Ecological science, the Biosphere

This book is designed to be the introductory work in the Water-Energy-Environment-Governance from Interdisciplinary Perspectives Series and provides an in-depth look at sustainable development and management in the water sector across.

This book explores the different conventional and biotechnological techniques for enhancing the productivity of industrial crops.

This book focuses on the global scenario of shrimp farming, shrimp culture practices, shrimp biology, taxonomy, and major disease challenges along with disease diagnostics in shrimp farming.

This book explains the causes, consequences and desirable solutions to the unbalanced and unfair relationship between Homo sapiens and the other species that inhabit Planet Earth in a succinct, enjoyable and thought-provoking way.

"e;Plankton in a Changing World: The Impact of Global Change on Marine Ecosystems"e; invites readers to explore the microscopic hidden world beneath the waves.

The monograph focuses on agricultural meteorology and climate change and its impacts on different crops.

Epigenetics encompasses all changes in gene expression that occur without alterations to the DNA sequence.

This book examines how emerging environmental challenges are situated within existing International Relations (IR) theoretical understandings of ‘security’.

The studies in this volume provide an ethnography of a plantation frontier in central Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo.

This proposed book chapter is expected to provide the readers with wide aspects of green technologies for industrial waste remediation.

This book is based on the behavioural intention of public transport passengers and the relationship between those factors in Indonesia.

This book provides a critical analysis of the interactions of humans and wildlife in Zimbabwe.

This book introduces the theory and practice of ecological risk management.

This book introduces what sclerotia grains are, and where and how they exist in soils, by compiling the results obtained from the studies on fungal sclerotia formed by Cenococcum geophilum (Cg) and related species, the visible black small grains persistent for a few thousand to ten thousands of years in forest soils and sediments.

This book focuses on grassland ecosystem evaluation including vegetation coverage, net primary productivity, carbon sink accounting, and grassland degradation evaluation based on mutual data resource, ecosystem model simulation, remote sensing monitoring and driving mechanism exploration.

The Himalaya, a global biodiversity hotspot, sustains about one-fifth of the humankind.

This book highlights the likely impacts of climate change in terms of global and national water securities, how different countries are attempting to address these complex problems and to what extent they are likely to succeed.

This book provides updated and comprehensive information on the evaluation of the river basin environment, along with its management and conservation.

This book provides insights into recent developments in the use of mulching in agroecosystems with emphasis on the major pros and cons.

This edited book discusses how effective soil carbon management plans and policies will ultimately make agriculture more secure against climate change and soil degradation.

This book introduces the theory and practice of ecological risk management.

Environmental pollution emanating from rapid industrialization, population growth, and urbanization has been considered a major problem in recent years that affects biodiversity, ecosystems, and human health by contaminating soil and water.

This book puts forward a new mathematical theory to study chaotic phenomenon.

This edited book covers all aspects of forest deforestation and degradation in detail and their link to land degradation.

This book represents the latest research on urban forestry in a Malaysian context.

This book analyzes potential yields of six major food crops - rice, wheat, maize, potato, soybean and rapeseed worldwide using both qualitative and quantitative approaches to study both China's and global food security under climate change.

This edited book brings out a comprehensive account of the faunal diversity in Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve which is part of the Sundaland Biodiversity hotspot.

The ocean is a major source of income for many coastal nations, particularly in the developing world.

This book covers broader application of biotechnology for the protection of environment through different bioremediation and biodegradation techniques developed for removal of environmental contaminants including the recently discovered contaminants.

Selfie: Poetry, Social Change & Ecological Connection presents the first general theory that links poetry in environmental thought to poetry as an environment.

The book deals with the pricing of ecosystem services provided by agriculture.

This book provides updated and comprehensive information on the evaluation of the river basin environment, along with its management and conservation.

This book proposes the use of green infrastructure to balance biodiversity conservation and disaster management.

This book introduces ecology of tropical cloud forests in China, a high-altitudinal tropical forest.

This book collects the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of environmental science and sustainable development, which were presented by scholars and researchers at the 2021 6th Asia Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development, held in Phuket, Thailand, November 6-8, 2021.

This book presents the latest research findings on the laterality of fish and other animals.

The book is about global energy use, its past and present, and its increasingly uncertain future.

This book provides complete and up-to-date information on sika deer biology and its management, focusing on their life history with an integrated approach of population dynamics, morphology, genetics, and evolution.

This book highlights the multi-pronged strategy for achieving sustainable rural domestic water supply in India.

This book presents the definition of aeolian desertification and uncovers its processes, driving factors, and consequences, and focuses on measures to effectively combat aeolian desertification in Northeast Asia.

This edited volume provides comprehensive and latest information on the fungal biodiversity in its morphological characters, bioactive molecules, pathogenicity and virulence, and its impacts on crop production and sustainable management of agricultural productivity towards resolving global food security issues.

This book assesses the capacity of the rural populace in terms of their ability to perceive a change in climatic variables and, if so, how they react to these changes in order to minimize the adverse effect of climate change.

This book highlights the likely impacts of climate change in terms of global and national water securities, how different countries are attempting to address these complex problems and to what extent they are likely to succeed.

This book represents a first attempt to comprehensively discuss and investigate causes and potential implications of changing patterns of spouse pairing in Japan and to consider similarities and differences with patterns observed in the USA and other low-fertility Western societies.

This book features a comprehensive analysis of the development of shale gas resources in China, with a focus on the potential environmental impacts that may result.

This book focuses on the latest cutting-edge research for achieving sustainable development goals during urbanisation in the Belt and Road Initiative Era.

The book deals with the pricing of ecosystem services provided by agriculture.

This thesis provides a novel methodological basis for mechanistically understanding the dynamics of chemicals in products (CiPs) in the anthroposphere and physical environment and establishes a modeling continuum from production of a chemical to its concentrations in various environmental compartments.

This book assesses the capacity of the rural populace in terms of their ability to perceive a change in climatic variables and, if so, how they react to these changes in order to minimize the adverse effect of climate change.

This book presents essential case studies on the integrated modelling of ecosystem services and land-use change in the field of landscape ecology.