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To comprehensively address the complexities of current socio-ecological problems involved in global environmental change, it is indispiseble to achieve an integration of ecological understanding and ethical values. Contemporary science proposes an inclusive ecosystem concept that recognizes humans ... More

This book advances Earth Stewardship toward a planetary scale, presenting a range of ecological worldviews, practices, and institutions in different parts of the world and to use them as the basis for considering what we could learn from one another, and what we could do together. Today, inter-hemi... More

To assess the social processes of globalization that are changing the way in which we co-inhabit the world today, this book invites the reader to essay the diversity of worldviews, with the diversity of ways to sustainably co-inhabit the planet. With a biocultural perspective that highlights planeta... More

This volume brings together works resulting from research carried out by members of the EURO Working Group on Transportation (EWGT) and presented during meetings and workshops organized by the Group under the patronage of the Association of European Operational Research Societies in 2012 and 2013. ... More

This book is a collection of original papers produced by the members of the Euro Working Group on Transportation (EWGT) in the last several years (2015-2017). The respective chapters present the results of various research projects carried out by the members of the EWGT and extended versions of pre... More

This book describes the benefits and drawbacks inherent in the use of virtual platforms (VPs) to perform fast and early soft error assessment of multicore systems. The authors show that VPs provide engineers with appropriate means to investigate new and more efficient fault injection and mitigation ... More

This book addresses the automatic sizing and layout of analog  integrated circuits (ICs) using deep learning (DL) and artificial neural networks (ANN). It explores an innovative approach to automatic circuit sizing where ANNs learn patterns from previously optimized design solutions. In opposition t... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, QUATIC 2021, held in Algarve, Portugal*, in September 2021.The 30 full papers and 9 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 98 submissions. ... More

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in urban and regional planning processes and science, as presented by international researchers at the 11th International Conference on Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning (INPUT), held in Catania, Italy, on September 8-10, 2... More

This book is the second Volume of the INPUT2020 Conference Proceedings on ‘Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning’. The 11th International Conference INPUT was held at the University of Catania (Italy) on September 8-10th 2021 and allowed gathering international scholars in the fields of planning... More

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the workshops held at the 27th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Euro-Par 2021, which took place in Portugal, in August 2021. The workshops were held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic.The 39 full papers presente... More

The markets for organic and fair trade certified commodities are growing rapidly, with environmentally sound and more equitable certification systems likely to offer benefits for both small-scale farmers and society at large. Despite much debate about their contribution to sustainability, there has ... More

Tillage agriculture has led to widespread soil and ecosystem degradation globally, and more particularly in the developing regions. This is especially so in Africa where traditional agricultural practices have become unsustainable due to severe exploitation of natural resources with negative impacts... More

Technology for modifying the genotypes and phenotypes of insects and other arthropods has steadily progressed with the development of more precise and powerful methods, most prominently transgenic modification. For many insect pests, there is now almost unlimited ability to modify phenotypes to bene... More

Tres cuentos en los que el entorno laboral es protagonista. En el primero de los relatos, Horas extraordinarias, de Isaac Rosa, la trama donde se entrecruzan distintas vidas transcurre en una oficina en la que el sometimiento consciente o inconsciente y el miedo a no ser una empleada o un empleado... More

En el primero de los relatos, Horas extraordinarias de Isaac Rosa, la trama donde se entrecruzan distintas vidas transcurre en una oficina en la que el sometimiento consciente o inconsciente y el miedo a no ser una empleada o un empleado suficientemente "positivo" y "entusiasta" hace que la jornada ... More