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ItemNo Preview AvailableCovid-19 Pandemic Geospatial Information and Community Resilience(CRC Press, 2021-06-08)This book, with worldwide contributions examining the COVID-19 pandemic, provides interdisciplinary analysis and multi-sector expertise on the use of geospatial information and location intelligence to support community resilience and the ...
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ItemSmart parking in fast-growing cities: challenges and solutions(TU Wien Publishing, 2021-07-01)Parking is a challenge for cities everywhere, but especially for cities in low- and middle-income countries. There, cities are experiencing rapid urbanization and increasing motorization, while investment capacity for parking infrastructure is limited, and despite the availability of free on-street parking, it is not used in an efficient and coordinated way. This book is meant to act as a resource for those managing urban parking challenges, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. This open-access book can provide immediate guidance to city authorities, engineering firms, and urban planners worldwide and help develop data-driven solutions for smarter cities. The first part of this book portrays geospatial technologies in the context of urban mobility in smart cities. The second part focuses on implementing those technologies in parking management in low and middle-income countries.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableEnvironmental Flow Assessment Methods and Applications(John Wiley & Sons, 2019)The following chapters assess standard and emerging methods, how they should be tested, and how they should (or should not) be applied. The book concludes with practical recommendations for implementing environmental flow assessment.
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ItemInfrastructure Investment in Indonesia: A Focus on Ports(Open Book Publishers, 2019)Infrastructure Investment in Indonesia: A Focus on Ports presents an important and original collation of current material investigating the efficient facilitation of major infrastructure projects in Indonesia and Australia, with an emphasis on infrastructure investment and a focus on port planning and development. This interdisciplinary collection—spanning the disciplines of engineering, law and planning—draws helpfully on a range of practical and theoretical perspectives. It is the collaborative effort of leading experts in the fields of infrastructure project initiation and financing, and is based on international research conducted by the University of Melbourne, Universitas Indonesia and Universitas Gadjah Mada. The volume opens with a macroscopic perspective, outlining the broader economic situations confronting Indonesia and Australia, before adopting a more microscopic perspective to closely examine the issues surrounding major infrastructure investment in both countries. Detailed case studies are provided, key challenges are identified, and evidence-based solutions are offered. These solutions respond to such topical issues as how to overcome delays in infrastructure project initiation; how to enhance project decision-making for the selection and evaluation of projects; how to improve overall efficiency in the arrangement of project finance and governance; and how to increase the return provided by investment in infrastructure. Special focus is given to proposed improvements to the portal cities of Indonesia in the areas of major infrastructure project governance, policies, engagement, operation and processes. By rigorously investigating the economic, transport, finance and policy aspects of infrastructure investment, this book will be a valuable resource for policy makers and government officials in Indonesia and Australia, infrastructure investment organisations, and companies involved in exporting services between Indonesia and Australia. This book will also be of interest to researchers and students of infrastructure planning and financing, setting a solid foundation for subsequent investigations of financing options for large-scale infrastructure developments
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ItemNo Preview AvailableThe Water-Sustainable City Science, Policy and Practice(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017)
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ItemSustainable Energy for All 2015: Progress Toward Sustainable Energy(World Bank, 2015)Sustainable Energy for All seeks to improve the lives of billions of people across the world and ensure a more sustainable future by working to achieve its three global objectives: universal access to energy; doubling of the rate of improvement in energy efficiency; and doubling of the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix. Accountability and transparency are essential for tracking Sustainable Energy for All’s global progress. Doing so will clarify where the initiative stands, how various actions are contributing to the three objectives, how much remains to be accomplished, and where more action is needed to achieve Sustainable Energy For All. The first edition of the Global Tracking Framework (2013) provided a system for regular reporting, based on indicators that are technically rigorous and at the same time feasible to compute from current energy data bases, and that offer scope for progressive improvement over time. This second edition of the SE4ALL Global Tracking Framework provides an update of how the world has been moving towards the three objectives over the period 2010-2012. The report also explores a number of complementary themes. First, it provides further analysis of the financial cost of meeting the SE4ALL objectives as well as the geographical and technological distribution of the investments that need to be made. Second, it explores the extent to which countries around the world have access to the technology needed to make progress towards the three goals. Third, it identifies the improvements in data collection methodologies and capacity building that will be needed to provide a more nuanced and accurate picture of progress over time. Finally, this new edition of the Global Tracking Framework explores and introduces nexus concepts focusing on the links between energy and four priority areas of development: food, water, human health, and gender. Links between most of these areas and energy are well established, but often presented in isolation of each other.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableEstimation of Very Rare to Extreme Floods(Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia), 2016)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableAustralian Rainfall and Runoff: A Guide to Flood Estimation(Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia), 2016)
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ItemThe mechanics of fluid - particle systems: with special reference to agriculture(Ross Macmillan, 2007)This monograph and the associated computer program are concerned with the prediction of the trajectory of particles moving relative to fluids. The program is quite general and can be used to plot the trajectory of 'any' particle moving relative to 'any' fluid. However it cannot allow for particle spin or analyse three dimensional problems. The monograph, which assumes a 2nd year level of engineering science, is written particularly for professional agricultural engineering courses but may be of interest in the study of equivalent subjects for chemical or other engineers. It could also form the basis for short courses for practising engineers. The analysis is based on elementary fluid mechanics and provides the reader with a review of the basic theory and its application to the prediction of trajectory in one and two dimensions (Section I, Chapters 2 to 4). The latter develops the algorithms on which the associated computer program is based and presents a validation of the program based on published results. The major parts of the monograph illustrate the application of the program to a number of worked examples of interest in agriculture. Section II (Chapters 5 to 8) deals with examples of four distribution problems (ground and aerial based spreading and spraying) while Section III deals with three cleaning processes (winnowing in the wind and in horizontal and vertical wind tunnels). Section IV uses the program to analyse three other problems, viz, rain, fire and mineral sedimentation. It should be emphasized that these are examples of the application of the program and are not intended to be a complete analysis of the particular problem. Readers who are familiar with fluid - particle mechanics may wish to move directly to Chapter 4. Chapters 9 and 13 are reserved for future use.
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ItemThe mechanics of tractor-implement performance: theory and worked examples: a textbook for students and engineers(R. H. Macmillan, 2002)This book, for engineers and engineering students, is about the functional performance of agricultural tractors - how, and how well, they perform the function for which they are designed - pulling loads. It is not about construction, operation or management but about performance and the factors that determine it. Because it treats the tractor in terms of the fundamentals of the subject, it is not limited to any type or size or make. This book is written for professional agricultural engineering courses or equivalent subjects for mechanical engineers. It could also form the basis for short courses for practicing engineers. It assumes a 2nd year level of engineering science. The book develops the subject of tractor performance through the common alternative techniques used in engineering analysis: