Bioenergy Economics and Policy: Introduction and Overview -- Are Biofuels the Best Use of Sunlight? -- Perennial Grasses as Second-Generation Sustainable Feedstocks Without Conflict with Food Production -- Present and Future Possibilities for the Deconstruction and Utilization of Lignocellulosic...

The interaction between mathematicians and statisticians reveals to be an effective approach to the analysis of insurance and financial problems, in particular in an operative perspective. The Maf2006 conference, held at the University of Salerno in 2006, had precisely this purpose and the...

Traffic Data Collection and Its Standardization -- Data Collection, Use and Provision at the Transport Data Centre, New South Wales, Australia -- Data Collection for Measuring Performance of Integrated Transportation Systems -- International Traffic Database: Gathering Traffic Data Fast and...

This book is written in light of the latest developments in the field of multidimensional poverty measurement. It includes clear presentations of more than a dozen different quantitative techniques and provides empirical illustrations based on data sources from developed or developing countries