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This book focuses on land and disaster governance in Asian countries. The Asian region has become increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters, including floods, cyclones, storms, earthquakes, drought, typhoons and tsunamis. Further, as a result of unsustainable changes being made in patterns of l... More

Academics and practitioners from across Asia and beyond revisit the issues and impact of climate change in Asia. They examine the preconditions for good governance regarding climate change, and the role of state and non-state actors in climate change governance, and explore different political-lega... More

This book presents strategies for managing disasters and reducing risks in Asian countries. Given the dynamic changes in the natural environment as well as the patterns of land use and management, the growing populations of the developing nations in Asia, migration patterns, and other social-cultur... More

Culture has an abiding influence on the way countries and business corporations are governed. This book introduces the reader to the deep philosophies that drive corporations and governments in East Asia, from China through Japan and South Korea to Singapore. With sparkling clarity and spiced with a... More

In multicellular organisms, communication between cells involves secretion of proteins that bind to receptors on neighboring cells. While this has been well documented, another mode of intercellular communication has recently become the subject of increasing interest: the release of exosomes. In can... More

A society’s response to youth crime reveals much about its broader cultural values, social circumstances, and political affairs. This book examines reactions and policy responses to youth delinquency and crime in Hong Kong during its colonial and post-colonial periods, and in doing so, underscores t... More

The Multi-Agent Based Beam Search (MABBS) method systematically integrates four major requirements of manufacturing production - representation capability, solution quality, computation efficiency, and implementation difficulty - within a unified framework to deal with the many challenges of complex... More

This rigorous textbook introduces graduate students to the principles of econometrics and statistics with a focus on methods and applications in financial research. Financial Econometrics, Mathematics, and Statistics introduces tools and methods important for both finance and accounting that assist ... More

This book provides an introduction to the legal system in Hong Kong. Understanding Hong Kong's legal system today requires both an understanding of the British origins of much of the laws and legal institutions as well as the uniquely Hong Kong developments in the application of the Basic Law under ... More

This book taps into an inherent paradox: with the ease of reliance on external, cloud providers to provide robust functionality and regular enhancements comes, as their very own audited service organization control (SOC) reports are quick to point out, the need for client organizations to devise and... More

A must have book for anyone who is looking to develop awareness and deeper insight into IT controls, strategies and techniques to solve compliance challenges!What does 'compliance' mean to you? Is it a burden, a box-ticking exercise, or a way to avoid the penalties of non-compliance? Or do you see t... More

Bringing a human touch to the IT audit process How IT auditors and their clients perceive each other affects the quality of their working relationships. Although most books for IT auditors acknowledge the importance of soft skills, they usually focus on technical abilities. Beyond giving simple ad... More

This book includes results of the seventh International Conference on Fuzzy Information and Engineering (ICFIE'2014) and the 1st International Conference of Operations Research and Management (ICORM'2014) on November 7-11, 2014 in ZhuHai, China. The book, contains 35 selected high-quality papers, a... More

This book summarizes the new major research findings about formation mechanism and control strategies of haze in China, including basic theories, key technologies, equipment and platforms and the applications and implementations of control technologies, in implementing the Strategic Priority Researc... More

​This book is designed to present a comprehensive and state-of the-art approach to the diagnosis and surgical management of parasitic diseases involving different organ systems, with emphasis on the gastrointestinal tract. It is divided into five parts that address the various etiologies, current di... More

This book provides hands-on information on how to manage pregnant cancer patients in clinical practice. In this context a multidisciplinary perspective is essential, and contributions are accordingly presented from experts in surgical management, medical oncology, radiotherapy, pharmacokinetics, ob... More

This book is the first application of hierarchy theory to the ecological workings of the Gulf of Maine and of marine ecosystems in general. Apollonio explores in detail the idea of natural constraints inherent in hierarchical ecosystems and the impact upon such systems when constraints are reduced ... More

Because of her parents high medical bills she had to sign a contract to marry into a wealthy family but on the wedding day why is there no wedding banquet no guests not even a groom what what xue qi jing s favorite woman committed suicide han mingxi fell to sit in luxury but empty a bit of temperatu... More

She grew up in the greenhouse pure and kind he is a bloodthirsty killer and also a ruthless president ten years ago he was her bodyguard deeply attracted by her innocent kindness fascinated by her love added for her he would give everything even his own life ten years later he came with a lot of hat... More

Because of her parents high medical bills she had to sign a contract to marry into a wealthy family but on the wedding day why is there no wedding banquet no guests not even a groom what what xue qi jing s favorite woman committed suicide han mingxi fell to sit in luxury but empty a bit of temperatu... More

She grew up in the greenhouse pure and kind he is a bloodthirsty killer and also a ruthless president ten years ago he was her bodyguard deeply attracted by her innocent kindness fascinated by her love added for her he would give everything even his own life ten years later he came with a lot of hat... More

Because of her parents high medical bills she had to sign a contract to marry into a wealthy family but on the wedding day why is there no wedding banquet no guests not even a groom what what xue qi jing s favorite woman committed suicide han mingxi fell to sit in luxury but empty a bit of temperatu... More

She grew up in the greenhouse pure and kind he is a bloodthirsty killer and also a ruthless president ten years ago he was her bodyguard deeply attracted by her innocent kindness fascinated by her love added for her he would give everything even his own life ten years later he came with a lot of hat... More

Because of her parents high medical bills she had to sign a contract to marry into a wealthy family but on the wedding day why is there no wedding banquet no guests not even a groom what what xue qi jing s favorite woman committed suicide han mingxi fell to sit in luxury but empty a bit of temperatu... More

Urban sprawl is one of the key planning issues today. This book compares Western Europe and the USA, focusing on anti-sprawl policies. The USA is known for its settlement patterns that emphasize low-density suburban development and extreme automobile dependence, whereas European countries emphasize ... More