India is the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, which makes it an important player whose climate mitigation actions and inactions are closely scrutinised.
The Routledge Handbook on Climate Change and Health System Sustainability takes the reader on a journey to understand the interconnectedness of human health, climate change, and healthcare systems.
This book unveils the myriad streams of ecocentric thoughts that have been flowing through the human mind - in indigenous communities, in the wisdom of philosophers, in the creative expressions of poets and writers - sometimes latent, but sometimes more explicit.
How do writers and artists represent the climate catastrophe so that their works stir audiences to political action or at least raise their environmental awareness without, however, appearing didactic?
This handbook presents a comprehensive overview of insect conservation and provides practical solutions to counteract insect declines, at a time where insects are facing serious threats across the world from habitat destruction to invasive species and climate change.
This new handbook provides a platform to bring together multidisciplinary researchers focusing on greening high-density agglomerations from three perspectives: climate change, social implications, and people's health.
The acclaimed director shares a gorgeously photographed and "e;wonderfully thorough immersion in the world of bees and beekeeping"e; (Rowan Jacobsen, author of Fruitless Fall).
In the face of climate change and resulting environmental and social crises, sustainable consumption has become a widely discussed issue and a key plank of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
In the face of climate change and resulting environmental and social crises, sustainable consumption has become a widely discussed issue and a key plank of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
In this significantly revised third edition, Designing Zero Carbon Buildings combines embodied and operational emissions into a structured approach for achieving zero emissions by a specific year with certainty.
Sustainable development is a complex issue and despite many studies and publications in recent years, it remains poorly recognised on best practices in core business areas.
Sustainable development is a complex issue and despite many studies and publications in recent years, it remains poorly recognised on best practices in core business areas.
This book examines the ways in which indigeneity interacts with climate change politics at multiple levels and at the same time offers a self-critical reflection on the role of ethnographic research (and researchers) in this process.
JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR DISTINGUISHED NATURAL HISTORY BOOKA scientist experiences primordial wonders and the wisdom of solitude in one of Earths wildest and most endangered placesGreenland, one of the last truly wild places, contains a treasure trove of information on Earths early history embedded in its pristine landscape.
Now in its ninth edition, Economics and the Environment offers an accessible approach to the latest debates, concerns, standards, and legislation related to contemporary environmental issues.
The fascinating story of how Ronald Reagan, self-proclaimed "e;sagebrush rebel,"e; took his revolutionary energy policies to Washington and revitalized the American economy.
This book presents a comprehensive view of the different theories of risk management in water, drawing on recent studies that serve to inform the way that practitioners consider their own risk practice.
This book portrays interesting aspects of communities where livability, comfort, materials, and traditional construction procedures are part of the cultural context.
Exploring tailored family planning strategies for marginalized groups, Family Planning and Sustainable Development in Bangladesh delves into comparative insights from Asian contexts, providing actionable approaches to empower and transform communities, foster sustainable development and improve reproductive health outcomes.
This book collects selected contributions of the "e;Optimization and Decision Science - ODS2023"e; international conference on the theme of optimization in green sustainability and ecological transition.
This book discusses a crucial paradigm shift in urban planning and architectural design, addressing the urgent need for sustainability and adaptation in the face of rapidly changing climate and urban landscapes.
Great Wines and Great Writers are a Wonderful Blend“Guides to the wide world of wine are many but this is the first book on the market to pair books with wine by an author who is a preeminent expert on both.
Dieses eBook: "Ameisen (Wissenschaftliches Werk)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
This book establishes brand-new frame theory and technical implementation in data science, with a special focus on spatial-scale feature extraction, network dynamics, object-oriented analysis, data-driven environmental prediction, and climate diagnosis.
This book addresses central issues in the philosophy and metaphysics of science, namely the nature of scientific theories, their partial truth, and the necessity of scientific laws within a moderate realist and empiricist perspective.
Wolfgang Vieweg zeigt kompakt und allgemein verständlich, inwiefern die Soziale Marktwirtschaft für die heutige Zeit zu eng geworden ist und weshalb sie unbedingt einer Erweiterung bedarf.
This volume analyses the energy industry for the following geographical units: America - divided into North America (Canada + USA) and Central and South America -, the Middle East and South Asia, East Asia and Oceania.
La médiation représente un pont incontournable pour résoudre les conflits dans un monde en constante évolution où écologie et intelligence artificielle prennent une place prépondérante.
Some portions of the following pages have already appeared in the monthly numbers of the Sanitary Engineer, and the complete work is now published with a view to assist Surveyors of Towns and others who are directly engaged in providing that house dustbins shall be regularly cleared, and streets kept clean; and also in the hope that it may be the means of drawing some public attention to the question, thus showing the householder something of what is being done for his welfare by Sanitary Authorities, and how each individual may assist in the good work, instead of, as is now frequently the case, inadvertently or purposely retarding the execution of some very necessary though unostentatious sanitary measures.
La formación de profesionales de cara a los nuevos retos del siglo xxi representa un gran desafío, debido a la necesidad de desarrollar en los estudiantes competencias para un mundo cambiante.
Forest is a celebration of the diverse ways in which trees and forests are as magnificent, economically relevant and profoundly enchanting today as they ever have been.
This book takes a theoretical and empirical distance from urban slums/low-income settlements as a threat to environmental sustainability and recast them as places where environmentally rehabilitative and circular practices occur-drawing on the theoretical lens of the circular economy (CE).
This book collates a wide spectrum of topics relevant to contemporary research achievement in sustainable utilization of plant genetic resources and conservation of plant genetic diversity within the framework of different crop systems.
In einer Welt, die sich rasant verändert und in der die Rufe nach nachhaltiger Entwicklung immer lauter werden, präsentiert "Zukunft gestalten: Mit agilen Methoden zu nachhaltigem Erfolg" einen wegweisenden Ansatz, wie Unternehmen nicht nur überleben, sondern in Harmonie mit der Umwelt prosperieren können.
