This book explores how nanotechnology is transforming the field of engineering with a focus on sustainability. It provides a thorough introduction to nanochemistry, covering the synthesis, characterization, and unique properties of nanomaterials....Loe edasi...
This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of pavement technology, presented at the 14th International Conference in Road and Airfield Pavement Technology (ICPT), held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on July 16–18,...Loe edasi...
Presenting Jewish environmentalism as a case study of contemporary post-secularism, this book exemplifies the responses of world religions to the global ecological crisis and situates Jewish environmental spirituality historically, socially, theol...Loe edasi...
Neal Brown dedicated over four decades to the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute and inspired countless individuals with his passion for discovery and education. Born in 1938, Neals journey led him from early work with NASA to bec...Loe edasi...
This handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of pastoralism, combining major theoretical debates with an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective on pastoral systems across the world.Approaching pastoralism as a so...Loe edasi...
This volume offers a variety of cases detailing microplastic and microfiber contamination and remediation. Microplastics and microfibers are omnipresent in the environment and even in human bodies, and their presence can cause negative effects in bo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781003863489)
This book explains different control strategies are designed and implemented on biological wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) including Benchmark Simulation models. It explains design of conventional PI and fractional PI controllers and advanced...Loe edasi...
As agricultural systems bear the brunt of global population growth, the world faces an unprecedented challenge: meeting rising food demands while mitigating environmental degradation and climate change. The agricultural intensification methods pio...Loe edasi...
This book examines the dominance of social construction within sociology while shedding light on what social construction looks like in practice beyond the realm of sociological thought.The idea that reality is socially constructed has domi...Loe edasi...
This book explores a series of Australian shadow places that manifest complex stories of colonised Australia in the throes of environmental crisis. These are places—from nuclear testing grounds, to extractivist landscapes, to the frontiers of co...Loe edasi...
In a time when consumers are more eco-aware than ever, this book provides a clear framework for businesses to make marketing decisions that not only drive profitability but also positively impact the environment and society. Through its...Loe edasi...
Focusing on the Latin American Andes region, it examines how decolonial narratives and practices have opened possibilities for structural change in agri-food systems. It will interest scholars and practitioners in food studies, sustainability tran...Loe edasi...
The book explores the complex links between war and order, presenting a well-founded and fresh view on how crime is governed in modern societies. The author uses the case of Bogotá to illustrate how war influences crime governance and how crime gove...Loe edasi...
The Himalayas, also known as the Roof of the World, is a vital biodiversity hotspot, encompassing steep slopes, snow-capped peaks, and glaciers. Despite its richness in montane flora, it ranks fourth among the worlds most threatened biodiversity ho...Loe edasi...
This book provides a comprehensive overview of biotechnological advances and applications in microbial proteases, offering readers a detailed understanding of their role in modern science and industry. By exploring the latest research and innovation...Loe edasi...
The book Water Resources Management in Nigeria is a comprehensive examination of Nigerias challenges about its water resources as well as the solutions that have been implemented to address those challenges. A comprehensive analysis of the histor...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive framework for seismic interpretation by combining qualitative and quantitative workflows to improve the accuracy of fault and horizon mapping in 3D seismic volumes. It provides in-depth discussions on velocity modell...Loe edasi...
This book offers a modern perspective on hazard and risk assessment in civil engineering, with special attention to sustainable infrastructure development. Through its comprehensive coverage of theoretical concepts and its thoughtful integration of...Loe edasi...
This book constructs an economic theory focused on the material foundations of economic activity, providing a basis for economic policies to achieve sustainable development. In this economic theory, inputs that undergo physical transformation once u...Loe edasi...
Not a typical overview of Latin American Architecture, the book uncovers a series of lineages, often hidden or overlooked by international critics. This book offers a dynamic, intergenerational view of architectural evolution that contrasts with t...Loe edasi...
Not a typical overview of Latin American Architecture, the book uncovers a series of lineages, often hidden or overlooked by international critics. This book offers a dynamic, intergenerational view of architectural evolution that contrasts with t...Loe edasi...
This contributed volume serves as a comprehensive exploration of how the diverse earth observation data and innovative geospatial tools can unravel the intricate interactions between human society and ecological environment. Human activities are kno...Loe edasi...
An invitation to reimagine climate action not as a burden, but as an opportunity to build a brighter future - without guilt, without gloom, and without giving up the things that make life worth living....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192874221)
While plenty of books tell readers how natural selection works, Force of Nature focuses on why understanding it has enormous practical value and is important to readers lives, right now....Loe edasi...
Natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, landslides, and extreme weather events pose serious threats to industrial operations, leading to disruptions, infrastructure damage, and financial losses. With increasing climate variability, industries...Loe edasi...
This book covers various aspects involved in the recycling of textile waste into value added products and its impact on the environment and circular economy....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Martinus Nijhoff, ISBN-13: 9789004740891)
What are the legal challenges to ensuring that food innovation promotes sustainability, protects fundamental rights, and strengthens global food security? Food Innovation and Legal Challenges offers a rigorous, interdisciplinary examination of emerg...Loe edasi...
This book focus on the research results in macro and micro scratch mechanical tests and numerical simulations of shale, in order to provide a reference for understanding and recognizing the macroscopic mechanical properties of shale. Shale is widely...Loe edasi...
This open access book opens up the question on what is sustainable by exploring how to measure sustainability. In doing this, it gathers academic and industry work from different geographical locations which embed the existing political reality. In...Loe edasi...
The book will provide a historical perspective about the lives – not just the science – of the scientists who worked in the fields of study that formed the foundation of our current work to understand the conditions for life in the universe. Astrobio...Loe edasi...
This book considers the specific features of forced migration research, which pose unique challenges when analysing data, and offers a range of analysis tools from discourse analysis. Drawing on real-world case studies from around the world, but par...Loe edasi...
This book covers various aspects involved in the recycling of textile waste into value added products and its impact on the environment and circular economy....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Martinus Nijhoff, ISBN-13: 9789004740891)
What are the legal challenges to ensuring that food innovation promotes sustainability, protects fundamental rights, and strengthens global food security? Food Innovation and Legal Challenges offers a rigorous, interdisciplinary examination of emerg...Loe edasi...
This book focus on the research results in macro and micro scratch mechanical tests and numerical simulations of shale, in order to provide a reference for understanding and recognizing the macroscopic mechanical properties of shale. Shale is widely...Loe edasi...
This open access book opens up the question on what is sustainable by exploring how to measure sustainability. In doing this, it gathers academic and industry work from different geographical locations which embed the existing political reality. In...Loe edasi...
The book will provide a historical perspective about the lives – not just the science – of the scientists who worked in the fields of study that formed the foundation of our current work to understand the conditions for life in the universe. Astrobio...Loe edasi...
The book will provide a historical perspective about the lives – not just the science – of the scientists who worked in the fields of study that formed the foundation of our current work to understand the conditions for life in the universe. Astrobio...Loe edasi...
This volume offers a collection of case studies in the field of sustainability science as related to biodiversity. Every chapter provides an in-depth exploration of technical advancements and scientific findings that have the potential to revolution...Loe edasi...
This book explores the intersections between children, childhood, youth and the future and provides critical understandings of how the future is imagined, conceptualised, enlisted, used, negotiated and manipulated to serve diverse political ends a...Loe edasi...
This book starts from the perspective of geological engineering integration in coalbed methane development and conducts a detailed analysis and evaluation of the geological conditions (including regional geology and resource geology) and mining co...Loe edasi...
Beyond Resilience in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: Research on Critical Terms examines the stakes of public discourse on how people respond to crisis.This interdisciplinary volume examines multilingual critical alternativ...Loe edasi...
This book offers a critical examination of the current approach to waste management, focusing on the fascinating idea of a circular economy is basically on: a homogeneous closed system, in which all waste is recycled and seamlessly recycled into pro...Loe edasi...
A moving, honest and revealing memoir of living with chronic illness, and an examination of the ways a relationship with the natural world can affect us, from debut author and nature writer Nic Wilson. Can Nic find the strength to face up to chronic...Loe edasi...
Mary Midgley (1919-2018) was one of the most relevant and wide-ranging moral philosophers of the last century. For over 40 years, she drew attention to the necessity of philosophy in everyday life while making significant contributions on such top...Loe edasi...
Not a typical overview of Latin American Architecture, the book uncovers a series of lineages, often hidden or overlooked by international critics. This book offers a dynamic, intergenerational view of architectural evolution that contrasts with t...Loe edasi...
Not a typical overview of Latin American Architecture, the book uncovers a series of lineages, often hidden or overlooked by international critics. This book offers a dynamic, intergenerational view of architectural evolution that contrasts with t...Loe edasi...
This contributed volume serves as a comprehensive exploration of how the diverse earth observation data and innovative geospatial tools can unravel the intricate interactions between human society and ecological environment. Human activities are kno...Loe edasi...
An invitation to reimagine climate action not as a burden, but as an opportunity to build a brighter future - without guilt, without gloom, and without giving up the things that make life worth living....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192874221)
While plenty of books tell readers how natural selection works, Force of Nature focuses on why understanding it has enormous practical value and is important to readers lives, right now....Loe edasi...
How do we ensure that there is enough healthy and sustainable food to feed everyone in the world in the 21st century and beyond? How do we ensure that there is enough healthy and sustainable food to feed everyone in the world in the 21s...Loe edasi...
Fabulating Ecologies undertakes a comprehensive exploration into the world of eco-fabulations within cinematic narratives. The chapters navigate speculative and futuristic dimensions, envisioning entangled existences within domains that...Loe edasi...
Natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, landslides, and extreme weather events pose serious threats to industrial operations, leading to disruptions, infrastructure damage, and financial losses. With increasing climate variability, industries...Loe edasi...
What if climate change isnt an environmental challenge, but an energy challenge? *Updated with a new Introduction* Thrilling...vividly written, filled with fascinating facts, and inspiring STEVEN PINKER A bold reframing of o...Loe edasi...
***Shortlisted for the Climate Fiction Prize*** The atmospheric and page-turning story of outcast twins Iris and Floyd who join a hunt through the Tasmanian wilderness for a man-killing puma. But there is a threat closer to home . . . ...Loe edasi...
The monograph Natural Regeneration Dynamics of Forests after Fires in the Kostanay Region is devoted to the study of natural forest recovery processes following catastrophic wildfires. In the context of global climate change and the increasing fre...Loe edasi...
This pioneering book establishes the theoretical framework of Terrapoetic Urbanism, integrating human geography, urban planning, and landscape architecture to decode the co-evolutionary mechanisms of traditional Chinese mountain-water-city systems...Loe edasi...
This book brings together a rich and multidisciplinary collection of studies addressing the evolving intersections between mobility infrastructures, landscape transformation, and the adaptive reuse of architecture in the context of climate change, s...Loe edasi...
The conference proceeding aims to provide a global platform for researchers, academics, and practitioners to engage in discussions and share insights on sustainability education, the role of youth in driving change, and the power of innovation in bu...Loe edasi...
Can Kenya be like Singapore, whose geography positions her as the gateway to Asian markets? Must Ghana strive to imitate Japan while tolerating the silent killer of chronic air pollution that causes 16,000-30,000 premature deaths every year? Do Afri...Loe edasi...
This open access book provides the motivation to the work, realizing that water availability and its quality have become limiting factors for economic growth of various nations and leading to inefficient use of water and loss of welfare. Increased i...Loe edasi...
This bookoffers a clear and comprehensive overview of pollinators and their vital role in ecosystems. It explores how pollinators, such as bees and other insects, interact with plants and help maintain biodiversity, food production, and ecological b...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226849423)
A sweeping study that reveals how conservation science does more than simply protect by inadvertently making nature valuable in new ways. Climate change and other environmental transformations are causing species to go extinct at acc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226849409)
A sweeping study that reveals how conservation science does more than simply protect by inadvertently making nature valuable in new ways. Climate change and other environmental transformations are causing species to go extinct at accelerating rates....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031990007)
This book delves into the concept of smart cities, namely how modern technologies and excellent governance may transform urban landscapes...Loe edasi...
The mapping of the Netherlands East Indies was, first and foremost, meant to serve as an instrument for the government to keep its inhabitants under control and tap its resources. Only after 1900, in studies to alleviate poverty, did the colonial su...Loe edasi...
This book discusses the application of seismic design methods for lifeline earthquake engineering to buried pipelines so that readers can analyse their behaviour and structural and functional characteristics, verify the results, and apply appropri...Loe edasi...
Mining provides country with the necessary natural resources, on the basis of which industry creates means of labor and consumer products, and also provides population with work, builds various infrastructure facilities, and also improves standard o...Loe edasi...
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of agro-textiles through the lens of sustainability, offering insights into their environmental, ecological, and economic impacts. Designed to bridge the gap between innovative textile technologies and...Loe edasi...
Recent trends in tourism have seen a decline in the traditional mass-consumption model, accompanied by a rise in a more segmented tourism to which local communities must adapt. The tourist is increasingly interested in the region as a source of mate...Loe edasi...
This book explores the social costs of urban change and the limits of modernity through a comparative study of two Balkan cities, Belgrade and Sofia. Between 1820 and 1920, both cities grew from small Ottoman towns into large national capitals, as t...Loe edasi...
Sari: Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503646001)
This book explores the social costs of urban change and the limits of modernity through a comparative study of two Balkan cities, Belgrade and Sofia. Between 1820 and 1920, both cities grew from small Ottoman towns into large national capitals, as t...Loe edasi...
A radically inventive excavation of one man’s life and our relationship to the earth by the critically acclaimed author of The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld Justin Hocking grew up in a part of Colorado where so many things...Loe edasi...
Julie Velásquez Runk, Wounaan National Congress, Wounaan Local Congress of Majé
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816546060)
Interweaving Rosewood is a collaborative, community-rooted exploration of the global rosewood trade and its entanglements with colonialism, environmental degradation, and Indigenous resistance. Co-authored with Wounaan authorities and communit...Loe edasi...
Julie Velásquez Runk, Wounaan National Congress, Wounaan Local Congress of Majé
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816556939)
Interweaving Rosewood is a collaborative, community-rooted exploration of the global rosewood trade and its entanglements with colonialism, environmental degradation, and Indigenous resistance. Co-authored with Wounaan authorities and communit...Loe edasi...
Winner of AAL Book Award 2020 | Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2018The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language is the first comprehensive survey of the intersection between language and human mobility in today’s glob...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487548087)
This book challenges the city-centered view of Europe by highlighting the importance of suburbs and peripheries, where millions live. It argues that Europe has long been shaped by suburbanization, which, since World War II, is closely linked to in...Loe edasi...
