Each year, thousands of tourists visit Mount Mitchell, the most prominent feature of North Carolinas Black Mountain range and the highest peak in the eastern United States.
Anglo-American writers in the revolutionary era used pastoral images to place themselves as native to the continent, argues Thomas Hallock in From the Fallen Tree.
The mountain chain known as the Blue Ridge traces a 550-mile arc through Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Covering 92 million acres from Virginia to Texas, the longleaf pine ecosystem was, in its prime, one of the most extensive and biologically diverse ecosystems in North America.
This book provides a concise review of the thermo-physical phenomena which regulate heat and moisture transportation in Nearly Zero Energy Buildings envelopes, and their relationship with the growth of biological organisms.
This volume reviews the way in which, over the centuries, the evolving human presence in Britain has shaped the British landscape and how, in turn, the British landscape has moulded the development of British communities.
Taking as his case-study the city of Guayaquil in Ecuador, where 600,000 people lack easy access to potable water, Erik Swyngedouw aims to reconstruct, theoretically and empirically, the political, social, and economic conduits through which water flows, and to identify how power relations infuse the metabolic transformation of water as it becomes urban.
Imagine one day you receive a letter in the mail that informs you that a large energy company is planning to build a massive pipeline through your property.
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2023 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: 2,7, University of Hagen (Psychologie), language: English, abstract: Rising amounts of global waste pose a threat not only to the environment, but also for social inequalities and poor health.
Academic Paper from the year 2021 in the subject Environmental Sciences, Haramaya University (Oromia Agricultural Research Institute, OARI), course: Current Topic, language: English, abstract: The current review is initiated with the general objectives of to assess seaweed as animal feed and effect on reducing greenhouse gas emission and health.
Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Umweltwissenschaften, Note: 1,0, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel (Philosophisches Institut), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Elektromobilität hat das Potenzial, eine erhebliche Rolle in der Reduzierung klimaschädlicher Komponenten zu spielen.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte, Note: 2,0, Universität Hamburg (Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwisssenschaften), Veranstaltung: Ökologische Politische Theorie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit untersucht, wie die Beziehung der menschlichen zur nicht-menschlichen Natur umgestaltet werden soll, um Probleme, die eine Mischform aus natürlichen und menschlichen Einflüssen sind, besser lösen zu können.
This book presents bio-electrochemical conversion of waste into fuel—a cutting-edge process that leverages biological and electrochemical techniques to transform organic waste materials into valuable energy sources.
Recent trends in tourism have seen a decline in the traditional mass-consumption model, accompanied by a rise in a more segmented tourism to which local communities must adapt.
Translated into English for the first time, My Animals and Flowers bring forth Theodor Lessing's visionary philosophy of need in an idiosyncratic series of musings on the natural world, which range from light-hearted to darkly shadowed.
Master the latest advancements in microbial degradation pathways and enzymatic breakdown with this definitive guide to overcoming the scalability and cost limitations of conventional microplastic removal.
In the summer of 2023, the people of the UK and Ireland were stunned when a foul-smelling green algae bloom blanketed the surface of Lough Neagh - the largest freshwater body on these islands - suffocating aquatic life and signalling an unprecedented environmental disaster.
This important volume sheds light on how the major Asian Global South states - India and China - are handling their leadership roles and responsibilities within the broader framework of global climate diplomacy, examining their governance efforts and ability to shape and manage global climate challenges.
Outdoor work for environmental professionals in ecological, engineering, or resource management settings frequently brings workers into contact with arthropods.
This book argues that there is an urgent need to reevaluate how international environmental law can enhance the ecological well-being of transboundary rivers.
This book examines how texts and visual culture from nineteenth-century French-speaking contexts can enhance understanding of twenty-first-century challenges.
This book highlights the connections and consequences of China's regional foreign relations and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a key part of which is China's involvement in hydropower projects.
This book investigates how countries in ASEAN and East Asia are designing, implementing, and evolving their carbon markets to meet growing climate commitments, while also examining opportunities for regional market linkage and policy harmonization.
This book argues that there is an urgent need to reevaluate how international environmental law can enhance the ecological well-being of transboundary rivers.
While plenty of books tell readers how natural selection works, Force of Nature focuses on why understanding it has enormous practical value for reader's lives, right now.
Recent discoveries in fields ranging from molecular and cell biology to ecology and evolution have given rise to 'ecological and evolutionary developmental biology' (or simply, 'eco-evo-devo'), the new science aimed at clarifying how the interplay between genes and environment shapes how organisms develop, interact, and evolve.
Recent discoveries in fields ranging from molecular and cell biology to ecology and evolution have given rise to 'ecological and evolutionary developmental biology' (or simply, 'eco-evo-devo'), the new science aimed at clarifying how the interplay between genes and environment shapes how organisms develop, interact, and evolve.
Recent Advances in the Modification of Plant Proteins aims to explore cutting-edge developments in various physical, chemical and enzymatic treatments of plant-based proteins, which are becoming increasingly important in food science, nutrition and industrial applications.
