The textile industry was one of the first manufacturing activities to become organized globally, as mechanized production in Europe used cotton from the various colonies.
The only comprehensive photographic guide to the ferns, clubmosses, quillworts and horsetails of BritainThis is a comprehensive, lavishly illustrated and user-friendly photographic identification guide to the fifty-seven ferns and seventeen other pteridophytes that occur in Britain.
This edited volume presents updated and significant contributions to the study of climate change and ecosystem services, with a strong focus on real-world case studies from diverse geographic regions, especially across Asia.
Evolutionary Community Ecology develops a unified framework for understanding the structure of ecological communities and the dynamics of natural selection that shape the evolution of the species inhabiting them.
A comprehensive and lavishly illustrated photographic guide-now in a handy field-guide formatThis lavishly illustrated photographic guide provides a comprehensive overview of the natural history of wildlife habitats in Britain and Ireland.
A marvelously illustrated reference to the natural wonders of one of the most spectacular places on earthSeparated from Africa's mainland for tens of millions of years, Madagascar has evolved a breathtaking wealth of biodiversity, becoming home to thousands of species found nowhere else on the planet.
Rising temperatures are affecting organisms in all of Earth's biomes, but the complexity of ecological responses to climate change has hampered the development of a conceptually unified treatment of them.
The Lost Whale is the enchanting second novel from the author of The Last Bear: the bestselling debut hardback of 2021 and The Times Children's Book of the Week, winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Award and shortlisted for the British Book Awards and the Indie Book Awards 2022'Unforgettable highly accomplished animal adventure about the connection between a boy and a whale, with strong ecological themes' The Bookseller, Editor's ChoiceWhat if you could communicate with a whale?
Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: HD, Murdoch University (ISTP - Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy), course: Ecology, Society, and Human Health, language: English, abstract: In these days, global climatic changes that can be observed are rooted in human activities.
As climate change increasingly disrupts agricultural systems worldwide, innovative technologies are emerging as vital tools for enhancing resilience, sustainability, and productivity.
An eye-opening and vital account of the future of our earth and our civilisation if current rates of global warming persist, by the highly acclaimed author of 'High Tide'.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Wirtschaftsgeographie, Note: 2,0, Universität Passau (Lehrstuhl für Physische Geographie), Veranstaltung: Themen zum Klima- und Umweltwandel mit Schwerpunkt Lateinamerika (Hauptseminar), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit der Frage, inwiefern Südamerika die Quelle für die weltweite Grundnahrungsmittelversorgung darstellt und welche zukünftige Rolle Brasilien in diesem Kontext einnehmen wird.
This book presents a range of Bulgaria’s landscapes and landforms — some well-known, others less familiar — to show the variety of the country’s relief.
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time has produced an astounding new theory about the future of life on Earth.
Intervening in debates across literary trauma theory and ecocriticism, this book argues that in an age increasingly defined by the impacts of anthropogenic climate change on society and ecology, it is necessary to graft the ethical concerns of trauma studies onto the lessons of ecocriticism, especially in the context of African literatures.
This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Science and Advanced Technology (ICASAT 2025) which compiles a selection of thought-provoking research developed by investigators around the world.
As climate change increasingly disrupts agricultural systems worldwide, innovative technologies are emerging as vital tools for enhancing resilience, sustainability, and productivity.
Drawing on over two decades of research in and on China and on extensive reviews of current scholarship, China: The Basics introduces readers to the key aspects of Chinese society, culture, and politics.
The Mine Next Door peels back the veneer of corporate public relations to expose the jagged edges that define the boundaries of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Minnesota's Iron Range.
Reflecting the rapid progress in cleanup technology since the previous edition, this revised and expanded fourth edition of The Basics of Oil Spill Cleanup covers current cleanup techniques, how oil spills are measured and detected, and the properties of the oil, and its long-term fate in the environment.
Landfilling has been and still remains an important means of municipal solid waste management but it poses a threat to the purity of the environment, especially air.
Attachment, Climate Crisis and the Natural World is the first book to consider the psychological and social impact of global warming through the lens of Attachment Theory.
Attachment, Climate Crisis and the Natural World is the first book to consider the psychological and social impact of global warming through the lens of Attachment Theory.
American Aurora explores the impact of climate change on early modern radical religious groups during the height of the Little Ice Age in the seventeenth century.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Umweltwissenschaften, Note: 2,0, Hochschule Fresenius München, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wir bekommen die Folgen des Klimawandels schon lange Zeit zu spüren.
The situation of internally displaced persons has been a matter of international concern - and legal debate - since at least the late 1990s and early 2000s, and its salience has only increased in the context of extreme weather events produced by intensifying climate change.
This accessible Research Agenda focuses on the practical implementation of responsible innovation across various sectors, from manufacturing firms to digital platforms.
Exploring the words and images used to represent plants, this interdisciplinary book examines how vegetal life has been theorised both in the contemporary plant humanities, a developing field of research which aims to rectify the traditional neglect of plants as a model for thinking, and in Western modernity more generally.
One starting point for the Anthropocene - in which human industry has so profoundly altered the planet's geosphere - is the invention of the steam engine in the late eighteenth century, a date roughly contemporaneous with the emergence of Romanticism.
One starting point for the Anthropocene - in which human industry has so profoundly altered the planet's geosphere - is the invention of the steam engine in the late eighteenth century, a date roughly contemporaneous with the emergence of Romanticism.
Exploring the words and images used to represent plants, this interdisciplinary book examines how vegetal life has been theorised both in the contemporary plant humanities, a developing field of research which aims to rectify the traditional neglect of plants as a model for thinking, and in Western modernity more generally.
This timely book examines the global trend of women's economic empowerment as a critical pathway to achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5: gender equality.
As biodiversity across the globe declines at an alarming rate due to anthropogenic pressures, the Biodiversity Hotspots of the World series provides a critical scientific record of the planet's most ecologically significant and vulnerable regions.
