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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
This volume contains a solid body of the current state of knowledge on the various themes and activities in agroforestry worldwide. It is organized into three sections: the Introduction section consists of the summaries of six keynote speeches at the 2nd World Congress of Agroforestry held in Nairobi,...
Vulnerability of Agriculture, Water and Fisheries to Climate Change
Toward Sustainable Adaptation Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Human activity is changing the global environment at an unprecedented rate while humanity faces a range of complex and interrelated challenges to local, regional and global development, human security and politics. Food security ranks high on the science, policy and development agendas. However, most...
Cotton, Water, Salts and Soums
Economic and Ecological Restructuring in Khorezm, Uzbekistan
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
This book summarizes a long-term research project addressing land and water use in the irrigated areas of the Aral Sea basin. In an interdisciplinary approach, natural and human sciences are combined to elucidate the challenges of economic transition that affect the use of land, water and biological...
Italian Historical Rural Landscapes
Cultural Values for the Environment and Rural Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Sustainable development and rural policies have pursued strategies where farming has been often regarded as a factor deteriorating the ecosystem. But the current economic, social and environmental problems of the Earth probably call for examples of a positive integration between human society and...
Agroforestry: Science, Policy and Practice
Selected papers from the agroforestry sessions of the IUFRO 20th World Congress, Tampere, Finland, 6–12 August 1995
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Agroforestry research is central to developing methods for the sustainable use of natural renewable resources, evolving to address the needs of the coming century. It is now necessary to consolidate the scientific gains now being made in process-oriented research and to develop a policy framework...
by Lourdes Diaz Soto
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
There are an estimated forty-eight million Latinas/os living in the United States, roughly sixteen percent of the population. Not only are they the largest minority group in the country but also the youngest: one out of five children is Latina/o. The rise in the Latina/o population has caused for...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Yet another book on the topic of ‘Sustainable Forest Management’ can only be justified by new information that is of direct relevance. The contents of this volume concentrate on the very latest factors and developments, thus, hopefully, contributing both to the book’s attractiveness and to closing...
Climate Change, Justice and Sustainability
Linking Climate and Development Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Analysing and synthesising vast data sets from a multitude of disciplines including climate science, economics, hydrology and agricultural research, this volume seeks new methods of combining climate change mitigation, adaptation, development, and poverty reduction in ways that are effective, efficient...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
This book is about African and Asian cities. Illustrated through selected case cities, the book brings together a rich collection of papers by leading scholars and practitioners in Africa and Asia to offer empirical analysis and up-to-date discussions and assessments of the urban challenges and solutions...
Fishing, Foraging and Farming in the Bolivian Amazon
On a Local Society in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Empirical in character, this book analyses the society-nature interaction of the Tsimane’, a rural indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon. Following a common methodological framework, the material and energy flow (MEFA) approach, it gives a detailed account of the biophysical exchange relations...
Long Term Socio-Ecological Research
Studies in Society-Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
The authors in this volume make a case for LTSER’s potential in providing insights, knowledge and experience necessary for a sustainability transition. This expertly edited selection of contributions from Europe and North America reviews the development of LTSER since its inception and assesses...
Submersible Technology: Adapting to Change
Proceedings of an international conference (’SUBTECH ‘87— Adapting to Change’) organized jointly by the Association of Offshore Diving Contractors and the Society for Underwater Technology, and held Aberdeen, UK, 10–12 November 1987
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
To maintain quality in research output, providing the necessary new knowledge for our developing industries must be of prime importance to our community. This is an extremely difficult task when viewed in the context ofthe rapid rate of change being experienced within our national industrial scene....
Offshore Site Investigation and Foundation Behaviour
Papers presented at a conference organized by the Society for Underwater Technology and held in London, UK, September 22–24, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Two main areas of offshore activity are addressed in this book:
Site investigation on assessment; and
Applications and foundation engineering.
The 37 contributions from a wide ranging group of international experts, are resulting from the Offshore Site Investigation and Foundation Behaviour...
Ethical Questions and International NGOs
An exchange between Philosophers and NGOs
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2010
In recent decades there has been a great expansion in the number, size and influence of International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs) involved in international relief and development. These changes have led to increased scrutiny of such organisations, and this scrutiny, together with increasing...