Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning

This book discusses the need for the development of sustainable environmental protection technologies to reduce the impact of environmental contaminants.

This book focuses on structural characterisation techniques for porous materials.

This book synthesizes current knowledge and understanding of management and governance in the context of water resilience; advances theory through synthesis of research and experiences from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

This book explores Turkey-EU relations in the context of natural gas.

Through an anthropological analysis, this book uncovers life stories and testimonies that relate the processes of separation as a result of the constructed political borders of nation states newly founded on the inherited territories of the Ottoman Empire.

The book will provide an update on our understanding of predator-prey through the prism of ecology, physiology, molecular biology, and mathematical modelling.

This book showcases how new and emerging technologies like Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are trying to provide solutions to unresolved socio-economic and environmental problems.

Sustainable and Environmentally Friendly Dairy Farms presents an innovative environmental proposal.

This book employs methods from comparative law to analyze voluntary migration, exploring the free movement of immigrants and their freedom of settlement under Brazilian and Mercosul law, as well as under German law and the European Union's legal framework on migration.

This book offers a novel approach to sustainable development through the theory and practice of communication in global food networks, focusing specifically on organic food and fair trade movements.

This book provides an overview of crimes involving water, including pollution, illegal dumping, and supply chain disruption from a criminological perspective.

This book investigates various aspects of the phenomenon of atmospheric oxygen depletion, and summarizes our current knowledge of atmospheric oxygen.

This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the soils of Sri Lanka.

There is no more fundamental substance to life on earth than water.

This book presents an important discussion on urbanization and sustainable soil management from a range of perspectives, addressing key topics such as sustainable cities, soil sealing, rehabilitation of contaminated soils, property rights and liability issues, as well as trading systems with regard to land take.

This book explores how geopolitical tensions have shaped the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) and offers insights into managing future challenges.

This book provides an original analysis of the problems of ensuring that oil ports are sustainable in the broadest sense of the concept including environmental, social, technical and resource aspects.

This book addresses the disintegration of collective units of all kinds, under the twin pressures of economic globalisation and technological automation.

Food manufacturing generates an incredibly high volume of wastewater.

This book presents a comprehensive review of renewable energy-based sustainable drying techniques for developing countries.

This book argues that close and disciplined scrutiny of the Asian megacity regions is of critical importance to understanding Asian urbanization.

This book explores the importance of soil health in croplands, rangelands, pasturelands, and gardens, and presents new methods and technologies for assessing soil dynamics and health in these different land types.

The book analyzes the financialization of the Brazilian territory to identify its main actors, technical systems and processes.

This book discusses the physical and mathematical foundations of modern quantum mechanics and three realistic quantum theories that John Stuart Bell called "e;theories without observers"e; because they do not merely speak about measurements but develop an objective picture of the physical world.

This book addresses the evolving crisis in agriculture and sketches the 'community economy' that grounds agricultural enterprise more accurately than the industrial model.

This book reviews the spaceborne and airborne remote sensing of clouds including cloud lidar and radar data analysis, snow and soil reflectance spectroscopy, and single light scattering by nonspherical scatterers.

This book addresses the fundamental changes that the Italian public utilities sector has undergone in the last two decades.

This book illustrates how literature, history and geographical analysis complement and enrich each other's disciplinary endeavors.

This book is part of a five-volume set that explores sustainability in textile industry practices globally.

This book is part of a five-volume set that explores sustainability in textile industry practices globally.

In the light of Brexit, the migration crisis, and growing scepticism regarding the European integration process, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the most pressing problems facing the European Union in the 21st century.

This book is part of a five-volume set that explores sustainability in textile industry practices globally.

This book is part of a five-volume set that explores sustainability in textile industry practices globally.

This book is part of a five-volume set that explores sustainability in textile industry practices globally.

This book will show that when some countries begin using oil and gas as an instrument of exerting pressure and to realize political goals, energy security becomes synonymous with national security as well as economic security.

This book discusses the production of bioethanol from water hyacinth, a potential source of lignocellulosic biomass.

This book offers a comprehensive framework of the current state of water resources in Italy and of the main stages of the evolutionary way in the last decades for achieving an integrated, sustainable and equitable water resources management.

The book provides readers with essential insights into key issues in connection with planning, developing and financing sustainable energy projects in China that are relevant for practitioners, investors and developers involved in the emerging sustainable energy sector.

Writing the Australian Beach is the first book in fifteen years to explore creative and cultural representations of this iconic landscape, and how writers and scholars have attempted to understand and depict it.

This book aims to understand, analyze and mitigate the harmful impacts of spontaneous coal combustion in underground mines, a thermal phenomenon that triggers fires and explosions threatening the safety of mine workers globally.

This book is designed as an excellent resource text for students and professionals, providing an in-depth overview of the theory and applications of downhole microseismic monitoring of hydraulic fracturing.

This book presents state-of-the-art knowledge on problems of the effects of structural irregularities on their seismic response.

This contributed volume motivates and educates across fields about the major challenges in global health and the interdisciplinary strategies for solving them.

This book describes and analyses the diversity of possible approaches and policy pathways to implement sustainable groundwater development, based on a comparative analysis of numerous quantitative management case studies from France and Australia.

This book presents a synthesis of the research carried out in the Laboratory of Signal Processing and Communications (LaPSyC), CONICET, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina, since 2003.

This book provides an inventory of water resources, describes water challenges, and suggests methodologies and technologies for integrated water resources management in the UAE.

This book addresses the worst problems currently facing humanity and those that may pose future threats.

This book provides an insight into how a country contributes to the GHG emissions reductions required to keep global warming within the limits set by the Paris Agreement arrived at COP21 in 2015.

This new health atlas of Japan presents a series of maps about the health of the contemporary Japanese population, i.

This book discusses how sediments compact with depth and applications of the compaction trends.