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  • Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

    Case Studies in Engineering and the Environment

    by Igor Linkov, Emily Moberg, Benjamin D. Trump, Boris Yatsalo, Jeffrey M. Keisler ...
    Series series Environmental Assessment and Management
    Decision analysis has become widely recognized as an important process for translating science into management actions. With climate change and other systemic threats as driving forces in creating environmental and engineering problems, there is a great need for understanding decision making frameworks through a case-study based approach. Management of environmental and engineering projects is ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Science and Practice of Resilience

    by Igor Linkov, Benjamin D. Trump ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive view on resilience based upon state-of-the-science theories and methodological applications that resilience may fill. Specifically, this text provides a compendium of knowledge on the theory, methods, and practice of resilience across a variety of country and case contexts, and demonstrates how a resilience-based approach can help further improved infrastructure, ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Biotechnology and AI: Technological Convergence and Information Hazards

    Edited by Christopher L. Cummings, Benjamin D. Trump, Valentina Prado, Beth Ellinport, Igor Linkov ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book offers a forward-looking perspective on the convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and biotechnology, and its transformative impact on synthetic biology. As these fields evolve rapidly, their integration is reshaping science, industry, and society in profound ways.Through a collection of rigorously researched chapters, the volume provides a comprehensive analysis of this dynamic ... Read more

    $224.09 USD

  • Mental Modeling Approach

    Risk Management Application Case Studies

    by Matthew D. Wood, Sarah Thorne, Daniel Kovacs, Gordon Butte, Igor Linkov ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides an easy-to-read, user-oriented introduction to mental models research and Mental Modeling TechnologyTM. Mental models are powerful influences human behavior. The book offers insight from the developers and most experienced application professionals of a widely proven methodology for understanding and influencing human judgment, decision making and behavior.The case studies show ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • COVID-19: Systemic Risk and Resilience

    Edited by Igor Linkov, Jesse M. Keenan, Benjamin D. Trump ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book aims to provide a collection of early ideas regarding the results of applying risk and resilience tools and strategies to COVID-19. Each chapter provides a distinct contribution to the new and rapidly growing literature on the developing COVID-19 pandemic from the vantage points of fields ranging from civil and environmental engineering to public policy, from urban planning to economics, ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Synthetic Biology 2020: Frontiers in Risk Analysis and Governance

    Edited by Benjamin D. Trump, Christopher L. Cummings, Jennifer Kuzma, Igor Linkov ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Synthetic biology offers powerful remedies for some of the world’s most intractable problems, but these solutions are clouded by uncertainty and risk that few strategies are available to address. The incentives for continued development of this emerging technology are prodigious and obvious, and the public deserves assurances that all potential downsides are duly considered and minimized ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Resilience and Risk

    Methods and Application in Environment, Cyber and Social Domains

    Edited by Igor Linkov, José Manuel Palma-Oliveira ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This volume addresses the challenges associated with methodology and application of risk and resilience science and practice to address emerging threats in environmental, cyber, infrastructure and other domains. The book utilizes the collective expertise of scholars and experts in industry, government and academia in the new and emerging field of resilience in order to provide a more comprehensive ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Emerging Threats of Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology

    Addressing Security and Resilience Issues

    Edited by Benjamin D. Trump, Marie-Valentine Florin, Edward Perkins, Igor Linkov ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Synthetic biology is a field of biotechnology that is rapidly growing in various applications, such as in medicine, environmental sustainability, and energy production. However these technologies also have unforeseen risks and applications to humans and the environment.This open access book presents discussions on risks and mitigation strategies for these technologies including biosecurity, or the ... Read more

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  • Hacking Darwin

    Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity

    by Jamie Metzl ...
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  • Nature as Teacher – New Principles in the Working of Nature

    Volume 2 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger's Eco-Technology Series

    by Viktor Schauberger ...
    Translated by Callum Coats ...
    Today we are standing helpless and perplexed. With no glimmer of improvement anywhere in sight, we feel hopelessly propelled towards a forlorn future. It is understandable therefore than an increasing number of people, sick and tired of this insane activity, are now seeking ways to return to Mother Nature. Viktor Schauberger (1885–1958) Nature as Teacher, the second volume of the Eco-Technology ... Read more

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  • The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't

    by William J. Baumol, Monte Malach, Ariel Pablos-Mendez, Lillian Gomory Wu ...
    The exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm. Similarly, the upward spiral of college tuition fees is cause for serious concern. In this concise and illuminating book, well-known economist William J. Baumol explores the causes of these seemingly intractable problems and offers a surprisingly simple explanation. Baumol identifies the "cost disease" as a ... Read more

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