Agricultural history has enjoyed a rebirth in recent years, in part because the agricultural enterprise promotes economic and cultural connections in an era that has become ever more globally focused, but also because of agriculture's potential to lead to conflicts over precious resources.
This book highlights recent advances in the valorization of biomass, transforming it into high-value bioproducts for applications across the food, energy, and environmental sectors.
Este es un libro de viajes, protagonizado por aves capaces de saltar de una orilla a otra del océano en unos pocos días, de cruzar un continente en una semana, de sobrevolar un desierto en apenas unas horas.
British Modernism and the Anthropocene: Experiments with Time assesses the environmental politics of modernism in relation to the idea of the Anthropocene-a proposed geological epoch in which humans have fundamentally changed the Earth System.
British Modernism and the Anthropocene: Experiments with Time assesses the environmental politics of modernism in relation to the idea of the Anthropocene-a proposed geological epoch in which humans have fundamentally changed the Earth System.
One small town, two "e;thousand-year floods"e; in the span of two years: how does a community become resilient in the face of the ever-increasing risks of climate change?
This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to sustainability, examining the complex relationships among environmental, economic, and socio-cultural systems across a wide range of industries.
Scholars in diverse fields now agree on the importance of investigating the impact of consumption practices on the global environment, quality of life, and international justice.
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the transformative potential of robust, innovative AI techniques like machine learning and deep learning in revolutionizing water management to achieve UN sustainability goals.
From one of the world's leading experts on the subject, a fully updated introduction to the sustainability movement from the 1600s to todayThe word is nearly ubiquitous: at the grocery store we shop for "e;sustainable foods"e; that were produced from "e;sustainable agriculture"e;; groups ranging from small advocacy organizations to city and state governments to the United Nations tout "e;sustainable development"e; as a strategy for local and global stability; and woe betide the city-dweller who doesn't aim for a "e;sustainable lifestyle.
Large-scale assessments, such as those by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), have been crucial in advancing our understanding of climate change.
On the Verge of a Planetary Civilization presents a philosophical contribution to integral ecology-an emerging approach to the field that crosses disciplinary boundaries of the humanities and sciences.
This book presents a summary of the lectures given at the NATO Advanced Science Institute (ASI) which took place at Val Morin, Quebec, Canada, 4-15 September, 1995.
In this fifth volume of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Culture of Health series, Community Resilience: Equitable Practices for an Uncertain Future highlights the importance of resilience, or the set of assets that allow a person or place to recover when adversity hits, by illustrating the policies and stories of lived experience surrounding health equity.
The environment concept has shaped humanity's relationship to the natural world and has drawn attention to the effects of human actions on our natural surroundings.
This book presents nature as the fundamental infrastructure for sustainable urban living rather than as an aesthetic afterthought in the face of cities' mounting problems, which range from biodiversity loss and climate change to public health disparities.
The Performance of Body, Space, and Place offer a groundbreaking methodology for performance in the Anthropocene, addressing the spiritual and ecological crises of our time through a fusion of Indigenous knowledge and contemporary practice.
In the face of planetary crises -- from biodiversity loss to climate change to food security -- transdisciplinary methods promise effective and just responses through equal collaborations.
In this fifth volume of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Culture of Health series, Community Resilience: Equitable Practices for an Uncertain Future highlights the importance of resilience, or the set of assets that allow a person or place to recover when adversity hits, by illustrating the policies and stories of lived experience surrounding health equity.
While climate change litigation in developed countries of the 'Global North' is a well-studied phenomenon (from its distinctive characteristics and the contribution it is making, to the implementation of international climate laws like the Paris Agreement), relatively few studies focus on climate case law emerging elsewhere.
Environmental contamination from both natural and anthropogenic sources is, today, a major environmental concern due to pervasiveness and persistence of many toxicants.
Die spektakuläre Entwicklung der Energiepreise macht den gedankenlosen Verbrauch von Energie für die Bürger und die Unternehmen auch in den reichen Industrieländern zunehmend zum teuren Luxus.
This textbook provides a mathematical introduction to the theory of large-scale ocean circulation and is accessible for readers with an elementary knowledge of mathematics and physics, including continuum mechanics and solution methods for ordinary differential equations.
