Environmental management

This book shows how to do systems thinking and translate that thinking into praxis (theory informed practical action).

This book presents chapters, written by leading coastal scientists, which collectively depict the current understanding of the processes that shape barrier islands and barrier spits, with an emphasis on the response of these landforms to changing conditions.

This volume synthesizes research from a five year program supported by the Norwegian Agency for Development to assess how coastal communities in Tanzania can adapt to climate change impacts such as sea level rise, and better assert their rights to implement decisions regarding coastal resource management in the context of global climate change.

Based on the work of the WASHCost project run by the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC), this book provides an evaluation of the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sectors in the context of developing countries and is the first systematic study of applying the life-cycle cost approach to assessing allocations.

Minimising the most severe risks of climate change means ending societal dependence on fossil fuels, and radically improving the efficiency with which we use all energy sources.

Originally published in 1989.

This book uses the concept of sustainability in science to address problems afflicting the environment, and to devise measures for improving economies, societies, behaviors, and people.

Business is coming under increasing pressure from government, customers and campaigning groups to improve its environmental performance.

An exploration of the duALIne project''s insights, presenting state-of-the-art research in food sustainability and identifying priority areas for further study.

This book focuses on lifelong learning for sustainable development, an aspect that has been rarely explored in great detail.

This volume analyzes ecological and socio-economic risks due to climate change in the Himalayan mountain ecosystems, communities, and proposes adaptation strategies and sustainability practices.

This book considers the principle of 'sustainable development' which is currently facing a growing environmental crisis.

Ethnobotany: Local Knowledge and Traditions discusses various plants that have actually been used in traditional medicine for a specific ailment.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "World resources - Energy, metals, minerals" verfügbar.

International experts from around the globe present a rich variety of intriguing developments in time series analysis in hydrology and environmental engineering.

First published in 1985.

As the fourth report in a series on the Governance of Metropolitan Areas, Reform as Reorganization explores the welfare and development of metropolitan America in terms of political reorganization.

This book considers a number of problems posed by ungulates in different parts of Europe and evaluates management solutions.

This book discusses air pollution in Delhi from scientific, social and entrepreneurial perspectives.

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.

Energy Science and Applied Technology includes contributions on a wide range of topics:- Technologies in geology, mining, oil and gas exploration and exploitation of deposits- Energy transfer and conversion, materials and chemical technologies- Environmental engineering and sustainable development- Electrical and electronic technology, power system

This textbook integrates three related fields in economics, namely agricultural/forestry economics, environmental economics, and international trade, by foregrounding cost-benefit analysis as a significant policy tool.

This book is a social-ecological system description and feedback analysis of the Lake Tana Basin, the headwater catchment of the Upper Blue Nile River.

At a time when food producers have to make significant changes to their businesses in order to survive, a review of benchmarking in agriculture and discussion of its future potential is critical.

This book provides a detailed, global examination of energy transitions, supplying a long-term historical perspective, an up-to-date assessment of recent and near-term advances in energy production technology and implementation, and an explanation of why efforts to limit global warming and to shift away from fossil fuels have been gradual.

Proposes new ways of managing ecological invasions by implementing an open adaptive network framework for ecosystem transformation.

Risk Analysis: Foundations, Models, and Methods fully addresses the questions of "e;What is health risk analysis?

Biodegradation is a key phenomen among environmental processes.

This book offers a series of interviews with Canadian ranchers that highlight the innovative and effective ways that they manage vast swaths of grassland for two complementary goals: commercial viability and sustainable habitats.

This compilation highlights current knowledge on iodide mobility in a soil-plant system and provides a theoretical and experimental basis for a better understanding of the geochemical behaviour of iodine in soils, including its availability in the food chain.

Chou explores the structural dilemmas, mindsets, challenges, and solutions of the net-zero transition in Taiwan.

The aim of this book is to open a vision to sustainability and development through a holistic perspective comprising the critical blocks of energy, environment and economy.

This book aims to offer new scientific concept in the field of water and environment.

Out of sight of most Americans, global corporations like Nestl , Suez, and Veolia are rapidly buying up our local water sources lakes, streams, and springs and taking control of public water services.

Fully revised and updated, this second edition of Water Ethics continues to consolidate water ethics as a key dimension of water-related decisions.

The Handbook introduces, contextualises, critiques, and discusses a range of perspectives associated with the concept of the circular economy.

This volume explores agricultural commercialization from a gender equality and right to food perspective.

Over the last five centuries, plantation crops have represented the best and worst of industrialized agriculture - "e;best"e; through their agronomic productivity and global commercial success, and "e;worst"e; as examples of exploitative colonialism, conflict and ill-treatment of workers.

This book provides a comprehensive presentation on energy-efficient management in urban rail transit system via operations research and uncertain optimization methods.

This book aims to promote the core understanding of a proper modelling of road traffic accidents by deep learning methods using traffic information and road geometry delineated from laser scanning data.

In the coming decades, countries around the world will face increasingly severe challenges related to global climate change.

This book addresses quantitative assessment of forest governance and how local-level institutions work in governing efficient ways of forest resource management so that sustainable development of forest is ensured.

Natural resources management has two principal dimensions : Science-illuminated (earth, space, hydrological, pedological, information, etc.

This book will seek to close the gaps on the role of France in exporting Eurocentric spatial and environmental design principles and practice.

Extensive previous research has investigated environmental conflict management issues in networked settings and the design of policy networks, but the emergence and evolution of self-organizing policy networks are still not fully understood.

Global climate change - rapid, substantial and human induced - may have radical consequences for life on earth.

This book draws on insights that originated from the Circular Economy and Zero Waste initiatives.

Fatty alcohols are mainly used in the production of detergents and surfactants.

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