Forthcoming Engineering & Technology Paperbacks

Forthcoming Books

1. Science, Policy and Stakeholders in Water Management

   An Integrated Approach to River Basin Management

   Edited by Geoffrey Gooch, Per Stålnacke

   One of the major problems facing practitioners and scientists working with water management is how to integrate knowledge and experiences from scientific, policy and stakeholder perspectives. In this book this science-policy-stakeholder interface (SPSI) is examined both analytically and through the...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Lessons for Climate Change Adaptation from Better Management of Rivers

   Edited by Jamie Pittock

   Series: Climate and Development Series

   Climate change is dramatically affecting freshwater supplies, particularly in the developing world. The papers in this volume present a powerful case for and exploration of different freshwater adaptation strategies in the face of global climatic change. The volume centres on six detailed case...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Internet-Delivered Therapeutic Interventions in Human Services

   Methods, Interventions and Evaluation

   Edited by Jerry Finn, Dick Schoech

   There has been exponential growth in use of the Internet to deliver therapeutic and supportive human services. Online interventions are known by a variety of names, including online practice, e-therapy and others. All refer to the delivery of services over the Internet through a variety of delivery...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. Water Governance for Sustainable Development

   Approaches and Lessons from Developing and Transitional Countries

   By Stefano Farolfi

   Edited by Sylvain Perret, Rashid Hassan

   Good management of water resources - universally identified as a key aspect of poverty reduction, agriculture and food security - has proven, in practice, as difficult to achieve as it is eagerly sought. This book, edited and authored by leading authorities on water resource management, examines...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. The Management of Water Quality and Irrigation Technologies

   Edited by Jose Albiac, Ariel Dinar

   This book is an outcome from the International Expo 'Water and Sustainable Development' held in Zaragoza (Spain) in 2008. Support from the Spanish Ministry of Environment, Caja Rioja, Government of Aragon, and the World Bank is acknowledged. 'Few resources will play a more important role in...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. Creativity and Innovation in Organizational Teams

   Edited by Leigh L. Thompson, Hoon- Seok Choi

   Series: Series in Organization and Management

   Creativity and Innovation in Organizational Teams stemmed from a conference held at the Kellogg School of Management in June 2003 covering creativity and innovation in groups and organizations. Each chapter of the book is written by an expert and covers original theory about creative processes in...

   To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
7. Law, Human Agency and Autonomic Computing

   The Philosophy of Law Meets the Philosophy of Technology

   Edited by Mireille Hildebrandt, Antoinette Rouvroy

   Law, Human Agency and Autonomic Computing interrogates the legal implications of the notion and experience of human agency implied by the emerging paradigm of autonomic computing, and the socio-technical infrastructures it supports. The development of autonomic computing and ambient...

   To Be Published August 19th 2013 by Routledge
8. Economic Fundamentals of Power Plant Performance

   By Almas Heshmati

   Stability of the electricity industry is crucial for economic growth of all nations. Sustainable economic growth cannot be accomplished without secured energy supply. The book underlines how management of the electricity industry should be conducted and the efficient form of electricity market...

   To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge