"Ecosystem Services: Global Issues, Local Practices" covers scientific input, socioeconomic considerations, and governance issues on ecosystem services. This book provides hands-on transdisciplinary reflections by administrators and sector representatives involved in the ecosystem service community. "Ecosystem Services" develops shared approaches and scientific methods to achieve knowledge-based sustainable planning and management of ecosystem services. Professionals engaged in ecosystem service implementation have two options: de-emphasize the ecological and socioeconomic complexity and advance in the theoretical, abstract field, or try to develop research that is policy relevant and inclusive in an uncertain environment. This book provides a wide overview of issues at stake, of interest for any professional wishing to develop a broader view on ecosystem service science and practice.
Examines a broad scope of relevant issues to create common understanding in the ecosystem services communityIncludes contributions from several backgrounds, providing a broad, multidisciplinary viewOffers recommendations to develop a thorough understanding and management of ecosystem services based on tools and research in larger territories as well as on local scales

The TFT-LCD has become a necessity of modern life. It is widely used as a display in a wide range of electronic devices, including personal computers (PCs), laptops, mobile phones, and televisions (TVs). Most LCD panels are produced in East Asia. Japanese firms were the first to commercialize liquid crystals in displays, but the market dominance by Japan was short-lived. Korea and Taiwan entered the market in the early 2000s and changed the dynamics of the LCD industry. In the mid-2000s, China also joined the tripartite battle for the huge consumer market. This book describes how the LCD market formed in East Asia and how the players competed and sometimes collaborated with each other, intentionally and unintentionally, in the market. This book discusses the many technological innovations that have occurred in this field and helps to disseminate this information to a broad readership. It may also provide perspective to companies or nations intending to enter, or entering, emerging high-tech industries and aiming to maintain their competitiveness, especially in industries with cyclical consumer demand such as the LCD and semi-conductor ones.

In this book the authors examine the contribution of social scientists to the topics of health and environment. They present diverse perspectives on classical and contemporary debates by focusing on social scientific framing of environment and health, as well as on the potential contribution of social science to problem solving strategies in these fields. They trace environment and health debates to the classical scholars and examine the evolution of contemporary academic disciplines concerned with health and environment. Finally, they address current complex relationships between human health and environmental problems, and between human and non-human interests.