Malgré le constat de l’urgence climatique partagé par une grande partie de la population, les voix divergent quant aux moyens politiques à mettre en oeuvre pour apporter des réponses concrètes aux défis environnementaux auxquels nous devons faire face.
Mine areas left behind by companies that no longer exist are defined as derelict mines - those that were operated and closed at a time when most countries did not have adequate regulations requiring rehabilitation of the impacted mine areas.
This book brings together cross-disciplinary research on carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) to examine the impact of implementing CCUS tools and technologies on emissions reduction and sustainable development in cities and large metropolitan areas.
Multi-Stakeholder Contribution in Asian Environmental Communication focuses on how diverse actors can come together to promote sustainable environmental practices.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the essential role of trees and forests in cities and examines the creative approaches cities around the world are taking to protect trees and expand their urban forests.
We rely upon plastics for a great many functions in everyday life, from the cases of consumer electronics to disposable cutlery, plastics are versatile and convenient.
This book presents a progressive effort in enhancing scientific research pertaining to sustainable development, with particular emphasis on the Western Balkans region.
This book offers an overview of the most important research and developments in silvopastoral systems of the northern part of South America and Central America, including the most common silvopastoral arrangements in each country and their characteristics in terms of productivity, and environmental and socioeconomic aspects.
This book presents a progressive effort in enhancing scientific research pertaining to sustainable development, with particular emphasis on the Western Balkans region.
Freshwater and Marine Ecology is an introduction to the field of aquatic ecology, integrating the conceptually and methodologically widely overlapping fields of limnology and biological oceanography.
With the rapid increase of population, industrialization, urbanization, and the abuse of science and technology, environmental problems have showed an explosive development trend.
By drawing on a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds, this book illustrates the immense complexities of Svalbard as a place, point of reference, or social concept.
This collection of essays investigates the notions of life, living organisms, and human nature in Classical German Philosophy from a historical and conceptual perspective.
This book demonstrates how the inclusion of nature in engineering decisions results in innovative solutions that are economically feasible, ecologically viable, and socially desirable.
This book gathers the latest research, innovations, and applications in the field of civil engineering, as presented by leading national and international academics, researchers, engineers, and postgraduate students at the AWAM International Conference on Civil Engineering 2022 (AICCE'22), held in Penang, Malaysia on February 15-17, 2022.
This book is the first comprehensive study investigating the cultural affinities and resonances of Zen in early twentieth-century American poetry and its contribution to current definitions of ecopoetics, focusing on four key poets: William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and E.
In this cutting-edge study of Tolkien's most critically neglected maps, Anahit Behrooz examines how cartography has traditionally been bound up in facilitating power.
In this cutting-edge study of Tolkien's most critically neglected maps, Anahit Behrooz examines how cartography has traditionally been bound up in facilitating power.
En 2068, alors que la vie sur la Terre devient de plus en plus invivable, la Confédération Eurasie-Méditerranée, la plus grande puissance mondiale, décide d’envoyer 12 étudiants volontaires essayer de s’implanter sur Mai, une lune de Mars qu’on vient de découvrir et qui semble se prêter à cette installation d’humains.
This book demonstrates how the inclusion of nature in engineering decisions results in innovative solutions that are economically feasible, ecologically viable, and socially desirable.
How one organization took on industrial pollutionand the lessons for our new century In 1977, one forward-thinking judge took an ecological disasterthe poisoning of the James River by Allied Chemicaland turned it into a great environmental-protection legacy.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the essential role of trees and forests in cities and examines the creative approaches cities around the world are taking to protect trees and expand their urban forests.
Étant une réalité vivante, cette internationalisation de l insécurité endigue une organisation et une gouvernance politique adéquate des eaux du bassin du Congo, ainsi que la prise de conscience géographique de l État.
À l’image du continent africain, le Bénin fait face à de multiples défis, qu’ils soient sociaux, économiques, environnementaux, quant à son agriculture, mais aussi à la formation agricole et rurale, avec une importante réforme institutionnelle de l’enseignement technique et professionnel, en particulier agricole.
