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Co-creating Sustainable Urban Futures
A Primer on Applying Transition Management in Cities
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
This is a unique book that provides rich knowledge on how to understand and actively contribute to urban sustainability transitions. The book combines theoretical frameworks and tools with practical experiences on transition management as a framework that supports urban planning and governance towards...
Life Cycle Assessment in the Agri-food Sector
Case Studies, Methodological Issues and Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
The book presents an overview of the International practices and state-of-the-art of LCA studies in the agri-food sector, both in terms of adopted methodologies and application to particular products; the final purpose is to characterise and put order within the methodological issues connected to...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
This edited volume examines the multiple dimensions of sustainability in the Circumpolar North, a territory facing unprecedented environmental and social challenges at the start of the 21st century. The chapters explore the cultural, economic, political and environmental aspects of sustainability,...
Sustainability Matters
(In 2 Volumes)Volume 1: Asia's Green ChallengesVolume 2: Asia's Energy Concerns, Green Policies and Environmental Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Sustainability Mattersis a compilation of some of the best research papers by students from the National University of Singapore's inter-disciplinary graduate programme in environmental studies, the MSc in Environmental Management [MEM]. This collection is for the period 2009/10 to 2011/12.
As...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
This volume offers an overview of the occurrence and distribution of personal care products in continental and marine waters, presents analytical methods and degradation technologies and discusses their impact on human health. Experts from different disciplines highlight major issues for each family...
Environmental Sustainability
Role of Green Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Covers different categories of green technologies (e.g. biofuels, renewable energy sources, phytoremediation etc.,) in a nutshell -Focuses on next generation technologies which will help to attain the sustainable development -The chapters widely cover for students, faculties and researchers in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Personal computers have made life convenient in many ways, but what about their impacts on the environment due to production, use and disposal? Manufacturing computers requires prodigious quantities of fossil fuels, toxic chemicals and water. Rapid improvements in performance mean we often buy a new...
Land-Use Changes in China
Historical Reconstruction Over the Past 300 Years and Future Projection
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
This review volume covers the changes of land use/land cover in China during the recent 300 years. It aims to systematic review the historical land use changes in the past three centuries.
China is one of the ancient civilization where mankind transform the environmental and land use in order...
Ecometric and Dynamic Modelling —
Exemplified by Caesium in Lakes After Chernobyl Methodological Aspects of Establishing Representative and Compatible Lake Data, Models and Load Diagrammes
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
The accident of Chernobyl enabled the scientific community to study nuclear fall-out effects in situ establishing new kinds of interpretation methods. This study presents the development of ecometric analysis, mainly based on load diagrammes for entire ecosystems and their interpretation with regard...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Watersheds, supplying crucial ecosystem services to humans, seem to be a logical territorial unit to integrate societal benefits and environmental needs in order to evaluate the sustainability of natural resource use patterns. Based on this belief the book is an attempt to initiate a comprehensive...
Environment, Energy and Climate Change II
Energies from New Resources and the Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of advanced research in the field of efficient, clean and renewable energy production, conversion and storage. The ten chapters, written by internationally respected experts, address the following topics: (1) solar and wind energy; (2) energy storage in...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Recent developments in air pollution modeling and its application are explored here in contributions by researchers at the forefront of their field. The book is focused on local, urban, regional and intercontinental modeling; data assimilation and air quality forecasting; model assessment and evaluation;...
Phosphorus
An Element that could have been called Lucifer
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
This book starts with depiction of the phosphorus role in life creation and evolution. Then it outlines in which vital processes different phosphates participate in life of all flora and fauna, from DNA molecules till body tissues. Crucial function of phosphates was noticed long ago, but only in...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This book presents a novel picture in current advances in research of theoretical and practical frameworks of environmental problems and solutions taken from the latest empirical research findings.
The book deals with basic concepts and principles of process, modern biochemical and molecular...