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Here is a comprehensive introductory discussion of Earth, energy,
and the environment in an integrated manner that will lead to an
appreciation of our complex planet. The book looks at Earth from
the perspective of a livable planet and elaborates on the surface
and subsurface processes and the various energy cycles where energy
is transformed and stored in the planet's various spheres. The
chapters discuss the interactions between the different parts of
Earth-how energy is exchanged between the atmosphere, hydrosphere,
biosphere, and geosphere, and how they impact the environment in
which we live.
In recent decades, more women around the world have taken the
opportunity to enter the market, join the workforce, and start
their own entrepreneurial ventures. These changes have had a strong
impact on market demographics. Particularly within the tourism
industry, it is important to investigate the behavior, motivations,
experiences, and needs of women as travelers, employees, and
entrepreneurs. Women's Empowerment Within the Tourism Industry
offers a conversant and comprehensive overview of the themes and
concepts of women as tourists, employees, and entrepreneurs in
tourism. Providing interdisciplinary insights from leading
international researchers and academicians, this book makes a
critical contribution to the knowledge of women's participation
within the tourism industry. It discusses the nature of their work
and ways in which tourism creates tension between the attitudes and
conduct of tourists and the beliefs and behavior of local women.
Covering topics such as consumer experience, gender studies, and
women's employment, this premier reference source is an excellent
resource for business leaders and managers, entrepreneurs,
marketers, government officials, students and educators of higher
education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.
Frugal innovation is considered a new source of innovation, mainly
to meet the needs of low-income customers. Hence, frugal innovation
has primarily been explored emphasizing affordability. The concept
of frugal and social innovation is a new idea and requires
perspectives from academicians, researchers, and organizations to
reach its full potential. Frugal Innovation and Social Transitions
in the Digital Era considers the social value of innovation, frugal
innovation, and social innovation in society at local, national,
and international levels and calls the attention of scholars and
researchers around the globe to focus on the social perspectives
and social patterns of human life and society. Covering key topics
such as emerging technologies, entrepreneurship, and social change,
this reference work is ideal for computer scientists, business
owners, managers, policymakers, researchers, scholars,
practitioners, instructors, and students.
In recent decades, more women around the world have taken the
opportunity to enter the market, join the workforce, and start
their own entrepreneurial ventures. These changes have had a strong
impact on market demographics. Particularly within the tourism
industry, it is important to investigate the behavior, motivations,
experiences, and needs of women as travelers, employees, and
entrepreneurs. Women's Empowerment Within the Tourism Industry
offers a conversant and comprehensive overview of the themes and
concepts of women as tourists, employees, and entrepreneurs in
tourism. Providing interdisciplinary insights from leading
international researchers and academicians, this book makes a
critical contribution to the knowledge of women's participation
within the tourism industry. It discusses the nature of their work
and ways in which tourism creates tension between the attitudes and
conduct of tourists and the beliefs and behavior of local women.
Covering topics such as consumer experience, gender studies, and
women's employment, this premier reference source is an excellent
resource for business leaders and managers, entrepreneurs,
marketers, government officials, students and educators of higher
education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.
As the world population is expanding and resources are shrinking it
creates a challenging environment for people in low income and
transitioning economies as well as developed countries. Hence,
researchers are proposing different solutions and entrepreneurship
is one of them. Academic institutions need to update their study
programs and knowledge, modernize the curriculum and integrate
research activities in degree programs about entrepreneurship.
Economic challenges are getting very difficult to handle for every
country and entrepreneurship can play a key role in dealing with
these new realities. Aspects of academic entrepreneurship and
entrepreneurial education unlock the discussion about the concepts,
risks, actions and approaches towards the entrepreneurial
university. Academic entrepreneurship focuses on the educated
population who are learning and working in the universities and how
they can create an entrepreneurial ecosystem so that academia can
play forth the role of entrepreneurship after teaching and
research. This book will contribute to the knowledge on developing
an entrepreneurial ecosystem through academia. The target audience
are university teachers, students, and researchers. This book will
be appropriate for universities and policy makers to adopt and
apply entrepreneurial approaches to develop academic
entrepreneurship and an entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Frugal innovation is considered a new source of innovation, mainly
to meet the needs of low-income customers. Hence, frugal innovation
has primarily been explored emphasizing affordability. The concept
of frugal and social innovation is a new idea and requires
perspectives from academicians, researchers, and organizations to
reach its full potential. Frugal Innovation and Social Transitions
in the Digital Era considers the social value of innovation, frugal
innovation, and social innovation in society at local, national,
and international levels and calls the attention of scholars and
researchers around the globe to focus on the social perspectives
and social patterns of human life and society. Covering key topics
such as emerging technologies, entrepreneurship, and social change,
this reference work is ideal for computer scientists, business
owners, managers, policymakers, researchers, scholars,
practitioners, instructors, and students.
The COVID-19 pandemic has spread across the world and left turmoil
in every facet of society in its wake. As in-person activities came
to an end for public safety, businesses closed, classrooms
scrambled to transition online, and society was forever changed. As
the pandemic comes to a close, it is essential that researchers
take this opportunity to study the changes that have occurred so
that society may revive what has been lost and promote resilience
should another crisis arise. Societal Transformations and
Resilience in Times of Crisis focuses on the revival of societal
institutions after events such as natural disasters, pandemics,
political turmoil, and global crises, and looks toward building
more resilient structures. It contributes novel approaches and
provides implications for countries to improve the social system
through novel approaches. Covering topics such as employee
psychological distress, democracy, and higher education
institutions, this premier reference source is a dynamic resource
for government officials, community leaders, non-governmental
organizations, students and faculty of higher education,
sociologists, business executives and managers, human resource
managers, researchers, and academicians.
The concept of sustainability and sustainable development is
growing rapidly and has great importance in the different aspects
of social and economic development at the national and
international levels. This idea is characterized as a process that
links economic and social factors while maintaining the ecological
levels of analysis, such as national, regional, international,
organizational, and individual. Sustainable human resource
management (HRM) features a set of techniques and procedures of HRM
that enable the attainment of social, financial, and environmental
goals with an influence both inside and outside of the business
while managing the unexpected consequences. Sustainable Development
of Human Resources in a Globalization Period explores the dynamics
of sustainability in the context of the development of human
resources. The book further discusses different strategies for the
betterment, welfare, and operation of organizations. Covering
topics such as digital media determinism, organizational
commitment, and worker performance, this premier reference source
is an essential title for business leaders and managers, human
resource managers, nonprofit organizations, students and faculty of
higher education, libraries, researchers, and academicians.
Economic challenges are becoming very difficult to manage
throughout the world, and entrepreneurship can play a key role in
handling these new realities. Due to this, academic institutions
must update their study programs and knowledge, modernize their
curricula, and integrate research activities in their degree
programs that encompass topics about and related to
entrepreneurship. Developing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Academia
provides implications, best practices, and approaches for countries
to improve their economic systems using entrepreneurship and
increasing entrepreneurial education. As the world population is
expanding and resources are shrinking, it creates a challenging
environment for people in low-income and transition economies, as
well as developed countries. This book discusses entrepreneurship
and entrepreneurial education as a potential solution and critical
concept. Covering a range of topics such as financial education and
entrepreneurial management, it is ideal for instructors,
academicians, researchers, practitioners, business professionals,
policymakers, and students.
The city of Lahore like other ancient cities was developed along
the bank of a river, i.e. the River Ravi, currently a
trans-boundary river between India and Pakistan. Therefore, since
the development of Lahore city, its sewage and waste water was
discharged into its adjacent river. However, the population
explosion, urbanization, unplanned industrialization, broad scale
use of synthetic fertilizers and household chemicals consequently
deteriorate the water quality of the River Ravi due to significant
discharge of wastewater from the metropolitan city of Lahore into
it. As a result, the contaminated water of the Ravi not only
affects the aquatic ecosystem of the river but also worsen its
water used downstream for the irrigation, livestock, aqua-culture
and recreational purposes. It is therefore essential to estimate
the pollution load from the urban city entering into River Ravi in
order to prevent and control the degradation of water quality of
the River Ravi and help the researchers, decision makers, and the
academics to evaluate the cause and pollution status of the most
polluted river of Pakistan.
Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) are now believed to be superior
in treating industrial effluent, especially effluent of textile
industry because of their several advantages over other treatment
techniques, including conventional and biological treatment
methods. In this study, an attempt has been made to assess the
efficiency of AOPs, including Hydrogen Per Oxide alone, Fenton,
Photo-Fenton, Solar Radiation assisted Photo-Fenton and Ozonation
for the color and COD removal of textile effluent. AOPs are proven
to be the efficient method for the treatment of textile effluent.
The performance of Fenton process was slightly better. Ozonation
was proved to be highly feasible and promising technique to
decolorize and reduce COD from textile effluent but it is very
costly. Photo-Fenton process via UV lamp considerably removed the
color and COD but it is not economically viable. Photo-Fenton
(sunlight) proved to be the most cost effective and efficient
procedure for the color and COD removal among all AOP's, whereas
Fenton process to be the second best option. So Solar assisted
Photo-Fenton proved as the most energy and cost effective process
among all AOPs.
Dairy industry is one of the largest industries of the world. Dairy
plants are considered as 'wet industry' because they consume large
volumes of water, which is used for very diverse purposes. As a
result dairy plant discharge large volume of wastewater.The
objective of this research was to evaluate the performance of
laboratory scale treatment unit based upon biological treatment for
dairy industry wastewater and to determine kinetic coefficients.
Nutrients release during co-composting of poultry litter and fast
food wastes is a regular phenomenon, however, after certain time
period the rate of release of nutrients is high which depends on
environmental conditions like temperature and microbial population.
For co-composting mixing the three parts of poultry litter with one
part of fast food is the best composition to get maximum amount of
micro and macro nutrients.
In current era change has become important for organizations to
compete, grow or even survive. Mergers, acquisitions and joint
ventures are major change events which organizations normally
undergo. Motivation to write this book came from the fact that even
the rate of failure of mega change events like mergers or
acquisitions is very high, very few studies provide conclusive
reasons for these failures. Not many serious attempts had been made
to investigate the role of 'effective change management' for
successful mergers and acquisitions. Main purpose of this research
is to investigate, whether effective change management can increase
rate of successful mergers. Moreover, this book highlights the
relationship of cultural issues and change events.
With the dawn of Islam in the Arabian Peninsula during the seventh
century, a new civilization was born. It represented a culture of
enlightenment emulating a universal human brotherhood, a life of
peace with justice and truth, and a constant striving to eradicate
oppression, bigotry and inequalities among human beings. The
acquisition of knowledge or the quest for truth became a noble
pursuit with an unyielding spirit of inquiry to unravel the secrets
of the universe. The main purpose of the book is to highlight the
endeavors of the Muslim scholars who kept the light of erudition
aflame for centuries during the Middle Ages and beyond until the
beginning of the European Renaissance. They were the torch bearers
of reason, scientific thinking and creative expression. Their
erudite contributions encompassed a great variety of disciplines as
they wrote multi-volume works of original nature. They also
assimilated notable works of the scholars of Greece, India and
other countries and disseminated them through translations and
commentaries. The impact of the Islamic civilization during its
centuries of glory and enlightenment could be felt in its social
and political institutions. Following the edicts of Islam,
political authority was generally exercised with prudence being
mindful of the demands of impartial justice, public welfare, and a
strict code of legal protections for the people of non-Muslim
affiliations. A recurrent theme of the book is that peace on earth
could be established only by a fervent commitment to justice by
every nation of the world. The book also calls to attention the
concordance between Islam and modernity with the presumption that
the Islamic doctrine can besuccessfully adapted to the exigencies
of the changing times. The concluding sections of the book contain
a narrative of the state of Muslim nations of the world presently
faced with internal dissentions and a negative portrayal of Islam
in the West. The lag of knowledge and predominance of extremism in
some of the Muslim countries have precarious effects on their
future. It is high time for Muslims to reclaim their intellectual
heritage and pursue the path of reason and enlightenment both in
their religious beliefs and their vision of the world community
with a venerable place for them.
The COVID-19 pandemic has spread across the world and left turmoil
in every facet of society in its wake. As in-person activities came
to an end for public safety, businesses closed, classrooms
scrambled to transition online, and society was forever changed. As
the pandemic comes to a close, it is essential that researchers
take this opportunity to study the changes that have occurred so
that society may revive what has been lost and promote resilience
should another crisis arise. Societal Transformations and
Resilience in Times of Crisis focuses on the revival of societal
institutions after events such as natural disasters, pandemics,
political turmoil, and global crises, and looks toward building
more resilient structures. It contributes novel approaches and
provides implications for countries to improve the social system
through novel approaches. Covering topics such as employee
psychological distress, democracy, and higher education
institutions, this premier reference source is a dynamic resource
for government officials, community leaders, non-governmental
organizations, students and faculty of higher education,
sociologists, business executives and managers, human resource
managers, researchers, and academicians.
The concept of sustainability and sustainable development is
growing rapidly and has great importance in the different aspects
of social and economic development at the national and
international levels. This idea is characterized as a process that
links economic and social factors while maintaining the ecological
levels of analysis, such as national, regional, international,
organizational, and individual. Sustainable human resource
management (HRM) features a set of techniques and procedures of HRM
that enable the attainment of social, financial, and environmental
goals with an influence both inside and outside of the business
while managing the unexpected consequences. Sustainable Development
of Human Resources in a Globalization Period explores the dynamics
of sustainability in the context of the development of human
resources. The book further discusses different strategies for the
betterment, welfare, and operation of organizations. Covering
topics such as digital media determinism, organizational
commitment, and worker performance, this premier reference source
is an essential title for business leaders and managers, human
resource managers, nonprofit organizations, students and faculty of
higher education, libraries, researchers, and academicians.
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Earth Crust (Hardcover)
Muhammad Nawaz, Farha Sattar, Sandeep Narayan Kundu
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Here is a comprehensive introductory discussion of Earth, energy,
and the environment in an integrated manner that will lead to an
appreciation of our complex planet. The book looks at Earth from
the perspective of a livable planet and elaborates on the surface
and subsurface processes and the various energy cycles where energy
is transformed and stored in the planet's various spheres. The
chapters discuss the interactions between the different parts of
Earth-how energy is exchanged between the atmosphere, hydrosphere,
biosphere, and geosphere, and how they impact the environment in
which we live.
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