Environmental management

Though not traditionally thought of as strategic natural resources, glaciers are a crucial part of our global ecosystem playing a fundamental role in the sustaining of life around the world.

Hundreds of millions of people still suffer from chronic hunger and food insecurity despite sufficient levels of global food production.

Inside small homes and huts throughout the developing world, billions of people burn fires in rudimentary stoves to prepare their meals and heat their homes.

Inside small homes and huts throughout the developing world, billions of people burn fires in rudimentary stoves to prepare their meals and heat their homes.

Megadrought and Collapse is the first book to treat in one volume the current paleoclimatic and archaeological evidence of megadrought events coincident with major prehistoric and historical examples of societal collapse.

The politics of food is changing fast.

In the wake of the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire, the city of San Francisco desperately needed reliable supplies of water and electricity.

This volume presents a set of coherent, cross-referenced perspectives on incorporating the spatial representation and analytical power of GIS with agent-based modelling of evolutionary and non-linear processes and phenomena.

Mountain Meteorology: Fundamentals and Applications offers first an introduction to the basic principles and concepts of mountain meteorology, then goes on to discuss their application in natural resources management.

This book brings together in compact form a broad scientific and sociopolitical view of US wetlands.

Tropical forests have seen a tremendous growth in logging, mining, and oil and gas development over the past decades.

To deal with the climate crisis we need a new paradigm of technological and social development aimed at the restoration of ecological systems--the bio-digital energy paradigm--and China is the world power best positioned to lead this change.

What can be done to ensure natural resources aren't exploited?

What can be done to ensure natural resources aren't exploited?

The Land Office Business The Settlement and Administration of American Public Lands, 1789-1837

In the United States, private ownership of land is not a new idea, yet the federal government retains title to roughly a quarter of the nation's land, including national parks, forests, and wildlife refuges.

There is much we can learn about conservation from native peoples, says Gene Anderson.

Today, six out of ten Americans describe themselves as "e;active"e; environmentalists or as "e;sympathetic"e; to the movement's concerns.

This book examines the industrial ecology of 200 years of ironmaking with renewal energy resources in northwestern Connecticut.

The black rhino is nature's tank, feared by all animals.

Attempts to halt the destruction of rain forests and other natural habitats in the tropics have met with little success.

Ecology, Engineering, and the Paradox of Management is the first book that addresses and reconciles what many take to be the core paradox facing environmental decision-makers and stakeholders: How do they restore the environment while at the same time provide ever more services reliably from that environment, including clean air, water and energy for more and more people?

In Aldo Leopold and an Ecological Conscience ecologists, wildlife biologists, and other professional conservationists explore the ecological legacy of Aldo Leopold and his A Sand County Almanac and his contributions to the environmental movement, the philosophy of science, and natural resource management.

The global drug trade and its associated violence, corruption, and human suffering create global problems that include political and military conflicts, ethnic minority human rights violations, and stresses on economic development.

This book addresses the diverse ways in which international law governs the uses, management, and protection of fresh water.

This book addresses the diverse ways in which international law governs the uses, management, and protection of fresh water.

The deep ocean is by far the planet's largest biome and holds a wealth of potential natural assets.

Over the last two decades, the scientific and popular media have been bombarded by gloom and doom stories of the future of fisheries, the status of fish stocks, and the impact of fishing on marine ecosystems.

With the inclusion of access to energy in the sustainable development goals, the role of energy to human existence was finally recognized.

With the inclusion of access to energy in the sustainable development goals, the role of energy to human existence was finally recognized.

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For over eighty years the Arab region has been deriving massive wealth from its natural resources.

For over eighty years the Arab region has been deriving massive wealth from its natural resources.

Modern societies require energy systems to provide energy for cooking, heating, transport, and materials processing, as well as for electricity generation.

Modern societies require energy systems to provide energy for cooking, heating, transport, and materials processing, as well as for electricity generation.

The book discusses the best international practices in digital agriculture.

A Dictionary of Energy Science covers terms related to energy technologies and their impact on the world's energy use.

This volume investigates nuclear energy policies in Western Europe over the entire post-war period, but with special attention to the two most recent decades.

This volume provides state-of-the-art information on soil-water interactions in wastewater systems, characterization of wastewater, modes of treatment, safety of wastewater use, water conservation technologies involved in recycling of sewage in fish culture, biogeochemical cycling bacteria and nutrient dynamics, ecosystem resilient driven wastewater reclamation, bioremediation, aquaponics, ecological integrity, culture practices of fish farming, microbial food web phenomena, fish diseases, environmental economics of wastewater, environmental risk assessment, environmental law and regulations.

Over the past several decades there has been increasing interest in, and concern about, the economics of the world's capture fishery resources.

'Systemic management' describes a holistic, objective and universally applicable form of management, providing a framework for addressing environmental challenges such as global warming, emergent diseases, deforestation, overpopulation, the extinction crisis, pollution, over-fishing, and habitat destruction.

This book provides the state of the art of ethnobiology in Argentina and related Latin American countries, highlighting timely trends and topics.

Los usos múltiples del agua son un concepto asociado al acceso al agua por parte de las familias campesinas de las zonas rurales tanto para sus actividades humanas como productivas de subsistencia desde sistemas de abastecimiento domésticos.

From farm to fork, the conventional food chain is under enormous pressure to respond to a whole series of new challenges - food scares in rich countries, food security concerns in poor countries, and a burgeoning problem of obesity in all countries.

The work of conservation biology has grown from local studies of single species into a discipline concerned with mapping and managing biodiversity on a global scale.

Coastal zones are becoming increasingly topical (and politically sensitive) as they face relentless pressures from urban expansion, recreational development, and sea level rise due to climate change.

Economic growth as we know it today cannot persist indefinitely if it entails continuous degradation of natural resources and the environment.

From land management to water rights, this volume looks at the current status of Common Property Resources, or CPRs, in South Asia.

The relentless exploitation and unsustainable use of wildlife, whether for food, medicine or other uses, is a key concern for conservationists worldwide.

This book traces the development of the standard property rights over five kinds of natural resource - inland rivers, ocean fisheries, petroleum resources, gold and base metals and forest resources - from classical times through to the 19th century.