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by Wolfram Kägi
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Climate change is one of the major global environmental problems, one that has the potential to confront us with great costs during the decades to come. Climate change is caused by emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as carbon dioxide (CO). As z deforestation leads to CO emissions and growing...
Tropospheric Ozone Abatement
Developing Efficient Strategies for the Reduction of Ozone Precursor Emissions in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The occurrence of high concentrations of ozone during summer episodes in the troposphere over Europe is a problem still unsolved. Although a number· of measures have been implemented that will achieve a further reduction of precursor emissions in the next years, this will not be sufficient to reduce...
CO2 Rising
The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
An introduction to the global carbon cycle and the human-caused disturbances to it that are at the heart of global warming and climate change.
The most colossal environmental disturbance in human history is under way. Ever-rising levels of the potent greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) are...
Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation in Asia and the Pacific
Manila, Philippines, 15–19 January 1996
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
PREFACE ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi L. AMADORE, W. C. BOLHOFER, R. V. CRUZ, R. B. FEIR, C. A. FREYSINGER, S. GUILL, K. F. JALAL, A IGLESIAS, A. JOSE, S. LEATHERMAN, S. LENHART, S. MUKHER JEE, J. B. SMITH, and J. WISNIEWSKII Climate Change Vulnerability and Adap tion in Asia and the Pacific: Workshop...
by Pere RIERA, Giovanni SIGNORELLO, Mara THIENE
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This book provides good practice protocols for the economic valuation of non-market forest ecosystem goods and services. it covers the main valuation methods: Hedonic Pricing, Travel Cost, Contingent Valuation, Choice Modeling, and Benefit Transfer.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
This book would not have been possible without the dedication and commitment of each of the chapter authors. For some authors, writing a chapter was beyond their “9–5” job, and this book re?ects their commitment to sustainability at the local level for their communities. To every chapter author...
Building Global Resilience in the Aftermath of Sustainable Development
Planet, People and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
This book explains why the concept of sustainable development needs to be consigned to history. Using examples from around the world, Richard Pagett illustrates how so-called sustainable development has simply been a cul-de-sac, condemning millions to continuing extreme poverty.
Building Global...
Technology, Society and Sustainability
Selected Concepts, Issues and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This collection is a multidisciplinary and multicultural contribution to the current sustainability discourse. It is focused on two main dimensions of our world: complexity and diversity. Desirable and urgent transition of socio-technological systems toward a sustainability trajectory of development...
Everything Under the Sun
Toward a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
A renowned scientist restores hope for a better future with his latest views on environmental challenges.
In this latest offering from David Suzuki, the well-known scientist, author, and broadcaster explores the interconnectedness of the world's myriad environmental challenges. The solutions...
Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments
Data Handling and Numerical Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Numerical and statistical methods have rapidly become part of a palaeolimnologist’s tool-kit. They are used to explore and summarise complex data, reconstruct past environmental variables from fossil assemblages, and test competing hypotheses about the causes of observed changes in lake biota through...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
This volume provides a comprehensive perspective on geomorphic approaches to management of lowland alluvial rivers in North America and Europe. Many lowland rivers have been heavily managed for flood control and navigation for decades or centuries, resulting in engineered channels and embanked floodplains...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Land Degradation and Desertification: Assessment, Mitigation, and Remediation reports research results in sustainable land management and land degradation status and mitigation in 36 countries around the world. It includes background papers with continental and international perspectives dealing with...
Environmental Resource Management and the Nexus Approach
Managing Water, Soil, and Waste in the Context of Global Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This book elaborates how water, soil, and waste may be managed in a nexus and how this approach may help combat global change. In addition to providing a brief account on nexus thinking and how it may help us tackle issues important to the world community such as food security, the book presents the...
by Mr. Nathaniel O. Keohane, Dr. Sheila M. Olmstead
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
A clear grasp of economics is essential to understanding why environmental problems arise and how we can address them. So it is with good reason that Markets and the Environment has become a classic text in environmental studies since its first publication in 2007. Now thoroughly revised with updated...