Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning

This book is part of a six-volume series on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience.

This volume collects essays from academics and practitioners from a diversity of areas and perspectives in order to discuss water security at various levels and to illuminate the central idea of water security: its focus on the individual.

Gee Vero zeigt in diesem authentischen Mutmach-Buch, wie eine erfolgreiche Beschulung autistischer Kinder gelingen kann.

Gee Vero zeigt in diesem authentischen Mutmach-Buch, wie eine erfolgreiche Beschulung autistischer Kinder gelingen kann.

This book examines the global influence and scope of medical tourism with an emphasis on the city of Kolkata in Eastern India as an emerging destination at the regional scale.

»Wir stehen als Menschen nicht außerhalb der Natur.

»Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, was ich empfinden würde, wenn ich vor dem letzten Exemplar einer Art stünde.

Das Thema könnte aktueller nicht sein: Eine Rübenzuckerfabrik leitet ihre Abwässer in den Mühlbach, verunreinigt den Wasserlauf und erfüllt die Gegend mit Gestank.

Was ist Umweltethik?

Maschinen werden immer selbständiger, autonomer, intelligenter.

Maschinen werden immer selbständiger, autonomer, intelligenter.

This book examines the ways that oil economics will impact the rapidly changing global economy, and the oil industry itself, over the coming decades.

This collection of papers aims to draw lessons and apply indigenous knowledge, wisdom and cultural traditions to suit policy contexts describing the (a) role of individuals (b) communities, and (c) the state to ensure effectively manage water resources.

Routledge Handbook of Climate Law and Governance: Courage, Contributions and Compliance recognises calls from the United Nations (UN), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Floods, species extinction, migration, droughts, super tornadoes - climate change is no longer a threat looming on the horizon but has long since become part of our everyday lives.

Why is trade in wholesale water so rare, when markets can actively trade bread, tractors, and electricity?

This book presents an integrated, multi-disciplinary analysis that combines climate science, economics, technology and political analysis of US climate policy changes undertaken during 2021.

This book is about understanding, contextualizing and carrying out critical analyzes of the policies intended and/or implemented by the various public and private actors in urban public spaces, as well as the daily, or eventual, politics exercised by the organized civil society and by citizens.

This book presents a history which is nearing its nadir, where a species of warlike primates is destroying the delicate web of life perceived by Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species, committing a war against nature and the fastest mass extinction in the history of nature, with global temperatures incinerating the biosphere by several degrees Celsius, within a lifetime.

Dokuchaev carried out most of his research in Ukraine.

This volume discusses how different geographical spaces can enhance or hinder the capacity of a variety of organizational settings to achieve economic value creation in the pursuit of sustainable regional development.

This book highlights the latest improvements in cadastre with examples and case studies from various parts of the world.

In this book, the author tests a regenerative-adaptive pattern language theory towards investigating the possibilities of a holistic, integrated design and planning method for sustainable development that incorporates the principles of regenerative design, as well as an adaptive pattern language that re-establishes our wholeness with nature, and considers the vulnerabilities of a changing landscape.

This two-volume set examines the strong connection between craft beverages and tourism, presenting cutting-edge research in partnership with breweries, distilleries, and cideries.

This book tells the story of Terania Creek - the world's first direct action blockade in defence of a forest, occurring in Australia in 1979.

This two-volume work is a testament to the increasing interest in the role of microbes in sustainable agriculture and food security.

This edited volume comprises ideas, visions, strategies, and dreams of entrepreneurs, managers, scientists and political experts who share their best practice experience relating to the joint goal of a more sustainable, humanistic, and responsible fashion industry.

This book discusses sea-level and coastline changes.

The evolution of the Argentina Continental Margin during the Quaternary and the stratigraphic and morphosedimentary configuration responded to climatic variability, oceanographic changes, glacioeustatic fluctuations and tectono-isostatic processes, which began to impact on the margin during previous geological periods.

This book derives from observations of the contemporary built environment and its contradictions.

This book explores the geotectonic evolution of the lithosphere beneath the Indian Shield, which comprises a collage of cratons variously bounded by mobile belts and palaeo-rifts.

The Festival Cities of Edinburgh and Adelaide examines how these cities' world-famous arts events have shaped and been shaped by their long-term interaction with their urban environments.

This book provides readers an in-depth understanding of the inner mechanisms and principles of the global supply chain.

This book presents a unique analysis of the sustainability performance of various renewable energy sources, based on Brazilian case studies.

This edited volume informs readers about changing norms and meanings of borders and underlines recent scenarios that shape these borders.

This book looks at the New Urban Agenda and prospects of its implementation.

Water is an essential element in the future of cities.

The book explores the central question facing humanity today: how can we best survive the ten great existential challenges that are now coming together to confront us?

Amsterdamse Bos, Bois de Boulognes, Epping Forest, Hong Kong's country parks, Stanley Park: throughout history cities across the world have developed close relationships with nearby woodland areas.

This book provides the main findings of a ground-breaking survey on immigrants and the second generation in France.

This book addresses the current challenges of sustainable development, including its social, economic and environmental components.

This book explores the mediated struggles for autonomy, land rights and social justice in a context of growing authoritarianism and persistent coloniality in Nicaragua.

This book advances discussions of values in fisheries by showing the rich theoretical insights and connections possible when value is grounded in a multi-dimensional social well being approach.

This book provides a first comprehensive legal examination of water rights arrangements and water rights trading in China.

This book develops and applies an integrated socio-economic assessment of multi-use offshore platforms in European marine locations.

This book's purpose is to highlight the development challenges and successes of implementing the Youth Climate Change Adaptation Development Framework in Sierra Leone, West Africa.

This book focuses on water disputes in New Zealand: a country where such conflicts are assumed to be non-existing.

This book deals with institutional reforms in response to a mounting environmental crisis in Vietnam.

This book addresses key topics in the current deliberations and debates on low carbon cities that are underway globally.

This book synthesizes the conceptual and applied aspects of rural livelihoods as a discipline, and collates the analytical frameworks and approaches that have been designed, applied, and discussed over the last five decades.