Environmental management

Since 2000, the Gulf Coast states - Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida - have experienced a series of hurricanes, multiple floods and severe storms, and one oil spill.

Sustainable Forest Management provides the necessary material to educate students about forestry and the contemporary role of forests in ecosystems and society.

Coastal communities depend on the marine environment for their livelihoods, but the common property nature of marine resources poses major challenges for the governance of such resources.

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) is the best known and most controversial of international conservation treaties.

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the status and progress of China-ASEAN green development and examines the common development issues in China and ASEAN Member States (AMSs).

Urban areas face daunting environmental, economic and social challenges that have increased in scope in recent years, especially given climate change and globalization.

Beginning in the era of the Spanish conquest and taking the reader right up to the present day, this book focuses on how the landscape of Cuba has changed and evolved into the environment we see today.

This book addresses the threats that hamper the achievement of sustainable soil management: soil erosion by water and wind, soil organic carbon loss, nutrient imbalance, salinization, contamination, acidification, loss of soil biodiversity, surface sealing, compaction and water logging.

This book showcases new empirical findings on the conceptualization, design, and evaluation of land management interventions and addresses two crucial aspects: how and under which conditions such interventions are responsible, and how such interventions can be supported by smart technologies.

This text is divided into three parts.

Presenting a thorough examination of the sacred forests of Asia, this volume engages with dynamic new scholarly dialogues on the nature of sacred space, place, landscape, and ecology in the context of the sharply contested ideas of the Anthropocene.

It is widely stipulated that the world's water supply will come to symbolize the blue gold of the 21st century.

This user-friendly book introduces biochar to potential users in the professional sphere.

The existing literature provides very little information on the real and current process of waste disposal and recycling in China.

This book is an important guide for individuals seeking to develop and grow their leadership skills in the wildlife conservation sector, across varied disciplines such as environmental management, conservation biology, and ecotourism.

This book addresses one of the most fundamental questions of the 21st century: why deaths continue to occur in natural disasters despite the tremendous advancements in disaster management science and weather forecasting systems, increased sophistication of human-built environments and ongoing economic and policy development worldwide.

This book examines the key Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) relating to environmental sustainability and provides a cutting-edge assessment of current progress with the view of achieving these goals by 2030.

Innovation and sustainability are issues that have become very relevant in recent years.

This book includes the impact, compression, vibration studies, and destructive and nondestructive techniques for bruise measurement.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology provides concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.

Mining and Development in Sierra Leone examines how different actors in Sierra Leone use the effects of large-scale mining to navigate and transform the challenging conditions of life.

This book is about mountainurbanology grounded in Southwest China, where mountain is a typical landform for many towns and cities.

Drinking water quality has been a matter of concern for several decades.

This interdisciplinary book brings philosophers and non-philosophers to the table to address questions of water ethics, specifically in terms of how moral questions inform decision making around water security at local, national, and international scales.

The Office of Fuels Development (OFD), a component of the U.

Climate change caused by human activity is the most fundamental challenge facing mankind in the 21st century, since it will drastically alter the living conditions of millions of people, mainly in the Global South.

This book examines the Union-State and inter-State relations concerning water issues in India.

Smart Cities: Blockchain-Based Systems, Networks, and Data examines the various components that make up a smart city.

This book unravels the profound implications of biodiversity offsetting for nature-society relationships and its links to environmental and social inequality.

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.

This book offers methods to improve energy access and support social and economic development through the appropriate and reliable design of isolated wind energy systems.

The attractiveness of product labeling stems from their voluntary nature to achieve environmental and social goals.

Connects a qualitative perspective of environmental management with the quantitative skills used by engineering and applied science students.

All over the world countries struggle with water stress.

The Bosco della Mesola represents one of the few remnants of coastal woodlands in Italy.

Microfibers, synthetic fibers like polyester and nylon, are emerging contaminants widely distributed in air, water, and soil, posing significant ecological risks.

Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) is an integrated and comprehensive approach to ocean governance and is used to establish a rational use of marine space and reconcile conflicting interests of its users.

Camera trapping in wildlife management and research is a growing global phenomenon.

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

Seafood draws on controversial themes in the interdisciplinary field of food studies, with case studies from different eras and geographic regions.

The red soils of China are typical in their chemical, physical and mineralogical characteristics of red soils in other tropical and sub-tropical areas of the world, particularly in South America, Africa and south-east Asia.

Biology and Ecology of Earthworms is established as a key valuable text for students of agriculture, soil science, and soil invertebrate zoology and ecology.

Fresh waters are disproportionately rich in species, and represent global hotspots of biodiversity.

This book highlights recent advancements in such an important topic, through contribution from experts demonstrating different applications in 'day-to-day' life, both existing and newly emerging biological technologies, and thought provoking approaches from different parts of the world, potential future prospects associated with some frontier development in non-conventional energy sources.

This collaborative work is the first to link landscape ecology with natural resource management.

The Sustainable Diet is a timely and practical guide to a healthy planet and a healthy you, complete with 100 nutritious and delicious recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Natural resources are vital for meeting the food, livelihood and environmental security.

The fate of much of the world's terrestrial biodiversity depends upon our ability to improve the management of forest ecosystems that have already been substantially modified by humans.

This authored book presents basic immunological tenets and mechanisms at the cellular and molecular level while employing the toxicology focus on hazard identification, appropriate assays, dose response, and risk assesment by mathematical models and safety factors.

This book targets the issue of water scarcity in Egypt as a typical example of the world water crisis.