Planning for Resilient Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Ghana explores the resilience and planning dynamics and complexities of rapid urban transitions in Ghana's small and medium-sized cities (SMCs) and their implications for Africa and the Global South.
Die Diskussionen um einen anthropogenen Klimawandel und seine Herausforderungen entfalten sich längst in der Mitte der Weltgesellschaft: mal im Gewand empirischer Wissenschaft, mal im Gewand mythischer Narrative.
This volume identifies and debates important elements of what would be involved in an education that is truly adequate for the environmental situation that currently confronts us.
Short-listed for the 2012 Speaker's Book Award Edmund Zavitz (1875-1968) rescued Ontario from the ravages of increasingly more powerful floods, erosion, and deadly fires.
The must-have field-guide for discovering the natural beauty of southern Indiana A Guide to Natural Areas of Southern Indiana is the first comprehensive and fully illustrated guidebook for nature lovers who want to explore the wild and natural areas of southern Indiana by trail, water, or road.
This edited volume explores the ways in which the object biography or object itinerary approach could be adapted to frame research on animate objects, such as plants and gardens in transcultural contexts.
Face à la crise écologique mondiale, l’Afrique, autrefois perçue comme un éden écologique, adopte désormais un modèle de développement écodestructeur, marquant un recul de ses pratiques éco-communautaires.
Growing Up in the Oil Patch chronicles the adventures and achievements of some of the most colourful, ambitious people of their time: statesmen, scoundrels, visionaries and developers.
The global energy crisis is a two-dimensional phenomenon: on the one hand, the gap between a continuously depleting supply capacity of fossil fuel and rapidly increasing demand for energy is fast widening, and, on the other, the burning of fossil fuels intensifies the problem of global warming day by day.
At 37 trillion individuals per year, wild-caught shrimp and prawns appear to be the single most numerous group of animals directly killed for human food consumption on the planet.
The core dilemma in environmental advocacy may be illustrated by the question, "e;When we communicate about the world, should we stress what we know or what we feel?
From Gilgamesh to Gawain and the Green Knight, the Brothers Grimm to Grimdark, the natural world has provided the backdrop for Fantasy since its earliest iterations.
Water Treatment: Resource Recovery and Sustainability provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research in increasing the sustainability of water treatment processes.
A New Index for Public Space: After Distancing offers readers a re-evaluation of the notion of publicness as a lens to unpack the complexity of urban space.
Transforming Education for Sustainable Development documents and disseminates learning around education for sustainable development and associated pedagogical approaches, techniques, and experiences that have been generated across the Master of Development Practice (MDP) Global Association over the past 12 years.
This volume identifies and debates important elements of what would be involved in an education that is truly adequate for the environmental situation that currently confronts us.
The aim of the monograph is to present a modern and original approach towards designing and implementation of effective solutions that ensure an induction towards positive climate change.
Engagement with and between a plurality of progressive, non-neoclassical traditions is an important step in fostering a more capacious understanding of sustainability - both as a concept and as a political objective.
Environmental jurisprudence is a dynamic field that integrates insights from various disciplines, including basic sciences, earth science, economics, and law.
