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Infrastructure and Safety in a Collaborative World
by Evangelos Bekiaris Evangelia Gaitanidou Marion WiethoffThe book investigates how, and which, forgiving road environments (FOR) and self-explaining road measures (SER) will contribute to increasing road safety and also increase network efficiency on the road. It presents both the general approach and the methodology for generating the possible FOR and SER measures. The book further discusses the prioritization and the testing methodologies, as well as the designing VMS methodology. The next parts of the book present a few important examples: lane departure warning systems; intelligent speed adaptation systems and perception enhancement studies; designs of European pictorial signs, e.g. for VMS but also examples of designs of European road wordings; and finally how personalization can take place of VMS signs and wordings for the individual driver. The last part shows the final evaluation of FOR and SER, and detailed Multiple Criterion Analysis and Cost Benefit Analyses are performed on a number of FOR and SER measures. This results in the development of a set of guidelines, conclusions and recommendations for the future.
Infrastructure as Business: The Role of Private Investment Capital
by James McKellarInfrastructure as Business brings new emphasis and clarity to the importance of private investment capital in large-scale infrastructure projects, introducing investors, policymakers, and other stakeholders to a key element that is surprisingly absent from the discourse on public-private partnerships. Despite the importance of modernizing infrastructure across the globe, governments often face challenges in securing the necessary capital to meet future need, as well as developing policy to meet these goals. Explaining the structure of the private investment universe and flow of private capital in such projects, this book ambitiously aims to bridge this "infrastructure gap" by elucidating shared terminology, conceptual frameworks, and an alignment of goals and objectives between public and private sectors—essential to meet increasing environmental, social, and governmental requirements for infrastructure in coming years. Appropriate for graduate-level courses in real estate, public policy, and urban planning that focus on infrastructure, project finance, and procurement and delivery models such as PPPs. Provides a clear understanding of private investment and PPPs to the investment community as well as professionals in real estate, project finance, and related fields, who often learn mostly on-the-job and from colleagues. Equips government officials and policymakers with key terms and concepts needed to "sit across the table" with private financers and explore opportunities for private capital investment in early project stages. Outlines communication strategies for both public and private sectors, which will increasingly need to collaborate to address climate change, respond to new technologies, and develop efficient ways to deliver services. Written to engage academic, private investment, and public policy/governance audiences alike, Infrastructure as Business: The Role of Private Investment Capital invites discussion and opens doors to advancing new business models, with international applications, to offer increased value for private investors as well as more efficient, flexible funding for innovative infrastructure development in the future.
Infrastructure Asset Management with Power System Applications
by Lina Bertling TjernbergInfrastructure Asset Management with Power System Applications is about infrastructure asset management, which can be expressed as the combination of management, financial, economic, and engineering, applied to physical assets with the objective of providing the required level of service in the most cost-effective manner. It includes management of the whole lifecycle of a physical asset from design, construction, commission, operation, maintenance, modification, decommissioning, and disposal. It covers budget issues and focuses on asset management of an infrastructure for energy—i.e., the electric power system. Features Offers a comprehensive reference book providing definitions, terminology, and basic theories as well as a comprehensive set of examples from a wide range of applications for the electric power system and its components. Spans a wide range of applications for the electric power system area, including real data and pictures. Contains results from recently published research and application studies. Includes a wide range of application examples for the electric power systems area from hydro, nuclear, and wind, plus shows future trends. Contributes to the overall goals of developing a sustainable energy system by providing methods and tools for a resource efficient use of physical assets in the electric power system area.
Infrastructure Delivery Systems: Governance and Implementation Issues (Management in the Built Environment)
by Bankole Osita Awuzie Peter McDermottThis book provides a framework for governing policy implementation by various stakeholders during the delivery of infrastructure projects. This framework relies on the tenets of the Viable Systems Model (VSM), a systems cybernetic model that enjoys a high level of acceptance in organizational analysis. The book presents a step-by-step guide for the multi-level governance of implementation during project delivery. Although the book focuses on the context of local content development policy and construction projects (infrastructure), it is presented in a manner that allows it to be adapted to other policies and sectors. The book includes a step-by-step methodology for assessing policy implementation in project or policy delivery systems. In addition, it shares insights into the probable challenges faced by the actors within the delivery system in achieving optimal implementation performance. Critical success factors are also highlighted, and illustrative diagrams of the framework are provided to facilitate understanding. The book is logically structured and presented in a straightforward manner. Also, the transposition of the VSM from a conventional organizational context to a multi-organizational context will appeal to readers with a background in systems thinking, monitoring or evaluation.
Infrastructure Development and Construction Management
by J. C. EdisonThis is a comprehensive book on infrastructure development and construction management. It is written keeping in mind the curricula of construction management programmes in India and abroad. It covers infrastructure development, the construction industry in India, financial analysis of the real estate industry in India, economic analysis of projects, tendering and bidding, contracts and contract management, FIDIC conditions of contract, construction disputes and claims, arbitration, conciliation and dispute resolution, international construction project exports and identifying, analysing and managing construction project risk. Thus, this book covers most of the construction management activities that are carried out at different stages of a construction project. This is an essential book for students of construction management, construction professionals, academicians and researchers.
Infrastructure for the Built Environment: Global Procurement Strategies
by Herbert Robinson Rodney HowesThroughout the world there is a growing demand for high quality public services to support socio-economic development. Infrastructure is central to improving the level of public services and the quality of the built environment. But in key areas such as transport, energy, water, healthcare, education and communications, public resources are not sufficient to keep pace with this demand. As the public sector struggles to keep up, the private sector is increasingly involved in the procurement of economic and social infrastructure. Until now procurement strategies have often concentrated on the mechanisms and the ‘bricks and mortar’ without a thorough analysis of the processes and their implications for services. The result is that all too often infrastructure projects are implemented in an ad hoc and fragmented way. In this ground-breaking book, Rodney Howes and Herbert Robinson provide a holistic approach to infrastructure provision that facilitates infrastructure delivery aimed at continuously improving the level and quality of services. Critical issues of policy and strategy, implementation, and operational aspects are examined within the context of sustainability. By emphasising the importance of procuring infrastructure within an overall national or regional development policy and strategy, the authors have demonstrated the importance of linking investment and resource decisions to local social, economic and environmental needs. With each chapter carefully written to reflect part of the infrastructure delivery chain and illustrated with practical examples and case studies from around the world, this book offers a new blueprint for infrastructure investment and resource management.
Infrastructure Monitoring with Spaceborne SAR Sensors
by Andrei Anghel Gabriel Vasile Remus CacoveanuThis book presents a novel non-intrusive infrastructure monitoring technique based on the detection and tracking of scattering centers in spaceborne SAR images. The methodology essentially consists of refocusing each available SAR image on an imposed 3D point cloud associated to the envisaged infrastructure element and identifying the reliable scatterers to be monitored by means of four dimensional (4D) tomography. The methodology described in this book provides a new perspective on infrastructure monitoring with spaceborne SAR images, is based on a standalone processing chain, and brings innovative technical aspects relative to conventional approaches. The book is intended primarily for professionals and researchers working in the area of critical infrastructure monitoring by radar remote sensing.
Infrastructure Planning and Finance: A Smart and Sustainable Guide
by Vicki Elmer Adam LeiglandInfrastructure Planning and Finance is a non-technical guide to the engineering, planning, and financing of major infrastucture projects in the United States, providing both step-by-step guidance, and a broad overview of the technical, political, and economic challenges of creating lasting infrastructure in the 21st Century. Infrastructure Planning and Finance is designed for the local practitioner or student who wants to learn the basics of how to develop an infrastructure plan, a program, or an individual infrastructure project. A team of authors with experience in public works, planning, and city government explain the history and economic environment of infrastructure and capital planning, addressing common tools like the comprehensive plan, sustainability plans, and local regulations. The book guides readers through the preparation and development of comprehensive plans and infrastructure projects, and through major funding mechanisms, from bonds, user fees, and impact fees to privatization and competition. The rest of the book describes the individual infrastructure systems: their elements, current issues and a 'how-to-do-it' section that covers the system and the comprehensive plan, development regulations and how it can be financed. Innovations such as decentralization, green and blue-green technologies are described as well as local policy actions to achieve a more sustainable city are also addressed. Chapters include water, wastewater, solid waste, streets, transportation, airports, ports, community facilities, parks, schools, energy and telecommunications. Attention is given to how local policies can ensure a sustainable and climate friendly infrastructure system, and how planning for them can be integrated across disciplines.
Infrastructure Planning and Management in India: Opportunities and Challenges (Studies in Infrastructure and Control)
by Rahul Nath Choudhury Pravin JadhavThis book addresses comprehensive issues of infrastructure management at the sectoral level in India. This book analyses four critical sectors viz. Transportation, Power, Urban, and Digital Infrastructure and their planning and management from an Indian perspective. The book also identifies empirical risks and challenges in the planning and management of infrastructure in India. A diverse set of management solutions that can support better infrastructure management across sectors are also discussed in the present book.
Infrastructure Planning and Management: An Integrated Approach
by Virendra ProagThis book explains how water, electricity/power, roads and other infrastructure services are linked together within the general basket of development and how to obtain the optimum use of resources. The emphasis, nowadays, is on multipurpose activities, optimum use of resources, environmental approach, minimum use of energy. This book tries to integrate all of these, by showing the links between the different components of infrastructure and trying to model them. A well articulated, socially attractive and desirable project may fail during the implementation or operation stage, not only from bad design, but also due to inadequate attention paid to the human aspects required for its operation. This book is intended for graduates and practising professionals who are involved in the general development planning of their country/region. It enables better understanding, collaboration and communication with other professionals in relation to their own or different disciplines.
Infrastructure Procurement and Funding: Harnessing Investment to Deliver a Better Future
by Sharon McClementsInfrastructure is vital to a resilient society and infrastructure investment is therefore critical to the vibrant functioning of societies. Infrastructure assets span economic and social spheres, but despite the prime importance of infrastructure investment, national governments simply cannot fund all of society's infrastructure requirements. This book, Infrastructure Procurement and Funding explores the key models of procuring and financing major projects and infrastructure works whilst critically acknowledging the inherent challenges in successfully securing the necessary funding. The book provides the reader with a detailed review of contemporary methods of financing and procuring infrastructure projects, commencing with an examination of the role of infrastructure in society in creating resilient societies. It reviews public sector funding mechanisms for infrastructure investment and then introduces, before presenting emerging trends in private sector investment in infrastructure. Fundamentally this book identifies robust, innovative, and contemporary solutions to the procurement, financing and investment in major infrastructure projects, globally, nationally and regionally. The book is ideal reading for international courses in construction procurement, construction project management, infrastructure asset management, real estate investment and finance, but will also be useful for those construction business leaders in public and private sectors who are responsible for making major project and infrastructure financial and investment decisions.
Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships: Decision, Management and Development
by Carlos Oliveira Cruz Rui Cunha MarquesEconomic development and social welfare depend on the existence of effective and efficient infrastructure systems, particularly in health, energy, transportation and water, many of which are developed and managed through Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). However, empirical evidence suggests some pitfalls in the use of these PPP arrangements. This book addresses these issues, focusing on mostly three key questions: How to improve the robustness of the decision-making process leading to the option of PPP? How to improve contract management as the longest phase of the process? How can contracts be improved to accommodate uncertainty and avoid harmful renegotiations? The authors explore the concept of flexible contracts, the uncertainty modeling for improving the robustness of the decision-making process, and develop an overall framework for effective contract management, along with a comprehensive analysis of current renegotiation patterns. The ultimate goal is to improve the contractual performance, as well as the overall infrastructure management and social welfare.
Infrastructure Robotics: Methodologies, Robotic Systems and Applications (IEEE Press Series on Systems Science and Engineering)
by Dikai Liu Carlos Balaguer Gamini Dissanayake Mirko KovacInfrastructure Robotics Illuminating resource presenting commonly used robotic methodologies and technologies, with recent developments and clear application examples across different project types Infrastructure Robotics presents state-of-the-art research in infrastructure robotics and key methodologies that enable the development of intelligent robots for operation in civil infrastructure environments, describing sensing, perception, localization, map building, environmental and operation awareness, motion and task planning, design methodologies, robot assistance paradigms, and physical human-robot collaboration. The text also presents many case studies of robotic systems developed for real-world applications in maintaining various civil infrastructures, including steel bridges, tunnels, underground water mains, underwater structures, and sewer pipes. In addition, later chapters discuss lessons learned in deployment of intelligent robots in practical applications overall. Infrastructure Robotics provides a timely and thorough treatment of the subject pertaining to recent developments, such as computer vision and machine learning techniques that have been used in inspection and condition assessment of critical civil infrastructures, including bridges, tunnels, and more. Written by highly qualified contributors with significant experience in both academia and industry, Infrastructure Robotics covers topics such as: Design methods for application of robots in civil infrastructure inspired by biological systems including ants, inchworms, and humans Fundamental aspects of research on intelligent robotic co-workers for human-robot collaborative operations The ROBO-SPECT European project and a robotized alternative to manual tunnel structural inspection and assessment Wider context for the use of additive manufacturing techniques on construction sites Infrastructure Robotics is an essential resource for researchers, engineers, and graduate students in related fields. Professionals in civil engineering, asset management, and project management who wish to be on the cutting edge of the future of their industries will also benefit from the text.
Infrastructure Systems for Nuclear Energy
by Thomas T. Hsu Jui-Liang Lin Chiun-Lin WuDeveloping sufficient energy resources to replace coal, oil and gas is a globally critical necessity. Alternatives to fossil fuels such as wind, solar, or geothermal energies are desirable, but the usable quantities are limited and each has inherent deterrents. The only virtually unlimited energy source is nuclear energy, where safety of infrastructure systems is the paramount concern. Infrastructure Systems for Nuclear Energy addresses the analysis and design of infrastructures associated with nuclear energy. It provides an overview of the current and future nuclear power industry and the infrastructure systems from the perspectives of regulators, operators, practicing engineers and research academics. This book also provides details on investigations of containment structures, nuclear waste storage facilities and the applications of commercial/academic computer software. Specific environments that challenge the behavior of nuclear power plants infrastructure systems such as earthquake, blast, high temperature, irradiation effects, soil-structure interaction effect, etc., are also discussed. Key features:* Includes contributions from global experts representing academia and industry* Provides an overview of the nuclear power industry and nuclear infrastructure systems* Presents the state-of-the-art as well as the future direction for nuclear civil infrastructure systemsInfrastructure Systems for Nuclear Energy is a comprehensive, up-to-date reference for researchers and practitioners working in this field and for graduate studies in civil and mechanical engineering.
Infusing Innovation Into Organizations: A Systems Engineering Approach
by M. Ann Darrin Jerry A. KrillFoster a Culture of Innovation inside Your OrganizationIntroducing a new approach that blends the practical applications of engineering with innovative concepts and techniques, Infusing Innovation into Organizations: A Systems Engineering Approach illustrates how a company's culture influences innovation results and demonstrates how organizations c
Ingenieurakustik: Physikalische Grundlagen, Anwendungsbeispiele und Übungen
by Stefan Sentpali Gh. Reza SinambariMit jeder neu erschienenen Auflage wurde das Buch aktualisiert, durch neueste Erkenntnisse inhaltlich erweitert und auf den aktuellen Stand der Technik gebracht. Zusätzlich wurden in der 6. Auflage am Ende jedes Kapitel Übungen mit Lösungen aufgenommen, um dem Leser die Anwendung der theoretischen Grundlagen und den Umgang mit mathematischen Formeln zu erleichtern. Die Lösungen zu den kapitelspezifischen Übungen sind so aufbereitet, dass sie als Vorlage für Excel-Tabellen benutzt werden können. Damit eignet sich das Buch besonders als Studienbuch für Vorlesungen an Hochschulen und Universitäten sowie für Ingenieure, die sich mit dem Thema Lärmminderung und Entwicklung von geräuscharmen Produkten beschäftigen. Angesprochen sind auch Fachkräfte, die sich mit der Beurteilung von Maschinenlärm und der Einhaltung akustischer Vorgaben befassen.
Ingenieurakustik: Physikalische Grundlagen und Anwendungsbeispiele
by Gh. Reza Sinambari Stefan SentpaliDieses Fachbuch hilft durch seine sehr praxisgerechte Darstellung, die Geräuschentstehung mit Hilfe von primären und konstruktiven Maßnahmen effektiv zu vermeiden oder zu vermindern. Neu in der völlig überarbeiteten Auflage sind die erweiterten Grundlagen der Schwingungs- und Körperschallisolierung sowie zwei Hauptkapitel zu Mechatroniksystemen in Fahrzeugen und Schalldämpfer in Rohrleitungen.
Ingenieurbaustoffe
by Hans-Wolf ReinhardtThe book is no encyclopedia of construction materials but rather a systematic description with the emphasis on the basics of material behaviour in order to assist the understanding of the dependencies of the material constants, which are not actually constants.
Ingenieurgeologie
by Helmut Prinz Roland StraußDer "Abriss der Ingenieurgeologie", wie das Buch bisher hieß, hat sich in vier Auflagen bestens bewährt, sowohl für Studierende als auch im Beruf stehende Geologen und Bauingenieure. Die Neuauflage wurde an vielen Stellen modernisiert und erweitert, v. a. wieder die Kapitel über Gesteins- und Gebirgsbeschreibung sowie über Tunnelbau. Mit den Bergbaufolgen wurde ein weiteres hochaktuelles Thema ganz neu aufgenommen. In allen Kapiteln wurden die aktuellen strukturellen Umbrüche in der europäischen und internationalen Standardisierung berücksichtigt.
Ingenieurholzbau: Vertiefung: Tragwerke und Berechnungsmethoden (Bauingenieur-Praxis)
by Werner Seim Johannes HummelDas Buch umfasst die wichtigsten theoretischen Grundlagen der Berechnung und Bemessung von Verbindungen und Tragelementen, sowie für den Tragwerksentwurf typischer Konstruktionen und Gesamttragwerke des Ingenieurholzbaus. Über das Basiswissen und die einfache Normenanwendung hinaus, werden Berechnungsmethoden für Holztragwerke vorgestellt und erläutert. Wichtige Schwerpunkte bilden dabei Holz-Beton-Verbundkonstruktionen, Konstruktionen mit Brettsperrholz, weitgespannte Träger für Hallentragwerke und Brücken, Platten und Scheiben für den mehrgeschossigen Holzbau sowie geklebte und formschlüssige Verbindungen. Ein eigenes Kapitel ist der Schwingungsberechnung und Erdbebenbemessung gewidmet. Zusammen mit dem Band ?Ingenieurholzbau ? Basiswissen? ist das Werk ideal als Lehrbuch für Studierende des Bauingenieurwesens sowie als Praxishandbuch für planende Ingenieure, die ihr Wissen erweitern und auffrischen wollen und neben der Anwendung der Normen und Richtlinien auch ein grundlegendes Verständnis der Phänomene und der rechnerischen Modellierung anstreben.
Ingenieurholzbau - Basiswissen: Tragelemente und Verbindungen (Bauingenieur-Praxis)
by Werner Seim Johannes HummelDas Buch legt die Grundlagen des Holzbaus detailliert dar und vermittelt die wesentlichen Kenntnisse und Kompetenzen, die für den Entwurf, die Bemessung und die Konstruktion einfacher Holztragwerke für typische Bauwerke des Hochbaus erforderlich sind. Einführend wird auf Holz als Konstruktionswerkstoff und die wesentlichen Unterschiede zu anderen Werkstoffen eingegangen. Das Tragverhalten von stabförmigen Bauteilen wird ebenso erläutert wie die Bemessung von Anschlüssen und Verbindungen. Typische Tragwerke wie Dach-, Decken- und Wandkonstruktionen, Brettschichtholzträger, Aussteifungen sowie die Holzrahmenbauweise werden ausführlich dargestellt. Kapitel zu Dauerhaftigkeit und Brandschutz runden den Inhalt ab. Anhand von zwei Referenzobjekten (Wohnhaus, Lagerhalle) werden die Schritte für die Bemessung von ausgewählten Bauteilen, einschließlich Zusammenstellung der Einwirkungen und Ermittlung der Schnittgrößen und Verformungen, in Rechenbeispielen angewendet. Dabei wird auf die jeweils zugehörigen Abschnitte im Buch verweisen. Das Buch ist ideal für Studierende des Bauingenieurwesens, des Umweltingenieurwesens, der Architektur und der Holztechnologie sowie für planende Ingenieure, die neben der Anwendung der Normen und Richtlinien auch ein grundlegendes Verständnis der Phänomene anstreben.
Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America
by Jason FagoneAn epic tale of invention, in which ordinary people's lives are changed forever by their quest to engineer a radically new kind of car In 2007, the X Prize Foundation announced that it would give $10 million to anyone who could build a safe, mass-producible car that could travel 100 miles on the energy equivalent of a gallon of gas. The challenge attracted more than one hundred teams from all over the world, including dozens of amateurs. Many designed their cars entirely from scratch, rejecting decades of thinking about what a car should look like. Jason Fagone follows four of those teams from the build stage to the final race and beyond--into a world in which destiny hangs on a low drag coefficient and a lug nut can be a beautiful talisman. The result is a gripping story of crazy collaboration, absurd risks, colossal hopes, and poignant losses. In an old pole barn in central Illinois, childhood sweethearts hack together an electric-powered dreamboat, using scavenged parts, forging their own steel, and burning through their life savings. In Virginia, an impassioned entrepreneur and his hand-picked squad of speed freaks pool their imaginations and build a car so light that you can push it across the floor with your thumb. In West Philly, a group of disaffected high school students come into their own as they create a hybrid car with the engine of a Harley motorcycle. And in Southern California, the early favorite--a start-up backed by millions in venture capital--designs a car that looks like an alien egg. Ingenious is a joyride. Fagone takes us into the garages and the minds of the inventors, capturing the fractious yet beautiful process of engineering a bespoke machine. Suspenseful and bighearted, this is the story of ordinary people risking failure, economic ruin, and ridicule to create something vital that Detroit had never pulled off. As the Illinois team wrote in chalk on the wall of their barn, "SOMEBODY HAS TO DO SOMETHING. THAT SOMEBODY IS US."
The Ingenious Mr. Pyke: Inventor, Fugitive, Spy
by Henry HemmingThis is the extraordinary story of Geoffrey Pyke, an inventor, war reporter, escaped prisoner, campaigner, father, educator--and all-around misunderstood genius. In his day, he was described as one of the world's great minds, to rank alongside Einstein, yet he remains virtually unknown today. Pyke was an unlikely hero of both world wars and, among many other things, is seen today as the father of the U. S. Special Forces. He changed the landscape of British pre-school education, earned a fortune on the stock market, wrote a bestseller and in 1942 convinced Winston Churchill to build an aircraft carrier out of reinforced ice. He escaped from a German WWI prison camp, devised an ingenious plan to help the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, and launched a private attempt to avert the outbreak of the Second World War by sending into Nazi Germany a group of pollsters disguised as golfers. Despite his brilliance, Pyke ultimately could not find peace, committing suicide in 1948. Yet the full scope of his story remained secret even after his death: in 2009, MI5 released a mass of material suggesting that Pyke was in fact a senior official in the Soviet Comintern. In 1951 papers relating to Pyke were found in the flat of "Cambridge Spy' Guy Burgess after his defection to Moscow. MI5 had "watchers" follow Pyke through the bombed-out streets of London, his letters were opened and listening devices picked up clues to his real identity. Convinced he was a Soviet agent codenamed Professor P, MI5 helped to bring his career to an end. It is only now, more than sixty years after his death, that Geoffrey Pyke's astonishing story can be told in full. The Ingenious Mr. Pyke is a many-faceted account of this enigmatic man’s genius, and reveals him as one of the great innovators of the last century.
Ingenious Patents: Bubblewrap, Bottlecaps, Barbed Wire, And Other Pioneering Inventions
by Jay Bennett Ben IkensonFor the curious and the creators, Ingenious Patents tells the fascinating history of the inventors and their creations that have changed our world.Discover some of the most innovative of the 6.5 million patents that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted since Thomas Jefferson issued the first one in 1790. Revised and reformatted from the original 2004 edition, Ingenious Patents presents each device along with background about the inventor, interesting sidebars and history, and an excerpt from the original patent application. Author Jay Bennet has also written 15 new entries, everything from iPhones to 3G wireless to CRISPR gene editing. Liberally sprinkled throughout are patent diagrams created by the inventors annotated to show exactly how each item works.Entries include creative commercial successes in fields as diverse as medicine, aeronautics, computing, agriculture, and consumer goods. Readers are certain to find a topic of interest here, whether it is the history behind the patent for a Pez dispenser, cathode ray tube, kitty litter, DNA fingerprinting, or the design of a Fender Stratocaster guitar.
Ingenious Principles of Nature: Do We Reckon With Nature Or Nature Reckons With Us
by E. W. KüppersThis volume focuses on practical applications of the principles that can be transferred from nature to our design space. It is thereby supported by the regulation and control systems as described by the science of cybernetics.