Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning

This book explores the often-overlooked experiences of Black NASCAR fans, challenging the sport's traditional image as a stronghold of Southern white conservatism.

This book compiles the proceedings of the 2nd EAI International Conference on Renewable Energy and Sustainable Manufacturing (ICRESM 2024), held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on November 2–3, 2024.

This comprehensive volume delves into the intricacies of delta ecosystems, focusing on the transition from contamination to conservation.

This book would be a valuable reference book for academics teaching and researching climate change and environmental governance.

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the profound transformations in the cultural and physical landscapes of South Korea, with an interdisciplinary approach that draws from anthropology, sociology, and human geography.

This book identifies opportunities and challenges for wine tourism and landscapes, illustrating how national and international tourism economics could support regional, national, or international policy establishment and improve territorial sustainability.

This text presents exhaustive analysis of the most recent advances in starch food applications.

This edited volume is based on the accepted papers for presentation at the 3rd MedGU Annual Meeting, Istanbul 2023.

This text presents exhaustive analysis of the most recent advances in starch food applications.

Due to climate change, population growth and urbanization, competition for water resources is expected to increase, with a particular impact on agriculture.

This book showcases the latest research and developments in science, engineering, and emerging green technologies that impact sustainable development in manufacturing and industrial processing engineering, particularly in developing countries.

This book describes the different tools that have been developed during the last decades to explain how scientists study volcanoes.

This book presents cutting-edge technical solutions for better management of food loss and waste to transform the way we produce, manage, and utilize food resources.

This book explores how autonomous AI systems are reshaping human decision-making across various industries and society.

This book presents a summary of volcano geomorphology.

This book presents how the climate and ecological crisis is lived, experienced and confronted in the contextual conditions of a particular area.

This book would be a valuable reference book for academics teaching and researching climate change and environmental governance.

This book provides an historical and philosophical overview of Western medicine along with commentary about how past principles affect current problems in biomedicine like genetic engineering, transhumanism, and a commitment to environmentalism.

Sustainable aviation involves developing long-term strategies to address the challenges faced by the aviation industry.

This advanced-level textbook addresses the urgent need for effective carbon accounting and management and corporate sustainability development, given the global shift towards carbon neutrality.

This advanced-level textbook addresses the urgent need for effective carbon accounting and management and corporate sustainability development, given the global shift towards carbon neutrality.

Conway's latest contribution to the Bradshaw's publishing phenomenon is this superb and wonderfully illustrated guide to Victorian London, dating from 1862.

Understanding and anticipating change in the ocean, and how it will affect marine ecosystems and humans, has never been more urgent.

The volumes included in The Collected Documents of The Group of 77 at the United Nations provide a chronological record of events and documents of the Group of 77 since its creation in 1963.

In 2022, the U.

Our planet is facing many complex environmental challenges, including the loss of biodiversity and rapidly changing climate conditions, driven by intensifying human-nature interactions worldwide.

Addressing Climate Risk in Coastal Urban Areas of East and Southeast Asia provides an in-depth exploration of the multifaceted challenges posed by climate hazards in coastal urban areas of East and Southeast Asia.

Decarbonization brings both risks and opportunities to the macroeconomy.

Addressing Climate Risk in Coastal Urban Areas of East and Southeast Asia provides an in-depth exploration of the multifaceted challenges posed by climate hazards in coastal urban areas of East and Southeast Asia.

Ethylene oxide is primarily produced in Texas and Louisiana with sites in Texas accounting for nearly half of all emitted ethylene oxide in the United States.

The United States generated approximately 292 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) annually, most of which (about 68 percent) were not recycled or composted.

Il libro affronta insieme la sfida e l'opportunita della rigenerazione delle aree industriali dismesse in contesti socialmente, economicamente ed ecologicamente fragili, con un'attenzione specifica alla regione alpina, restituendo i contenuti e gli esiti di una ricerca interdisciplinare e transnazionale a meta strada tra sperimentazione scientifica e pratiche di pianificazione locale -  il progetto europeo trAILs - Alpine Industrial Landscapes Transformation (2018-2021), finanziato dal Programma Interreg Alpine Space.

A 2024 consensus report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine titled Potential Hydrodynamic Impacts of Offshore Wind Energy on Nantucket Shoals Regional Ecology: An Evaluation from Wind to Whales, examined the potential for offshore wind farms in the Nantucket Shoals region to affect oceanic physical processes and in turn impact ecosystem dynamics, including zooplankton productivity and aggregations relevant to right whale foraging and population health.

Climate change is a defining health challenge of the 21st century.

2023 shattered global climate records as the warmest year in the modern record, bringing with it devastating impacts on human and natural systems.

This book introduces readers to the field of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), which aims to make AI models more transparent and trustworthy.

This book covers the quantification of forests, grasslands, and woodlands ecosystem services from the supply side (e.

In a world grappling with the pressing challenges of climate change and sustainable food production, "e;Carbon Farming"e; emerges as a transformative concept with far-reaching implications.

In recent years, the convergence of food science and nanotechnology has revolutionized the way bioactive compounds are extracted, delivered and utilized for therapeutic and functional purposes.

Imperiled: The Encyclopedia of Conservation, part of a three-volume set, updates on humanity's expanding ecological footprint.

Design History has become a complex and wide-ranging discipline.

Ce livre propose la synthese inedite de mesures realisees partout dans le monde.

Green Technology and Sustainable Development are essential pillars for addressing the pressing environmental challenges and fostering holistic progress in developing nations.

The objective of this book is to provide you the reader a complete systems engineering treatment of GNSS.

Meat substitutes and alternative meats, including those made from plants or produced in a lab, reduce the consumption of environmental resources and the production of greenhouse gases.

The Writings of a Political Prisoner, Rebel, and Climate Truth-TellerFor six years, Roger Hallam has written relentless, unfiltered analyses of the climate crisis, civil resistance, and the collapse of our political systems.

This book presents the proceedings of the 18th East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction (EASEC-18), held in Chiang Mai, Thailand on November 13–15, 2024.