Environmental management

This book challenges the dominant narrative of migration as the default response to climate change, introducing the concept of Environmental Non-Migration (ENM).

This book includes selected papers from the International Conference on Recent Developments in Sustainable Infrastructure (ICRDSI-2020) and consists of themes pertaining to geotechnical engineering, transportation engineering, environmental engineering and water resources management.

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This book presents the latest scientific and management information on multiaged silviculture, an emerging strategy for managing forestry systems worldwide.

Hedges and field margins are important wildlife habitats and deliver a range of ecosystem services, and their value is increasingly recognised by ecologists.

This in-depth exploration of five industries in the Kola Peninsula examines Soviet power and its interaction with the natural world.

With all the current efforts to use non-fossil sources as a starting point for future energy solutions, consideration is also being given to using microbial activities as a direct or indirect source of energy production.

Qanats are ubiquitous, yet unseen, and a clever way to create streams where none exist in nature.

Conventional services, such as water, energy and waste services, have been for a long time physically networked and centrally managed.

This study of wetlands management and development policy uses integrated ecosystem modelling which links hydrology, ecology and economics.

This book introduces basic and practical information on fertigation to researchers, extension agents and growers.

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.

The International Section on Machine and System Safety was founded in 1975 to deal with questions on occupational risks in this ?

Microorganisms are a good indicator of soil health.

Originally published in 2000, this title is a collection of engaging, nontechnical contributions of scholars, policymakers, and forestry officials providing broad reflections on the agency's past and future, contemporary perspectives about the use and stewardship of public lands, and insightful analyses about the science involved in the practice of scientific management.

Personal computers have made life convenient in many ways, but what about their impacts on the environment due to production, use and disposal?

This book deals with not just complex linkages, interactions and exchanges that form the relationship between the economic activities, human society and the ecosystems, but also the influences and impacts that each causes on the other.

This is one of the most comprehensive books on complex subjects of environmental engineering assessment and planning.

Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing: An Environmental Approach, Third Edition, is a definitive guide to remote sensing systems that focuses on satellite-based remote sensing tools and methods for space-based Earth observation (EO).

Wood-pastures are important elements of European cultural identity and have an exceptional ecological value, yet they are in decline all over Europe.

Innovation and Technology - Strategies and Policies contains a selection of outstanding contributions by world experts on how a culture of innovation is able to produce a response to fast global changes affecting society.

Nature-based solutions (NbS) are solutions inspired or supported by nature.

Environmental informatics is a field of applied computer science that develops and uses the techniques of information processing for environmental protection, research and engineering.

This book provides an in-depth overview of marine greens and their environmental and biotechnological applications.

Originally published in 1983, Energy and Household Expenditure Patterns claimed that two-thirds of energy consumption in the United States came from households.

'Blue Revolution upturns some environmental applecarts - not for the hell of it, but so we can manage our environment better.

This practical guide identifies the technical challenges of transitioning to battery electric vehicles in Australia, reviews the impacts of life cycle emissions on passenger transport systems, and presents government, institutional and personal requirements for reducing passenger vehicle mode share.

Asia's 48 countries have an estimated 1.

Published in 1999.

This book provides an innovative, realistic and reliable solution to the common problem of Indian water and energy sector due to the onset of the Impact of Climate Change and Large-Scale Urbanization.

This book gathers papers presented and discussions held at the Conference on Wind Energy and Wildlife Impacts in Melbourne, Australia on 9th October 2012.

Legal and environmental concerns related to Indian law and tribal lands remain an understudied branch of both indigenous law and environmental law.

This book explores the challenges that confront leaders in government and industry when making decisions in the areas of environmental health and safety.

This volume includes a selection of papers presented at the EURESCO Conference "e;The International Dimension of Environmental Policy"e; held in Kerkrade, The Netherlands, in October 2000.

Renewable Energy Resources is a numerate and quantitative text.

This Handbook approaches sustainable development in higher education from an integrated perspective, addressing the dearth of publications on the subject.

This book is a part of ICL new book series "e;ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction"e; founded in 2019.

Although anthropologists and cultural geographers have explored place in various senses, little cross-cultural examination of kinds of place, or ecotopes, has been presented from an ethno-ecological perspective.

The struggle over land has been the central issue in Zimbabwe ever since white settlers began to carve out large farms over a century ago.

Natural Resource and Wildlife Administration presents a clear perspective on natural resource administration in North America, how it developed, how it is currently structured, and where it might be heading.

Spain is facing an increasingly difficult situation in terms of water stress.

Civil society - comprising the activities of non-state organizations, institutions and movements - has in recent years emerged as the major force for change in the realms of politics, public policy and society both globally and locally.

In its early days, agroforestry may have been viewed as the domain of the 'landcare enthusiast'.

Understanding that the natural world beneath our feet is the point at which civilization meets the natural world is critical to the success of restoration and prevention efforts to reduce contaminant impacts and improve the global environment because of one simple fact - contaminants do not respect country borders.

This is the second of two volumes that together provide an integrated picture of the Montenegrin Adriatic coast, presenting the natural components of the system as well as the chemical composition and chemical processes in the extended area.

National implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) provisions has yielded enough challenges for providers and users of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge alike.

This Handbook approaches sustainable development in higher education from an integrated perspective, addressing the dearth of publications on the subject.

The ability to anticipate the impacts of global environmental changes on natural resources is fundamental to designing appropriate and optimised adaptation and mitigation strategies.

This book focuses on the Earth's carrying capacity to service the needs of its human populations as well as preserve the ecosystems that provide natural resources that sustain life and support human activities in 2020 and later in the century (2050 and beyond).