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Organic Farming
Policies and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Consumers are more and more concerned with the health of the food they eat. While great public anxiety about genetically engineered foodstuffs and BSE in cattle has developed in Europe, on the positive side there has been a rapidly rising demand for organic produce. Food retailers, including supermarkets,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
This book highlights different roles in entrepreneurship and innovation, based on the act of setting up a new venture in the area of sustainable luxury and fashion, which also involves cognitive and motivational characteristics. It also discusses the fact that many sustainability-promoting innovations require substantial technological advances.
Equivalency Methods for Environmental Liability
Assessing Damage and Compensation Under the European Environmental Liability Directive
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
The book is the only technical volume that explains how equivalency analysis methods mentioned in Annex II of the European Environmental Liability Directive should be implemented. It uses case studies to illustrate real-world application of the methods, which are based on the experience in the USA...
Meeting the Challenge of Sustainable Mobility
The Role of Technological Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Providing new insights into the relationship between transport and the environment, and the meaning of the concept of sustainable development for the transport sector, special attention is paid to the relationship between technological progress and policy. The different theoretical approaches are...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
This book provides an integrated analysis of the methodologies and main processes occurring at the entire river basin, from upstream until the coast, by merging the biological and hydrological processes with the social and economic components, thus providing an integrated framework for river basin management, integrating the ecohydrology approach with the ecosystem services concept.
University Campus Solid Waste Management
Combining Life Cycle Assessment and Analytical Hierarchy Process
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This volume provides a comprehensive method for optimizing solid waste management practices and procedures at college and university campuses through the use of cluster analysis to combine Life Cycle Assessment and Analytical Hierarchy Process. Author Pezhman Taherei uses Malaysia’s University of...
A World to Live In
An Ecologist's Vision for a Plundered Planet
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
A scientist makes a powerful case that preservation of the integrity of the biosphere is a necessity and an inviolable human right.
A century of industrial development is the briefest of moments in the half billion years of the earth's evolution. And yet our current era has brought greater...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2014
Around the world, many countries are increasing efforts to promote biomass production for industrial uses including biofuels and bio-products such as chemicals and bio-plastic. Against a backdrop of lively public debate on sustainability, bioenergy wields both positive and negative impacts upon a...
The Simple Life: Penguin Special
Penguin Special
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Rhonda Hetzel feels passionately that living simply leads to a richer, more fulfilling existence. Having made the decision to live frugally, embrace sustainability and opt out of the capitalist consumerist mindset, she set about working out how to achieve her goal, learning traditional skills, reducing...
by Steve Massey, Steve Quirk
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Deep-Sky Video Astronomy is a concise guide to using modern integrating video cameras for deep-sky viewing and imaging with the kinds of modest telescopes available commercially to amateur astronomers. It includes an introduction and a brief history of the technology, camera types, etc. The authors...
Understanding Built Environment
Proceedings of the National Conference on Sustainable Built Environment 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
This book is a comprehensive document visualizing the future of built environment from a multidisciplinary dimension, with special emphasis on the Indian scenario. The multidisciplinary focus would be helpful for the readers to cross-refer and understand others' perspectives. The text also includes...
The Vegetarian Myth
FOOD, JUSTICE AND SUSTAINABILITY
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
The vegetarian diet is praised for being sustainable and animal-friendly, but after 20 years of being a vegan, Lierre Keith has changed her opinion. Contravening popular opinion, she bravely argues that agriculture is a relentless assault against the planet. In service to annual grains, humans have...
by Joan Webster OAM
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
By the author of the acclaimed The Complete Bushfire Safety Book, the latest edition of Joan Webster OAM’s Essential Bushfire Safety Tips has been revised and updated. The book deals with people's fears and concerns following Victoria's 2009 Black Saturday bushfires and a maze of new official safety...
Australian Soils and Landscapes
An Illustrated Compendium
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
This essential reference provides an introduction to the remarkable soils and landscapes of Australia. It reveals their great diversity and explains why an understanding of soil properties and landscape processes should guide our use of the land. Using striking photographs of characteristic landscapes,...