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This book discusses the concept and practice of a smart
metropolitan region, and how smart cities promote healthy economic
and spatial development. It highlights how smart metropolitan
regional development can energize, reorganize and transform the
legacy economy into a smart economy; how it can help embrace
Information and Communications Technology (ICT); and how it can
foster a shared economy. In addition, it outlines how the five
pillars of the third industrial revolution can be achieved by smart
communities. In addition, the book draws on 16 in-depth city case
studies from ten countries to explore the state of the art
regarding the smart economy in smart cities - and to apply the
lessons learned to shape smart metropolitan economic and spatial
development.
Notwithstanding the importance of modern technology, fieldwork
remains vital, not least through helping to inspire and educate the
next generation. Fieldwork has the ingredients of intellectual
curiosity, passion, rigour and engagement with the outdoor world -
to name just a few. You may be simply noting what you see around
you, making detailed records, or carrying out an experiment; all of
this and much more amounts to fieldwork. Being curious, you think
about the world around you, and through patient observation develop
and test ideas. Forty contributors capture the excitement and
importance of fieldwork through a wide variety of examples, from
urban graffiti to the Great Barrier Reef. Outdoor learning is for
life: people have the greatest respect and care for their world
when they have first-hand experience of it. The Editors are
donating all royalties due to them to the environmental charity,
The Field Studies Council, to support student fieldwork at the
Council's field centres.
Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize Shortlisted for the Richard
Jeffries Award The story of one woman's passion for glaciers As one
of the world's leading glaciologists, Professor Jemma Wadham has
devoted her career to the glaciers that cover one-tenth of the
Earth's land surface. Today, however, these 'ice rivers' are in
peril. High up in the Alps, Andes and Himalaya, once-indomitable
glaciers are retreating; in Antarctica, meanwhile, thinning ice
sheets are releasing meltwater to sensitive marine foodwebs, and
may be unlocking vast quantities of methane stored deep beneath
them. The potential consequences for humanity are almost
unfathomable. Jemma's first encounter with a glacier, as a student,
sparked her love of these icy landscapes. There is nowhere on Earth
she feels more alive. Whether abseiling down crevasses, skidooing
across frozen fjords, exploring ice caverns, or dodging polar bears
- for a glaciologist, it's all in a day's work. Prompted by an
illness that took her to the brink of death and back, in Ice Rivers
Jemma recalls twenty-five years of expeditions around the globe,
revealing why the glaciers mean so much to her - and what they
should mean to us. As she guides us from the Alps to the Andes, the
importance of the ice to crucial ecosystems and human livelihoods
becomes clear - our lives are entwined with these coldest places on
the planet. This is a memoir like no other: an eye-witness account
by a top scientist at the frontline of the climate crisis, and an
impassioned love letter to the glaciers that are her obsession.
Bioengineering in Extreme Environments is an engaging text that
supports students' education in both technology and the natural
world. Students learn about natural science, human body responses,
and various technologies that enable or could enable humans to
thrive in extreme environments. The text demystifies technology for
readers, demonstrating that many technologies are simply
well-developed solutions to everyday problems. Over the course of
11 chapters, students visit Death Valley, Antarctica, the Great
Salt Lake, Chernobyl, Jupiter, Mt. Everest, and other extreme
locations to learn about their environments, effects on the human
body, and the types of technology they each would require for human
survival. Each chapter includes learning objectives, the core text,
and instructions and assignments for small groups. Students are
challenged to work together to cultivate knowledge, complete
interactive homework assignments, and answer thought-provoking
questions. Embracing active learning and interdisciplinary
knowledge-building, Bioengineering in Extreme Environments is an
ideal textbook for undergraduate general education courses in
science and the natural world.
The author of Alder Music, Gary Saunders returns with an evocative,
lyrical, and immersive collection of personal essays on our
relationship with nature and with each other. In nine sections,
Earthkeeping ruminates on the necessity of love and earthkeeping,
on forage fish and robinsongs, and on the stewardship of our
ecological landscape. Offering an antidote to the world's anxiety
about climate change, plastic pollution, and biodiversity loss,
Saunders writes with a deep connection to the natural world and his
signature humane zest for life. Lovingly illustrated with
Saunders's own drawings, the result is a joyful, personal, and
deeply attentive stroll through an enchanted land of blue and
green.
Since the 1970s and particularly the works of Tuxen (1978) and Gehu
& Rivas-Martinez (1981), dynamico-catenal phytosociology has
facilitated the integration of vegetation dynamics by more
precisely describing the trajectories of vegetation series. A
national habitat mapping program (CarHAB), launched by France's
Ministry of Ecology, aims to map the vegetation and vegetation
series of metropolitan France at a scale of 1: 25,000 by 2025. In
this context, Corsica has been selected as a pilot region, due to
its unique characteristics regarding Mediterranean and alticole
vegetation. This book describes in detail the vegetation series and
geoseries (ecology, structure, dynamic trajectories, effects of
anthropogenic factors on vegetation dynamics, catenal positioning
in the landscape) of two Corsican sectors: Cap Corse and Biguglia
pond. These two study sites were selected using two methods: * For
Cap Corse, the typology and mapping are based on an inductive
approach, which seeks to understand the dynamics of vegetation by
drawing on the mature, substitutional, pioneering and anthropogenic
associations likely to exist within a tessellar envelope. These
various dynamic stages characterize "the vegetation series"
(sigmetum or synassociation), the fundamental unit of
symphytosociology (Gehu 2006; Biondi 2011). The aim of
symphytosociology is, therefore, to define the vegetation series;
in other words, it seeks to identify the repetitive combinations of
syntaxa under homogeneous ecological conditions. * For Biguglia
pond, the typology and mapping are based on a deductive approach,
which combines (under SIG) the ecological descriptor maps with the
vegetation mapping, in order to reveal the tesselas and the natural
potential vegetation that underlies them. Thanks to the improvement
of GIS techniques, this approach has been frequently used to
characterize plant landscapes from vegetation to vegetation
geoseries since the 2000s, with applications to the conservation
management of natural and semi-natural environments.
This book provides an accessible but intellectually rigorous
introduction to the global social movement for 'climate justice'
and addresses the socially uneven consequences of anthropogenic
climate change. Deploying relational understandings of
nature-society, space, and power, Brandon Derman shows that climate
change has been co-produced with social inequality. Mismatching
levels of responsibility and vulnerability, and institutions that
emerged in tandem with those disproportionalities compose the
terrain on which NGOs and social movements now contest climate
injustice in a wide-ranging "politics of connection." Case-based
chapters explore the defining commitments of affected and allied
communities, and how they have shaped specific struggles mobilizing
human rights, international treaties, transnational activist
forums, national and local constituencies, and broad-based
demonstrations. Derman synthesizes these cases and similar efforts
across the globe to identify and explore crosscutting themes in
climate justice politics as well as the opportunities and dilemmas
facing advocates and activists, and those who would ally with them
going forward. How should we understand campaigns for climate
justice? What do these initiatives share, and what differentiates
them? What, in fact, does "climate justice" mean in these contexts?
And what do the framing and progression of such efforts in
different settings suggest about the broader conditions that
produce and sustain climate injustice, how those conditions could
be unmade, and what might take their place? Struggles for Climate
Justice approaches these questions from an interdisciplinary
perspective accessible to graduate and advanced undergraduate
students as well as scholars of geography, social movements,
environmental politics, policy, and socio-legal studies.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer
Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags
von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv
Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche
Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext
betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor
1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen
Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.
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