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CIGOS 2021, Emerging Technologies and Applications for Green Infrastructure: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Geotechnics, Civil Engineering and Structures (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering #203)
This book highlights the key role of green infrastructure (GI) in providing natural and ecosystem solutions, helping alleviate many of the environmental, social, and economic problems caused by rapid urbanization. The book gathers the emerging technologies and applications in various disciplines inv... More
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Proceedings of the 2nd Vietnam Symposium on Advances in Offshore Engineering: Sustainable Energy and Marine Planning (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering #208)
This book gathers a selection of refereed papers presented at the 2nd Vietnam Symposium on Advances in Offshore Engineering (VSOE 2021), held in 2022 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The book consists of articles written by researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and entrepreneurs addressing the impo... More
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IE&EM 2019: Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management 2019
This book records the new research findings and development in the field of industrial engineering and engineering management, and it will serve as the guidebook for the potential development in future. It gathers the accepted papers from the 25th International conference on Industrial Engineering ... More
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Encyclopedia of Scale Insect Pests
by Helen Harman • Jan H. Giliomee • Jocelyn A. Berry • Manuela Branco • Lyle Buss • Alejandro Caballero • Juang Horng Chong • Lucía E. Claps • C. De Klerk • Rodrigo Diaz • Imre Foldi • Antonio P. Garonna • Ilya A. Gavrilov-Zimin • Raymond J. Gill • Penny J. Gullan • Disna N. Gunawardana • Sunil Joshi • M. Bora Kaydan • Paris L. Lambdin • Yen-Po Lin • Christopher Malumphy • Zvi Mendel • Vitor Cezar Pacheco da Silva • Giuseppina Pellizzari • Ana Lúcia Peronti • Francesco Porcelli • Alex Protasov • Ting-Kui Qin • Andrea Amalia Ramos Portilla • Dewi Sartiami • Scott A. Schneider • U.G.A.I. Sirisena • Pompeo Suma • Éva Szita • Hirotaka TanakaScale insects feed on plant juices and can easily be transported to new countries on live plants. They sometimes become invasive pests, costing billions of dollars in damage to crops worldwide annually, and farmers try to control them with toxic pesticides, risking environmental damage. Fortunately,... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022