This book comprises the contributions of the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE) international conference which is conducted biennially across Africa, alternately with the AfricaGIS conference. It is the premier forum in...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive and scientifically rigorous synthesis of sustainable agriculture, emphasizing its role in building resilient food systems, advancing the green economy, and addressing climate change and natural resource constraints....Loe edasi...
This book explores biomass as a sustainable resource for bioenergy production and the utilization of its byproducts. It covers biomass classification, characterization, and conversion into value-added products, along with biofuel production from agr...Loe edasi...
Computational methods can achieve high accuracy, process large document collections, and generate actionable policy insights. Nevertheless, energy policy remains inconsistent, and institutional fragmentation persists, excluding marginalized populati...Loe edasi...
This book explores the foundational principles of the circular economy, promoting sustainable strategies such as reducing, reusing, recycling, and redesigning in order to extend the life cycle of consumable goods and significantly reduce waste gener...Loe edasi...
This Open Access book offers a structured approach to thinking about the future, covering local, global, and cross-sectoral perspectives. It begins by posing three fundamental questions: What futures are normatively desirable? What trajectories do c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197789353)
Seeds of Sovereignty provides an on-the-ground look at how Black women in the U.S., Caribbean, and Africa reclaim agency in food production and farming to improve health outcomes in their communities. The book challenges mainstream public he...Loe edasi...
Disrupting traditional notions of urban and city planning, this volume examines the intricate interplay of conflicts, the emergence of new borders for refugees and migrants, colonial legacies and postcolonial policies, and grassroots struggles for...Loe edasi...
This title, first published in 1952, addresses an urgent rural problem, whether our ancient market centres and administrative boundaries were still the effective centres and boundaries of everyday rural life, and, if not, what were. It sheds new lig...Loe edasi...
Rapid and radical changes were taking place in the countryside. Originally published in 1970, People and the Countryside discusses the legislation affecting the countryside which appeared in the late 1940s and the work of the Countryside in 1970 Con...Loe edasi...
The business case for sustainability cannot be disputed and organizations now recognize the imperative to act. With supply chains causing huge environmental and social impacts, transforming the supply base, procurement and supply chain function...Loe edasi...
The business case for sustainability cannot be disputed and organizations now recognize the imperative to act. With supply chains causing huge environmental and social impacts, transforming the supply base, procurement and supply chain function...Loe edasi...
This book explores how modern cities are transforming through smart technologies and circular economy principles. The opening chapters introduce the concept of the smart city, explaining digital infrastructure, data-driven decision making, and conne...Loe edasi...
Sari: New Century Gardens and Landscapes of the American Southwest
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of New Mexico Press, ISBN-13: 9780826369680)
The first combined social and ecological look at how institutions in New Mexico intentionally built the Rio Grande Valley through the heart of Albuquerque to create “natural” corridors of green spaces in a modern American city.Dry one...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781804297827)
We all need jobs to live, yet capitalist work is destroying the planet. What are the possibilities for convergence between workplace and community struggles?We are in the ecological crisis, and not just as victims of an environm...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781804294352)
WHAT THE FUTURE LOOKS LIKE TO MOST PEOPLE. AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT.Every month, surveys around the world ask people to tell them what they are really thinking. The results are at times reassuring, some-times chilling and often unex...Loe edasi...
A book about building a home and a wild garden on the edge of a Himalayan forest, illuminated by the author’s own watercolors.When acclaimed novelist Anuradha Roy and her husband stumble upon a derelict cottage in the hill station of...Loe edasi...
This is the first book to theorise humanitarian power within the crimes of the powerful tradition, offering a compelling account of the structural forces embedded in humanitarian institutions, and the practices and forms of legitimation thr...Loe edasi...
This book serves as a vital resource for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers, addressing the complex challenges posed by climate change, population growth, and environmental degradation. Recent Advances in Water Science is a comprehensive v...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517922030)
Winner of the 2021 Minnesota Book Award for Minnesota Nonfiction The story of the scientist who first mapped Minnesotas geology, set against the backdrop of early scientific inquiry in the state At twenty, Newton Horace Winchell...Loe edasi...
A celebration of the extraordinary lost natural wonder of the eastern U.S.—once the center of American wildness before its despoliation—and a lively tour through recent efforts to return elk, bison, wolves, and other creatures to their ver...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674296411)
Sidewalks, easily overlooked, are a vital public resource and central to controversies over homelessness and policing, property rights and development. Michael Pollack explores the on-the-ground reality of American sidewalks and related legal issues...Loe edasi...
Engages with the prehistory and contemporary afterlives of Laudato Si’ through critical and constructive engagement with the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences using an intersectional, anti-colonial feminist methodology....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Fordham University Press, ISBN-13: 9781531513795)
Engages with the prehistory and contemporary afterlives of Laudato Si’ through critical and constructive engagement with the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences using an intersectional, anti-colonial feminist methodology....Loe edasi...
This book sheds light on metrics as a key element of power relations in the EU anti-poverty policy, not least because the calculative infrastructure underlying them actively shapes the distribution of power. These metric-based power dynamics are lin...Loe edasi...
With rising temperatures, longer summers, drought, and more wildfires occurring in the United States and Canada, there is growing interest in the impact and efficacy of Indigenous fire and cultural burning practices. Indigenous communities throughou...Loe edasi...
Higher education institutions (HEIs) play a pivotal yet underexplored role in Regional Green Transitions (RGTs) and sustainable development. This volume addresses this knowledge gap by examining how universities in the Nordic region engage with RG...Loe edasi...
