Impact Investing for a Sustainable Planet guides investors in supporting entrepreneurs to scale business models which maximize positive impact outcomes, including climate- and nature-based solutions.
Responsible land distribution in Asia, with ever-increasing limitations in space, requires the use of smart technologies, sophisticated models, intelligent algorithms, and big data repositories.
This book summarizes contemporary research on land degradation, desertification, and how such issues relate to socioeconomic growth in developing countries.
Von den Monumenten der Pharaonen über die Klostergärten des Mittelalters bis zu den High-Tech-Labors der Gegenwart verfolgt Aloe Vera eine erstaunliche Erfolgsgeschichte.
Extracting Reconciliation argues that reconciliation constitutes a critical contemporary mechanism through which colonialism is seeking to ensure continuing access to Indigenous lands and resources.
This book edition on "e;Wastewater Management and Technologies"e; brings together a wealth of expertise by the authors, who exemplify the wide range of options available-from nature-based solutions to different levels of technology-and the different experiences through case studies from around the world, with a particular focus on conditions in developing countries.
In recent years EU policy towards the 'landscape' has become better defined, whereas at the same time the notion of 'landscape' itself remains elusive.
Producing enough food is a basic human priority and a critical challenge in the face of a growing population and the deteriorating ecological health of the planet.
A harrowing journey through the past, present, and future of mining, this expertly-researched account ends on a vision for how industry can better serve the needs of humanity.
This book comprehensively covers the topics of origin and distribution, evolution and types, regional and global importance, biodiversity conservation, plant-soil interfaces, ecosystem functions and services, social-ecological systems, climate change adaptations, land degradation and restoration, grazing management and pastoral production, and sustainable future of the grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP), which is a globally unique eco-region called the "e;Roof of the World"e; because of its high elevation, "e;Third Pole on Earth"e; because of its alpine environment and the "e;Water Tower in Asia"e; because of its headwater location.
This book provides an innovative approach to understanding the governance of resource communities, by showcasing how the past and present informs the future.
This book provides an innovative approach to understanding the governance of resource communities, by showcasing how the past and present informs the future.
Producing enough food is a basic human priority and a critical challenge in the face of a growing population and the deteriorating ecological health of the planet.
This book offers an innovative approach to the recovery of areas degraded by international seabed mining, one that considers the feasibility of a standard that would allow mining in these areas in apparent antinomy with their other potential present and future uses.
This title was first published in 2002: While world-wide political, sociological and economic processes encourage the marginalization of peripheral areas, the general degradation of the ecosystem increasingly affects marginal populations as they are more likely to use natural resources.
This book offers an innovative approach to the recovery of areas degraded by international seabed mining, one that considers the feasibility of a standard that would allow mining in these areas in apparent antinomy with their other potential present and future uses.
A rapid growth in global industrialization and population has triggered intense environmental pollution that has led to a water crisis, resulting in the decay in the quality of human life and economic losses.
Climate change and human activities are impacting the environment around the world and there is a great need to update our knowledge of natural resources in order to sustain the livelihoods of rural communities and urban dwellers.
Extracting Reconciliation argues that reconciliation constitutes a critical contemporary mechanism through which colonialism is seeking to ensure continuing access to Indigenous lands and resources.
This book edition on "e;Wastewater Management and Technologies"e; brings together a wealth of expertise by the authors, who exemplify the wide range of options available-from nature-based solutions to different levels of technology-and the different experiences through case studies from around the world, with a particular focus on conditions in developing countries.
This book argues that a variety of policies will be required to create synergies between the water-energy-food nexus sectors while reducing trade-offs in the development of a green economy.
Climate change and human activities are impacting the environment around the world and there is a great need to update our knowledge of natural resources in order to sustain the livelihoods of rural communities and urban dwellers.
Promoting peace and sustainability in human development while accounting for the risks associated with the impact of climate change on society has become more imperative than ever when addressing humanity's challenges of the twenty-first century.
This book argues that a variety of policies will be required to create synergies between the water-energy-food nexus sectors while reducing trade-offs in the development of a green economy.
This book examines the dynamics of natural resource conflicts in Africa and explores the different governance approaches for securing sustainable peace.
This book deals with the role of emerging technologies such as remote sensing and GIS and artificial intelligence/machine learning in water supply, conservation and management for sustainable development.
This book is the first collection of state-of-the-art research projects analyzing water conflict and cooperation with an explicitly theoretical point of view.
