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Description / Table of Contents: Drawing on the latest debates in ecocritical theory and sustainability studies, Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts outlines a new approach to the reading of literary texts. Hubert Zapf considers the ways in which literature operates as a form of cultural ecology, using language, imagination and critique to challenge and transform cultural narratives of humanity’s relationship to nature. In this way, the book demonstrates the important role that literature plays in creating a more sustainable way of life. Applying this approach to works by writers such as Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Zakes Mda, and Amitav Ghosh, Literature as Cultural Ecology is an essential contribution to the contemporary environmental humanities.

Description / Table of Contents: What are smart cities? What are their purposes? What are the impacts resulting from their implementations? With these questions in mind, this book is compiled with the primary concern of answering readers with different profiles; from those interested in acquiring basic knowledge about the various topics surrounding the subject related to smart cities, to those who are more motivated by knowing the technical elements and the technological apparatus involving this theme. This book audience is multidisciplinary, as it will be confirmed by the various chapters addressed here. It explores different knowledge areas, such as electric power systems, signal processing, telecommunications, electronics, systems optimization, computational intelligence, real-time systems, renewable energy systems, and information systems.

Description / Table of Contents: The success of the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) brings us into a new era of global daily Earth observations, ranging from the faintest light of human settlements and air glows to the dramatic events of hurricanes and forest fires, as well as the subtle changes in the planet Earth which we call home. At the heart of all satellite applications, calibration/validation of the measurements and derived products is the key. Satellite product calibration and validation have become increasingly more important and challenging in order to meet the stringent requirements for accurate quantitative data for climate change detection, numerical weather prediction, and environmental intelligence. Validation is required not only for the satellite measurements, but also for all geophysical retrievals, including aerosols, cloud properties, radiation budget, sea surface temperature, ocean color, active fire, albedo, snow and ice, vegetation, as well as nightlights from human settlements. Active validation research includes but not limited to, comparisons with similar products from other satellites, with in situ, aircraft measurements, or observations from other platforms. Validation results not only help users and decision makers but also serve as feedback to calibration, which in turn improves the products. This Special Issue of Remote Sensing aims at exploring recent results in the calibration and validation of the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite (Suomi NPP)/JPSS radiometers.

Description / Table of Contents: Scientists deserve public recognition. The ways that they are depicted, however, are severely limited in physical and personal traits, helping to establish and enhance stereotypes under the general title of ‘scientist’. These stereotypes range from the arrogant researcher who wants to rule the world, to the lab coat wearing ‘nerdy’ genius, but all generally fall to an extreme view of an existing perception of what a scientist should look and be like. For example, the popular image of ‘a scientist’ overlooks the presence of women almost entirely unless attributed to specific subjects and/or with narrow character depictions. The implications can be far-reaching. Young people, being heavily swayed by what they see and hear in the media, may avoid scientific careers because of these limited or unflattering portrayals of the scientific community, regardless of whether they reflect real life.Based on findings from the Light’13 project, this book examines such stereotypes and questions whether it is possible to adjust people’s perception of scientists and to increase interest in science and scientific careers through a series of specific actions and events.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. A Study on Phenology Detection of Corn in Northeastern China with Fused Remote Sensing Data / by Linglin Zeng and Daxiang Xiang --- 2. Despeckling of Multitemporal Sentinel SAR Images and Its Impact on Agricultural Area Classification / by Vladimir Lukin, Oleksii Rubel, Ruslan Kozhemiakin, Sergey Abramov, Andrii Shelestov, Mykola Lavreniuk, Mykola Meretsky, Benoit Vozel and Kacem Chehdi --- 3. Remote Sensing of Forests using Discrete Return Airborne LiDAR / by Hamid Hamraz and Marco A. Contreras --- 4. Remote Sensing in Land Applications by Using GNSS-Reflectometry / by Yan Jia and Yuekun Pei --- 5. Remote Sensing with Shipborne High-Frequency Surface-Wave Radar / by Junhao Xie, Minglei Sun, Zhenyuan Ji and Guowei Yao --- 6. Use of Historical Google Earth Images to Create Likelihood of Aquatic Plants along Segments of Ohio River / by Yi-Hwa Wu, Ming-Chih Hung, Jeff Thomas and Maureen Gallagher --- 7. Remote Sensing to Detect and Monitor Trees in Various Environments: Case Studies in Chile / by Guido Staub --- 8. Monitoring Land Surface Deformation with Satellite ScanSAR Images: Case Studies on Large Earthquakes in China / by Tingchen Jiang, Xiuping Wang, Yuanzhi Zhang and Yu Li --- 9. Applications of Remote Sensing in Geoscience / by Hakim Saibi, Mohand Bersi, Mohamed Bodruddoza Mia, Nureddin Mohamed Saadi, Khalid Mohamed Saleh Al Bloushi and Robert W. Avakian

Description / Table of Contents: Human society is full of would-be ‘change agents’, a restless mix of campaigners, lobbyists, and officials, both individuals and organizations, set on transforming the world. They want to improve public services, reform laws and regulations, guarantee human rights, get a fairer deal for those on the sharp end, achieve greater recognition for any number of issues, or simply be treated with respect. Striking then, that not many universities have a Department of Change Studies, to which social activists can turn for advice and inspiration. Instead, scholarly discussions of change are fragmented with few conversations crossing disciplinary boundaries, rarely making it onto the radars of those actively seeking change. This book aims to bridge the gap between academia and practice, bringing together the best research from a range of academic disciplines and the evolving practical understanding of activists to explore the topic of social and political change. Drawing on many first-hand examples from the global experience of Oxfam, one of the world’s largest social justice NGOs, as well as insights gleaned from studying and working on international development, it tests ideas and offers the latest thinking on what works to achieve progressive change. Table of Contents Foreword, Ha-Joon Chang Introduction Part 1. A Power and Systems Approach 1: Systems Thinking Changes Everything 2: Power Lies at the Heart of Change 3: Shifts in Social Norms often Underpin Change Case Study: The Chiquitanos of Bolivia Part 2. Institutions and the Importance of History Introduction to Section 2 4: How States Evolve 5: The Machinery of Law 6: Accountability, Political Parties,and the Media 7: How the International System Shapes Change 8: Transnational Corporations as Drivers and Targets of Change Case Study: The December 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change Part 3. Activists Introduction to Section 3 9: Citizen Activism and Civil Society 10: Leaders and leadership 11: The Power of Advocacy 12: A Power and Systems Approach to Making Change Happen In Conclusion

Description / Table of Contents: Part I --- The Tsunami: What happened and why? --- Chapter 1: Introduction / Arne Olav Øyhus / p. 18 --- Chapter 2: The Indian Ocean Tsunami and its direct aftermath / Arne Olav Øyhus / p. 21 --- Chapter 3: Interpreting the natural disasters and their impacts: Some theoretical considerations / Arne Olav Øyhus / p. 31 --- Part II --- Hambantota Case Studies --- Chapter 4: Introducing the case studies / Arne Olav Øyhus / p. 54 --- Chapter 5: The Disaster – an Act of God? / Kerenina Dansholm Kezarides, Susann Midling, Kitty Monostory, and Wopara Goodness Ruhuoma, in association with Thuwan Zulfikar Ali (HDCC co-ordinator) / p. 58 --- Chapter 6: The Golden Wave? / Sanaa Talha, Schola Busingye, Sehrish Noor, and Anne Lie Nordberg, in association with Rimzana Shazin (HDCC coordinator) / p. 72 --- Chapter 7: Bonds or Bridges? / Sandra Baldvinsson Sotkajærvi, Maria Sjuve, Pia Cecilie Wedø, Rebecca Plath, Edwin Wuadom WardenWoode and Hilary A. Enyiekere in association with Damith Priyantha (HDCC coordinator) / p. 92 --- Chapter 8: Back to business? / Brennan Purtzer, Didier Nduwayo, Harald Bang-Braaten Thoresen, Suman Nepal, and Thorbjørn Waal Lundsgaard in association with Kumara Kaldera (HDCC coordinator) / p. 112 --- Part III --- Lessons learnt and what’s next --- Chapter 9: Comparing Findings / Arne Olav Øyhus / p. 130 --- Chapter 10: The next chapter / Arne Olav Øyhus and Kim Øvland / p. 147

Description / Table of Contents: This impressive collection celebrates the work of Peter Kershaw, a key figure in the field of Australian palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Over almost half a century his research helped reconceptualize ecology in Australia, creating a detailed understanding of environmental change in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. Within a biogeographic framework one of his exceptional contributions was to explore the ways that Aboriginal people may have modified the landscape through the effects of anthropogenic burning. These ideas have had significant impacts on thinking within the fields of geomorphology, biogeography, archaeology, anthropology and history. Papers presented here continue to explore the dynamism of landscape change in Australia and the contribution of humans to those transformations. The volume is structured in two sections. The first examines evidence for human engagement with landscape, focusing on Australia and Papua New Guinea but also dealing with the human/environmental histories of Europe and Asia. The second section contains papers that examine palaeoecology and present some of the latest research into environmental change in Australia and New Zealand. Individually these papers, written by many of Australia’s prominent researchers in these fields, are significant contributions to our knowledge of Quaternary landscapes and human land use. But Peopled Landscapes also signifies the disciplinary entanglement that is archaeological and biogeographic research in this region, with archaeologists and environmental scientists contributing to both studies of human land use and palaeoecology. Peopled Landscapes reveals the interdisciplinary richness of Quaternary research in the Australasian region as well as the complexity and richness of the entangled environmental and human pasts of these lands.

Description / Table of Contents: Nous assistons actuellement au peuplement des zones périurbaines de la planète par des centaines de millions d’individus. Cette évolution pose de redoutables problèmes et des difficultés inédites pour les politiques publiques. Si les effets de la périurbanisation sont relativement bien connus dans les pays du Nord, les analyses dédiées aux pays du Sud sont bien moins développées. L’ouvrage « Territoires périurbains : développement, enjeux et perspectives dans les pays du Sud » permet de lever un coin du voile sur cette problématique et sur les grands défis que la périurbanisation pose pour le Sud en général et pour l’Afrique centrale en particulier. L’ouvrage débute en cherchant à clarifier ce qu’il faut exactement entendre par « territoire périurbain ». À la suite de cette mise en contexte, il se poursuit par cinq parties organisées autour des problématiques des ressources naturelles, de la sécurité alimentaire, de la santé publique, des services publics et de l’aménagement des territoires. Pour chacune de ces problématiques, des chercheurs spécialisés issus de disciplines variées apportent des contributions qui, tout en soulignant l’ampleur des défis, permettent la mise en avant de solutions innovantes pour améliorer la gouvernance et le bien-être des populations. Cet ouvrage s’adresse d’abord aux chercheurs préoccupés par les défis du développement. En parallèle, par les pistes pour l’action publique qu’il esquisse, il ne manquera pas d’également intéresser les décideurs et les praticiens qui opèrent dans le contexte des territoires périurbains des pays du Sud.

Description / Table of Contents: As we move from the era of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) it is important to consider how development agendas are set, the progress that has been made over the past 15 years, and how current debates are shaping global development efforts for the next 15. This book was, produced as part of a University College London-London International Development Centre research collaboration entitled, "Thinking Beyond Sectors for Sustainable Development". The aim of the book is to provide a concise introduction to the debates in a number of vital development sectors, review progress made in each sector, and to consider how looking beyond sectors might open new opportunities for inclusive, sustainable development. Each chapter in this book was produced collaboratively by academics from a wide number of disciplines. As such, it represents a truly interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral effort, of the kind that will be necessary for successful development and implementation of future international development goals.

Description / Table of Contents: 1988: coming to grips with a terrifying global experiment. The Toronto conference statement made it clear that climate change would affect everyone. It called greenhouse gas atmospheric pollution an ‘uncontrolled, globally pervasive experiment whose ultimate consequences could be second only to nuclear war’. World governments were urged to swiftly develop emission reduction targets (The changing atmosphere: implications for global security, 1988). Relevant to both Australian and overseas audiences, here is the untold story of how Australia buried its knowledge on climate change science and response options during the 1990s — going from clarity to confusion and doubt after arguably leading the world in citizen understanding and a political will to act in the late 1980s. ‘What happened and why’ is a fascinating exploration drawing on the public record of how a society revised its good understanding on a critical issue affecting every citizen. It happened through political and media communication, regardless of international scientific assessments that have remained consistent in ascribing causes and risks since 1990. How could this happen? The author examines the major influences, with lessons for the present, on how the story was reframed. Key have been values and beliefs, including economic beliefs, that trumped the science, the ability of changing political leaders and the mass media to set the story for the public, as well as the role of scientists’ own communication over time and the use and misuse of uncertainty.

Description / Table of Contents: Naples and the porous landscapes of ecomafia and volcanic eruptions; death in Venice as a literary trope and a petrochemical curse; earthquakes and political moves that shake territories, people, and ideas cross-country; the slow pace of wine, food and environmental violence in Piedmont: these are some of the texts that this book narrates and analyses. Here stories of justice, cultural visions, society and politics interlace with stories of land and life, ecosystems and body cells, pollution and redemption. Ecocriticism and Italy reads Italy as a text - a compound text made of matter and imagination - always keeping in mind the link between the horizon of this country and the world’s larger ecology of ideas and matter. Challenging stereotypes and ambivalent clichés, this book uses ecocriticism as a way to give voice to the forces, wounds, and messages of creativity dispersed on Italy’s body, arguing that a literature, an art, and a criticism that are able to transform these unexpressed voices into stories - into our stories - are not only ways to resist. They are a practice of liberation. | Table of Contents: Introduction, pp. 1–12 --- Chapter 1. Bodies of Naples : A Journey in the Landscapes of Porosity, pp. 13–46 --- Chapter 2. Cognitive Justice and the Truth of Biology : Death (and Life) in Venice, pp. 47–82 --- Chapter 3. Three Earthquakes : Wounds, Signs, and Resisting Arts in Belice, Irpinia, and L’Aquila, pp. 83–124 --- Chapter 4. Slow : Stories of Landscapes, Resistance, and Liberation, pp. 125–156

Description / Table of Contents: This book discusses energy efficient buildings and the role they play in our efforts to address climate change, energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by considering buildings and the construction sector's unique position along a critical path to decarbonisation from a multi-perspective and holistic viewpoint. Topics covered in the book range from daylighting, building topology comparison, building envelope design, zero energy homes in hot arid regions, life-cycle considerations and energy efficiency analysis to managing energy demand through equipment selection. Each chapter addresses an important aspect of energy efficient building and serves as a vital building block towards constructing a timely and relevant body of knowledge in energy efficient buildings.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Fractal Analysis of Cardiovascular Signals Empowering the Bioengineering Knowledge by Ricardo L. Armentano, Walter Legnani and Leandro J. Cymberknop --- Chapter 2: Complex Systems with Self-Elimination of Dissipation with Implication in Bio-Structural Behavior Via Nondifferentiability by Maricel Agop, Decebal Vasincu, Daniel Timofte, Elena Simona Bacaita, Andrei Agop and Stefan Andrei Irimiciuc --- Chapter 3: The Fractal Analysis of the Images and Signals in Medical Diagnostics by Tayurskii Dmitrii Albertovich and Rusanova Inna Aleksandrovna --- Chapter 4: Polyadic Cantor Fractals: Characterization, Generation, and Application as Ultrasonic Lenses by Sergio Castiñeira-Ibañez, Daniel Tarrazó-Serrano, José Miguel Fuster, Pilar Candelas and Constanza Rubio --- Chapter 5: Fractal to Non-Fractal Morphological Transitions in Stochastic Growth Processes by José Roberto Nicolás-Carlock, Víctor Dossetti and José Luis Carrillo- Estrada --- Chapter 6: The Altepetl: Fractal Modeling of a Pre-Hispanic Human Agency by Fernando López Aguilar --- Chapter 7: Fractal Analysis Based on Hierarchical Scaling in Complex Systems by Yanguang Chen --- Chapter 8: Characterization of Cultural Traits by Means of Fractal Analysis by Sabrina Farías-Pelayo --- Chapter 9: On Self-Affine and Self-Similar Graphs of Fractal Interpolation Functions Generated from Iterated Function Systems by Sean Dillon and Vasileios Drakopoulos --- Chapter 10: Pair-Pair Angular Correlation Function by Filipe Leoncio Braga and Alexandre Barbosa de Souza

Description / Table of Contents: 1 The Anthropocene and Neganthropology --- 2 Escaping the Anthropocene --- 3 Symptomatology of the Month of January 2015 in France --- 4 Elements of Neganthropology --- 5 Passages to the Act, Dialogical Interactions and Short-Circuits in Interactivity --- 6 Welcome to the Anthropocene: Text for an Encounter between Bernard Stiegler and Peter Sloterdijk --- 7 Governing Towards the Neganthropocene --- 8 Five Theses after Schmitt and Bratton --- 9 Capitalism as Epistēmē and Entropocene --- 10 The Organology of Dreams and Arche-Cinema --- 11 The Writing Screen --- 12 Power, Powerlessness, Thinking and Future --- 13 What is Called Caring? Thinking Beyond the Anthropocene

Description / Table of Contents: Global value chains (GVCs) powered the surge of international trade after 1990 and now account for almost half of all trade. This shift enabled an unprecedented economic convergence: poor countries grew rapidly and began to catch up with richer countries. Since the 2008 global financial crisis, however, the growth of trade has been sluggish and the expansion of GVCs has stalled. Meanwhile, serious threats have emerged to the model of trade-led growth. New technologies could draw production closer to the consumer and reduce the demand for labor. And conflicts among large countries could lead to a retrenchment or a segmentation of GVCs. This book examines whether there is still a path to development through GVCs and trade. It concludes that technological change is, at this stage, more a boon than a curse. GVCs can continue to boost growth, create better jobs, and reduce poverty provided that developing countries implement deeper reforms to promote GVC participation; industrial countries pursue open, predictable policies; and all countries revive multilateral cooperation.

Description / Table of Contents: Deng, X.; López-Martínez, C.; Chen, J.; Han, P. Statistical Modeling of Polarimetric SAR Data: A Survey and Challenges. Remote Sens. 2017, 9(4), 348; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9040348 --- Braun, A.; Hochschild, V. A SAR-Based Index for Landscape Changes in African Savannas. Remote Sens. 2017, 9(4), 359; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9040359 --- Ghafouri, A.; Amini, J.; Dehmollaian, M.; Kavoosi, M. Better Estimated IEM Input Parameters Using Random Fractal Geometry Applied on Multi-Frequency SAR Data. Remote Sens. 2017, 9(5), 445; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9050445 --- Kim, S.; Yu, J.; Jeon, S.; Dewantari, A.; Ka, M. Signal Processing for a Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output (MIMO) Video Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) with Beat Frequency Division Frequency-Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW). Remote Sens. 2017, 9(5), 491; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9050491 --- Chen, Q.; Li, L.; Xu, Q.; Yang, S.; Shi, X.; Liu, X. Multi-Feature Segmentation for High-Resolution Polarimetric SAR Data Based on Fractal Net Evolution Approach. Remote Sens. 2017, 9(6), 570; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9060570 --- Garthwaite, M. On the Design of Radar Corner Reflectors for Deformation Monitoring in Multi-Frequency InSAR. Remote Sens. 2017, 9(7), 648; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9070648 --- Tao, C.; Chen, S.; Li, Y.; Xiao, S. PolSAR Land Cover Classification Based on Roll-Invariant and Selected Hidden Polarimetric Features in the Rotation Domain. Remote Sens. 2017, 9(7), 660; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9070660 --- Giudici, D.; Monti Guarnieri, A.; Cuesta Gonzalez, J. Pre-Flight SAOCOM-1A SAR Performance Assessment by Outdoor Campaign. Remote Sens. 2017, 9(7), 729; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9070729 --- Libert, L.; Derauw, D.; d’Oreye, N.; Barbier, C.; Orban, A. Split-Band Interferometry-Assisted Phase Unwrapping for the Phase Ambiguities Correction. Remote Sens. 2017, 9(9), 879; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9090879 --- Zhao, J.; Wu, J.; Ding, X.; Wang, M. Elevation Extraction and Deformation Monitoring by Multitemporal InSAR of Lupu Bridge in Shanghai. Remote Sens. 2017, 9(9), 897; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9090897 --- Park, J.; Kim, J.; Won, J. Fast and Efficient Correction of Ground Moving Targets in a Synthetic Aperture Radar, Single-Look Complex Image. Remote Sens. 2017, 9(9), 926; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9090926 --- Shi, X.; Jiang, H.; Zhang, L.; Liao, M. Landslide Displacement Monitoring with Split-Bandwidth Interferometry: A Case Study of the Shuping Landslide in the Three Gorges Area. Remote Sens. 2017, 9(9), 937; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9090937 --- Zhai, A.; Wen, X.; Xu, H.; Yuan, L.; Meng, Q. Multi-Layer Model Based on Multi-Scale and Multi-Feature Fusion for SAR Images. Remote Sens. 2017, 9(10), 1085; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9101085 --- Wang, C.; Chen, L.; Zhao, H.; Lu, Z.; Bian, M.; Zhang, R.; Feng, J. Ionospheric Reconstructions Using Faraday Rotation in Spaceborne Polarimetric SAR Data. Remote Sens. 2017, 9(11), 1169; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9111169 --- Monti-Guarnieri, A.; Giudici, D.; Recchia, A. Identification of C-Band Radio Frequency Interferences from Sentinel-1 Data. Remote Sens. 2017, 9(11), 1183; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9111183 --- Behnamian, A.; Banks, S.; White, L.; Brisco, B.; Millard, K.; Pasher, J.; Chen, Z.; Duffe, J.; Bourgeau-Chavez, L.; Battaglia, M. Semi-Automated Surface Water Detection with Synthetic Aperture Radar Data: A Wetland Case Study. Remote Sens. 2017, 9(12), 1209; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9121209 --- Sun, L.; Muller, J.; Chen, J. Time Series Analysis of Very Slow Landslides in the Three Gorges Region through Small Baseline SAR Offset Tracking. Remote Sens. 2017, 9(12), 1314; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9121314 --- Di Martino, G.; Iodice, A.; Riccio, D.; Ruello, G.; Zinno, I. The Role of Resolution in the Estimation of Fractal Dimension Maps From SAR Data. Remote Sens. 2018, 10(1), 9; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10010009 --- Garthwaite, M. Correction: Garthwaite, M.C. on the Design of Radar Corner Reflectors for Deformation Monitoring in Multi-Frequency InSAR. Remote Sens. 2017, 9, 648. Remote Sens. 2018, 10(1), 86; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10010086 --- Zhang, H.; Tang, J.; Wang, R.; Deng, Y.; Wang, W.; Li, N. An Accelerated Backprojection Algorithm for Monostatic and Bistatic SAR Processing. Remote Sens. 2018, 10(1), 140; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10010140 --- Eshqi Molan, Y.; Kim, J.; Lu, Z.; Agram, P. L-Band Temporal Coherence Assessment and Modeling Using Amplitude and Snow Depth over Interior Alaska. Remote Sens. 2018, 10(1), 150; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10010150 --- Dong, Y.; Jiang, H.; Zhang, L.; Liao, M. An Efficient Maximum Likelihood Estimation Approach of Multi-Baseline SAR Interferometry for Refined Topographic Mapping in Mountainous Areas. Remote Sens. 2018, 10(3), 454; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10030454 --- Bu, Y.; Liang, X.; Wang, Y.; Zhang, F.; Li, Y. A Unified Algorithm for Channel Imbalance and Antenna Phase Center Position Calibration of a Single-Pass Multi-Baseline TomoSAR System. Remote Sens. 2018, 10(3), 456; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10030456 --- Neelmeijer, J.; Schöne, T.; Dill, R.; Klemann, V.; Motagh, M. Ground Deformations around the Toktogul Reservoir, Kyrgyzstan, from Envisat ASAR and Sentinel-1 Data—A Case Study about the Impact of Atmospheric Corrections on InSAR Time Series. Remote Sens. 2018, 10(3), 462; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10030462 --- Tian, X.; Malhotra, R.; Xu, B.; Qi, H.; Ma, Y. Modeling Orbital Error in InSAR Interferogram Using Frequency and Spatial Domain Based Methods. Remote Sens. 2018, 10(4), 508; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10040508 --- Even, M.; Schulz, K. InSAR Deformation Analysis with Distributed Scatterers: A Review Complemented by New Advances. Remote Sens. 2018, 10(5), 744; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10050744 --- Washaya, P.; Balz, T.; Mohamadi, B. Coherence Change-Detection with Sentinel-1 for Natural and Anthropogenic Disaster Monitoring in Urban Areas. Remote Sens. 2018, 10(7), 1026; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10071026 --- Balz, T.; Sörgel, U.; Crespi, M.; Osmanoglu, B. Editorial for Special Issue “Advances in SAR: Sensors, Methodologies, and Applications”. Remote Sens. 2018, 10(8), 1233; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10081233

Description / Table of Contents: 1. An Insight into the Process, Tools and Techniques for Construction Risk Management / by Onengiyeofori O. Odimabo, Chike F. Oduoza and Subashini Suresh --- 2. Big Data as a Project Risk Management Tool / by Jarosław Górecki --- 3. Product Life Cycle Risk Management / by Jan Machac, Frantisek Steiner and Jiri Tupa --- 4. Critical Success Factors for Effective Risk Management / by Geraldine J. Kikwasi --- 5. Construction Supply Chain Resilience in Catastrophic Events / by Yasangika Gayani Sandanayake, Tharaka Bandara Dissanayake and Chike Oduoza --- 6. Risk Management in Indonesia Construction Project: A Case Study of a Toll Road Project / by Mochammad Agung Wibowo, Jati Utomo Dwi Hatmoko and Asri Nurdiana --- 7. Risk Management to Enhance Performance in the Construction SME Sector; Theory and Case Study / by Jan Simota, Jiri Tupa* and Frantisek Steiner --- 8. Leadership Initiatives for Health and Safety Risk Management Systems in a Small Construction Company: A Case Study / by Subashini Suresh, Chike Oduoza and Suresh Renukappa --- 9. Landslide Risk Management for Urbanized Territories / by Valentina Svalova

Description / Table of Contents: Does Sea Surface Temperature Contribute to Determining Range Limits and Expansion of Mangroves in Eastern South America (Brazil)? / by Arimatéa C. Ximenes, Leandro Ponsoni, Catarina F. Lira, Nico Koedam and Farid Dahdouh-Guebas. Remote Sensing 2018, 10(11), 1787; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10111787 --- Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Variability of the Eastern Coastal Zone of the Gulf of California / by Carlos Manuel Robles-Tamayo, José Eduardo Valdez-Holguín, Ricardo García-Morales, Gudelia Figueroa-Preciado, Hugo Herrera-Cervantes, Juana López-Martínez and Luis Fernando Enríquez-Ocaña. Remote Sensing 2018, 10(9), 1434; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10091434 --- Quality Assessment of Sea Surface Temperature from ATSRs of the Climate Change Initiative (Phase 1) / by Christoforos Tsamalis and Roger Saunders. Remote Sensing 2018, 10(4), 497; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10040497 --- Confirmation of ENSO-Southern Ocean Teleconnections Using Satellite-Derived SST / by Brady S. Ferster, Bulusu Subrahmanyam and Alison M. Macdonald. Remote Sensing 2018, 10(2), 331; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10020331 --- Spatio-Temporal Interpolation of Cloudy SST Fields Using Conditional Analog Data Assimilation / by Ronan Fablet, Phi Huynh Viet, Redouane Lguensat, Pierre-Henri Horrein and Bertrand Chapron. Remote Sensing 2018, 10(2), 310; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10020310 --- Optimal Estimation of Sea Surface Temperature from AMSR-E / by Pia Nielsen-Englyst, Jacob L. Høyer, Leif Toudal Pedersen, Chelle L. Gentemann, Emy Alerskans, Tom Block and Craig Donlon. Remote Sensing 2018, 10(2), 229; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10020229 --- Exploring Machine Learning to Correct Satellite-Derived Sea Surface Temperatures / by Stéphane Saux Picart, Pierre Tandeo, Emmanuelle Autret and Blandine Gausset. Remote Sensing 2018, 10(2), 224; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10020224 --- The Accuracies of Himawari-8 and MTSAT-2 Sea-Surface Temperatures in the Tropical Western Pacific Ocean / by Angela L. Ditri, Peter J. Minnett, Yang Liu, Katherine Kilpatrick and Ajoy Kumar. Remote Sensing 2018, 10(2), 212; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10020212 --- Role of El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Events on Temperature and Salinity Variability in the Agulhas Leakage Region / by Morgan L. Paris and Bulusu Subrahmanyam. Remote Sensing 2018, 10(1), 127; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10010127 --- Stability Assessment of the (A)ATSR Sea Surface Temperature Climate Dataset from the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative / by David I. Berry, Gary K. Corlett, Owen Embury and Christopher J. Merchant. Remote Sensing 2018, 10(1), 126; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10010126 --- Bayesian Cloud Detection for 37 Years of Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Global Area Coverage (GAC) Data / by Claire E. Bulgin, Jonathan P. D. Mittaz, Owen Embury, Steinar Eastwood and Christopher J. Merchant. Remote Sensing 2018, 10(1), 97; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10010097 --- The Role of Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 Channels within an Optimal Estimation Scheme for Sea Surface Temperature / by Kevin Pearson, Christopher Merchant, Owen Embury and Craig Donlon. Remote Sensing 2018, 10(1), 90; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10010090 --- Remote Sensing of Coral Bleaching Using Temperature and Light: Progress towards an Operational Algorithm / by William Skirving, Susana Enríquez, John D. Hedley, Sophie Dove, C. Mark Eakin, Robert A. B. Mason, Jacqueline L. De La Cour, Gang Liu, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Alan E. Strong, Peter J. Mumby and Roberto Iglesias-Prieto. Remote Sensing 2018, 10(1), 18; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10010018 --- Reconstruction of Daily Sea Surface Temperature Based on Radial Basis Function Networks / by Zhihong Liao, Qing Dong, Cunjin Xue, Jingwu Bi and Guangtong Wan. Remote Sensing 2017, 9(11), 1204; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9111204 --- Submesoscale Sea Surface Temperature Variability from UAV and Satellite Measurements / by Sandra L. Castro, William J. Emery, Gary A. Wick and William Tandy. Remote Sensing 2017, 9(11), 1089; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9111089 --- Environmental Variability and Oceanographic Dynamics of the Central and Southern Coastal Zone of Sonora in the Gulf of California / by Ricardo García-Morales, Juana López-Martínez, Jose Eduardo Valdez-Holguin, Hugo Herrera-Cervantes and Luis Daniel Espinosa-Chaurand. Remote Sensing 2017, 9(9), 925; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9090925 --- Determining the Pixel-to-Pixel Uncertainty in Satellite-Derived SST Fields / by Fan Wu, Peter Cornillon, Brahim Boussidi and Lei Guan. Remote Sensing 2017, 9(9), 877; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9090877 --- Evaluation of the Multi-Scale Ultra-High Resolution (MUR) Analysis of Lake Surface Temperature / by Erik Crosman, Jorge Vazquez-Cuervo and Toshio Michael Chin. Remote Sensing 2017, 9(7), 723; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9070723

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction 1 --- Introduction to Open (Robert Biswas-Diener and Rajiv S. Jhangiani) 3 --- A Brief History of Open Educational Resources (T. J. Bliss and M. Smith) 9 --- Open Licensing and Open Education Licensing Policy (Cable Green) 29 --- Openness and the Transformation of Education and Schooling (William G. Huitt and David M. Monetti) 43 --- What Can OER Do for Me? Evaluating the Claims for OER (Martin Weller, Beatriz de los Arcos, Rob Farrow, Rebecca Pitt and Patrick McAndrew) 67 --- Are OE Resources High Quality? (Regan A. R. Gurung) 79 --- Open Practices 87 --- Opening Science (Brian A. Nosek) 89 --- Open Course Development at the OERu (Wayne Mackintosh) 101 --- From OER to Open Pedagogy: Harnessing the Power of Open (Robin DeRosa and Scott Robison) 115 --- Opening Up Higher Education with Screencasts (David B. Miller and Addison Zhao) 125 --- Librarians in the Pursuit of Open Practices (Quill West) 139 --- A Library Viewpoint: Exploring Open Educational Practices (Anita Walz) 147 --- How to Open an Academic Department (Farhad Dastur) 163 --- Case Studies 179 --- The International Journal of Wellbeing: An Open Access Success Story (Dan Weijers and Aaron Jarden) 181 --- Iterating Toward Openness: Lessons Learned on a Personal Journey (David Wiley) 195 --- Open-Source for Educational Materials Making Textbooks Cheaper and Better (Ed Diener, Carol Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener) 209 --- Free is Not Enough (Richard Baraniuk, Nicole Finkbeiner, David Harris, Dani Nicholson and Daniel Williamson) 219 --- The BC Open Textbook Project (Mary Burgess) 227 --- TeachPsychScience.org: Sharing to Improve the Teaching of Research Methods (David B. Strohmetz, Natalie J. Ciarocco and Gary W. Lewandowski, Jr.) 237 --- DIY Open Pedagogy: Freely Sharing Teaching Resources in Psychology (Jessica Hartnett) 245 --- Conclusion 255 --- You Can’t Sell Free, and Other OER Problems (Robert Biswas-Diener) 257 --- Open as Default: The Future of Education and Scholarship (Rajiv S. Jhangiani) 267 --- Index 281

Description / Table of Contents: Issue Mapping for an Ageing Europe is a seminal guide to mapping social and political issues with digital methods. The issue at stake concerns the imminent crisis of an ageing Europe and its impact on the contemporary welfare state. The book brings together three leading approaches to issue mapping: Bruno Latour's social cartography, Ulrich Beck's risk cartography and Jeremy Crampton's critical neo-cartography. These modes of inquiry are put into practice with digital methods for mapping the ageing agenda, including debates surrounding so-called 'old age', cultural philosophies of ageing, itinerant care workers, not to mention European anti-ageing cuisine. Issue Mapping for an Ageing Europe addresses an urgent social issue with new media research tools.

Description / Table of Contents: ‘Landscape Biographies’ explores the long and complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives. As an essential part of human life-worlds, landscapes have the potential to absorb something of people's lives, works, and thoughts. But landscapes also shape their own life-histories at different timescales, transcending human life-cycles and generating their own temporalities and rhythms. It comes as no surprise, therefore, that the co-scripting of landscapes and people figures prominently in the (auto-)biographical works of writers and attracts the interest of geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists. This has even resulted in a new genre in landscape research, rapidly gaining in popularity, under the heading of 'landscape biography'. In ‘Landscape Biographies’, twenty geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists investigate the diverse ways in which landscapes and monuments have been constructed, transmitted, and transformed from prehistory up to the present, from Manhattan to Shanghai, from Iceland to Portugal, and from England to Estonia. Among the authors are distinguished scholars like Gísli Pálsson, Cornelius Holtorf, Joshua Pollard, and Mark Gillings.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Collaboration: Long-Term Partnerships for Local Development by Elisabeth Schauppenlehner-Kloyber --- Chapter 2: Evolution of Marketing in Smart Cities through the Collaboration Design by Urška Starc-Peceny, Anita Maček and Rasto Ovin --- Chapter 3: Social Media Use and Citizen Engagement in Local Government of Thailand by Sataporn Roengtam --- Chapter 4: Urban Planning in Decentralization and Local Autonomy Era: A Case Study on the Relationship Between Local Government and Civic Group in Development and Budget Planning in Malang City (Indonesia) by Salahudin, Achmad Nurmandi and Jainuri --- Chapter 5: The Key Role of Integral Extension in Socio-Environmental Innovation towards Sustainable Rural Development by Aida Huerta-Barrientos --- Chapter 6: Export, Import, Economic Growth, and Carbon Emissions in Bangladesh: A Granger Causality Test under VAR (Restricted) Environment by Farhana Ferdousi and Md. Qamruzzaman --- Chapter 7: Water Challenges of an Urbanizing World by Sheetal Sharma --- Chapter 8: The Spatial Structure of Ecuador: Analysis Using Market Potentials by Jorge Guido Sotomayor-Pereira, Jesús López-Rodríguez and Laura Varela-Candamio --- Chapter 9: The Economic Geography of Most North-Western Region of Spain: Galicia and the Effect of Market Access on Regional Development Levels by Jesús López-Rodríguez and Guillermo Manso-Fernández --- Chapter 10: Some Perpetually Old and New Development Issues in the EU Regions: Competitiveness, Resilience, and Convergence: Where Do the New Member States Stand? by Marioara Iordan and Mihaela-Nona Chilian --- Chapter 11: Regional Analysis for European Structural and Investment Funds on the Case of Slovenia-Austria Cross-Border Cooperation 2014–2020 by Vito Bobek and Anita Maček

Description / Table of Contents: This book seeks to pose and explore a question that sheds light on the contested but largely cooperative nature of Arctic governance in the post-Cold War period: how does power matter – and how has it mattered – in shaping cross-border cooperation and diplomacy in the Arctic? Each chapter functions as a window through which power relations in the Arctic are explored. Issues include how representing the Arctic region matters for securing preferred outcomes, how circumpolar cooperation is marked by regional hierarchies and how Arctic governance has become a global social site in its own right, replete with disciplining norms for steering diplomatic behaviour. This book draws upon Russia’s role in the Arctic Council as an extended case study and examines how Arctic cross-border governance can be understood as a site of competition over the exercise of authority.

Description / Table of Contents: The biggest problem for a shallow foundation, just as for any other type of foundation, is a failure due to an overestimation of the bearing capacity. This means that the correct prediction of the bearing capacity of the foundation is often the most important part of the design of a civil structure. That is why the publication by Prandtl in 1920 about the hardness of a plastic body, was a major step in solving the bearing capacity of shallow foundations, although it is well possible that he never realised this, because his solution was not made for civil engineering purposes, but for mechanical purposes. Over the last 100 years, a lot of extensions have been made, for example with inclination factors and shape factors. Also many laboratory experiments have been done and numerical calculations have been made. Some even try to extrapolate the failure mechanism for shallow foundations to the failure mechanism around the tip of a pile. All this scientific work leads back to the first publication by Ludwig Prandtl in 1920. This book, “100 Years of Prandtl’s Wedge”, is intended for all those who are interested in these fundamentals of foundation engineering and their history. The Appendices include a copy of Prandtl’s Über die Härte plastischer Körper and of Reissner’s publication of 1924, Zum Erddruckproblem.