Ecology category: 3266 books
by Eiichi Baba, Hideo Kawarada, Wataru Nishijima
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The authors explain the rewarding results from the interdisciplinary collaboration between an environmental study group working on coastal ecosystems and effects of oil spills and applied mathematicians modelling wave motion on sandy beaches. By using the unified Navier-Stokes equations with a Bingham...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Sedimentary coasts with their unique forms of life and productive ecosystems are one of the most threatened parts of the biosphere.
This volume analyzes and compares ecological structures and processes at sandy beaches, tidal mudflats and in shallow coastal waters all around the world. Analyses of...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Is the Earth the right model and the only universal key to understand habitability, the origin and maintenance of life? Are we able to detect life elsewhere in the universe by the existing techniques and by the upcoming space missions? This book tries to give answers by focusing on environmental properties,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
This volume contains a solid body of the current state of knowledge on the various themes and activities in agroforestry worldwide. It is organized into three sections: the Introduction section consists of the summaries of six keynote speeches at the 2nd World Congress of Agroforestry held in Nairobi,...
Italian Historical Rural Landscapes
Cultural Values for the Environment and Rural Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Sustainable development and rural policies have pursued strategies where farming has been often regarded as a factor deteriorating the ecosystem. But the current economic, social and environmental problems of the Earth probably call for examples of a positive integration between human society and...
Decision-Making in Conservation and Natural Resource Management
Models for Interdisciplinary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Making decisions about the management and conservation of nature is necessarily complex, with many competing pressures on natural systems, opportunities and benefits for different groups of people and a varying, uncertain social and ecological environment. An approach which is narrowly focused on...
Siren Song
Chilean Water Law As a Model for International Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Increasing scarcity, conflict, and environmental damage are critical features of the global water crisis. As governments, international organizations, NGOs, and corporations have tried to respond, Chilean water law has seemed an attractive alternative to older legislative and regulatory approaches....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Yet another book on the topic of ‘Sustainable Forest Management’ can only be justified by new information that is of direct relevance. The contents of this volume concentrate on the very latest factors and developments, thus, hopefully, contributing both to the book’s attractiveness and to closing...
International Water Scarcity and Variability
Managing Resource Use Across Political Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
International Water Scarcity and Variability considers international water management challenges created by water scarcity and environmental change. Although media coverage and some scholars tend to cast natural resource shortages as leading inexorably toward armed conflict and war, Shlomi Dinar and...
Object-Oriented Ontology
A New Theory of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
What is reality, really?
Are humans more special or important than the non-human objects we perceive?
How does this change the way we understand the world?
We humans tend to believe that things are only real in as much as we perceive them, an idea reinforced by modern philosophy, which privileges...
The End of Sustainability
Resilience and the Future of Environmental Governance in the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The time has come for us to collectively reexamine—and ultimately move past—the concept of sustainability in environmental and natural resources law and management. The continued invocation of sustainability in policy discussions ignores the emerging reality of the Anthropocene, which is creating...
Achieving environmental justice
A cross-national analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Environmental justice aspires to a healthy environment for all, as well as fair and inclusive processes of environmental decision-making. In order to develop successful strategies to achieve this, it is important to understand the factors that shape environmental justice outcomes. This optimistic,...
Sustaining the World's Wetlands
Setting Policy and Resolving Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2009
Wetlands throughout the world, including those described in this book are among the most sensitive and vulnerable ecosystems. They are critical habitats to the world’s migratory birds and a broad range of endangered mammal, reptile, amphibian, and plant species. They provide a broad range of flood...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2010
This ebook provides a reproduction of the Department of Energy the 2008-2012 Multi-Year Program Plan for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Program (Solar Program). The Solar Program is responsible for carrying out the Federal role in researching, developing, demonstrating and deploying solar energy technologies.