The environment

Written by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Rapporteur of Weather and Climate Extremes, this book addresses the reality of extreme weather-how it occurs, how we measure it, and what it means for our future.

While the number of publications on corporate social responsibility has skyrocketed since the last economic crisis that began in 2008, challenges still remain in the modern economy that make socially responsible business a leading topic both in the field of science and business practice.

The United States and China are each actively pursuing development of a Blue Economy to promote greater marine, maritime, and naval capabilities through more innovative, sustainable and environmentally friendly means.

The desert is known for its barrenness and scarcity of water and plants.

This book describes the laws of sustainable soil management to enhance ecosystem services while restoring degraded soils and promoting sustainable use.

Post-Carbon Futures: Imagining (and Enacting) New Worlds through Transition Studies explores the multitude of possibilities for conceiving and creating fulfilling post-carbon ways of life.

This book offers careful glimpse from the lenses of selected case studies of major counties in East Asia, namely China and Japan to obtain insights as well as lessons regarding their perspective sustainable cities development.

The industrial acceleration intensifies the negative environmental impacts, mainly in some very sensitive geographical areas.

The volume is based on papers presented at a workshop on the green transport agenda and its implications for Chinese cities, organised by the World Conference on Transport Research Society in September 2010.

Visionary essays from a founder of the modern ecology movement.

There is an increasing awareness that materials and chemicals produced from fossil fuels are not sustainable, both in terms of the pollution caused by the extraction and production processes, and the fact that there is only a finite supply of these fossil fuels.

Plastics manufacturing and production grew exponentially during and after World War II.

The volume is based on papers presented at a workshop on the green transport agenda and its implications for Chinese cities, organised by the World Conference on Transport Research Society in September 2010.

Esmeralda nos enseña la existencia de otros tiempos, donde lo previsible y la antelación echan por tierra a la vorágine y a los cambios imprevistos en el cotidiano, sobre todo en las grandes ciudades.

Many of the polymers we use every day are highly flammable.

This volume explores the South Brazilian grasslands, a unique complex of ecosystems in Brazil.

This comprehensive handbook covers Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI), which is the integration of geospatial studies and AI machine (deep) learning and knowledge graph technologies.

The Science of Global Warming Remediation examines the workings of a complex chemical system using concepts such as chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and oxidation/reduction.

This book provides for the first time an overview on the current approaches and applications of energy aspects in production and logistics by the use of simulation techniques.

This book relates circular economy principles to housing design and construction and highlights how those principles can result in both monetary savings, positive environmental impact, and socio-ecological change.

This book relates circular economy principles to housing design and construction and highlights how those principles can result in both monetary savings, positive environmental impact, and socio-ecological change.

Huge forest and bush fires, gigantic downpours, dying forests, floods, drought disasters, and tornadoes - almost daily reports of disasters in newspapers and on news tickers.

The major part of this Catalog presents host lists of particular aphid species in the Palaearctic Region based on published data and more than 2,400 author's unpublished host records, with respective references arranged by geographical provenance.

Praktische Ideen und Tipps für mehr Draußen im LebenWarum das Draußensein uns so gut tut: Auf einer langen Outdoor-Reise erlebt Christo Foerster Momente, »in denen einfach alles gut ist«.

This multidisciplinary book provides insights into the applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) to combined sewer overflows (CSO) and stormwater management (SWM) systems.

Developing upon emerging environmental humanities and multispecies anthropological theories, this book provides a fresh perspective on how we might rethink more-than-human relationality and why it is important to "e;nurture alternative futures"e;.

Many of the polymers we use every day are highly flammable.

A fascinating look at the historical relationship between environmental issues and scientific study, social attitudes, and public policy from the 17th century to the present.

This book is aimed to help us look into the future of mining by defining ultimate operational conditions that will be present in a typical mining operation regardless of how far in the future.

From Andrew Caldecott, the bestselling author of ROTHERWEIRD, comes the jaw-dropping conclusion of the MOMENTICON duology - an epic adventure like no other!

This book provides recent developments and advancements in management of plastic wastes and associated challenges with it.

This volume explores the South Brazilian grasslands, a unique complex of ecosystems in Brazil.

This book offers lucid treatment of fundamental concepts related to potential applications and prospects of different membranes for wastewater decontamination by removing heavy metals.

We have an imperative, as never before, to change our ways.

Health Disparities, Disasters, and Crises: Approaches for a Culture of Preparedness presents a roadmap to help guide the actions needed to address health disparities introduced as part of the pre-planning, planning, and mitigation phases of natural and technological disasters.

A balanced presentation chronicling both the major events that sparked environmental activism and the nature of that activism in the past century.

Paintings from the Edge of the Santa Lucia Mountains: Sharing Environmental Studies through Art celebrates the visual beauty of Carmel's river valley, located east of the village of Carmel-by-the-Sea.

This book examines the role legal rules play in the resolution of disputes in transboundary river basins.

This book investigates mine closure and local responses in South Africa, linking dependencies and social disruption.

Biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate due to anthropogenic activities around the world.

This book focuses on renegotiating extractive contracts to align with the net-zero goals.

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Human beings have always moved for what they need until recently.

Carbon dots (CDs) as an emerging carbon nanomaterial have attracted considerable attention and have been widely used in numerous fields.

Carbon dots (CDs) as an emerging carbon nanomaterial have attracted considerable attention and have been widely used in numerous fields.

There is an increasing awareness that materials and chemicals produced from fossil fuels are not sustainable, both in terms of the pollution caused by the extraction and production processes, and the fact that there is only a finite supply of these fossil fuels.

This book applies a critical perspective to anthropogenic climate change and the global socio-ecological crisis.

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