
Technology-Based Regional Economic Development
Regional technology-based economic development and the recruitment and retention of talent is a top priority of city-regions in the United States and in countries around the world. However, policy recommendations from government officials, industry leaders and academics are often ambiguous or are in conflict. To address these issues, this book deals with the complex intersection of institutional theory and national and regional policy initiatives. It provides an overview of United States and Japanese technology policy development at the national level with case analyses of Austin, Texas and Tsuruoka, Japan to identify key regional strategies and processes that have resulted in successful end...
Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2023 Workshops
This nine-volume set LNCS 14104 – 14112 constitutes the refereed workshop proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2023, held at Athens, Greece, during July 3–6, 2023. The 350 full papers and 29 short papers and 2 PHD showcase papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 876 submissions. These nine-volumes includes the proceedings of the following workshops: Advances in Artificial Intelligence Learning Technologies: Blended Learning, STEM, Computational Thinking and Coding (AAILT 2023); Advanced Processes of Mathematics and Computing Models in Complex Computational Systems (ACMC 2023); Art...
Hush
A group of friends are stalked by evil in a thriller from the New York Times bestselling author who “always delivers edge-of-your-seat suspense!” (Lisa Jackson) Cross your heart In the summer before their senior year, Coby Rendell and her friends take a beach trip together. Around a campfire on a foggy June night, Coby, Rhiannon, Yvette and the others share their darkest secrets, before a tragic accident shatters the bond between them . . . And hope Twelve years later Coby attends a birthday party reunion that ends in horror when Yvette's sister's lifeless body is discovered in a hot tub. Soon others in the original group of tale-tellers begin meeting similar fates—unfortunate “accid...
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Lucas Trent 4 - The Power of Power
Dark mages on the move... After a failed prison break attempt, Lucas and his friends are once again forced into action to save the day. Struggling to understand the true intentions of their foes, they stumble deeper and deeper into a conspiracy that far exceeds their capabilities. Standing shoulder to shoulder with their allies they head into a challenge that might very well be their last, quickly realizing that they yet again have to outgrow themselves, just to stay alive. Will they be able to defeat their nemesis? Will their friends stay loyal in the face of danger? Or will the forces of evil be victorious in the end? Follow Lucas Trent and his companions in this all-out final chapter of the story. Action, Secrets and Mysteries await...
Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2023
The two-volume set LNCS 13956 and 13957 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2023, held at Lesvos Island, Greece, during July 3–6, 2023. The 67 full papers and 13 short papers and 6 PHD showcase papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 283 submissions. The contributions are grouped in topics which deal with General Track 1: Computational Methods, Algorithms and Scientific Applications; General Track 2: High Performance Computing and Networks; General Track 3: Geometric Modeling, Graphics and Visualization; General Track 4: Advanced and Emerging Applications; General Track 5: Information Systems and Technologies; General Track 6: Urban and Regional Planning; and PHD Showcase Papers.
Seeing Home: The Ed Lucas Story
A blind broadcaster's story of overcoming life's greatest obstacles.
