In the last three years, there have been three large tsunamis in the Indian Ocean, most notably the notorious one which struck on 26 December 2004 and killed more than 238,000 people.
Service Quality Regulation in Electricity Distribution and Retail provides a guide for regulatory authorities and postgraduate students alike, accompanying readers through the necessary steps for designing and implementing regulatory policy.
Aerosols have a significant influence on the Earth's radiation budget, but there is considerable uncertainty about the magnitude of their effect on the Earth's climate.
Springer/Praxis have a successful mini program of books on various aspects of light scattering, and now have a journal "e;Light Scattering Review"e; under consideration proposed by Alex Kokhanovsky.
The concern over the entry of agrochemicals and other xenobiotics into drinking water resources and over the general quality of drinking water is increasing.
The automobile is one of the inventions that have made a decisive contribution to human mobility, and consequently it has become an inseparable part of modern human society.
As the first comprehensive and authoritative review of intra-seasonal variability (ISV), this multi-author work balances coverage of observation, theory and modeling and provides a single source of reference for all those interested in this important, multi-faceted natural phenomenon and its relation to major short-term climatic variations.
Las primeras decadas del siglo XXI se caracterizan por el agotamiento paradigmatico de las instituciones politicas, economicas, sociales y juridicas, tal como lo evidencia el fracaso de aquellas para enfrentar los graves problemas contemporaneos, incluyendo el cambio climatico, la pandemia de COVID-19 y la pobreza.
El consenso universal del cuidado por el medio ambiente y el aseguramiento de la preservación de la vida de las generaciones presentes y futuras, plasmado en los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible, atribuye retos a los líderes de todos los países conducentes a una transformación visionaria en la era del conocimiento y la información.
An updated and enhanced version of the popular NSTA Press book Understanding Climate Change, this practical curriculum allows you to engage your students in understanding one of the most key topics in science education.
The purpose of writing of this book is to address the pressing challenges posed by the complicated relationship between human societies and their socio-ecological environments.
This book investigates the multifaceted role of agroforestry in promoting sustainability and resilience in agricultural systems, with a particular focus on the potential of carbon credits and markets to incentivize these systems.
A pesar del crecimiento desordenado de las normas ambientales, el Estado carece de una estructura institucional adecuada para enfrentar los retos sociales en zonas destinada a usos forestales.
This collection of essays brings together the study of cultural adaptations and environmental studies—thus the coined term “ecoadaptation”—to explore how elements of the natural world and the environment are represented and adapted in a variety of media.
¿Por qué aceptamos como normal que las corporaciones tengan derechos y puedan reclamar por ellos mientras nos resulta inconcebible que la naturaleza, de la que depende nuestra vida, goce de ese reconocimiento?
This book investigates the multifaceted role of agroforestry in promoting sustainability and resilience in agricultural systems, with a particular focus on the potential of carbon credits and markets to incentivize these systems.
Esta obra presenta una discusion sobre los retos que existen hoy para construir una vision integral de desarrollo dentro de las poblaciones rurales que habitan el Paramo de Santurban, bajo las dificultades que ha traido el proceso de delimitacion del paramo y la consecuente prohibicion de la agricultura.
Moramos en un país donde es casi imposible vivir una vida auténtica, ya que a pesar de que el aparato económico y el escenario político tienen como objetivo fundamental, y así lo pregonan, plantear que la razón de vivir debe ser la de poner todo el interés y esfuerzo en el «desarrollo económico », tal como lo enseña el neoliberalismo económico, porque si se da el «éxito» como fruto de ese esfuerzo, cada uno tendría una vida exitosa.
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the development and management of Smart Villages, focusing on both theoretical frameworks and practical applications.
The International Conference on Innovation, Sustainability, and Applied Sciences (ICISAS 2024) stands as the flagship research conference organized by Curtin University Dubai.
This book is a comprehensive study on how the national security sectors of China, India, Japan, Russia, and the United States have engaged the idea of climate change as an existential threat.
Nachhaltig investieren – für Ihre Zukunft und die des PlanetenImmer mehr Menschen wollen mit ihrem Vermögen nicht nur Gewinne erzielen, sondern zum Schutz von Klima und Umwelt beitragen.
First published in 1967, Local History and the Teacher explores the opportunities and the difficulties presented by the study and teaching of historical aspects of the local environment.
Focusing on the Latin American Andes region, this book examines how emerging decolonial narratives, practices, and rules have opened possibilities for structural change in agri-food systems.
Sustainable and Resilient Cities: Insights into Urban Planning in US Cities and Communities offers an in-depth analysis of sustainability, climate change and resilience planning across 200 US population centers.
Dieses Buch bietet Studierenden der Ingenieurwissenschaften, Technikern wie auch Berufspraktikern einen leichten Einstieg in das Thema Wasseraufbereitung.
This book presents a clear, concise, and engaging discussion of critical multicultural and environmental justice education (CMEJE), elucidating what it is; why it is urgent for teaching professionals who work in urban and rural high-need contexts; and how to implement it.
Problematising Water: An Experiment on the Edges of Interdisciplinarity is a manifestation of thinking with water across a range of disciplines including human geography, sociology, anthropology, science and technology studies, and ethnomethodology.
First published in 1967, Local History and the Teacher explores the opportunities and the difficulties presented by the study and teaching of historical aspects of the local environment.
Es ist das Anliegen des Autors, Technikern, Studenten der Ingenieurwissenschaften ebenso wie Berufspraktikern einen leichten Einstieg in das Thema Wasseraufbereitung zu geben.
A 'compelling, arresting' (New Scientist) behind-the-scenes tour through the world's greatest natural history museums, revealing their hidden secrets Zoologist Jack Ashby spends his life working in Britain's natural history museums, and in Nature's Memory he guides us through a series of extraordinary collections, from marvellous mounted whale skeletons and impossibly tiny insect cabinets to buried treasures in vast museum storehouses.
A purpose of science is to organize diversified factual knowledge into a coherent body of information, and to present this from the simplest possible viewpoint.
