Discover new ways to help elementary students engage with and understand the world around them through place-based, hope-filled learning about the causes, impacts, and responses to climate change.
This book presents focussed information related to dynamic cropland transformation, agriculture development, climate change, and environment with the application of advance geospatial technology.
Sustainable Food System has cutting-edge green & circular Technologies, food Safety & diversity that aims to provide quality and safe foods in an environmentally conscious and sustainable way.
A New York Times and Food & Wine Best Wine Book of 2019Italy's Native Wine Grape Terroirsis the definitive reference book on the myriad crus and the grand cru wine production areas of Italy's native wine grapes.
Old Materials, New Climate: Traditional Building Materials in a Changing World is an accessible guidebook to understanding historic materials - how they were traditionally made, how they survived the test of time, and how changes in climate are now impacting materials in new ways.
Resonating with contemporary ecological and queer theory, this book pioneers the theorization of the Victorian idyll, establishing its nature, lineaments, and significance as a formal mode widely practised in nineteenth-century British culture across media and genre.
This book argues that social transformation is both necessary and possible if democracies are to respond effectively to the climate crisis without social collapse.
Arts, Ecologies, Transitions provides in-depth insights into how aesthetic relations and current artistic practices are fundamentally ecological and intrinsically connected to the world.
Notre planète est chaque jour détruite par l’homme, suite à l’insouciance écologique des États et aux pratiques opportunistes d’industries ou d’entreprises sans cesse en quête de profits.
Ce livre retrace et explique de manière thématique le parcours du combat écologique que le Président Denis Sassou N'Guesso mène depuis maintenant quatre décennies pour la défense de la nature, la protection de l'environnement et au profit du développement durable, de la paix et des générations futures.
The Emerald Handbook of Smart Cities in the Gulf Region: Innovation, Development, Transformation, and Prosperity for Vision 2040 is a definitive reference edition that employs a four-tiered approach to understanding smart cities in the Gulf Region: Innovation, Development, Transformation, and Prosperity.
The current ecological crisis is the consequence of entrenched attitudes, discourses and behaviours in human societies worldwide, fostered and reinforced through modern educational traditions, processes and institutions.
This book explores how and why Mexico's approach to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) implementation with the Lopez Obrador administration is unsustainable and non-transformative, overshadowed by his vision of Mexico's "e;Fourth Transformation"e;.
Moving beyond a more traditional view of language as a discrete sociocultural and cognitive entity that distorts our understanding of surrounding ecologies, this book argues that the starting point for ecolinguistics is an appreciation of language as not just about nature, but of nature.
Terrapsychological Inquiry is a path of storied, imaginative research that takes seriously our intense inner responses to the state of the natural world.
The incredible story of one man's obsession to find and protect the world's largest flowers As a child, Chris Thorogood dreamed of seeing Rafflesia - the plant with the world's largest flowers.
"e;Natural Resources and Society: Understanding the Complex Relationship Between Humans and the Environment"e; is a study of the dynamic interplay between humans and the natural world.
In the second edition of this book, the concept of resource-based sustainability has once again been expanded to include further references to modern management theories.
Originally published in 1968, this book discusses the principles and methods on which forest management has been founded in the past and how these principles and methods still apply or are affected by modern management skills, changing demands, social habits and resources.
This book argues that social transformation is both necessary and possible if democracies are to respond effectively to the climate crisis without social collapse.
Provides a comprehensive overview of the contemporary issues which have influenced consumer behaviour, such as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, online marketing and purchasing, as well as the use of loyalty schemes Addresses the need to understand consumer attitudes to new technologies and sustainability issues in agricultural production, welfare issues in livestock production and fair trade products Considers the regional, cultural and generational factors which can influence consumer purchasing behaviour, including geographic location, gender and age
The current ecological crisis is the consequence of entrenched attitudes, discourses and behaviours in human societies worldwide, fostered and reinforced through modern educational traditions, processes and institutions.