This book presents the changing face of social responsibility, showing how it has grown to encompass governance, becoming a vital part of various aspects of human endeavor.
This book provides an outline of the Ship-to-Ship transfer process, and how ship's masters and officers can conduct this inherently dangerous activity safely.
With all of the environmental and social problems confronting our food systems today, it is apparent that none of the strategies we have relied on in the pasthigher-yielding varieties, increased irrigation, inorganic fertilizers, pest damage reductioncan be counted on to come to the rescue.
The book discusses superconducting fault current limiters and their applications in power systems, exploring the principles, simulations and engineering practices, but focusing on systematic applications in traditional and renewable power systems.
The book discusses superconducting fault current limiters and their applications in power systems, exploring the principles, simulations and engineering practices, but focusing on systematic applications in traditional and renewable power systems.
Climate change is one of the great problems facing humanity; this book introduces readers to major rulings from around the world that centre on climate change as a core focus.
Delve into the history of energy resource conflicts, their present status, and the potential effects of today's energy production decisions on the future of humanity.
This updated second edition textbook explains the different technologies of agronomy to achieve a more sustainable agriculture, for undergraduate and graduate students of agronomy.
Designed to walk ADB staff through a Post-Disaster Needs Assessment simulation, this handbook outlines training schedules, introduces methodologies, and provides practical exercises to identify and analyze the broad impacts of a disaster.
Communication of risks within a transparent and accountable framework is essential in view of increasing mobility and the complexity of the modern society and the field of geotechnical engineering does not form an exception.
This book focuses on landslide hazard mapping, identification of site-specific drivers of landslide occurrence, and assessment of landslide susceptibility, vulnerability, risk and mitigation using advanced techniques and approaches.
Explore the Important Role that the Semantics of Land Use and Land Cover Plays within a Broader Environmental ContextFocused on the information semantics of land use and land cover (LULC) and providing a platform for reassessing this field, Land Use and Land Cover Semantics: Principles, Best Practices, and Prospects presents a comprehensive overview of fundamental theories and best practices for applying semantics in LULC.
This book is volume 33 of the yearbook seriesPalaeoecology of Africa presenting the outcome of atribute conference to the internationally recognized South African researcher and palynologist Professor Louis Scott.
This book consists of the select proceedings of the National Conference on Technological Advancements in Waste Management: Challenges and Opportunities (TAWMCO) - 2023.
This book consists of the select proceedings of the National Conference on Technological Advancements in Waste Management: Challenges and Opportunities (TAWMCO) - 2023.
This book reveals how the 19th Century modernisation of Bogota led to a transformation in the social role of plants - showing how this city located in the high altitudes of the tropical Andes turned into a 'floristic island' formed by native, introduce, wild and cultivated plants.
What would happen if we were to awaken one day and suddenly realize that the world we live in appeared eerily alien, as if we d been teleported to some other distant world?
Applies science and engineering principles to the analysis, design, and implementation of technical schemes to characterize, treat, modify, and reuse/store waste and contaminated media.
For billions of years, nature has provided efficient solutions to complex problems, by means of natural selection, in a harsh environment that only the fittest organisms survived.
The world organizations, including national governments, have already recognized the importance of the Aichi Biodiversity Target, the Paris Agreement, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR), Low Carbon Society.
The world organizations, including national governments, have already recognized the importance of the Aichi Biodiversity Target, the Paris Agreement, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR), Low Carbon Society.
Placemaking: People, Properties, Planning, delivers a cross-disciplinary critique of "e;placemaking"e;, an approach to the design and creation of new urban places, and the reshaping of old ones, that has become so pervasive that it forms the 'strapline' for the UK's Royal Town Planning Institute.
Klimakrise, Artensterben und Umweltverschmutzung stellen eine große Bedrohung dar - nicht nur für die körperliche, sondern auch für die seelische Gesundheit: Hitzewellen führen zu Depressionen.
