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Research Anthology on Ecosystem Conservation and Preserving Biodiversity, VOL 4 (Hardcover): Information R Management... Research Anthology on Ecosystem Conservation and Preserving Biodiversity, VOL 4 (Hardcover)
Information R Management Association
R15,756 Discovery Miles 157 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Research with Arctic Inuit Communities - Graduate Student Experiences, Lessons and Life Learnings (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021):... Research with Arctic Inuit Communities - Graduate Student Experiences, Lessons and Life Learnings (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Tristan Pearce
R3,596 Discovery Miles 35 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Wetlands For Tropical Applications: Wastewater Treatment By Constructed Wetlands (Hardcover): Norio Tanaka, Wun Jern Ng, K B... Wetlands For Tropical Applications: Wastewater Treatment By Constructed Wetlands (Hardcover)
Norio Tanaka, Wun Jern Ng, K B Shameen N Jinadasa
R2,246 Discovery Miles 22 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Desert Rims to Mountains High (Hardcover): Richard F Fleck Desert Rims to Mountains High (Hardcover)
Richard F Fleck
R814 R714 Discovery Miles 7 140 Save R100 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Research Anthology on Ecosystem Conservation and Preserving Biodiversity, VOL 3 (Hardcover): Information R Management... Research Anthology on Ecosystem Conservation and Preserving Biodiversity, VOL 3 (Hardcover)
Information R Management Association
R15,744 Discovery Miles 157 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
OGONI - The Struggle for Justice (Hardcover): Simeon B. Kpoturu OGONI - The Struggle for Justice (Hardcover)
Simeon B. Kpoturu
R719 Discovery Miles 7 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Park County (Hardcover): Lynn Johnson Houze, Jeremy M Johnston Park County (Hardcover)
Lynn Johnson Houze, Jeremy M Johnston
R768 Discovery Miles 7 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
China's Water Resources Management - A Long March to Sustainability (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Seungho Lee China's Water Resources Management - A Long March to Sustainability (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Seungho Lee
R3,906 Discovery Miles 39 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Research Anthology on Ecosystem Conservation and Preserving Biodiversity, VOL 2 (Hardcover): Information R Management... Research Anthology on Ecosystem Conservation and Preserving Biodiversity, VOL 2 (Hardcover)
Information R Management Association
R15,745 Discovery Miles 157 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Handbook of Biosphere (Hardcover): Anne Offit Handbook of Biosphere (Hardcover)
Anne Offit
R3,176 R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Save R303 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mangrove Magic - Game of Clones (Hardcover): Ghazally Ismail Mangrove Magic - Game of Clones (Hardcover)
Ghazally Ismail
R836 Discovery Miles 8 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Quaternary Coral Reef Systems, Volume 5 - History, development processes and controlling factors (Hardcover, 5th edition):... Quaternary Coral Reef Systems, Volume 5 - History, development processes and controlling factors (Hardcover, 5th edition)
Lucien F. Montaggioni, Colin J.R. Braithwaite
R4,444 R3,063 Discovery Miles 30 630 Save R1,381 (31%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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

Research Anthology on Ecosystem Conservation and Preserving Biodiversity, VOL 1 (Hardcover): Information R Management... Research Anthology on Ecosystem Conservation and Preserving Biodiversity, VOL 1 (Hardcover)
Information R Management Association
R15,745 Discovery Miles 157 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Historical Survey of the Yellow River and the River Civilizations (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Jianxiong Ge, Yunsheng Hu A Historical Survey of the Yellow River and the River Civilizations (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Jianxiong Ge, Yunsheng Hu; Translated by Qingyong Wang, Lijia Yao
R3,137 Discovery Miles 31 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Pilot Society and the Energy Transition - The co-shaping of innovation, participation and politics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021):... Pilot Society and the Energy Transition - The co-shaping of innovation, participation and politics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Marianne Ryghaug, Tomas Moe Skjolsvold
R973 Discovery Miles 9 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Impacts of Climate and Human Activities on Water Resources and Quality - Integrated Regional Assessment (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Impacts of Climate and Human Activities on Water Resources and Quality - Integrated Regional Assessment (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Weili Duan, Kaoru Takara
R4,106 Discovery Miles 41 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Nature Nurture Nourish - Immense Suffering; Tremendous Love; Persistent Presence (Hardcover): Will Cowell Nature Nurture Nourish - Immense Suffering; Tremendous Love; Persistent Presence (Hardcover)
Will Cowell; Illustrated by Lauren Hall-Bateman; Edited by Catherine Gates
R998 R860 Discovery Miles 8 600 Save R138 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Aspects of the Energy Union - Application and Effects of European Energy Policies in SE Europe and Eastern Mediterranean... Aspects of the Energy Union - Application and Effects of European Energy Policies in SE Europe and Eastern Mediterranean (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Michalis Mathioulakis
R3,151 Discovery Miles 31 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Deep Learning for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Taesam Lee, Vijay P. Singh, Kyung Hwa... Deep Learning for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Taesam Lee, Vijay P. Singh, Kyung Hwa Cho
R3,374 Discovery Miles 33 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Glaciers and Ice Sheets in the Climate System - The Karthaus Summer School Lecture Notes (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Andrew... Glaciers and Ice Sheets in the Climate System - The Karthaus Summer School Lecture Notes (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Andrew Fowler, Felix Ng
R1,530 Discovery Miles 15 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Hill Country Ecology - Essays on Plants, Animals, Water, and Land Management (Hardcover): Jim Stanley Hill Country Ecology - Essays on Plants, Animals, Water, and Land Management (Hardcover)
Jim Stanley
R1,109 Discovery Miles 11 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Walking the Llano - A Texas Memoir of Place (Hardcover): Shelley Armitage Walking the Llano - A Texas Memoir of Place (Hardcover)
Shelley Armitage
R630 R574 Discovery Miles 5 740 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

The Handbook of Natural Resources, Second Edition, Six Volume Set (Mixed media product, 2nd edition): Yeqiao Wang The Handbook of Natural Resources, Second Edition, Six Volume Set (Mixed media product, 2nd edition)
Yeqiao Wang
R9,137 Discovery Miles 91 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Ecosystems Diversity (Hardcover): Anne Offit Ecosystems Diversity (Hardcover)
Anne Offit
R2,500 R2,280 Discovery Miles 22 800 Save R220 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Decolonising Blue Spaces in the Anthropocene - Freshwater management in Aotearoa New Zealand (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Meg... Decolonising Blue Spaces in the Anthropocene - Freshwater management in Aotearoa New Zealand (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Meg Parsons, Karen Fisher, Roa Petra Crease
R1,686 Discovery Miles 16 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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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