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Providing a cross-cutting contribution for the achievement of the 2030 Goals, this edited collection offers essential guidance for transforming the SDGs from agenda to reality.

The authors encapsulate new developments in Critical Thinking skills for MBA students, in the form of a broad-based cross disciplinary primer in business management, with a special focus on business ethics.

This volume focuses on core topics of economic disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic: changes in socio-cultural relationships, behavioural patterns and psychological attitudes governing human interaction, and government policies to stabilize the Indian economy and contribute to sustainable growth.

A cutting-edge study grounded in a new feminist arts-based research and intervention tool, this book propounds an effective new methodology for social research and fundamental human engagement.

This is a new, practical guide to developing resilient infrastructure and offers insight and guidance for planners seeking to deliver major projects on time, within budget and in line with operational goals.

Promoting and underlining the importance of structural thinking, Structural Systems: Behaviour and Design will provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of the behaviour of a wide range of structural systems based on the load-carrying mechanisms involved.

Promoting and underlining the importance of structural thinking, Structural Systems: Behaviour and Design will provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of the behaviour of a wide range of structural systems based on the load-carrying mechanisms involved.

Written for non-lawyers by experts from the largest specialist construction law firms and leaders from within the construction industry, this book considers the practical and commercial implications of case law and legislation and delivers practical guidance and a breadth of knowledge that is unrivalled by any other publication.

"A gazetteer and guidebook to inform anyone with an interest in civilisation."- Gordon Masterton, President 2005-06, The Institution of Civil Engineers This book completes the Civil Engineering Heritage series for the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. It is an inventory and a guide to a selection of historical engineering works carried out in Scotland over the centuries, from the Callanish Standing Stones to the pre-stressed concrete lighthouse at Ve Skerries.

Scholars from around the globe discuss initiatives, practices, and structures that can provide a positive outlook and flourishing in higher learning, and offer lessons from efforts to promote positive emotional and social aspects for students, leaders, and faculty.

Soumi Majumder and Nilanjan Dey address the unique challenges posed by Industry 4.0, exploring the intersection of risks and cultural shifts within the business landscape. Key topics include the transformative potential of machine learning; big data; and IoT in the domain of enterprise risk management.

The chapters presented here by global scholars fill the void in current knowledge of how to generate effective strategic adaptation in times of abrupt environmental changes, generating important leads for forthcoming scholarship efforts for the benefit of business and society.

Addressing the urgent need to tackle the global challenges of poverty, inequality, and environmental degradation, this is highly valuable reading for those interested in implementing sustainable development strategies across a variety of contexts.

This is the definitive English language text on continuous teacher education, drawing on scholarly expertise in Russia and locating the policies and practices within a global reform of teacher education, providing new perspectives that will be of interest to education scholars, policymakers and practitioners on an international scale.

Principles of Pavement Engineering, Third edition is an essential reference on fundamental principles of pavement engineering, showing how to design, construct, evaluate and maintain pavements of all types.

A Short Course in Geotechnical Site Investigation will familiarise students with the practicalities of geotechnical engineering and refresh the knowledge of practising engineering geologists and civil engineers.

Talking about foundation design problems, this book concentrates on getting the fundamentals right, and then using them in practical applications. It is illustrated with numerous worked examples and with quick-reference tables and charts.

A book on concrete that looks at a problem or an issue, and discusses the underlying scientific and technological aspects, including broader contextual topics. It explains how closely we can determine the water - cement ratio of hardened concrete and considers whether we can verify the age of cracks by measuring carbonation.

Covering a range of structural elements and related defects, this title includes a collection of twenty concrete bridge strengthening and repair case studies that showcase solutions to real problems encountered in the field and the processes by which those solutions were developed.

Written against the backdrop of increasing fines for health & safety offences against companies and individuals, this guide provides directors and managers with advice on how to avoid or handle health and safety prosecutions.It explains the law surrounding health and safety prosecutions as detailed by the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.

First published in 1985, this edition covers Wales and the Western part of central England from Cheshire in the north to just south of Bristol. It is illustrated and contains location maps and notes on access to sites, and the achievements of such famous names as Thomas Telford, James Brindley, and George and Robert Stephenson.

This title looks at the development of reinforced and prestressed concrete in Britain, over the last 100 years, but with a description of the precedents. Comprising a series of essays by experts it provides general background on the use of concrete, and looks at more specialist applications.

This book brings together twenty of the most important papers by the last Professor Peter Rolfe Vaughan on geotechnical engineering.

Strategic risks are an order of magnitude greater and, by their very nature. This guide and CD presents an approach to the management of strategic risk, STRATrisk, and an explanation of how to apply the approach. The CD provides video clips and a number of case studies.

During the 1980's, research was being carried out to instrument and monitor the piled foundation beneath one leg of the BP Magnus platform in order to determine the actual loads imposed on the piles and seabed by the structural and environmental forces. This volume brings together the findings and discussions resulting from this research.

Written to provide coverage of the knowledge required to address strategic issues relating to the business of construction on a global scale. This book provides knowledge by a series of case studies of leading consultants, and contractors and suppliers of products to highlight practice by organizations in America, Japan and Europe.

Introduces the reader to the basis of design, analysis and construction of lattice towers and guyed masts used for communication purposes (radio, television, mobile phones and radar) and looks at the developments and the effects on the industry. This book is useful for engineers, telecom administrators, contractors, masts and tower fabricators.

This is the first, definitive, practical, project management book that provides working standards and practices in the recognised project management areas.

The aim of this manual is to help people use the right tools for the job, and to use them effectively. It is addressed to everyone who plays a part in commissioning, preparing or using guidance, whether as developers, council officers, consultants, politicians or members of partnerships.

In this book, the authors use their extensive experience gained through fieldwork, analysis, and input to the design process to provide a thorough understanding of geomorphology in the river environment and describe effective ways to incorporate geomorphological science into river engineering and management.