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The Routledge Handbook of Consumer Protection and Behaviour in Energy Markets provides a comprehensive study of consumer protection and consumer behaviour in selected jurisdictions worldwide. Each chapter is written by experts and provides a contemporary overview of national consumer protection and policy developments in the energy sector. Today energy has become an essential factor in ensuring the socio-economic development of any country and improving the quality of life of society and is now an essential element of life for everyone. The energy market has become a competitive market, based on the assumption that generation and sale of energy is not a natural monopoly and that market mechanisms, in particular competition between energy companies, are the best way to reduce prices and improve customer service. The purchase of energy is inextricably linked with its distribution from the producer to the purchaser. The book shows that well-functioning energy markets need informed and well protected consumers, who can benefit from competition and transparent offers. They are free to choose the most competitive providers, and know their rights, with access to effective means of redress. Given that the energy market has a specific, technical nature, the book analyses the energy market within the scope of free market principles, with a focus on the protection of the weaker party to the contract: the consumer. In addition, consumers can also play an active part of the clean energy transition.

Special topic volume with invited peer-reviewed papers only

Learn the various microbiological aspects one deals with in environment management and the remediation of toxic contaminants in the environment In recent years, the accumulation of hazardous contaminants has caused a broad-based deterioration in global environmental quality. These have had wide-ranging negative social impacts, affecting climate, soil and water ecosystems, and more. As traditional methods of contaminant mitigation have proven inadequate to the task, microbial-based remediation offers the clearest, most environmentally friendly path forward for this crucial aspect of global environmental stewardship. Microbes Based Approaches for the Management of Hazardous Contaminants offers comprehensive coverage of novel and indigenous microbes and their applications in contaminant mitigation. Surveying all the major microbial products and methods for degrading and remediating hazardous pollutants, it offers a key tool in the fight against global environmental degradation. The result is a cutting-edge introduction to an essential subject. Microbes Based Approaches for the Management of Hazardous Contaminants will also find: Current and future approaches to microbial degradation Detailed discussion of biofilms, exopolysaccharides, enzymes, metabolites, and many more Coverage of metabolic engineering as an alternative strategy Microbes Based Approaches for the Management of Hazardous Contaminants is ideal for those working in the field for the application of microbes in the remediation of hazardous pollutants and environment management, particularly those interested in environmental sciences, microbiology and microbial technology, environmental biotechnology, and molecular biology.

Selected peer-reviewed extended articles based on abstracts presented at the 10th International Conference on Mechanics, Materials and Manufacturing (ICMMM 2023)Aggregated Book

Second International Conference on Emerging Trends in IOT and Computing Technologies (ICEICT – 2023) is organised with a vision to address the various issues to promote the creation of intelligent solution for the future. It is expected that researchers will bring new prospects for collaboration across disciplines and gain ideas facilitating novel concepts. Second International Conference of Emerging Trends in IoT and Computer Technologies (ICEICT-2023) is an inventive event organised in Goel Institute of Technology and Management, Lucknow, India, with motive to make available an open International forum for the researches, academicians, technocrats, scientist, engineers, industrialist and students around the globe to exchange their innovations and share the research outcomes which may lead the young researchers, academicians and industrialist to contribute to the global society. The conference ICEICT- 2023 is being organised at Goel Institute of Technology and Management, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, during 12-13 January 2024. It will feature world-class keynote speakers, special sessions, along with the regular/oral paper presentations. The conference welcomes paper submissions from researcher, practitioners, academicians and students will cover numerous tracks in the field of Computer Science and Engineering and associated research areas.

What do Turkey and India have in common? Burcu Çevik-Compiègne brings sources from two apparently separate contexts into conversation to offer fresh insights into the Great War and its ongoing legacy, highlighting the perspectives of people in two post-imperial nation states. She uses public discourses, literature, oral histories, memorials and other material as entry points into histories of writing, overwriting and erasing the shadows of an imperial war. The connections and parallels between Turkey and India are traced in the narratives of self and the nation from the war to the present and across the globe, all the way to contemporary Australia.