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by Alex David Singleton, Seth Spielman, David Folch
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
The economic and political situation of cities has shifted in recent years in light of rapid growth amidst infrastructure decline, the suburbanization of poverty and inner city revitalization. At the same time, the way that data are used to understand urban systems has changed dramatically.
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Media Research on Climate Change
Where have we been and where are we heading?
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Research on media coverage of climate change, as a particular subfield of environmental communication research, has proliferated over the past decade. This book sets out to consider what conclusions can be drawn in light of the existing body of work, what lessons can be learnt, what are the challenges...
Urban Air Quality: Measurement, Modelling and Management
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Urban Air Quality: Measurement, Modelling and Management Held at the Computer Science School of the Technical University of Madrid 3–5 March 1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Since the first international conference on urban air quality, held at the University ofHertfordshire in 1996, significant advances have taken place in the field of urban air pollution. In addition to the scientific advances in the measurement, modelling and management of urban air quality, significant...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
This book, written by an international group of experts from China, Europe and the USA, presents a broad and comprehensive analysis of the chemical and meteorological processes responsible for the formation of air pollutants in eastern Asia, and in particular for the development of severe pollution...
Residue Reviews
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Worldwide concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental com munities over traces of toxic chemicals in foodstuffs and in both abiotic and biotic environments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published progress reports,...
by Jiahua Pan
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
This book looks into the increasing conflict between the demand of economic growth and the already fragile ecological system condition in China. The prolonged urbanization process has escalated the erosion of natural environments and is increasing energy consumption. China’s role as a “world plant”...
by Yunhe Pan
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This book includes a general overview of the book series and summarizes the research results in its 13 subtopics. It systematically elaborates on how the construction and promotion of intelligent cities with Chinese characteristics could be implemented in the course of intelligent urbanization in...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2018
This book highlights what are likely to be the future megatrends in the water sector and why and how they should be incorporated to improve water governance in the coming decades. In this first ever book on megatrends for the water sector, 22 leading world experts from different disciplines representing...
Socio-Metabolic Perspectives on the Sustainability of Local Food Systems
Insights for Science, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
This book delves into diverse local food systems and critically assesses their ecological and societal benefits and trade-offs, their limits and opportunities for improving sustainability of food production, and framework conditions which either hinder or promote their development.
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Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World
Volume 1: Nanotechnology and Health Risk
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Environmental chemistry is a fast developing science aimed at deciphering fundamental mechanisms ruling the behaviour of pollutants in ecosystems. Applying this knowledge to current environmental issues leads to the remediation of environmental media, and to new, low energy, low emission, sustainable...
Stewarding Sustainability Transformations
An Emerging Theory and Practice of SDG Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
In the context of the world’s pressing sustainability challenges this new Report to the Club of Rome presents a novel approach to navigating collaborative change in partnerships between governments, research institutions, corporations and civil society activists. With reference to the 17 Sustainable...
Residue Reviews
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Worldwide concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental com munities over traces of toxic chemicals in foodstuffs and in both abiotic and biotic environments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published progress reports,...
by Franzi Korner-Nievergelt, Tobias Roth, Stefanie von Felten
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2015
Bayesian Data Analysis in Ecology Using Linear Models with R, BUGS, and STAN examines the Bayesian and frequentist methods of conducting data analyses. The book provides the theoretical background in an easy-to-understand approach, encouraging readers to examine the processes that generated their...
Hierarchical Modeling and Inference in Ecology
The Analysis of Data from Populations, Metapopulations and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
A guide to data collection, modeling and inference strategies for biological survey data using Bayesian and classical statistical methods.
This book describes a general and flexible framework for modeling and inference in ecological systems based on hierarchical models, with a strict focus...