Production and operations analysis : strategy, quality, analytics, application

The Seventh Edition of Production and Operations Analysis builds a solid foundation for beginning students of production and operations management. Continuing a long tradition of excellence, Nahmias and Olsen bring decades of combined experience to craft the most clear and up-to-date resource available. The authors' thorough updates include incorporation of current technology that improves the …

Project management for engineering and construction

Edition

2nd ed.

ISBN/ISSN

088173182X

Collation

x, 330 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

[TSI-LIB-169]

Practical project management

Intended for courses in Project Management, especially in business and telecommunications-oriented programs. This text guides students through a strategy for success and provides them with the tools they need to handle any project's unique combination of people, processes, and tasks.

Water management in 2020 and beyond

Water is intertwined in the daily life of humans in countless ways. The importance of water as a driver for health, food security, and quality of life and as a pillar for economic development is unique. As water affects human lives, the mankind also effects the hydrological cycle, in all dimensions from the local to the global scale. Food production accounts for 90% of water use in developing c…

Environmental health in emergencies and disasters: a practical guide

Distills what is known about environmental health during an emergency or disaster. Draws on results from the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, and on experience with sustainable development between the two Earth Summits. The volume is intended for practitioners, as well as for policy makers and researchers, and thus covers both general and technical aspects of environmental h…

Introduction to emergency management

Details practices, strategies, and the key players involved in emergency management, especially in the US but also around the world. This title includes case studies that offer specific examples of disasters and how they were managed.

Principles of emergency planning and management

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9781903544105

Collation

xii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

[TLK-LIB-73]

Harvard business review on profiting from green business

Rev. ed. of: Harvard business review on business and the environment.

Green to gold: how smart companies use environmental strategy to innovate, cr…

This book explains what every executive should know to manage the environmental challenges facing society and the business world. Based on the authors' rich experience with forward thinking companies around the world, it demonstrates how corporations create value by building environmental thinking into their overall business strategies. The authors provide clear, how to advice for making sens…

The environmental science of drinking water

In today's chemically dependent society, environmental studies demonstrate that drinking water in developed countries contains numerous industrial chemicals, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and chemicals from water treatment processes. This poses a real threat. As a result of the ever-expanding list of chemical and biochemical products industry, current drinking water standards that serve to preser…