Environmental issues are some of the most urgent challenges that countries face today and the continuing complexities of environmental problems at a global level have a variety of professionals and scholars searching for answers. Recognizing the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319746265)
As globalization processes and related neoliberal agendas promote privatization through state action, people’s struggles for rights to water have intensified. In this context, this book examines the role of the ambivalent state in local struggles...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319755250)
Soils are neither good nor bad, but some have inherent or acquired characteristics that may or may not suit our intended use. Unsuitable characteristics are considered to be soil problems, soil constraints or soil limitations. Only twe...Loe edasi...
Silvia Salas, Maria Jose Barragan-Paladines, Ratana Chuenpagdee
Sari: MARE Publication Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319760773)
This volume shares essential insights, lessons learned and experience gained regarding the main challenges faced by small-scale fisheries in the Latin America and Caribbean region in order to maintain its viability while also fostering improvement...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319771304)
This book discusses the problems and challenges of environmental–ecological conditions in Africa, amidst the current craze of economic growth and ‘development’. Africa’s significant economic dynamics and growth trajectories are marked by neglect...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319777085)
This volume analyzes sustainability-related innovations in the building sector and discusses how regional contexts articulate transition trajectories toward green building....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319777849)
The stingless bees are the most diverse group of highly social bees and are key species in our planets tropical and subtropical regions, where they thrive. This book summarizes various aspects of the biology and management of stingless bees, w...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319785400)
This book offers a detailed account of the legal issues concerning the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Islands) by leading experts in the field. It examines the broader significance of the ongoing Bancoult litigation in the UK Courts, th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319895864)
The book covers the three largest sources of particulate matter pollution in five chapters. These sources constitute three of the top ten public health problems in the world today and far outstrip any other environmental health threats in terms...Loe edasi...
The modern food system has become hyper-efficient at producing large quantities of cheap food. Food chains, from farmer to consumer, have become increasingly dominated by supermarket oligopolies in both developing and developed countries. The econ...Loe edasi...
Shale energy development is an issue of global importance. The number of reserves globally, and their potential economic return, has increased dramatically in the past decade. Questions abound, however, about the appropriate governance systems to...Loe edasi...
This book presents an integrated discussion on ecotoxicology, containing both general concepts and specific ecotoxicological issues of major biological groups, extending beyond conventional systems. It explores worldwide, regional, and biocompartm...Loe edasi...
Environmental constraints are becoming increasingly severe, and now more than ever it is time that we confront head-on the change from an underground resources type of civilization to one with a new way of life and technology that embraces a sen...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319744414)
This book analyses the evidence for global change, and suggests that the Earth is going through a profound transformation, caused in large part by human action. Land, oceans, polar regions and the atmosphere are all being deeply affected by the human...Loe edasi...
Rapid industrialization is a serious concern in the context of a healthy environment. With the growth in the number of industries, the waste generated is also growing exponentially. The various chemical process...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319773858)
Bioremediation is the use of microorganisms metabolism to degrade waste contaminants (sewage, domestic, and industrial effluents) into non-toxic or less toxic materials by natural biological processes. Volume 2 offers new discussion of remediation t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319778686)
This book explores the intriguing marine plankton communities of the SWA region of South America encompassing low to high latitude environments, framed by a complex hydrographic background and global climate change.This vast and iconic region h...Loe edasi...
The book embarks on the tasks to systematically analyze the macro background of the spatial patterns of China’s urban development, the theoretical foundations and framework, and its changing trajectory. From a quantitative perspective, we attempt to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319744636)
The book introduces challenges affecting smaller urban communities with fewer than 50,000 inhabitants and offers urban planning and building/architectural strategies to strengthen their city centers. It divides urban renewal of small towns into su...Loe edasi...
Just as space, territory, and society can be socially and politically co-constructed, so can water, and thus the construction of hydraulic infrastructures can be mobilised by politicians to consolidate their grip on power while nurturing their own...Loe edasi...
Large parts of our world are filled with plants, and human life depends on, interacts with, affects and is affected by plant life in various ways. Yet plants have not received nearly as much attention from philosophers and ethicists as they deserv...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319770246)
This book elucidates what it means to transition to alternative sources of energy and discusses the potential for this energy transition to be a more democratic process. The book dynamically describes a recent sociotechnical study of a number of ener...Loe edasi...
Sari: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319773766)
This book, with contributions from international landslide experts, presents in-depth knowledge of theories, practices, and modern numerical techniques for landslide analysis. Landslides are a reoccurring problem across the world and need t...Loe edasi...
Exercises are problem solving tools - they bring people together and inspire out of the box thinking. To be efficient, excersises need a deliberate focus on a particular preparedness need or threat, a vision for what the outcome should be, and a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319749853)
Bioinvasions is a current top research subject for natural sciences, social sciences and humanities and a major concern for conservationists, land managers and planners. In the last decades, new findings, perspectives and practices have revealed t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319768540)
This edited volume is an up-to-date guide for students, policy makers and engineers on earthquake engineering, including methods and technologies for seismic hazard detection and mitigation. The book was written in honor of the late Seismologist and...Loe edasi...
This book gathers a collection of essays presented from the perspective of a spatial planner whose working life has been immersed in South Asia. It concerns some of the serious challenges that need to be confronted in the South Asian context, incl...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Apple Academic Press Inc., ISBN-13: 9781771887076)
This is the first volume in the new multi-volume set, Global Biodiversity. Each volume in this series aims to provide insightful information on the biodiversity of selected nations in particular regions. The volumes summarize the available...Loe edasi...
Environmental issues are some of the most urgent challenges that countries face today and the continuing complexities of environmental problems at a global level have a variety of professionals and scholars searching for answers. Recognizing the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262533829)
Extraction is the process and practice that defines Canada, at home and abroad. Of the nearly 20,000 mining projects in the world from Africa to Latin America, more than half are Canadian operated. Not only does the mining economy employ close to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319746265)
As globalization processes and related neoliberal agendas promote privatization through state action, people’s struggles for rights to water have intensified. In this context, this book examines the role of the ambivalent state in local struggles...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319755250)
Soils are neither good nor bad, but some have inherent or acquired characteristics that may or may not suit our intended use. Unsuitable characteristics are considered to be soil problems, soil constraints or soil limitations. Only twe...Loe edasi...
Silvia Salas, Maria Jose Barragan-Paladines, Ratana Chuenpagdee
Sari: MARE Publication Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319760773)
This volume shares essential insights, lessons learned and experience gained regarding the main challenges faced by small-scale fisheries in the Latin America and Caribbean region in order to maintain its viability while also fostering improvement...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319771304)
This book discusses the problems and challenges of environmental–ecological conditions in Africa, amidst the current craze of economic growth and ‘development’. Africa’s significant economic dynamics and growth trajectories are marked by neglect...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319777085)
This volume analyzes sustainability-related innovations in the building sector and discusses how regional contexts articulate transition trajectories toward green building....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319777849)
The stingless bees are the most diverse group of highly social bees and are key species in our planets tropical and subtropical regions, where they thrive. This book summarizes various aspects of the biology and management of stingless bees, w...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319785400)
This book offers a detailed account of the legal issues concerning the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Islands) by leading experts in the field. It examines the broader significance of the ongoing Bancoult litigation in the UK Courts, th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319895864)
The book covers the three largest sources of particulate matter pollution in five chapters. These sources constitute three of the top ten public health problems in the world today and far outstrip any other environmental health threats in terms...Loe edasi...
The modern food system has become hyper-efficient at producing large quantities of cheap food. Food chains, from farmer to consumer, have become increasingly dominated by supermarket oligopolies in both developing and developed countries. The econ...Loe edasi...
Arthur C Nelson, Julian Conrad Juergensmeyer, John T Marshall, James C Nicholas
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jun-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: American Bar Association, ISBN-13: 9781634258906)
This book deals with market demand-based permitting and building planning in cities and municipalities. Some of the themes explored in the book include: market analysis, planning, development in accordance with a plan, the savings and loan crisi...Loe edasi...
Shale energy development is an issue of global importance. The number of reserves globally, and their potential economic return, has increased dramatically in the past decade. Questions abound, however, about the appropriate governance systems to...Loe edasi...
This book presents an integrated discussion on ecotoxicology, containing both general concepts and specific ecotoxicological issues of major biological groups, extending beyond conventional systems. It explores worldwide, regional, and biocompartm...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jun-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: New Society Publishers, ISBN-13: 9780865718739)
In the face of political, financial, and environmental upheaval, its difficult to slow down and build lives of mindfulness and joy. These things are within reach, but how can we go about creating a new world, using common-sense economics?I...Loe edasi...
Environmental constraints are becoming increasingly severe, and now more than ever it is time that we confront head-on the change from an underground resources type of civilization to one with a new way of life and technology that embraces a sen...Loe edasi...
At a moment when a new generation of power stations and weapons are being developed, Fallout is a measured and fascinating exploration of our most misunderstood energy source and asks: what can we learn from our past mistakes, and what role sho...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jun-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319744414)
This book analyses the evidence for global change, and suggests that the Earth is going through a profound transformation, caused in large part by human action. Land, oceans, polar regions and the atmosphere are all being deeply affected by the human...Loe edasi...
Rapid industrialization is a serious concern in the context of a healthy environment. With the growth in the number of industries, the waste generated is also growing exponentially. The various chemical process...Loe edasi...
