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Seafloor Geomorphology as Benthic Habitat: GeoHab Atlas of Seafloor
Geomorphic Features and Benthic Habitats, Second Edition, provides
an updated synthesis of seabed geomorphology and benthic habitats.
This new edition includes new case studies from all geographic
areas and habitats that were not included in the previous edition,
including the Arctic, Asia, Africa and South America. Using
multibeam sonar, the benthic ecology of submarine features, such as
fjords, sand banks, coral reefs, seamounts, canyons, mud volcanoes
and spreading ridges is revealed in unprecedented detail. This
timely release offers new understanding for researchers in Marine
Biodiversity, environmental managers, ecologists, and more.
Energy for Sustainable Development: Demand, Supply, Conversion and
Management presents a comprehensive look at recent developments and
provides guidance on energy demand, supply, analysis and
forecasting of modern energy technologies for sustainable energy
conversion. The book analyzes energy management techniques and the
economic and environmental impact of energy usage and storage.
Including modern theories and the latest technologies used in the
conversion of energy for traditional fossil fuels and renewable
energy sources, this book provides a valuable reference on recent
innovations. Researchers, engineers and policymakers will find this
book to be a comprehensive guide on modern theories and
technologies for sustainable development.
High-Risk Pollutants in Wastewater presents the basic knowledge
regarding the diversity, concentrations, and health and
environmental impacts of HRPs in municipal wastewater. The book
summarizes information on the types (e.g. heavy metals, toxic
organics and pathogens) and toxicities of HRPs in wastewater. In
addition, it describes ecological and health hazards arising from
the living things' direct/indirect contacts with the HRPs during
their full lifecycles (generation, disposal, discharge and reuse)
in wastewater or water environments. Sections cover the concepts of
appropriate technology for HRP hazard/risk assessment and
wastewater treatment/reuse and the issues of strategy and policy
for increasing risk control coverage. Finally, the book focuses on
the resolution of water quality monitoring, wastewater treatment
and disposal problems in both developed and developing countries.
Loomis's Essentials of Toxicology, Fifth Edition, provides the
information on the harmful biologic effects associated with
exposures to chemicals of all types. The scope of this book
includes a discussion of the major types of chemicals involved,
their general properties and detrimental biologic effects, the
methods used to demonstrate these effects, the basis for clinical
diagnosis, and therapy for the harmful effects of chemicals on
humans. Individual examples are used to demonstrate the principle
discussed. This reference volume will be an invaluable resource for
both toxicologists and graduate and advanced undergraduate students
in toxicology and public health.
Energy Transformation towards Sustainability explores how
researchers, businesses and policymakers can explore and usefully
improve energy systems and energy consumption behavior, both to
reflect the reality of climate change and related environmental
degradation and to adapt to the expanding periphery of renewable
energy technologies. It introduces the reader to a suite of
potential policy pathways to the necessary transformation in
societal energy consumption, usage and behavior. Solutions
discussed include energy efficiency, energy security, the role of
political leadership, green public policy, and the transition to
renewable energy sources. International contributions address the
range and depth of current research from a position of advocacy for
'energy stewardship' as the driver of this transformation. Case
studies illustrate the range of various countries to diminish
energy use. Finally, policy avenues are covered in depth.
Marine Protected Areas: Science, Policy and Management addresses a
full spectrum of issues relating to Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
not currently available in any other single volume. Chapters are
contributed by a wide range of working specialists who examine
conceptions and definitions of MPAs, progress on the implementation
of worldwide MPAs, policy and legal variations across MPAs, the
general importance of coastal communities in implementation, and
the future of MPAs. The book constructively elucidates conflicts,
issues, approaches and solutions in a way that creates a balanced
consideration of the nature of effective policy and management.
Those in theory, designation, implementation or management of MPAs,
from individuals, marine sector organizations, and university and
research center libraries will find it an important work.
People were once restricted to food native to their region and
produced locally. Today, however, food from any place in the world
is available, or can be made available, anywhere else. Often there
is no or very little information about the nutritional and health
aspects of these foods. Nutrition and Health of Western European
Foods: Traditional and Ethnic Diets is part of series that will
cover the entire globe and is aimed at filling the knowledge gap
from traditional and scientific points of view. This volume
provides an analysis of traditional and ethnic foods from Western
Europe, including Ireland, the United Kingdom, Netherlands,
Belgium, Luxembourg, France, and Germany. It also addresses the
history of use, composition, preparation, ingredient origin,
nutritional aspects, and health effects of various foods and food
products in each of these countries. Nutrition and Health of
Western European Foods: Traditional and Ethnic Diets ultimately
presents both local and international regulations, providing
suggestions to harmonize these regulations and promote global
availability of these foods.
Sharks in Mexico: Research and Conservation, Volume 83 in the
Advances in Marine Biology series, provides in-depth and up-to-date
reviews on all aspects of marine biology that will appeal to
postgraduates and researchers in marine biology, fisheries science,
ecology, zoology and biological oceanography. New chapters cover
The Sharks of Pacific Mexico and their Conservation - Why Should we
Care?, Biodiversity and Conservation of Sharks in Pacific Mexico,
Shark Ecology, The Role of the Apex Predator and Current
Conservation Status, Review of Current Genetic Analyses for Sharks
of Pacific Mexico and Conservation Implications, and much more.
Optimizing Community Infrastructure: Resilience in the Face of
Shocks and Stresses examines the resilience measures being deployed
within individual disciplines and sectors and how multi-stakeholder
efforts can catalyze action to address global challenges in
preparedness and disaster and hazard mitigation. The book provides
a theoretical framework to advance thinking on creating resilient,
inclusive, sustainable and safe communities. Users will find an
accurate and up-to-date guide for working on the development,
implementation, monitoring and assessment of policies, programs and
projects related to community resilience.
Advances in Food Security and Sustainability, Volume Four, takes a
scientific look at the challenges, constraints and solutions
necessary to maintain a healthy and accessible food supply in
different communities. This ongoing series addresses a wide range
of issues on food sustainability and security, with this release
focusing on The Evolution of Food Security Policy in Lao PDR:
Continuity and Change in the Era of the Sustainable Development
Goals, Food System Resilience and Diversity, A Pliable Pillar: How
the Social Dimension of Sustainability Has Been Framed in UK Public
Food Policy, and much more.
Advances in Agronomy, Volume 158, continues to be recognized as a
leading reference and first-rate source for the latest research in
agronomy. Each volume contains an eclectic group of reviews by
leading scientists throughout the world. As always, the subjects
covered are rich, varied, and exemplary of the abundant subject
matter addressed by this long-running serial.
Drought Challenges: Livelihood Implications in Developing
Countries, Volume Two, provides an understanding of the occurrence
and impacts of droughts for developing countries and vulnerable
sub-groups, such as women and pastoralists. It presents tools for
assessing vulnerabilities, introduces individual policies to combat
the effects of droughts, and highlights the importance of
integrated multi-sectoral approaches and drought networks at
various levels. Currently, there are few books on the market that
address the growing need for knowledge on these cross-cutting
issues. As drought can occur anywhere, the systemic connections
between droughts and livelihoods are a key factor in development in
many dryland and agriculturally-dependent nations.
The book entitled "Agroforestry for Increased Production and
Livelihood Security" would help in understanding the issues and
options for small and marginal land holders and ensuring their
livelihood through agroforestry. The contributors of the
manuscripts have vast working experience in different aspects of
agroforestry and from different agro-ecological situations. This
compilation would be a ready reference and perfect guide to all
those in the profession of teaching agroforestry,
environmentalists, policy planners, students and the farmers in
general. This book can be used as supplementary reading material in
graduate and post graduate courses of forestry, agroforestry and
allied biological sciences. This voluminous compilation is likely
to boost the cause of development and promotion of usage of
agroforestry and encouraging the farmers to take up agroforestry as
a sound land use to earn their livelihood.
Containing the proceedings from the 9th International Conference on
Waste Management and the Environment, this book is a collection of
research on current waste disposal methods, as well as highlighting
better practices and safer solutions for the future. Waste
Management is one of the key problems of modern society due to the
ever-expanding volume and complexity of discarded domestic and
industrial waste. Society is increasingly aware of the need to
establish better practices and safer solutions for waste disposal.
This requires further investigation into disposal methods and
recycling as well as new technologies to monitor landfills,
industrial mining wastes and chemical and nuclear repositories.
This creates a need for more research on current disposal methods
such as landfills, incineration, chemical and effluent treatment,
as well as recycling, clean technologies, waste monitoring, public
and corporate awareness and general education. The papers contained
in this title form a collective record of scientific information
and work on the current situation of waste management amongst
professionals, researchers, government departments and local
authorities.
Managing the natural environment is fundamental to many businesses,
yet management scholars have understudied how natural resources are
acquired and deployed, how they constrain and challenge strategy
and innovation, and how they differ from more conventionally
studied resources in management. This book captures leading and
thought-provoking conceptual and empirical contributions on how
organizations (ought to) interact with such natural resources.
Utilizing a distinctly managerial approach, the chapter authors
explore topics such as inter-organizational relationships,
strategic responses, and risk and resilience at the interface of
the natural environment. By applying and extending management
theories such as resource dependence, transaction costs, the
resource-based view, dynamic capabilities and imprinting in a
natural resource context, the authors open up multiple avenues for
future research. At the same time, they seek to actively build a
global community of management scholars interested in natural
resources. Multidisciplinary in approach and clear in execution,
this book will be of interest to students and researchers studying
natural resource management and policy, policymakers from regional,
national, and trans-national bodies, as well as leaders of
environment focused NGOs. Contributors include: B. Bastian, H.
Burgers, M. Bystrowska, B. Crawford, C. Dean, G. George, J. Good,
B. Grogaard, S. Gurtner, Y. Hu, F. Keller, R.P. Lee, T.L. Liak, S.
Mehra, V.V. Miller, F. Paetzold, A.C. Presse, M.J. Pisani, R.
Reinhardt, U.H. Richter, L. Schiffer, S.J.D. Schillebeeckx, C.L.
Tucci, C. Van der Byl, K.A. Wigger, M. Workman. F. Zarea Fazlelahi
To stop the downward spiral of intensifying environmental violence
that inevitably leads to social violence we, as humans, need to
better understand what is at stake and to determine how to make
changes at the root levels. Ecopedagogy is centered on
understanding the struggles of and connections between human acts
of environmental and social violence. Greg W. Misiaszek argues that
ecopedagogies grounded in critical, Freirean pedagogies construct
learning that leads to human actions geared towards increased
social and environmental justice and planetary sustainability.
Throughout the book he discusses the need for teaching, reading,
and researching through problematizing the causes of
socio-environmental violence, including oppressive processes of
globalization and constructs of “development”, “economics”,
and “citizenship”, to name a few, that emerge from
socio-historical oppressions (e.g., colonialization, racism,
patriarchy, neoliberalism, xenophobia, epistemicide) and dominance
over the rest of nature. Misiaszek concludes with ecopedagogies’
challenges within the current post-truth era and possibilities of
reimagining UNESCO’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Microbial Endophytes: Prospects for Sustainable Agriculture
discusses the practical and theoretical aspects regarding the use
of endophytic microorganisms in agriculture, providing insights on
the biotechnological applications associated with long-term crop
production. Chapters deal with the various aspects of endophytic
microorganisms, including isolation, enumeration, characterization
procedures, diversity analysis, and their role as biofertilizer,
biocontrol agent and microbial inoculants. Framed to discuss the
present and future potential of microbial endophytes in biotic and
abiotic stress management, bioremediation, bioactive compounds
production, and in nanotechnology, this book provides a
single-volume resource that will be valuable to academics and
researchers interested in microbiology, agricultural sciences and
biotechnology.
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