Physical geography and topography

This book introduces environmental participation as a distinct field comprising diverse practices.

This edited volume addresses the impacts of climate change on Pacific islands, and presents databases and indexes for assessing and adapting to island vulnerabilities.

This book presents definitions, key concepts and projects in landscape research and related areas, such as landscape science and landscape ecology, addressing and characterising the international role, status, challenges, future and tools of landscape research in the globalised world of the 21st century.

This book explores conservation practices on private land, based on research conducted with landholders in the hinterlands of Melbourne, Australia.

Aimed at those at the forefront of social ecological thinking, this book presents a practice-oriented process to navigate the complex, interdisciplinary challenges of our time.

This book presents the polycentric and multiscale view of landscape which has been developed in Russia within a framework of physical geography since the early twentieth century.

This book investigates the role of the National Petroleum Council (CNP) and especially of Petrobras in the construction and shaping of courses in Geosciences, as part of the historical process of the search for and exploration of oil, which began in Brazil in 1864 and ended in 1968 with the discovery of the first offshore well.

This SpringerBrief brings together a series of studies that delve into the details of French and Israeli green building practices and tell a tale of two countries which deviates considerably from what first impressions might suggest.

This book presents research on precipitation partitioning processes in vegetated ecosystems, putting them into a global context.

This book provides an overview of newly gathered material focusing on the opening and closure of The Neuquen Basin.

Environmental Sustainability in a Time of Change is the first book in a new Palgrave series on Environmental Sustainability.

This Handbook is the first volume to comprehensively analyse and problem-solve how to manage the decline of fossil fuels as the world tackles climate change and shifts towards a low-carbon energy transition.

This book highlights the latest research in the field of Sustainable Aviation.

This book offers an alternative analysis of the various theories and dimensions of green and environmental justice which are rooted in political economy.

This book brings together a valuable collection of case studies and conceptual approaches that outline the present state of Amazonia in the 21st century.

This book provides an accessible but intellectually rigorous introduction to the global social movement for 'climate justice' and addresses the socially uneven consequences of anthropogenic climate change.

This book conceptualizes community nutrition resilience as a critical area that is currently lacking the attention it requires from both the public and private sectors.

This book addresses societal relationships to river systems, highlighting many unexplored possibilities in how we know and manage our rivers.

This book addresses the gap between innovative technologies and their adoption.

This book presents the latest advances in karstology by researchers at the ZRC SAZU Karst Research Institute, Slovenia - home of Classical Karst.

Offering a thought provoking theoretical conversation around ecological crisis and natural resource extraction, this book suggests that we are on a trajectory geared towards total extractivism guided by the mythological Worldeater.

The United Nations has declared 2018-2028 as the International Decade for Action on Water for Sustainable Development.

Governing Arctic Seas introduces the concept of ecopolitical regions, using in-depth analyses of the Bering Strait and Barents Sea Regions to demonstrate how integrating the natural sciences, social sciences and Indigenous knowledge can reveal patterns, trends and processes as the basis for informed decisionmaking.

This volume discusses the challenges of Latin America in global environmental geopolitics.

This book explains vessels' ability to overcome ice on the Northern Sea Route, as well as the criteria of safe speed and maneuvering of vessels on ice.

This book highlights ecosystem services of Indian tropical soils driven by soil properties.

The book provides a review of the most relevant topics on the booming discipline of palaeohydrology and focuses on previous extreme events like exceptional floods and droughts.

This book presents an overview and knowledgeable on water resources management in Balkan countries - Slovenia, North Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Greece, and Bulgaria.

This book discusses water resources management in Romania from a hydrological perspective, presenting the latest research developments and state-of-the-art knowledge that can be applied to efficiently solve a variety of problems in integrated water resources management.

This book showcases the results of studies pertaining to climate changes in the Polar Regions - Arctic-Antarctic-Himalaya.

This book applies system theory to analyze the operation and structure of the complex earth surface system, including the interactions between society and nature that cause environmental degradation and threats to human populations.

This book presents most recent research studies on mapping and spatial analysis of socio-economic and environmental indicators used by various national and international contributors to regional development projects.

This beautiful art book portrays the forces of nature through the main elements of Earth, Water, Air, Fire.

This book assesses the construction of security in the context of climate change, with a focus on the Arctic region.

This book provides a succinct overview of the evolution of policies addressing energy and climate justice in South Africa.

This textbook presents a comprehensive overview of the environmental impacts of various types of adventure tourism and how these can be best managed.

This book provides an extensive overview of the diversity of soils in Georgia.

This book focuses on the fungi found in one of the most pristine regions on Earth: Antarctica.

This book explores urban futures in the making, as seen through the lens of urban infrastructure.

This book calls for a collective strengthening of the progressive dimension of climate action in the face of continued myopic governmental response.

This book takes a critical look at solar geoengineering as an acceptable means for addressing climate change.

Given the increasing uncertainty due to catastrophic climate events, terrorist attacks, and economic crises, this book addresses planning for resilience by focusing on sharing knowledge among policy-makers, urban planners, emergency teams and citizens.

This monograph explores traditional farming communities in French-speaking areas of the western Alps for the period 1500-1914 and how they endured in such an environment despite the many problems and risks which it posed for their subsistence and welfare.

This book discusses the reality of implementing sustainable forest management measures.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the global climate change impacts caused by the continued use of fossil fuels, which results in enormous damage to the global environment, biodiversity, and human health.

This book focuses on a representative example and one of the world's largest steppe conversions, and provides a detailed overview of the results of the BMBF-funded research project KULUNDA.

These proceedings of the Smart and Sustainable Cities Conference (SSC) in Moscow from May 23 to 26, 2018 addresses important questions regarding the global trend of urbanization.

This book addresses the complex socio-political context of natural resource management in coastal and marine environments throughout the contemporary Pacific Islands and provides lessons that can be applied around the globe.

This book bringing together leading researchers in the field of renewable energy to discuss sustainability on a broad scale and to examine the status quo of renewable energy industry development in a global context.

This book provides a unique and comprehensive assessment of the changes that have been taking place in the Himalayas.