This book highlights the importance of palynology in understanding floral biodiversity, paleoclimate and depositional environments in deep time and recent sediments.
Our divided politics, unable to solve the challenges we face concerning society's hierarchies of injustice, poverty, endless war, and climate change, are now backtracking to even more division.
The emphasis in Rock Mechanics for Resources, Energy and Environment is on the application of rock mechanics to the extraction of natural resources, securing energy supplies and protecting the environment surrounding rock that is subject to engineering activities.
This volume highlights the latest advances, innovations, and applications related to membrane technologies for water and wastewater treatment as presented by leading researchers at the 7th IWA Regional Membrane Technology Conference (IWA-RMTC), held in Palermo, Italy on June 18-21, 2024.
This volume highlights the latest advances, innovations, and applications related to membrane technologies for water and wastewater treatment as presented by leading researchers at the 7th IWA Regional Membrane Technology Conference (IWA-RMTC), held in Palermo, Italy on June 18-21, 2024.
An incendiary anti-capitalist response to climate change rooted in hope for the future, this book is a tool or a weapon, depending on how you use itDespite the naysayers, climate change is a fact.
This book highlights the importance of palynology in understanding floral biodiversity, paleoclimate and depositional environments in deep time and recent sediments.
Transportation remains one of the largest contributors to global carbon dioxide emissions with the majority of vehicles using fossil-based fuels such as gasoline and diesel.
Atomic energy activities supported by the federal government generated large amounts of radioactive and hazardous waste over several decades of nuclear weapons production and energy research.
This book brings together contributions from some of the leading researchers and practising engineers in the field of silos and containment structures, and is derived from a specially invited colloquium on the subject.
Dieses Buch soll die Leser für das Thema Nachhaltigkeit sensibilisieren und sie ermutigen, die Bedeutung von „lean, green and clean“ (LGC) für den Alltag zu verstehen.
This book gives detailed information about how soil, water and wastes can be managed to overcome the various global issues via possible nexus thinking.
Collective insight of key thought leaders in the field to clarify and reshape the vision of smart cities Smart Cities, Energy and Climate: Governing Cities for a Low-Carbon Future is a seminal work that draws together insights and case studies on post-carbon urbanism across a variety of fields from smart energy grids to active buildings, sustainable mobility and urban design.
In recent years, walking has emerged as a methodological tool and as a conceptually exciting point of departure across a range of disciplines and practices.
Green Innovation in Central and Eastern Europe aims to explore the crucial role of green innovation in guiding organisations towards sustainable development amidst contemporary environmental challenges.
Collective insight of key thought leaders in the field to clarify and reshape the vision of smart cities Smart Cities, Energy and Climate: Governing Cities for a Low-Carbon Future is a seminal work that draws together insights and case studies on post-carbon urbanism across a variety of fields from smart energy grids to active buildings, sustainable mobility and urban design.
Dieses Buch soll die Leser für das Thema Nachhaltigkeit sensibilisieren und sie ermutigen, die Bedeutung von „lean, green and clean“ (LGC) für den Alltag zu verstehen.
Como una Jane Jacobs moderna, la comisaria de transportes de Nueva York Janette Sadik-Khan transformó las calles de la ciudad para hacer sitio a peatones, ciclistas, autobuses y espacios verdes.
As sustainable development becomes an increasingly important strategic issue for all organizations, there is a growing need for management and executive education to adapt to this new reality.
Originally published in 1986, this book provides a detailed examination of programmes to introduce improved charcoal making techniques throughout the developing world.
A Kind of Pantheism: Escape from Cosmic Pessimism and the Quest for a Biocentric Ethic explores how such nineteenth-century transcendentalists as Henry David Thoreau and John Muir advanced a biocentric ethic that recognized the intrinsic worth of both plants and animals.
The book explores the available omics resources, the integration of multi-omics data, and systems biology methods, focusing on their applications in cereals breeding and research.
Since 2009, international climate activism has focused on stopping coalmining in solidarity with local and Indigenous struggles that are resisting coalmining.
Pillage d’eau, fracturation du sous-sol, contamination de l’air, danger de l’industrie nucléaire, privatisation des montagnes, érosion de la biodiversité… Si le Québec a pu échapper jusqu’ici à diverses tentatives d’agressions envers son territoire, c’est grâce à des groupes mobilisés, qui demeurent en alerte.
Woven together as a text of humanities-based environmental research outcomes, Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters hosts a collection of historical and fieldwork-based case studies and conceptual discussions of climate change in the greater Himalayan region.
In 1984, when this book was originally published the need to take forestry outside the forests and involve local people in tree growing was widely recognised.
** SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORTNUM & MASON AWARD FOR DEBUT DRINK BOOK 2025 **** The infographic book all wine lovers and connoisseurs need ** Tells you everything you need to know about wine and how to get the best out of it The Field This is all about how your palate works, how you can taste different fruits.
Originally published in 1984, Stoves and Trees asks whether better stoves really help the two billion people in the developing world who rely on wood and charcoal for cooking and heating their homes.
