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.
A tool for predicting environmental impacts, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) can also be used to predict the impacts of natural disasters and potential terrorist attacks.
Climatologist Gavin Cooke takes a comprehensive and detailed look at global warming and the 'Big Freeze' of 2010 to explain how Britain will freeze before it fries.
Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds and Climate Change highlights the relationship between climate change and biogenic VOC and the impact they have on each other.
This textbook provides students with a more holistic, systems-based perspective of harmful algal blooms, or HABs and HAB toxins, while explaining details on occurrence, health effects, and treatment processes for the removal of HAB cells and toxins from drinking water.
Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds and Climate Change highlights the relationship between climate change and biogenic VOC and the impact they have on each other.
In Desert Fishing Lessons, aquatic ecologist Adam Kerezsy takes you on a rollicking journey through Australia's arid-zone waterways and shows us that have much to learn from healthy desert rivers and the 'tough-as-nails critters' that live in them.
This book contains selected papers from the 2023 Greek Marketing Academy and the Global Alliance of Marketing and Management Associations Joint Symposium (GMA-GAMMA2023) held from July 20 to 23, 2023, in Seoul, Korea.
Sustainable Design for the Built Environment marks the transition of sustainable design from a specialty service to the mainstream approach for creating a healthy and resilient built environment.
This book provides a snapshot of the manifestations of the climate emergency in the Philippines from a wide array of disciplines including physical sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, management, and law.
This book contains selected papers from the 2023 Greek Marketing Academy and the Global Alliance of Marketing and Management Associations Joint Symposium (GMA-GAMMA2023) held from July 20 to 23, 2023, in Seoul, Korea.
This volume contributes to the construction of a multi-voice mosaic on the theme of Nature and the relationship between Man (understood as designer) and Nature by emphasizing the innovative and sustainable proposals coming from the discipline of design, in its many facets and interdisciplinary contributions.
The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook gathers the best sustainability practices and latest research from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, planning, development, ecology, and environmental engineering and presents them in a graphically rich and accessible format that can help guide urban design decisions in cities of all sizes.
