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This book focuses primarily on the advantages and implications of
sustainable bioenergy production in terms of ensuring a more
sustainable world despite its growing energy demands. It addresses
a new concept that focuses on the interactions between different
uses of agricultural land (for example, agriculture for food,
forage or energy and nature conservation) and their ecological,
economic and societal impacts. This research concept provides new
insights into the competition for resources and the synergies
between different land uses. This book seeks to improve people's
understanding of bioenergy's potentials for the future. It will be
of interest not only to those involved in sustainable energy, but
also to environmental planners, agriculture and soil specialists,
and environmental policy-makers.
Drylands in East Asia (DEA) are home to more than one billion
people with an environment vulnerable to natural and anthropogenic
changes. One of the critical needs in the region is to fully
understand how dryland ecosystems respond to the changing climate
and human activities in order to develop strategies to cope with
continued climate change. This book provides state-of-the-art
knowledge and information on drylands ecosystem dynamics, changing
climate, society, and land use in the region. In addition to the
synthesis of the existing research and knowledge of DEA, the book
provides a role model for regional ecological assessment. With a
wide spectrum of contributions from experts around the globe, the
book should be of interest to researchers and students both
internationally and in East Asia. Lessons learned from this
synthesis effort in DEA should be useful for developing climate
adaptation strategies for other similar regions around the globe.
This book focuses primarily on the advantages and implications of
sustainable bioenergy production in terms of ensuring a more
sustainable world despite its growing energy demands. It addresses
a new concept that focuses on the interactions between different
uses of agricultural land (for example, agriculture for food,
forage or energy and nature conservation) and their ecological,
economic and societal impacts. This research concept provides new
insights into the competition for resources and the synergies
between different land uses. This book seeks to improve people's
understanding of bioenergy's potentials for the future. It will be
of interest not only to those involved in sustainable energy, but
also to environmental planners, agriculture and soil specialists,
and environmental policy-makers.
The water resources of the Selenga River/Lake Baikal system are of
fundamental importance for the ecosystems and socio-economic
development of the region. In this large-scale river and lake
basin, there are strong contrasts between regions of relatively
pristine nature and massive anthropogenic impacts on the
environment. Climate change effects are more pronounced than in
most other parts of the earth, and the transition from socialism
into a more market-oriented economy has led to a boom in mining but
also to a partial collapse of environmental monitoring and urban
waste water management systems. Moreover, the expansion of
agriculture and mining has triggered a considerable land cover
change, rising water consumption, and the release of contaminants
that had previously been unknown to the region. The consequences
for the water resources and the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems
depending on them have become increasingly visible in recent years.
This book, which is based on contributions to the 2014 "Bringing
Together Selenga-Baikal Research Conference", provides a
multidisciplinary insight into current water-related challenges and
strategies for their solution from the viewpoint of the
international scientific community.
Die Klimatologie ist in den letzten Jahren zu einer globalen a
žSystemwissenschafta oe des Klimasystems bzw. des Erdsystems als
Ganzes geworden und stellt heute eine hoch interdisziplinAre und
extrem problemgetriebene a žMega-Sciencea oe dar. Dieses neue
Lehrbuch greift diese Entwicklung auf. Es besteht aus drei
gleichmAAig gewichteten Kernbereichen a " Teil I: Basiswissen
Klimatologie, Teil II: Klimawandel / Global Change, Teil III: Klima
und Politik / Gesellschaft a " und zielt auf die Vermittlung der
ZusammenhAnge von Klimafaktoren a " Klimawandel a " Gesellschaft a
" Politik ab.
Anders als bisherige LehrbA1/4cher der Klimatologie geht es sehr
ausfA1/4hrlich auf das hochaktuelle Themenfeld a žGlobal Changea oe
ein und verdeutlicht die gesellschaftliche Relevanz der
Klimaforschung. In dem es einen klaren Zusammenhang zwischen den a
žnatA1/4rlichena oe Grundlagen a " klassische Klimatologie, Global
Change a " und den Auswirkungen auf die Gesellschaften der Erde
herstellt, geht es A1/4ber die eigentliche Kernklientel eines
Lehrbuchs fA1/4r Klimatologen/Meteorologen hinaus und spricht einen
sehr breiten Leserkreis an. Insofern ist das Buch auf dem deutschen
Markt ein Novum.
The book introduces a variety of latest techniques designed to
represent, enhance, and empower multi-disciplinary approaches of
geographic information system (GIS), artificial intelligence (AI),
deep learning (DL), machine learning, and cloud computing research
in healthcare. It provides a unique compendium of the current and
emerging use of geospatial data for healthcare and reflects the
diversity, complexity, and depth and breadth of this
multi-disciplinary area. This book addresses various aspects of how
smart healthcare devices can be used to detect and analyze
diseases. Further, it describes various tools and techniques to
evaluate the efficacy, suitability, and efficiency of geospatial
data for health-related applications. It features illustrative case
studies, including future applications and healthcare challenges.
This book is beneficial for computer science and engineering
students and researchers, medical professionals, and anyone
interested in using geospatial data in healthcare. It is also
intended for experts, offering them a valuable retrospective and a
global vision for the future, as well as for non-experts who are
curious to learn about this important subject. The book presents an
effort to draw how we can build health-related applications using
geospatial big data and their subsequent analysis.
This volume is a compilation of studies on interactions of changes
in land cover, land use and climate with people, societies and
ecosystems in drylands of Greater Central Asia. It explores the
effects of collapse of socialist governance and management systems
on land use in various parts of Central Asia, including former
Soviet Union republics, Mongolia and northern drylands of China.
Often, regional land-atmosphere feedbacks may have large global
importance. Remote sensing is a primary tool in studying vast
dryland territories where in situ observations are sporadic.
State-of-the-art methods of satellite remote sensing combined with
GIS and models are used to tackle science questions and provide an
outlook of current changes at land surface and potential scenarios
for the future. In 10 chapters, contributing authors cover topics
such as water resources, effects of institutional changes on urban
centers and agriculture, landscape dynamics, and the primary
drivers of environmental changes in dryland environment. Satellite
observations that have accumulated during the last five decades
provide a rich time series of the dynamic land surface, enabling
systematic analysis of changes in land cover and land use from
space. The book is a truly international effort by a team of
scientists from the U.S., Europe and Central Asia. It is directed
at the broad science community including graduate students,
academics and other professionals at all levels within natural and
social sciences. In particular, it will appeal to geographers,
environmental and social scientists, economists, agricultural
scientists, and remote sensing specialists.
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