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State of the art in sustainability thinking, inspired by interdisciplinary ideas of ecological economics.

The book investigates the relationship between ecosystem services (ES) and spatial planning, and explores potential means of integrating the two concepts to support the decision-making process.

Kreativität charakterisiert die Fernsehunterhaltungsproduktion.

This book explores an escalating modern-day crisis; managing waste in a sustainable way.

Placed at the crossroads of diverse disciplines - medical sciences, information and communication science, sociology of food, agricultural sciences - this book focuses on media, food and nutrition.

In the face of complex, interwoven, planet-scale problems, many cite the need for more integrated knowledge-especially across the natural and social sciences.

Sustainable innovation (SI) is considered to be a key driver of societal progress in an era of enormous economic, environmental and societal challenges, and the uncertainties and future consequences that come with them.

This textbook introduces advanced students of International Relations (and beyond) to the ways in which the advent of, and reflections on, the Anthropocene impact on the study of global politics and the disciplinary foundations of IR.

This book addresses the underexposed political dimensions of bioeconomy promotion.

This book discusses how civil society, public debate and freedom of speech affect the management of natural resources.

This book discusses advances in smart and sustainable development of smart environments.

This book provides an in-depth examination of psychosocial marital well-being and mental health in traditional communities in Rwanda.

This book presents research related to energy and environmental technologies in the context of market liberalization and global warming.

This Pivot offers a comprehensive cross-country study of the effects of large-scale resource extraction in Asia Pacific, considering how large-scale extractive industries engender contentious social, political and economic questions.

This book explores the practice of transdisciplinary research through the narratives of different individuals taking part in a project investigating local water management.

This book considers the concept of resilience in a global society where coping with the consequence and long term impact of crisis and disaster challenges the capacity of communities to bounce back in the event of severe disruption.

This book critically engages with how the conservation of tropical rainforests is financed.

Disaster Relief Aid: Changes and Challenges provides a comprehensive analysis of disaster relief efforts undertaken globally during the last several decades, and examines the changes and challenges that have emerged over time.

This book is designed as a basic text for courses that are part of an interdisciplinary program in environmental studies.

As with previous technological revolutions, innovations in the online world have triggered transformations in the labor market and the economy.

This book argues that new parents are caught in an uncomfortable crossfire between two competing discourses: those around ideal relationships and those around ideal parenting.

This edited volume addresses how single mothers and fathers are represented in novels, self-help literature, daily newspapers, film and television, as well as within their own narratives in interviews on social media.

This book systematically introduces readers to the framework of China's ETS pilots, exploring their design and operating process, the current state of the carbon market, and various barriers encountered.

This book addresses energy research from four distinct International Political Economy perspectives: energy security, governance, legal and developmental areas.

This edited collection critically engages with an important but rarely-asked question: what is energy for?

This book examines the politics of harm in the context of palm oil production in Colombia, with a primary focus on the Pacific coast region.

This book explores a range of plausible futures for environmental law in the new era of the Earth's history: the Anthropocene.

This volume presents an in-depth analysis of climate change problems and discusses the proliferation of renewable energy worldwide-in conjunction with such important questions as social justice and economic growth, providing an interdisciplinary approach to sustainable development.

This book explores policy, legal, and practice implications regarding the emerging field of disaster justice, using case studies of floods, bushfires, heatwaves, and earthquakes in Australia and Southern and South-east Asia.

This book argues that we are living in an era of deep mutation, and the anthropocentric model no longer fits our way of living and behaving on Earth.

This book analyses the threat posed by the continued use of fossil fuels.

This book describes the creation of a monitoring network, which can provide information about the exact locations and the environmental threats posed by chemical weapons (CW) dumpsites in the Baltic Sea region, using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs), and utilising the existing research vessels of NATO partner institutions as launching platforms.

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

The frequency and intensity of climate shocks such as heatwaves and flooding, are expected to increase under a changing climate with severe implications across the food, energy, water, environment nexus.

This book argues that the design of built spaces influences civic attitudes, including prospects for social equality and integration, in America.

This book considers the production of political media content from the perspective of academics who are increasingly asked to join the ranks of voices charged with informing the public.

EU communications policy has massively changed due to both global competition on the ICT market and technological developments that led to the emergence of Internet technology.

Globalization is not a new phenomenon, but it is posing new challenges to humans and natural ecosystems in the 21st century.

This book is a collection of chapters penned by practitioners from around the world on the impact that disinformation and fake news has had in both the online and social sphere.

The last decade has seen a huge amount of change in the area of sexually transmitted infection control and prevention, including the development of high-profile vaccines for preventing the spread of cervical cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV), novel control methods for HIV and AIDS, and even the discussion of more widespread use of controversial abstinence-only sex education programs.

Sex, Crime, Drugs, and Just Plain Stupid Behaviors: The New Face of Young Adulthood in America is written for students, parents, and practitioners to provide insight into how emerging adulthood impacts the lives and behaviors of young people.

Youth justice has always focused on criminal justice but this work argues that taking a social justice approach is the best way to reduce youth crime.

Focusing on children's citizenship, participation and rights, this edited collection draws on the work of a number of leading scholars in the sociology of childhood.

This edited collection assesses governance in forestry programmes and projects, including REDD+ governance.

This book calls for a collective strengthening of the progressive dimension of climate action in the face of continued myopic governmental response.

As the world accelerates towards a renewable energy transition, the demand for critical raw materials (CRMs) for energy generation, conversion, and storage technologies is seeing a drastic increase.

This volume explores transgender children and internalized body normalization in early childhood education settings, steeped in critical methodologies including post-structuralism, queer theory, and feminist approaches.

This book is about the business of distribution, around which the international film business revolves.

This book explores the interplay of farm mechanization, human factors and climatic and other environmental uncertainty in agriculture, using an ergonomics based approach to discuss solutions to the traditionally acknowledged vulnerability of the sector.