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"This book highlights matters that relate to technology driven solutions toward the combination of social ecology and sustainable development, addressing the issues of development in advancing and transitioning economies through creating new ideas and solutions"--Provided by publisher.

"This book establishes a new set of platforms for intellectual discourse and identification of critical and strategic emerging issues, the formulation of cogent and useful policies, and practice recommendations"--Provided by publisher.

"This reference explores some of the most recent developments in sustainability, delving into topics beyond environmental science to cover issues of sustainable economic, political, and social development"--Provided by publisher.

Ubiquitous commerce (u-commerce) creates a dynamic convergence of the physical and digital, producing Web-based wireless and next-generation technologies in ways that generate new levels of convenience and value for buyers and sellers. This book provides a compendium of definitions and...

Educational institutions across the globe have begun to place value on the technology of assessment instruments as they reflect what is valued in learning and deemed worthy of measurement. This publication combines in-depth, multi-disciplinary research in learning assessment to provide a fresh...

"This book brings together the many theories and meta-theories that make information science relevant across different disciplines, highlighting theories that had their base in the early days of text-based information and expanding to the digitization of the Internet"--Provided by publisher.

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"This book explores the issues revolving around the conflict between technology versus human beings, the concern for the separation of human beings in the ecosystem, and the negative consequences that may follow as ecosystems are being damaged"--Provided by publisher.

Spectrum of public and private spheres in East Asia: theoretical inspirations from past and present / Mika Markus Merviö -- On the genealogy of public and private: beyond market and state to the world of pluralism / Jari Vuori, Marika Kylänen -- The impact of global financial crises on the...