English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030933245 | 288 pages | True PDF EPUB | 5.12 MB
This book presents new research on innovative financial instruments and approaches available to implement nature-based solutions (NBS) at various scales and in different contexts. Despite knowledge of the multiple benefits NBS provide, a key barrier to their wide-spread adoption is a lack of knowledge over their financing, in particular, who should pay for an NBS and how it can be financed. The book explores a variety of public, private, and blended finance models and their applicability in developing NBS across terrestrial and marine ecosystems, involving multiple stakeholders, and in jurisdictions of varying climates and income levels. Furthermore, the book provides case studies of the innovative financing of NBS with best practices identified. This book is of interest to environmental planners, resource conservation managers, policymakers, international companies and organizations, environmental NGOs, researchers, and graduate and undergraduate students interested in NBS.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030880354 | 316 pages | True PDF EPUB | 6.09 MB
Blockchains and cryptocurrencies, open banking, virtual assets, and artificial intelligence have become the buzzword of this decade. This book focuses on these 'disruptive' financial technologies that provide alternatives to the traditional financial services typically offered by regulated financial institutions. Financial technologies are characterized by the innovative ways in which they initiate, support or extend traditional financial services or offer alternative financial pathways and products. However, these financial technologies also pose money laundering and terrorist and proliferation financing as well as cyber security risks that require mitigation. This edited volume addresses a range of regulatory and enforcement challenges related to financial technology and financial crime.

English | 2021 | ISBN: 1799876349 , 978-1799876359 | 340 pages | True PDF EPUB | 30.57 MB
"This book proposes a series of practical and theoretical perspectives on how the business world has to evolve to adapt the new situation caused by the undeniable climate change, presenting productive processes and the internal organization of companies with the tools to navigate the costly and complex transition"--

English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030931501 | 388 pages | pdf, epub | 8.04 MB
The book's central theme is to develop a new theory of speculative capital related to other forms of capital, the world market, and the state. Unlike most Marxist and heterodox theories, the book distinguishes credit and fictitious capital from speculative capital to show its hegemony today in the capital markets. Speculative capital structures and also controls the so-called "real capital." The method is Marxist while also incorporating material from contemporary Marxist and heterodox authors like John Milios, Robert Meister, Tony Norfeld, Li Puma, Harald Strauß, Michael Heinrich, Suhail Malik, Bichler/Nitzan and Ellie Ayache. Offering a comprehensive study of the logic and mode of existence of capital in the 21st century, the book will be of interest to academics and students of monetary and financial economics alongside political economy.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 0367763117 | 309 pages | True PDF | 10.1 MB
This updated ninth edition of Louise Levison's ultimate filmmaker's guide provides easy-to-follow steps for writing an investor-winning business plan for independent films.

English | 2016 | ISBN: 1473848660 | 175 pages | True EPUB | 16.58 MB
This WWII pictorial history shares the personal images captured by a German photographer and soldier who fought on the Eastern Front.

English | 2021 | ISBN: 1526790955 | 210 pages | True PDF EPUB | 37.01 MB
This book relates a chapter of American military history which many people would rather forget. When the United States came to the aid of Britain in 1942, the arrival of American troops was greeted with unreserved enthusiasm, but unfortunately, wartime sometimes brings out the worst, as well as the best, in people. A small number of the soldiers abused the hospitality they received by committing murders and rapes against British civilians. Some of these men were hanged or shot at Shepton Mallet Prison in Somerset, which had been handed over for the use of the American armed forces.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 978-1774637685 | 369 pages | pdf | 10.11 MB
Field Practices for Wastewater Use in Agriculture discusses the growing importance of wastewater application in the field of agriculture. Addressing the tremendous need for the irrigation sector to reduce the demand for freshwater in agriculture, this volume looks at wastewater as a source for agricultural irrigation. The volume is divided into four sections: current and emerging issues in wastewater use in agriculture, wastewater management with biological systems, effective field practices for wastewater use, and case studies that provide information on scientific analytical studies on the environment under the influence of wastewater quality from different pollution sources.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 9814877409 | 294 Pages | True PDF | 30 MB
This book succinctly describes the ultra-short laser-matter interactions from the subtle atomic motion under the gentle excitation up to the generation of extreme pressures by the beam tightly focussed inside the bulk of a transparent crystal. It is the fully rewritten successor to Femtosecond Laser-Matter Interactions: Theory, Experiment and Applications (2011). Explanation and experimental verification of the exceptional technique for the phase transformations under extreme pressure are in the core of the book. The novel phase formation occurs along the unique solid-plasma-solid transformation path: The memory of the initial state is lost after conversion to plasma, and the restructuring proceeds during the cooling of the confined plasma. The extreme-pressure-affected material remains detained inside a pristine crystal at the laboratory tabletop. The super-dense aluminium and the previously unobserved crystalline phases of silicon were created by this method of confined micro-explosions. Recent studies have used the quasi-non-diffracting Bessel beams for increasing the number of new phases. The applications comprise the new material formation at extreme conditions and micromachining. The book is an engaging literature for readers interested in the cutting-edge research on the extreme energy density generation at the laboratory tabletop.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1617297933 , 978-1617297939 | 273 pages | True PDF | 23.41 MB
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