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This book shares graduate student experiences, lessons, and life
learnings from research with Inuit communities in the Canadian
Arctic. The results of graduate student research are often
disseminated in a thesis or dissertation, but their personal
experiences building relationships with Inuit, working together to
design and conduct research, and how this shaped their research
approach and outcomes, are rarely captured. As such, there are
limited resources available to new researchers that share
information about the practical aspects of community-based research
in the Arctic. The book is intended to provide a glimpse into what
it is like to do research together with Inuit, and in doing so,
contribute to the development of more productive and equitable
relationships between Inuit and researchers. The chapters are
written as structured narratives in the first-person and include
reflections, and lessons learned.
This book provides a systematic exposition of the design features
of constructed wetlands, and their management (in terms of siting,
physical maintenance, and operation). Only very few books (or
chapters) have been published on constructed wetlands in tropical
conditions and none are current. The selection of plant species,
managing their growth and harvesting cycles, and the impact these
have on the attenuation of organic and inorganic pollutants,
nutrients, and pathogens would be of interest to students and
practitioners of the art working under tropical conditions. The
potential of constructed wetlands as a low-cost intervention for
developing countries in tropical regions that faced water pollution
problems, in particular, deserves to be explored systematically.
Inspired by his ranger days in Rocky Mountain National Park more
than forty-five years ago as well as more recent rambles, Richard
Fleck has created these descriptive essays that take readers from
shimmering desert heat to snowy summits. Fleck has expanded his
acclaimed book Breaking Through the Clouds (2004) to create a new
book that concentrates on the intermountain American West. This
edition includes counterpoint experiences in the desert, canyon
lands, and dry prairie far below the summits of the lofty peaks,
such as Death Valley, Grand Gulch, Grand Canyon, and the Great Sand
Dunes. His literary model was Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire and
his intent is to involve readers with an equally potent but
different kind of natural reality. Fleck says, "After all, do not
mountains rise out of deserts and dry lands? Mountains and
surrounding deserts should not be separated." The mountains are a
constant source of spiritual renewal for this author, enabling him
to become more aware and whole.
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This book investigates water resources management and policy in
China over the last two decades with a core focus on the role of
water for socioeconomic development and sustainability. Recent
policies, such as the Three Red Lines and the Water Ten Plan are
evaluated for sustainable water supply, use and quality control.
The book appraises solutions through demand management, water
rights and pollution trading, virtual water and water footprint.
Supply management is discussed taking examples from the Three
Gorges Dam and the South North Water Transfer Project. The water
market is investigated uncovering the active engagement of the
private sector and includes discussions on how transboundary rivers
demonstrate China's engagement with its riparian countries for
benefit sharing. This book will be an invaluable reference for
researchers in the field as well as practitioners and students who
have an interest in water and development in China.
This book presents both state-of-the art knowledge from Recent
coral reefs (1.8 million to a few centuries old) gained since the
eighties, and introduces geologists, oceanographers and
environmentalists to sedimentological and paleoecological studies
of an ecosystem encompassing some of the world's richest
biodiversity. Scleractinian reefs first appeared about 300 million
years ago. Today coral reef systems provide some of the most
sensitive gauges of environmental change, expressing the complex
interplay of chemical, physical, geological and biological factors.
The topics covered will include the evolutionary history of reef
systems and some of the main reef builders since the Cenozoic, the
effects of biological and environmental forces on the zonation of
reef systems and the distribution of reef organisms and on reef
community dynamics through time, changes in the geometry, anatomy
and stratigraphy of reef bodies and systems in relation to changes
in sea level and tectonics, the distribution patterns of
sedimentary (framework or detrital) facies in relation to those of
biological communities, the modes and rates of reef accretion
(progradation, aggradation versus backstepping; coral growth versus
reef growth), the hydrodynamic forces controlling water circulation
through reef structures and their relationship to early diagenetic
processes, the major diagenetic processes affecting reef bodies
through time (replacement and diddolution, dolomitization,
phosphatogenesis), and the record of climate change by both
individual coral colonies and reef systems over the
Quaternary.
* state-of-the-art knowledge from Recent corals reefs
* introduction to sedimentological and paleoecological studies of
an ecosystems encompassing some of the world's richest
biodiversity.
* authors are internationally regarded authorities on the
subject
* trustworthy information
This book explores the relationship between rivers and ethics in
China, with a particular focus on the health of the Yellow River
and China's sustainable development. Though the book falls into the
category of East Asian History, it is an interdisciplinary academic
work that addresses not only history, but also culture, human
geography and physical geography. It traces the changes in the
Yellow River over time and examines the origin and developmental
course of Chinese civilization, which has always been closely
intertwined with the Yellow River. It also draws comparisons
between the Yellow River and the Yangtze, Nile, Tigris, Euphrates
and Indus rivers to provide insights into how they have contributed
to civilizations. At the same time, it discusses the lessons
learned from people's taming the Yellow River. Most significantly,
the book explores the relationship between humans and the
environment from an ethical standpoint, making it an urgent
reminder of the crucial role that human activities play in
environmental issues concerning the Yellow River so as to achieve a
sustainable development for China's "mother river." The intended
audience includes academic readers researching East Asian and
Chinese history & culture, geography, human geography,
historical geography, the environment, river civilizations, etc.,
as well as history and geography lovers and members of the general
public who are interested in the Yellow River and the civilization
that has evolved around it.
This open access book examines the role of pilot and demonstration
projects as crucial devices for conducting innovation in the
context of the energy transition. Bridging literature from
sustainability transitions and Science and Technology Studies
(STS), it argues that such projects play a crucial role, not only
in shaping future energy and mobility systems, but in transforming
societies more broadly. Pilot projects constitute socio-technical
configurations where imagined future realities are materialized.
With this as a backdrop, the book explores pilot projects as
political entities, focusing on questions of how they gain their
legitimacy, which resources are mobilized in their production, and
how they can serve as sites of public participation and the
production of energy citizenship. The book argues that such
projects too often have a narrow technology focus, and that this is
a missed opportunity. The book concludes by critically discussing
the potential roles of research and innovation policy in
transforming how such projects are configured and conducted.
With the rapid increase of world population, the global water
shortage is set to be the major crises of the twenty-first century;
that is, population dynamics (growth, age distribution,
urbanization and migration) create pressures on freshwater
resources due to the increased water demands and pollution.
Moreover, water resources management faces a new uncertainty- i.e.
the potential for longer-term and more persistent climate change
nowadays, which, in coming years, may significantly affect the
availability of supply and patterns of water demand. This book
mainly focuses on the impact of climate change and human activities
on water quality and water resources in Asia Countries. It begins
by describing the characteristics of water related disasters in the
world. Then, the book analyzes the changes of floods and associated
socio-economic damages for whole China over the last century, and
assesses water quality and pollution source for the Yangtze River
Basin, suggesting water-related disasters would become more
intense, longer lasting, and/or more frequent in a future warmer
climate. Then, after investigating spatiotemporal trends and causes
of water quality and water quality incidents (Chapter 4) and
precipitation extreme events (Chapter 5) in Japan, subsequent two
chapters mainly evaluate the climate and human impacts on
precipitation variations, water quality and water resources in the
Hokkaido area. The final chapter comprehensively analyzes climate
change impacts on water resources in the Aral Sea Basin, and then
estimate the water requirements and water deficits for irrigation,
future agricultural yields of seven major crops, and land and water
productivity in four provinces of Turkmenistan considering climate
change, population growth, and three socio-economic development
scenarios. All results obtained from this book may provide a means
to reduce water quality incidents and mitigate future negative
impacts by adapting water management. Furthermore, the improved
methods for water quality modeling in data scarce regions are
transferable to other study areas and applicable in future
research.
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of some of the most
critical issues regarding the EU's Energy Union policy. Applied
European energy policies face a number of challenges ranging from
the geopolitics of energy and energy regulation, to climate change,
advancing renewable and gas technologies, and consumer empowerment
structures. This book takes a multi-dimensional look into some of
these vital issues regarding the European energy sector with a
special focus on the effects the Energy Union policy has in two
sensitive regional systems, Southeastern Europe and the Eastern
Mediterranean. Energy, being by definition a multi-disciplinary
field, presents a challenge for readers of any specific
disciplinary background that need to grasp an overall understanding
of the various aspects of this exciting sector. This book's
objective is to offer the opportunity for readers to get a quality,
hands-on overview of the Energy Union by the professionals and
academics that interact with it on a daily basis.
This book provides a step-by-step methodology and derivation of
deep learning algorithms as Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and
Convolution Neural Network (CNN), especially for estimating
parameters, with back-propagation as well as examples with real
datasets of hydrometeorology (e.g. streamflow and temperature) and
environmental science (e.g. water quality). Deep learning is known
as part of machine learning methodology based on the artificial
neural network. Increasing data availability and computing power
enhance applications of deep learning to hydrometeorological and
environmental fields. However, books that specifically focus on
applications to these fields are limited. Most of deep learning
books demonstrate theoretical backgrounds and mathematics. However,
examples with real data and step-by-step explanations to understand
the algorithms in hydrometeorology and environmental science are
very rare. This book focuses on the explanation of deep learning
techniques and their applications to hydrometeorological and
environmental studies with real hydrological and environmental
data. This book covers the major deep learning algorithms as Long
Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Convolution Neural Network (CNN) as
well as the conventional artificial neural network model.
Our realisation of how profoundly glaciers and ice sheets respond
to climate change and impact sea level and the environment has
propelled their study to the forefront of Earth system science.
Aspects of this multidisciplinary endeavour now constitute major
areas of research. This book is named after the international
summer school held annually in the beautiful alpine village of
Karthaus, Northern Italy, and consists of twenty chapters based on
lectures from the school. They cover theory, methods, and
observations, and introduce readers to essential glaciological
topics such as ice-flow dynamics, polar meteorology, mass balance,
ice-core analysis, paleoclimatology, remote sensing and geophysical
methods, glacial isostatic adjustment, modern and past glacial
fluctuations, and ice sheet reconstruction. The chapters were
written by thirty-four contributing authors who are leading
international authorities in their fields. The book can be used as
a graduate-level textbook for a university course, and as a
valuable reference guide for practising glaciologists and climate
scientists.
When American explorers crossed the Texas Panhandle, they dubbed it
part of the ""Great American Desert."" A ""sea of grass,"" the
llano appeared empty, flat, and barely habitable. Contemporary
developments - cell phone towers, oil rigs, and wind turbines -
have only added to this stereotype. Yet in this lyrical ecomemoir,
Shelley Armitage charts a unique rediscovery of the largely unknown
land, a journey at once deeply personal and far-reaching in its
exploration of the connections between memory, spirit, and place.
Armitage begins her narrative with the intention to walk the llano
from her family farm thirty meandering miles along the Middle
Alamosa Creek to the Canadian River. Along the way, she seeks the
connection between her father and one of the area's first settlers,
Ysabel Gurule, who built his dugout on the banks of the Canadian.
Armitage, who grew up nearby in the small town of Vega, finds this
act of walking inseparable from the act of listening and writing.
""What does the land say to us?"" she asks as she witnesses human
alterations to the landscape - perhaps most catastrophic the
continued drainage of the land's most precious resource, the
Ogallala Aquifer. Yet the llano's wonders persist: dynamic mesas
and canyons, vast flora and fauna, diverse wildlife, rich
histories. Armitage recovers the voices of ancient, Native, and
Hispano peoples, their stories interwoven with her own: her
father's legacy, her mother's decline, a brother's love. The llano
holds not only the beauty of ecological surprises but a renewed
realization of kinship in a world ever changing. Reminiscent of the
work of Terry Tempest Williams and John McPhee, Walking the Llano
is both a celebration of an oft-overlooked region and a soaring
testimony to the power of the landscape to draw us into greater
understanding of ourselves and others by experiencing a deeper
connection with the places we inhabit.
Authored by world-class scientists and scholars, the Handbook of
Natural Resources, Second Edition, is an excellent reference for
understanding the consequences of changing natural resources to the
degradation of ecological integrity and the sustainability of life.
Based on the content of the bestselling and CHOICE awarded
Encyclopedia of Natural Resources, this new edition demonstrates
the major challenges that the society is facing for the
sustainability of all wellbeing on planet Earth. The experience,
evidence, methods, and models used in studying natural resources
are presented in six stand-alone volumes, arranged along the main
systems: land, water, and air. It reviews state-of-the-art
knowledge, highlights advances made in different areas, and
provides guidance for the appropriate use of remote sensing data in
the study of natural resources on a global scale. The six volumes
in this set cover: Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biodiversity;
Landscape and Land Capacity; Wetlands and Habitats; Fresh Water and
Watersheds; Coastal and Marine Environments; and finally Atmosphere
and Climate. Written in an easy-to-reference manner, the Handbook
of Natural Resources, Second Edition, as a complete set, is
essential for anyone looking for a deeper understanding of the
science and management of natural resources. Public and private
libraries, educational and research institutions, scientists,
scholars, and resource managers will benefit enormously from this
set. Individual volumes and chapters can also be used in a wide
variety of both graduate and undergraduate courses in environmental
science and natural science courses at different levels and
disciplines, such as biology, geography, Earth system science,
ecology, etc.
This open access book crosses disciplinary boundaries to connect
theories of environmental justice with Indigenous people's
experiences of freshwater management and governance. It traces the
history of one freshwater crisis - the degradation of Aotearoa New
Zealand's Waipa River- to the settler-colonial acts of ecological
dispossession resulting in intergenerational injustices for
Indigenous Maori iwi (tribes). The authors draw on a rich empirical
base to document the negative consequences of imposing Western
knowledge, worldviews, laws, governance and management approaches
onto Maori and their ancestral landscapes and waterscapes.
Importantly, this book demonstrates how degraded freshwater systems
can and are being addressed by Maori seeking to reassert their
knowledge, authority, and practices of kaitiakitanga (environmental
guardianship). Co-governance and co-management agreements between
iwi and the New Zealand Government, over the Waipa River, highlight
how Maori are envisioning and enacting more sustainable freshwater
management and governance, thus seeking to achieve Indigenous
environmental justice (IEJ). The book provides an accessible way
for readers coming from a diversity of different backgrounds, be
they academics, students, practitioners or decision-makers, to
develop an understanding of IEJ and its applicability to freshwater
management and governance in the context of changing
socio-economic, political, and environmental conditions that
characterise the Anthropocene.
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