The environment

This book captures the essence of one of the most remarkable journeys of a professional who prevailed over numerous challenges and adverse situations that appeared before him from nowhere and how he emerged victorious to be hailed at a global forum of the American Geophysical Union in 2008.

Taking a broad and innovative informational approach, Sustainable Agriculture and New Biotechnologies is the first book to apply omic technologies to address issues related to understanding and improving agricultural sustainability in the food production process.

La civilisation moderne a prétendu élever l’humanité au-dessus de la nature.

Incorporating the intellectual history of disciplines from across the humanities, including environmental anthropology, philosophy, ethics, literature, history, science and technology studies, this volume provides a select orientation to the experience of nature from the ancient world to the Anthropocene.

Celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2015, the Ecological Society of America (ESA) is the largest professional society devoted to the science of ecology.

Healthcare facilities, medical laboratories and biomedical research facilities generate large amounts of biomedical waste.

Give old furniture a new lease of life, save money and help the planet with this beautifully illustrated guide to upcycling.

Es geht um den gescheiterten Versuch, eine Autistin in einen Kleingartenverein zu integrieren.

In this combined edition of the full texts of Laudato Si' and Laudate Deum, Pope Francis draws all Christians into a dialogue with every person on the planet about our common home.

This book explores how metals like cadmium, mercury, lead, aluminium, manganese, and chromium can harm our health, whether through short-term or long-term exposure.

Este es el primero de tres tomos de la colección Gridale que recogen temas de varias de las ponencias presentadas por académicos latinoamericanos y europeos en un Simposio organizado por el Gridale y el ielepi en la Universidad Alcalá de Henares, España, en octubre de 2022 para analizar los resultados de la Conferencia sobre el Futuro de Europa realizada durante un año entre 2012 y 2022, con el objetivo de brindar oportunidades a la ciudadanía europea de sugerir temas para la profundización de su proceso de integración.

This book shares real-life case studies taken from GreenSCENT, a three-year EU-funded project that promotes sustainability through the development of digital platforms and tools, green education programme, and climate and environmental literacy certification.

Natural Resource Economics: The Essentials offers a policy-oriented approach to the increasingly influential field of natural resource economics that is based upon a solid foundation of economic theory and empirical research.

Lichtverschmutzung wird zunehmend zu einem Problem: Die hell erleuchtete Nacht stört zahlreiche Tiere - Fledermäuse finden den Weg zu ihren Futterquellen nicht mehr, unzählige Insekten sterben an Erschöpfung, weil sie pausenlos um die Straßenlaternen schwirren, und scheue Arten verlieren den Schutz der Dunkelheit.

How are climate change, weather-related disasters, food and water insecurity, and energetic and infrastructural collapse narrated audiovisually in the most environmentally vulnerable areas of the Planet?

This book takes a comprehensive and forward-looking approach to urban resilience and climate change preparedness.

This book takes a comprehensive and forward-looking approach to urban resilience and climate change preparedness.

Quantitative Risk Assessment for Environmental and Occupational Health, Second Edition features twice as many risk analysis models with complete examples as the previous edition.

The impact of a changing environment on human society and, conversely, the impact of man's activities upon the environment are important and contentious subjects today.

La utilizacion de los microorganismos en descontaminacion ambiental es posible por sus capacidades para eliminar, acumular y transformar contaminantes; estas capacidades estan relacionadas con su estructura, metabolismo y funcionamiento particular.

This proceedings volume contains selected papers from the 33rd International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT) Conference, held from July 8-11, 2024, in Porto, Portugal.

Despite pre-emptive preparations, disasters can and do occur and are a fact of life.

This proceedings volume contains selected papers from the 33rd International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT) Conference, held from July 8-11, 2024, in Porto, Portugal.

In the face of unprecedented challenges in managing water resources, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) emerges as a revolutionary force, reshaping the landscape of water conservation, treatment, irrigation, policy formulation, watershed management, and the monitoring of groundwater and surface water.

Das vorliegende Buch erzählt die wahren Geschichten von gestrandeten Vogelpfleglingen, ihrer Vorbereitung auf ihr Leben in Freiheit und dem z.

This text outlines the relative merits of qualitative interviewing to new and emerging scholars in an accessible way.

"Wenn unsere Kinder eine Zukunft haben wollen, muss die Generation 50+ dringend mit ins Boot.

Algal Biorefinery: A Sustainable Solution for Environmental Applications focuses on algae's possibilities, assets, and functions as a renewable and sustainable resource that can act as an excellent alternative to withstand adverse environmental conditions to generate useful products.

The proposal that the impact of humanity on the planet has left a distinct footprint, even on the scale of geological time, has recently gained much ground.

Emerging Digital Media Ecologies: The Concept of Medialogy investigates the profound ways in which digital media reshapes our cultural, socio-technological, political, and natural landscapes.

Integrated Reporting is having a profound impact on corporate thinking and reporting.

This book aims to expand and enrich understandings of violences by focusing on gendered continuities, interconnections and intersections across multiple forms and manifestations of men's violence.

El suelo colombiano es donde se afirman las raíces de nuestra nacionalidad y de nuestra soberanía, es la base de nuestro territorio y es, además, el sustento de nuestra fértil y exuberante biodiversidad.

We live in a moment rife with mixed emotions-existential anxieties about catastrophic climate change, presumptuous confidence in planet-hacking geoengineering technologies, and hopefulness of youth climate activism.

Der Klimawandel ist keine ferne Bedrohung mehr – er ist längst Realität, und die Vereinigten Staaten stehen an einem entscheidenden Wendepunkt.

Any alteration of the natural processes occurring on a piece of land will have expected as well as unanticipated effects, and those effects have little regard for arbitrary human boundaries.

Drylands, a home for nearly 2.

This is not a definitive history of corporate citizenship but for anyone interested in the who, what, why and how of this subject there are some very significant papers which may become definitive for scholars and reflective practitioners.

This book is intended to be an introductory reference to green technology and design for the environment (GTDFE) for working professionals as well as a basic text for graduate course work in engineering, covering all facets of GTDFE.

This report presents a comprehensive review of the investment landscape in energy efficiency and climate-smart infrastructure (CSI) technologies, maps the supplier environment, and lists barriers to investments.

The topic of this book is presented to water sources in the Arab countries, their types, their uses, their availability, a study of common rivers, political relations between the countries where these rivers are taking place, and future possibilities for the water situation of these countries.