The environment

Blue carbon ecosystems are of tremendous value toward the utilization of high-salinity water, such as seawater, as well as hyper-saline soils, and salt-tolerant biota for the production of biomass, for food, feed, fiber, fuel, other economic purposes, and carbon sequestration.

The book presents a series of papers with different methodologies that allow us to visualize how the systems support decision-making in areas such as the tourism sector, entrepreneurship, quality of work life, gender, motivation, circular economy, innovation, law, finance, and bibliometrics.

The book presents a series of papers with different methodologies that allow us to visualize how the systems support decision-making in areas such as the tourism sector, entrepreneurship, quality of work life, gender, motivation, circular economy, innovation, law, finance, and bibliometrics.

Realizing that water, energy and food are the three pillars to sustain the growth of human population in the future, this book deals with all the above aspects with particular emphasis on water and energy.

As cities undergo vast changes due to industrialization, urbanization, and globalization, environmental considerations assume a growing importance in the urban planning processes of an increasing number of governments around the world.

Today, there is much discussion about the dangers of water contamination to human health.

Jan Hegenberg entlarvt in seinem neuen Buch »Klima-Bullshit-Bingo« die gängigsten Scheinargumente gegen Klimaschutz!

The potential for natural hazards and vulnerability to these threats varies from community to community.

Progress in Environmental Engineering contains theoretical and experimental contributions on water purification, new concepts andmethods of wastewater treatment, and ecological problems in freshwater ecosystems.

Get the latest sustainable agriculture practices and keep an eye on the future Developing and Extending Sustainable Agriculture: A New Social Contract explores the challenges faced by today's farmers and ranchers to provide practical strategies to develop a twenty-first century system of sustainable agriculture that is economically sound, environmentally compatible, and socially acceptable.

Capturing new waves of thought on resilience and recovery, Citraningtyas explores how people survive and make meaning in disasters by bringing together survivor experiences from natural disaster events in two vastly different cultural contexts.

This important volume provides not only an in-depth analysis of those risk communication strategies currently used to inform and educate the public around key health issues, but also the risks and effects of radon, a natural but carcinogenic gas that so far has seen relatively little wider coverage.

Con fundamento en conocimientos sólidos y amplia, coherente, bien fundamentada argumentación el autor de este libro, doctor Diego Uribe Vargas en colaboración con el profesor German Rodríguez Chacón, formulan conclusiones pausibles sobre el papel que ya ahora, y con seguridad en el futuro, corresponderá a la Antártida en las tareas de promover el esclarecimiento de las incógnitas cognocitivas y en la de crear los conocimientos científicos requeridos para captar y comprender las causas implicadas en la ocurrencia de problemas ambientales.

Food is the sustenance of life.

This book addresses the growing demand for applied experiences that move students beyond learning into the realm of doing by supporting the development of skills and competencies that align with emerging areas of innovation and work.

Knowing Life examines the limits of dominant knowledge forms that contribute to current practices negatively affecting more-than-human beings, while also exploring alternative approaches to knowing that are capable of reducing harm and maximizing planetary thriving.

This book provides a novel integrated solution for sedimentation problems in major dams in the Damodar River Basin.

The powerful ways the metals we need to fuel technology and energy are spawning environmental havoc, political upheaval, and rising violence - and how we can do better.

Living with Water explores the perennial, dynamic relationship between water and the built environment in South Asia.

Since its inception, the field of political ecology has served as a critical hub for inclusive and transformative environmental inquiry.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of GIS and geo-spatial technologies, as presented by leading researchers and engineers at the International Conference on Geoinformatics for Spatial-Infrastructure Development in Earth & Allied Sciences (GIS-IDEA), held in Hanoi, Vietnam on November 7-9 2023.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of GIS and geo-spatial technologies, as presented by leading researchers and engineers at the International Conference on Geoinformatics for Spatial-Infrastructure Development in Earth & Allied Sciences (GIS-IDEA), held in Hanoi, Vietnam on November 7-9 2023.

This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the 3rd International Conference on Opportunities and Challenges for a Resilient Future (ICOCRF 2024) held at Dehradun, India.

This original, timely and innovative collection is the first to offer critical IPE perspectives on the interconnections between energy, capitalism and the future of world order.

In A Resonant Ecology, Max Ritts traces how sound's integration into the environmental politics of Canada's North Coast has paved the way for massive industrial expansion.

The sonochemical process is newly advanced oxidation process (AOP) developed for hazardous pollutants destruction in aqueous effluents.

The book offers a transdisciplinary eco-systemic framework for analysis of ecosystems.

The intricate interplay between food, energy, water, societal dynamics, and the environment constitutes the bedrock of contemporary global challenges.

The Hebrides has long been seen as an area that, when considered over time, was slow to absorb change.

This book focuses on cloud-based platforms, advanced programming, machine learning models and programming approaches to assess water and other natural resources, flood impact, land use land cover (LULC), global forest change, global forest canopy height and pantropical nation-level carbon stock, among other areas.

The genus Cordyceps and allied species, such as entomopathogenic fungi, mainly parasitize insects and other arthropods and have been known since ancient times.

This book covers various topics related to economics and the social sciences, such as artificial intelligence, sustainability, ESG, and tax administration.

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.

This updated and expanded second edition summarizes advances in agroforestry research and practice and proposes alternatives to increase the effectiveness of agroforestry systems.

This book covers various topics related to economics and the social sciences, such as artificial intelligence, sustainability, ESG, and tax administration.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

This book stands as a manual and ready reference for structural engineers on the seismic protection of civil engineering structures.