Environmental management

Climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity: drastic reduction of carbon emissions is vital if we are to avoid a catastrophe that devastates large parts of the world.

This book details the crux of green fashion, addressing various environmental aspects and discussing the importance of sustainable fashion in the apparel industry.

Sir John Houghton''s definitive, full-colour guide to climate change is fully up-to-date with the latest IPCC findings.

Perspectives in Life Cycle Impact Assessment: A Structured Approach to Combine Models of the Technosphere, Ecosphere and Valuesphere describes the relationship between subjective and objective elements in Life Cycle Impact Assessment.

This report is FAO's latest assessment of the long-term outlook for the world's food supplies, nutrition and agriculture.

This book presents research from across the globe on how gender relationships in agriculture are changing.

Florida's Water poses fundamental questions about water sustainability in the United States' fourth largest state.

The market and policy impetus to install increasingly utility-scale solar systems, or solar farms (sometimes known as solar parks or ranches), has seen products and applications develop ahead of the collective industry knowledge and experience.

Followed by the previous part (Volume-1), Volume-2 of carbon footprint assessment book deals with the assessment of carbon footprint in different other sectors, which were not dealt in the first part.

This book focuses on the regional political ecologies (RPEs) of environmental conflicts in India.

The Mekong Region has come to represent many of the important water governance challenges faced more broadly by the mainland Southeast Asian region.

This book explores the theoretical contribution of peace ecology to the understanding and practice of environmental and conventional peacebuilding.

The book includes six chapters in which represented integrated Smart Grid systems for coordination of production and consumption of the electric power on the basis of forecasting of change of parameters of technological processes are developed.

Floods are natural hazards whose effects can deeply affect the economic and environmental equilibria of a region.

Multidisciplinary Studies on the Environment and Civilization draws on research from a diverse range of fields across the humanities, social and natural sciences to discover what is needed to develop an affluent, sustainable and resilient world for the twenty-first century and beyond.

Ecological restoration is a rapidly evolving discipline that is engaged with developing both methodologies and strategies for repairing damaged and polluted ecosystems and environments.

In spite of all the efforts made in fire prevention and suppression, every year about 45 000 forest fires occur in Europe, burning ca.

Participatory Media in Environmental Communication brings together stories of communities in the Pacific islands - a region that is severely affected by the impacts of climate change.

This book is related to various applications of laser scanning in landslide assessment.

Il testo raccoglie una serie di qualificati contributi di autori italiani e stranieri in tema di Scienza dei Servizi in una prospettiva manageriale, toccando i temi più rilevanti rispetto al contributo che tale approccio può dare alla creazione di valore delle imprese, quali servitization dei prodotti, business modelling, co-creazione di valore con i clienti, misure di performance, ruolo dell'ICT.

This book shows the growing phenomenon and the broad impact of socio-environmental conflicts in the grassroots communities-farmers, fishermen and urban poor-in Indonesia, as the effects of government's development strategies based on neoliberal and New Public Management (NPM) views without a clear accountability system or socio-environmental accountability practices and reports are becoming apparent.

Technology is taking on an increasingly central and determining role in so- ciety, and can provide contradictory results: wealth on the one hand, but also unemployment, environmental imbalances and other social problems on the other.

The importance of the effective management of the natural environment has become vital over the past few decades.

This reference source on water efficiency in buildings provides comprehensive and up-to-date information.

This book surveys the ecology of stoats resident in New Zealand since the 1880s, when they were deliberately imported from UK as potential agents of biological control against rabbits.

This book advances knowledge on loss & damage (L&D) and its interlinkages with climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction.

This book highlights key recent developments in air conditioning technologies for cooling and dehumidification with the specific objectives to improve energy efficiency and to minimize environmental impact.

This book aims to assist in the management of soil salinity by describing a range of species tolerant of saline soils.

There has been growing attention paid to urban agriculture worldwide because of its role in making cities more environmentaly sustainable while also contributing to enhanced food access and social justice.

This book addresses the roles played by food co-operatives in the attempt to build alternative food networks, drawing on an in-depth analysis of case studies in Turkey.

Transactions in International Land Management is a new series of volumes which provides an arena for the debate of key topical issues on this subject.

Most of the world's population lives on or near the coasts.

This book is useful to those in water resources management and policy formulations, hydrologists, environmentalists, engineers and researchers.

The past half century has seen an evolution in thinking from 'flood control' to 'flood risk management', recognizing that risk results from both hazard and vulnerability.

A comparative, holistic synthesis of microbiome research, spanning soil, plant, animal and human hosts.

Integrates process and content of core areas of ecology using an engaging narrative, fascinating case studies, and stunning images throughout.

Origin and Chemistry of Petroleum explains that petroleum is produced from exceptionally disseminated organic matter of biological origin encased in extremely buried sediments.

This book reviews and characterises promising single-compound solvents, solvent blends and advanced solvent systems suitable for CO2 capture applications using gas-liquid absorption.

Structural environmental reform by firms and industries, governmental and intergovernmental agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and others is a worldwide phenomenon and the focus of this definitive collection.

This book provides a glimpse into the cutting-edge research on pollution management and detection in the water environments of watersheds, covering topics like water pollution traceability, pollution monitoring, and management techniques.

Rangelands are large natural landscapes that can include grasslands, shrublands, savannahs and woodlands.

Taking a social science approach, this book explores the governance of sustainable seafood, which is fundamental to food and nutrition security as well as being an important source of income and employment in many regions.

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Environmental constraints and market uncertainties create new challenges for electricity generation.

Agroecology is at the forefront of transforming our food systems.

In recent decades agricultural commodity surpluses in the developed world have contributed to a mantra of 'land surplus' in which set-aside, extensification, alternative land uses and 'wilding' have been key terms in debates over land.

Sustainable development is capturing the attention of planners, politicians and business leaders.