Category Archives: Future of Computing

Consumer Behavior, Organizational Development, and Electronic Commerce: Emerging Issues for Advancing Modern Socioeconomies (Advances in Electronic Commerce)

Considering the global spread of e-commerce technologies and the rapid pace of organizational adoption of these technological advancements, there is a need for reliable research results on e-services, outsourcing applications, and consumer resources management. Consumer Behavior, Organizational Development, and Electronic … Continue reading

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Sudden and Disruptive Climate Change: Exploring the Real Risks and How We Can Avoid Them

While changes in emissions and atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are generally projected to be slow and smooth, there are increasing indications that the intensity and impacts of climate change on the environment and society could, at least on a … Continue reading

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Climate: Causes and Effects of Climate Change (Our Fragile Planet)

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How to Live a Low-Carbon Life: The Individuals Guide to Stopping Climate Change

Individual action is now recognized as one of the keys to tackling climate change – the greatest challenge facing humanity * Shows how consumers can conduct a personal and household `carbon audit,’ take decisive action for lowering their carbon footprint … Continue reading

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Forestry and Climate Change

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges we face – both in terms of its potential impact on our societies and the earth, and the scale of international co-operation that is needed to confront it. Emerging as a component … Continue reading

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Managing Virtualization of Networks and Services: 18th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, DSOM 2007, San … Networks and Telecommunications)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems, Operations and Management, DSOM 2007, held in San José, CA, USA, in October 2007 in the course of the 3rd International Week on Management of … Continue reading

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Socioecological Transitions and Global Change: Trajectories of Social Metabolism and Land Use (Advances in Ecological Economics Series)

This significant new book analyses fundamental changes in society-nature interaction: the socioeconomic use of materials, energy and land. The volume presents a number of case studies addressing transitions from an agrarian to an industrial socioecological regime, analysed within the materials … Continue reading

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Managing Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Innovations: Converging Technologies in Society

This book provides a unique review of technical developments related to the unification that is rapidly taking place today among nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science (NBIC). It assesses potential for revolutionary applications of these developments and their likely … Continue reading

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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

The great inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is one of the best-known and most controversial advocates for the role of machines in the future of humanity. In his latest book, he envisions an event—the “singularity”—in which technological change becomes so … Continue reading

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Climate Change Begins at Home: Life on the Two-Way Street of Global Warming

Climate change is one of the greatest threats that humankind faces in the twenty-first century. But while government and industry fail to act, this book argues, we could all work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60%, the level necessary … Continue reading

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