Environmental management

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Domestic and wild large mammalian herbivores occur on every continent except Antarctica.

This book provides applications of wireless sensor networks (WSN) in environmental monitoring, with an emphasis on livestock disease detection and agricultural management in Africa to aid farmers.

Over half of the world's population now lives in urban areas.

This book documents the effects of natural hazards on coastal ecosystems in detail.

The must-read summary of Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder's book: "e;The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity"e;.

The book is designed to help public and private decision-makers and academics deepen their knowledge and understanding of the contexts, obstacles and challenges of a variety of business types involved in Industrial Symbiosis and Circular Economy practices.

This book explores lithium extraction in Chile as part of the global energy transition, unravelling the ontological, ecological, and economic dimensions behind this type of extractivism.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the LUTI model from many aspects such as principles, methods and practice.

This collection presents critical and action-oriented approaches to addressing food systems inequities across places, spaces, and scales.

Nominated for a James Beard Award Named a Best Wine Book of 2022 by The New York Times, Forbes, and The Washington Post From veteran wine writer and James Beard Award winner Alice Feiring, an insightful and entertaining memoir of wine, love, heartbreak, and the never-ending process of coming-of-age.

';If you are curious about life as a sommelier, this charming book makes an easy, nutritious appetizer.

Mine areas left behind by companies that no longer exist are defined as derelict mines - those that were operated and closed at a time when most countries did not have adequate regulations requiring rehabilitation of the impacted mine areas.

While many terms relate to One Health, the idea remains the same: to think outside a chosen area of specialty and work collaboratively as part of a team to improve health status around the world.

This book presents essential insights into lifelong learning and education in healthy and sustainable cities, providing a basis for strategies to help achieve the 2030 Agenda sustainable development and health promotion goals.

This book presents conference articles related to environmental pollution and natural resource management, and environmentally friendly technologies that lead to sustainable development presented in the Conference "e;Sustainable Management of Environment & Natural Resource Through Innovation in Science and Technology"e;.

A sommelier recounts her unconventional education in the world of wine in this informative memoir and guide.

Fifteen climate experts combine forces to present a plan for slowing and ultimately preventing further destruction to our planet.

In 1897 a small landholder named Robert Eastham shot and killed timber magnate Frank Thompson in Tucker County, West Virginia, leading to a sensational trial that highlighted a clash between local traditions and modernizing forces.

In 1897 a small landholder named Robert Eastham shot and killed timber magnate Frank Thompson in Tucker County, West Virginia, leading to a sensational trial that highlighted a clash between local traditions and modernizing forces.

Oil and Nation places petroleum at the center of Bolivia's contentious twentieth-century history.

Oil and Nation places petroleum at the center of Bolivia's contentious twentieth-century history.

If all the people, municipalities, agencies, businesses, power plants, and other entities that think they have a right to the water in Texas actually tried to exercise those rights, there would not be enough water to satisfy all claims, no matter how legitimate.

As greenhouse gas emissions and temperatures at the poles continue to rise, so do damages from extreme weather events affecting countless lives.

In Art & Energy, Barry Lord argues that human creativity is deeply linked to the resources available on Earth for our survival.

Despite the strong economic growth of the last decades, our modern global society is facing the existential threat of climate change.

Despite the strong economic growth of the last decades, our modern global society is facing the existential threat of climate change.

This provocative and illuminating collection of essays presents the most exciting contemporary voices in Canadian nature writing, including some of Canadas best-known and most distinguished nature writers as well as the most promising new talents.

For fifty years, Australia has schemed to deny East Timor billions of dollars of oil and gas wealth.

What you eat doesn't just impact you - it shapes the world around you.

The book "e;Building Climate Resilient Communities along Africa's Coasts: The Role of Mangroves"e; highlights the crucial role mangrove ecosystems play in enhancing climate resilience for coastal communities in Africa, which face rising sea levels, intensified storms, and habitat loss.

In the first Quarterly Essay of 2003, Tim Flannery launches an attack on the various lies that we tell ourselves about our resources, our past and our future.

This is the first research report to examine the nature and drivers of food insecurity in the northern Namibian towns of Oshakati, Ongwediva, and Ondangwa.

The surprisingly high rate of supermarket patronage in low-income areas of Windhoek, Namibia,s capital and largest city, is at odds with conventional wisdom that supermarkets in African cities are primarily patronized by middle and high-income residents and therefore target their neighbourhoods.

There is considerable evidence from across the African continent that a significant proportion of cash remittances to rural areas is spent on food.

Today our societies face great challenges with water, in terms of both quantity and quality, but many of these challenges have already existed in the past.

Wine was produced in Burgundy and Bordeaux by the Romans and almost certainly by the Celts before them.

This book discusses the phase "e;Interpretation"e; in an outstanding way.

This book takes a fresh look at the most disliked tree in Britain and Ireland, explaining the reasons it was introduced and why it became ubiquitous in the archipelagos of northwest Europe.

This book takes a fresh look at the most disliked tree in Britain and Ireland, explaining the reasons it was introduced and why it became ubiquitous in the archipelagos of northwest Europe.

This book focuses on environmental planning and management.

The portending process of climate change, induced by the anthropogenic accumulations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, is likely to generate effects that will cascade through the biosphere, impacting all life on earth and bearing upon human endeavors.

The validity of certain critical reasoning steps carried out during or on the sidelines of the environmental science, public health survey, medical experiment, population risk assessment, or disease space-time mapping under conditions of in situ uncertainty and space-time heterogeneity, is often not given sufficient attention and may even be out of the investigator's line of thought.

Energy: The Basics offers a concise and engaging introduction to energy, answering critical questions and providing accessible definitions of essential concepts and developments in the field.

This title is firmly established as the most authoritative and sought-after guide to New Zealand wines.

In his introduction, Don MacCaskill wrote modestly, 'I think I became a naturalist'.

Many traditional approaches to rural land management are strictly sectoral, with a rigid introspective focus.

Every day, every one of us contributes to the waste problem but, despite being a part of our lives, waste is poorly understood, even by those who should know better.

Vast numbers of people have no access to safe drinking water, and even more lack any kind of effective sanitation.

Water is the key to human civilization.