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Emerging and Priority Pollutants in Rivers
Bringing Science into River Management Plans
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
The enduring changes in the aquatic environment and the increasing influx of contaminants call for novel conceptual and methodological approaches to relating chemical pollution and ecological alterations in ecosystems. This volume highlights the latest advances concerning the sampling, analyses, occurrence,...
The Security of Water, Food, Energy and Liveability of Cities
Challenges and Opportunities for Peri-Urban Futures
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The population of cities around the world is growing at an alarming rate, and as a result the landscapes of most cities are going through enormous changes. In particular, fertile agricultural lands at the periphery of cities are being developed without consideration of holistic planning. As such,...
by Marco Grasso
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2009
Covering the ethical dimensions of international-level adaptation funding, a subject of growing interest in the climate change debate, this book provides a theoretical analysis of the ethical foundations of the UNFCCC regime on adaptation funding, one that culminates in the definition of a framework...
Strategies for Symbiotic Urban Neighbourhoods
Towards Local Energy Self-Sufficiency
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Utilizing the results of a case study on the Gare-Lac sector in the city of Yverdon-les-Bains – the site is currently a large urban brownfield, intended to host ca. 3,800 additional inhabitants and 1,200 jobs upon completion – this work examines how to design attractive urban neighbourhoods that...
Rural Sustainability
A Complex Systems Approach to Policy Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
This volume applies the science of complexity to study coupled human-environment systems (CHES) and integrates ideas from the social sciences of climate change into a study of rural development amid flooding and urbanization in the Poyang Lake Region (PLR) of China. Author Qing Tian operationalizes...
Grounding Global Climate Change
Contributions from the Social and Cultural Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
This book traces the evolution of climate change research, which, long dominated by the natural sciences, now sees greater involvement with disciplines studying the socio-cultural implications of change. In their introduction, the editors chart the changing role of the social and cultural sciences,...
Politics and Development in a Transboundary Watershed
The Case of the Lower Mekong Basin
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Water - and its governance - is becoming a global concern partly because it is turning into a goods in short supply, with devastating effects on literally billions of people, but also because it is the "carrier" of global warming; whether through irregular weather patterns or through flooding,...
Environmental Water Footprints
Concepts and Case Studies from the Food Sector
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
This book discusses the concept of water footprint and corporate water footprint, presenting case studies on a thermal power plant in India and on the food sector. Water conservation is a key element of industrial sustainability strategies.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
This book highlights various methods of quantifying sustainability indicators in the food sector, highlighting the environmental indicators in the meat chain and agri-food wastes from a bio-refinery perspective. Numerous sustainability indicators that encompass all three pillars – economic, environmental...
Urbanization and Sustainability
Linking Urban Ecology, Environmental Justice and Global Environmental Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
Case studies explore the Million Trees initiative in Los Angeles; the relationship of cap-and-trade policy, public health, greenhouse gas emissions and environmental justice in Southern California; Urbanization, vulnerability and environmental justice in the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Human Colonization of the Arctic: The Interaction Between Early Migration and the Paleoenvironment explores the relationship between humans and the environment during this early time of colonization, utilizing analytical methods from both the social and natural sciences to develop a unique, interdisciplinary...
by Guy Woodward, David Bohan
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Advances in Ecological Research is one of the most successful series in the highly competitive field of ecology. Each volume publishes topical and important reviews, interpreting ecology as widely as in the past, to include all material that contributes to our understanding of the field. Topics in...
Acidic Mining Lakes
Acid Mine Drainage, Limnology and Reclamation
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Acidification is a universal problem at all mining sites in which oxygenated water comes in contact with sulfide minerals or other reduced sulfur compounds. An International Workshop was held in September 1995 at the Department for Inland Water Research of the UFZ-Centre for Environmental Research...
Bioassessment of Freshwater Ecosystems
Using the Reference Condition Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Aquatic ecosystem assessment is a rapidly developing field, and one of the newer approaches to assessing the condition of rivers and lakes is the Reference Condition Approach. This is a significant advancement in biomonitoring because it solves the problem of trying to locate nearby control or reference...