Our current food system faces challenges across the board - from ensuring food security and reducing environmental impact to managing costs and minimizing waste.
While strides are being made in the research and development of environmentally acceptable and more sustainable alternative fuels-including efforts to reduce emissions of air pollutants associated with combustion processes from electric power generation and vehicular transportation-fossil fuel resources are limited and may soon be on the verge of d
Participatory GIS (PGIS) is important in social science research because it provides a powerful tool for exploring and comprehending various socio-spatial phenomena.
Participatory GIS (PGIS) is important in social science research because it provides a powerful tool for exploring and comprehending various socio-spatial phenomena.
Experiencing a single disaster - a hurricane, tornado, flood, severe winter storm, or a global pandemic - can wreak havoc on the lives and livelihoods of individuals, families, communities and entire regions.
Resilient Futures: System Dynamics, Tech Innovations, and Climate Resilience is a comprehensive guide to understanding and addressing environmental challenges.
This book discusses algae and fungi as the tools for decontamination of polluted environments and how the remediation techniques aid in biorefining the pollution in environmentally sustainable ways.
Given the increased social and environmental problems in China, this book looks into the social and environmental disclosure practices of socially responsible Chinese listed firms by constructing a stakeholder-driven, three-dimensional, disclosure index.
Este libro consolida un trabajo de reflexion de dos decadas que, arraigado en la experiencia amazonica como ventana para analizar el pais, Latinoamerica y el mundo, presenta una serie de argumentos que se pueden encapsular teoricamente como ecologia politica con densidad historica.
Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is recognized as a crucial signaling molecule that mediates physiological and biochemical processes in plants, regulating various development and stress responses.
This book explores the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities shaping the business, hospitality, and tourism sectors, with a special focus on Eastern Europe.
There is an increasing realization among biophysical scientists that human behavior drastically impacts the degree to which sound agroecosystems are implemented.
Malgré les multiples ressources dont dispose la République Démocratique du Congo, le décollage et le développement économique ne suivent pas ; la vie sociale de la population est déplorable.
This book presents an analysis of climate change and agricultural laws in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa in order to determine whether they adequately addressed the concept of agricultural adaptation.
The development of analytical methods for identifying widespread perchlorate contamination brought about an explosion of research into the environmental problems and their potential solutions along with a corresponding increase in the availability of information.
Since the publication of the first edition of Food, Energy, and Society, the world's natural resources have become even more diminished due to the rapid expansion of the global human population.
Environmental Politics Casebook: Genetically Modified Foods includes testimony, journal and newspaper articles, book chapters, and interest group communications such as press releases and on-line briefs, as well as other studies and reports that constitute the principal elements of the public debate on the genetic modification of food.
For the late great Mike Davis, the ravaging of the climate by capital-and his prescient analysis of its consequences for those of us left to deal with the resulting crises-was always a central part of his urban geography.
In der Fachliteratur herrscht die Diagnose vor, dass die gegenwärtigen Methoden und Standards für das unternehmerische Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement nicht dazu geeignet sind, Nachhaltigkeit in Unternehmen tatsächlich zu managen.
In der Fachliteratur herrscht die Diagnose vor, dass die gegenwärtigen Methoden und Standards für das unternehmerische Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement nicht dazu geeignet sind, Nachhaltigkeit in Unternehmen tatsächlich zu managen.
