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Global Food Insecurity
Rethinking Agricultural and Rural Development Paradigm and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Human-kind and ecological systems are currently facing one of the toughest challenges: how to feed more billions of people in the future within the perspective of climate change, energy shortages, economic crises and growing competition for the use of renewable and non renewable resources. This challenge...
Environmental Impacts of Road Vehicles
Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
The first concerns that come to mind in relation to pollution from road vehicles are direct emissions of carbon dioxide and toxic air pollutants. These are, of course, important but the impacts of road traffic are altogether more substantial. This volume of the Issues in Environmental Science and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Mountain agriculture is a socially and culturally unique system, but also a regionally important economic sector. In a globalising world, it is clear that fertile areas on all continents will always be used to produce large quantities of agricultural products in order to feed the world and, increasingly,...
by Yanyan Dong
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
This book presents the findings of the study, and offers analysis of both its methodological and policy-related implications. On the methodology side, it assesses and validates the valuation workshop approach; appraises the effect of distance on willingness to pay and the influence of the respondents’...
Global Weirdness
Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas and the Weather of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Produced by Climate Central—a highly regarded independent, nonprofit journalism and research foundation founded in 2008—and reviewed by scientists at major educational and research institutions the world over, Global Weirdness summarizes, in clear and accessible prose, everything we know about...
Sustainability Communication
Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Theoretical Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Modern and professional communication is required to realise the goal of sustainability in society. This book develops a theoretical and empirical framework, integrating interdisciplinary perspectives from communications theory, psychology, sociology, educational sciences, systems theory and constructivism....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
This volume offers a scientific assessment of the effects of climatic variability and change on forest resources in the United States. Derived from a report that provides technical input to the 2013 U.S. Global Change Research Program National Climate Assessment, the book serves as a framework for...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
This book consists of two parts. The first part describes the context in which the Prefectures of Minamisoma and Kesennuma need to operate and what the meaning is of the multiple disasters that occurred in the area. The second part illuminates the design process and content of the Minamisoma and Kesennuma...
Bacterial Biogeochemistry
The Ecophysiology of Mineral Cycling
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Bacterial Biogeochemistry, Third Edition focuses on bacterial metabolism and its relevance to the environment, including the decomposition of soil, food chains, nitrogen fixation, assimilation and reduction of carbon nitrogen and sulfur, and microbial symbiosis. The scope of the new edition has broadened...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2008
This new textbook fills an important niche by offering a lively overview of the principles of ecology for a broad range of university-level science and biology courses. Written for those who need to understand key ecological concepts but may specialise in other fields, it is filled with many vivid examples...
Sustainability, Energy and Architecture
Case Studies in Realizing Green Buildings
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
This unique volume offers insights from renowned experts in energy efficient building from the world over, providing a multi-faceted overview of the state-of-the-art in energy efficient architecture. It opens by defining what constitutes a sustainable building, suggesting bases for sorely needed benchmarks,...
by Wilson Acchar, Sheyla K. J. Marques
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
This book proposes the use of waste from oil drilling and sugar cane bagasse ash in the production of ecologically friendly soil-cement bricks. It offers a viable alternative to the traditional bricks available on the market, which use wood as fuel: manufacturing bricks from waste is less costly and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The connections between economics, planning, and the environment are receiv ing increased attention among scholars and policy makers in many countries. The common denominator among these three variables is the earth's life support sys tems, the ecosystems on which the world depends. When we describe...
Weathered
Cultures of Climate
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Climate is an enduring idea of the human mind and also a powerful one. Today, the idea of climate is most commonly associated with the discourse of climate-change and its scientific, political, economic, social, religious and ethical dimensions. However, to understand adequately the cultural politics...