"This volume provides an essential glossary of critical terms and concepts in the field of international environmental politics for diplomats, analysts and students. The interdisciplinary array of expert authors provide terse and authoritative overview of the key concepts and debates that have...

We present an overview of data mining techniques for extracting knowledge from large databases with a special emphasis on the unsupervised technique pattern mining. Pattern mining is often defined as the automatic search for interesting patterns and regularities in large databases. In practise...

Given the volatility of both natural and man-made coastal processes, coastal safety has become a prime concern worldwide. In many countries, governments have developed integrated coastal safety plans whose implementation poses complex governance issues, involving multi-level negotiations,...