Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning

This book is a memorial to Professor Paul Benneworth who died in 2020 at the age of 46, but also a review of the current state of the art in work on universities and place, identifying important new directions for research.

This book focuses on the incentives for armed conflict in the Great Lakes Region of Sub-Saharan Africa and its consequences, including social preferences and refugee integration.

This book provides an in-depth study of Lake Urmia in north-western Iran, a region that has mutated from a turquoise solitaire into a white desert.

This book is devoted to the most important and urgent problems that arise during the development of the coasts of the cold seas.

This book is devoted to the most important and urgent problems that arise during the development of the coasts of the cold seas.

This book explores the concept of a nature-positive built environment highlighting its importance for both human and planetary health.

The book deals with ecosystems of Hot, Cold and Coastal deserts; their present status and emerging challenges in the context of economic development and climate change issues.

This book provides an in-depth study of Lake Urmia in north-western Iran, a region that has mutated from a turquoise solitaire into a white desert.

This book offers a multidisciplinary exploration of how BRICS countries, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, are addressing climate change through policy innovation, technological progress and collaborative governance.

This handbook addresses the integration of economic, social, and ecological factors to achieve balanced and enduring financial decisions, focusing on both the challenges and the opportunities in sustainable finance globally.

This book spotlights the potential of nanozymes in combating antimicrobial resistance (AMR), a growing global health crisis with high mortality and morbidity.

This book offers a forward-looking exploration of sustainable development, focusing on how the responsible use of ocean resources can drive both economic prosperity and environmental resilience.

Postharvest losses of fruits and vegetables are a global concern, wasting about 1/3 of the total global production.

Enclosed ecosystem experiments have gained in popularity as research tools in ecological science, particularly in the study of coastal aquatic environments.

Taking the ethical foundations from the seminal UN Report (1987), Our Common Future, this revised, updated, and extended second edition builds a model that emphasizes three equally important moral imperatives - satisfying human needs, ensuring social justice, and respecting environmental limits.

Taking the ethical foundations from the seminal UN Report (1987), Our Common Future, this revised, updated, and extended second edition builds a model that emphasizes three equally important moral imperatives - satisfying human needs, ensuring social justice, and respecting environmental limits.

Climate Change Impacts on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Net Zero Emissions and Sustainability identifies and assesses climate change impacts on the nexus of food, energy, and waste.

Peri-urban villages on the fringes of Lahore are undergoing rapid socio-ecological transformation as agricultural landscapes give way to speculative real-estate devel opment and expanding concrete frontiers.

Peri-urban villages on the fringes of Lahore are undergoing rapid socio-ecological transformation as agricultural landscapes give way to speculative real-estate devel opment and expanding concrete frontiers.

This book provides the first exploration of panda fandom, a term denoting the community built upon the deep and intimate emotional connections between fans and giant pandas.

Green chemistry has now been around in the academic world for some thirty years but the biggest impact it can have in terms of reducing pollution and waste and moving towards the greater use of safe and sustainable chemicals will be in industry.

Wolmar's entertaining polemic sets out the many technical, legal and moral problems that obstruct the path to a driverless future, and debunks many of the myths around that future's purported benefits.

Green chemistry has now been around in the academic world for some thirty years but the biggest impact it can have in terms of reducing pollution and waste and moving towards the greater use of safe and sustainable chemicals will be in industry.

This book provides an overview of carbon neutrality technologies combining energy conversion with environment control, covering one of the hot topics in the field of energy and the environment.

This book provides an overview of carbon neutrality technologies combining energy conversion with environment control, covering one of the hot topics in the field of energy and the environment.

Wolmar's entertaining polemic sets out the many technical, legal and moral problems that obstruct the path to a driverless future, and debunks many of the myths around that future's purported benefits.

This book on the Nondestructive Characterization and Imaging of Wood by Professor Voichita Bucur is truly the most outstanding reference on the subject ever written.

In the modern semiconductor industry, there is a growing need to understand and combat potential radiation damage problems.

This book is a tutorial written by researchers and developers behind the FEniCS Project and explores an advanced, expressive approach to the development of mathematical software.

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This book is a focused, comprehensive reference on recent research on severe convective storms and tornadoes.

Diamonds in Nature: A Guide to Rough Diamonds illustrates the range of crystal shapes, colours, surface textures, and mineral inclusions of rough, uncut, naturally forming diamonds.

The second, enlarged edition of this established reference integrates many new insights into wastewater hydraulics.

A lake, as a body of water, is in continuous interaction with the rocks and soils in its drainage basin, the atmosphere, and surface and groundwaters.

Mining the Earth's Heat: Hot Dry Rock Geothermal Energy describes the work carried out by the Los Alamos National Laboratory to turn an idealistic concept - that of drawing useful amounts of energy from the vast underground store of hot rock at reachable depths - into a practical reality.

Nutrition spans a wide range of mechanisms from acquisition of food to digestion, absorption and retention of energy substrates, water and other nutrients.

The second edition of this book represents a re-editing and in some cases signi- cant rewriting of the original book published in 2001.

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This study proposes a simple method for assessing the potential available monthly and annual recharge in a small crystalline basement aquifer catchment, taking into consideration the rainfall and the physical characteristics of the catchment.

Pathogen removal mechanisms in macrophyte and algal-based waste stabilization ponds were studied in Ghana and Colombia.

Despite the apparently desperate situation of sub-Saharan Africa, rainwater harvesting and management is a viable intervention for upgrading rain-fed agriculture, improving water supply and sustainable livelihoods in water-scarce river basins.

This study proposes a simple method for assessing the potential available monthly and annual recharge in a small crystalline basement aquifer catchment, taking into consideration the rainfall and the physical characteristics of the catchment.

Despite the apparently desperate situation of sub-Saharan Africa, rainwater harvesting and management is a viable intervention for upgrading rain-fed agriculture, improving water supply and sustainable livelihoods in water-scarce river basins.

Nature-based Solutions for Remediation of Emerging Pollutants in Wastewater presents a comprehensive overview of sustainable approaches towards tackling one of the most pressing environmental challenges we face currently.

Nature-based Solutions for Remediation of Emerging Pollutants in Wastewater presents a comprehensive overview of sustainable approaches towards tackling one of the most pressing environmental challenges we face currently.

Exploring the intersection of Industry 5.

Exploring the intersection of Industry 5.

This handbook examines the important relationship between interior environments and their users, presenting diverse analyses of human-centred design approaches.