Volume IV of the Six Volume Remote Sensing Handbook, Second Edition, is focused on the use of remote sensing in forestry, biodiversity, ecology, land use and land cover, and global terrestrial carbon mapping and monitoring.
Move from feeling anxious about the oil crisis to developing a positive visions and taking traction action to create a more self-reliant existence with this ground-breaking book.
At 37 trillion individuals per year, wild-caught shrimp and prawns appear to be the single most numerous group of animals directly killed for human food consumption on the planet.
This book describes a fauna of global conservation concern and provides a framework for researchers to begin to test hypotheses regarding the evolution of freshwater mussels in Central America.
Technological improvements have greatly increased the ability of marine scientists to collect and analyze data over large spatial scales, and the resultant insights attainable from interpreting those data vastly increase understanding of poplation dynamics, evolution and biogeography.
This book presents a review of the state-of-the-art knowledge on the interactions between biodiversity and wind energy development, focused on the Portuguese reality.
Extending law beyond the human, the book probes the conceptual openings, methodological challenges and ethical conundrums of law in a time of deep socio-ecological disturbances and transitions.
This book brings a unique perspective to animal movement studies because all cases came from tropical environments where the great diversity, either biological and structurally (trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes), presents the animal with several options to fulfill its live requirements.
Global Wild Edibles of Deserts: Food Security and Sustainability provides coverage of topics in food and health in desert rangelands, using an interdisciplinary approach that considers health not only in a functional and human sense, but also in terms of external factors including aridity.
Take a balanced look at ways to ensure food security and to work to erase hunger around the worldAgriculture is the most aggressively managed ecosystem.
Partant de l’étude du geste de l’homme à cheval du XVe au XXe siècle à travers les traités d’équitation classique, l’auteur explore l’hypothèse selon laquelle il existerait « un code partagé » au cœur des communications interspécifiques entre humains et non-humains.
A fully up-to-date, comprehensive wind energy engineering resourceThis thoroughly updated reference offers complete details on effectively harnessing wind energy as a viable and economical power source.
En una época en que la lealtad humana hacia el mundo natural parece en entredicho, 'Parentesco' ofrece historias de solidaridad que subrayan la profunda interdependencia existente entre los humanos y el mundo no humano.
The beautiful tropical dry forest of northwest Costa Rica, with its highly seasonal rainfall and diversely vegetated landscape, is disappearing even more rapidly than Costa Ricas better-known rain forest, primarily because it has been easier to convert to agriculture.
This book proposes a conceptualisation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements as a form of International Organisations, exploring the ways in which they have expanded over time by discussing the nuances of authority in global governance.
Artificial Intelligence in Smart Cities presents an interdisciplinary and comprehensive analysis of how AI reengineers urban life, governance, and infrastructure.
Artificial Intelligence in Smart Cities presents an interdisciplinary and comprehensive analysis of how AI reengineers urban life, governance, and infrastructure.
This book draws on interdisciplinary research deploying 'river rights' and 'water justice' as conceptual frameworks to engage with laws and politics around waterbodies.
This book draws on interdisciplinary research deploying 'river rights' and 'water justice' as conceptual frameworks to engage with laws and politics around waterbodies.
Mountain Sheep in North America: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management provides a detailed account of bighorn and thinhorn sheep across their geographic ranges from Alaska and Canada to Mexico.
Mountain Sheep in North America: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management provides a detailed account of bighorn and thinhorn sheep across their geographic ranges from Alaska and Canada to Mexico.
This volume in the Fundamentals for the Water and Wastewater Main Operator series covers the basics of piping and valves in water and wastewater plants, including details on fittings, strainers, filters, traps and control systems.
This volume in the Fundamentals for the Water and Wastewater Main Operator series covers the basics of piping and valves in water and wastewater plants, including details on fittings, strainers, filters, traps and control systems.
Ecotoxicology of Metals in Invertebrates reviews the state of the art in research concerning metal exposure of marine, freshwater, and terrestrial invertebrates.
Ecotoxicology of Metals in Invertebrates reviews the state of the art in research concerning metal exposure of marine, freshwater, and terrestrial invertebrates.
This book addresses the profound changes facing the construction sector to provide a comprehensive and forward-looking exploration of how renewable energy systems and intelligent technologies are reshaping the construction industry towards a more sustainable, resilient, and cost-effective future.
This book addresses the profound changes facing the construction sector to provide a comprehensive and forward-looking exploration of how renewable energy systems and intelligent technologies are reshaping the construction industry towards a more sustainable, resilient, and cost-effective future.
