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Climate Change, Community Response, and Resilience: Insight for
Socio-Ecological Sustainability, Volume Six presents a fundamental
theoretical framework for understanding how community resilience
and risk assessment affect climate change adaptation behavior. This
framework is based on a 26-chapter theoretical and empirical
examination that includes pioneer projects from various regions
that illustrate the relationship between theory and practice,
reflect a paradigm shift in climate change, community response, and
resilience, and focus on these important aspects from a sectoral
perspective. Climate change, ecological consequences and resilience
are then discussed in the final section. Members of the Royal
Meteorological Society are eligible for a 35% discount on all
Developments in Weather and Climate Science series titles. See the
RMetS member dashboard for the discount code.
While technology is developing at a fast pace, urban planners and
cities are still behind in finding effective ways to use technology
to address citizen's needs. Multiple aspects of sustainable
urbanism are brought together in this book, along with advanced
technologies and their connections to urban planning and
management. It integrates urban studies, smart cities, AI, IoT,
remote sensing, and GIS. Highlights include land use planning,
spatial planning, and ecosystem-based information to improve
economic opportunities. Urban planners and engineers will
understand the use of AI in disaster management and the use of GIS
in finding suitable landfill sites for sustainable waste
management. Features Explains the process of urban heritage
conservation, including the process of urban renewal and its
regeneration and the role of citizens in urban renewal, planning,
and management. Includes several case studies highlighting urban
environmental problems and challenges in developed and developing
countries and the ways for converting urban areas into smart
cities. Focuses on urban resources, the supply of energy in smart
cities, and their proper management practices. Introduces the role
of remote sensing, GIS, and IoT in making a smart city and meeting
sustainable goals. Analyzes unique case studies, their challenges
and obstacles, and proposes a set of factors to understanding smart
city initiatives and projects.
This volume discusses a broad range of human welfare problems
associated with and stemming from social issues, natural resource
deficiencies, environmental hazards, vulnerability to climate
change, and sustainability challenges. The chapters form a
framework centered around the concept of social morphology, i.e.
the role of humans in shaping society, and associated
human-nature interactions which inform the ability to achieve
sustainable welfare and well-being. The book is divided in
six sections. Section I contains the introductory chapters where
the book explores shifting interfaces between environment, society,
and sustainability outcomes. Section II discusses contemporary
issues of social welfare, and covers sustainable approaches in
geo-heritage and ecotourism. Section III addresses the roots of
various social conflicts and inequalities in relation to
overpopulation, poverty, illiteracy, employment concerns, and human
migration. Section IV highlights social security and areas of
social deprivation, including urban affordability, gender equality,
and women’s health. Section V covers social issues resulting from
natural hazards and disasters. Section VI concludes the book with a
discussion of the way forward for social sustainability. The book
will be of interest to students, researchers, policy makers,
environmentalists, NGOs, and social scientists.
The book seeks to comprehend how indigenous knowledge systems of
local communities can be effectively used in disaster management of
various types. A prime example is the 2015 Sendai Framework for
Disaster Risk Reduction, promoting indigenous environmental
management knowledge and practices. Traditional knowledge of
indigenous peoples includes information and insight that supplement
conventional science and environmental observations, a
comprehensive understanding of the environment, natural resources,
culture, and human interactions with them which is not documented
before. A great deal of this knowledge have been lost in
translation. In this book, the authors attempt to keep a record of
each and every traditional knowledge study of the indigenous
communities in managing the disasters. The use of indigenous
knowledge systems in disaster understanding and management is the
primary focus of the chapters.  This book is organized
into four major sections. The first part gives an overview and help
in conceptualizing the different concepts of hazard and disaster
perception and how response and adaptation are connected with it.
This part also discusses the concept of the connection between
hazard and sustainable development and how the understanding of
risk reduction and resilience can happen with the help of
indigenous knowledge, insights, and strategies. The second part of
the book introduces the different approaches to disaster and risk
management. It establishes how vulnerability influences the risk
associated with a hazard and the responses can be both positive and
negative in disaster management. The approaches of the indigenous
communities in managing a disaster, their resilience, capacity
building, and community-based preparedness will be the area of
prime focus in this chapter. Part 3 of this book describes the
concept of sustainability through indigenous knowledge and
practice. The sole highlight of this chapter is the indigenous
knowledge efficacies in disaster identification, risk reduction,
climate risk management, and climate action. The last section of
the book explores how to meet the gaps between local knowledge and
policy formulation. It highlights how traditional knowledge of the
indigenous communities can prove to be beneficial in developing a
holistic regional-based policy framework which will be easily
accepted by the target stakeholders since they will be more
acquainted with the local strategies and methods. This section ends
with an assessment and discussion of the gaps and future scopes in
disaster risk reduction through integrating local knowledge and
modern technologies.
1 Investigates the interdisciplinary approach in urbanism including
urban ecology, ecosystem services, sustainable landscapes, and
advanced geographical systems. 2 Analyses unique case studies of
rapid urbanization, from local to national scale, in countries like
India, Sri Lanka, China, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Indonesia, and
their global impact. 3 Examine the use of GIS and spatial
statistics in analyzing urban sprawl and the massive amount of data
gathered by every operational activity of municipalities. 4 Focuses
on the holistic perspective of sustainable urbanism and the harmony
in man - nature relationship the achieve sustainable development 5
Covers a wide range of issues manifested in urban areas with
economic, societal, and environmental implications contributed by
leading scholars in Global South
Water, Land, and Forest Susceptibility and Sustainability, Volume
1: Geospatial Approaches & Modeling brings an interdisciplinary
perspective to solving complex problems in sustainability,
utilizing the latest research and technologies, and includes case
studies that emphasize the applications of remote sensing, GIS, and
image processing for addressing the current state and future needs
to achieve sustainability. As forests, land, and water are among
the most precious resources on earth, emphasizing the need to
conserve them for future generations and, of course, a safe and
sustainable planet. The assessment of the susceptibility of all
these three precious resources must therefore be addressed to
inform their sustainable management. This 1st volume encourages
adaptive activities among experts employed in interdisciplinary
fields, from data mining and machine learning to environmental
science by linking geospatial computational intelligence technology
to forest, land and water issues.
Water Resource Modeling and Computational Technologies, Seventh
Edition provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the
applications that computational techniques have in various sectors
of water resource engineering. The book explores applications of
recent modeling and computational techniques in various sectors of
water resource engineering, including hydroinformatics, irrigation
engineering, climate change, hydrologic forecasting, floods,
droughts, image processing, GIS, water quality, aquifer mapping,
basin scale modeling, computational fluid dynamics, numerical
modeling of surges and groundwater flow, river engineering, optimal
reservoir operation, multipurpose projects, and water resource
management. As such, this is a must read for hydrologists, civil
engineers and water resource managers.
Indigenous People and Nature: Insights for Social, Ecological, and
Technological Sustainability examines today's environmental
challenges in light of traditional knowledge, linking insights from
geography, population, and environment from a wide range of regions
around the globe. Organized in four parts, the book describes the
foundations of human geography and its current research challenges,
the intersections between environment and cultural diversity,
addressing various type of ecosystem services and their interaction
with the environment, the impacts of sustainability practices used
by indigenous culture on the ecosystem, and conservation ecology
and environment management. Using theoretical and applied insights
from local communities around the world, this book helps
geographers, demographers, environmentalists, economists,
sociologists and urban planners tackle today's environmental
problems from new perspectives.
Water, Land, and Forest Susceptibility and Sustainability, Volume
2: Insight Towards Management, Conservation and Ecosystem Services
brings an interdisciplinary perspective to solving complex problems
in sustainability, utilizing the latest research and technologies,
and includes case studies that emphasize the applications of remote
sensing, GIS, and image processing for addressing the current state
and future needs to achieve sustainability. As forests, land, and
water are among the most precious resources on earth, emphasizing
the need to conserve them for future generations and, of course, a
safe and sustainable planet. The assessment of the susceptibility
of all these three precious resources must therefore be addressed
to inform their sustainable management. This second volume focuses
on environmental management, conservation, and ecosystem services
and provides information on forest, land, and water resources,
presenting in integrated manner various aspects of their
characterization, susceptibility, and sustainability.
This volume discusses a broad range of human welfare problems
associated with and stemming from social issues, natural resource
deficiencies, environmental hazards, vulnerability to climate
change, and sustainability challenges. The chapters form a
framework centered around the concept of social morphology, i.e.
the role of humans in shaping society, and associated human-nature
interactions which inform the ability to achieve sustainable
welfare and well-being. The book is divided in six sections.
Section I contains the introductory chapters where the book
explores shifting interfaces between environment, society, and
sustainability outcomes. Section II discusses contemporary issues
of social welfare, and covers sustainable approaches in
geo-heritage and ecotourism. Section III addresses the roots of
various social conflicts and inequalities in relation to
overpopulation, poverty, illiteracy, employment concerns, and human
migration. Section IV highlights social security and areas of
social deprivation, including urban affordability, gender equality,
and women's health. Section V covers social issues resulting from
natural hazards and disasters. Section VI concludes the book with a
discussion of the way forward for social sustainability. The book
will be of interest to students, researchers, policy makers,
environmentalists, NGOs, and social scientists.
Land Reclamation and Restoration Strategies for Sustainable
Development: Geospatial Technology Based Approach, Volume Ten
covers spatial mapping, modeling and risk assessment in land
hazards issues and sustainable management. Each section in the book
explores state-of-art techniques using commercial, open source and
statistical software for mapping and modeling, along with case
studies that illustrate modern image processing techniques and
computational algorithms. A special focus is given on recent trends
in data mining techniques. This book will be of particular interest
to students, researchers and professionals in the fields of earth
science, applied geography, and those in the environmental
sciences.
This book explores state-of-art techniques based on open-source
software and statistical programming and modelling in modern
geospatial applications, specifically focusing on recent trends in
data mining techniques and robust modelling in Geomorphological,
Hydrological, Bio-physical and Social activities. The book is
organized into physical, mountainous, coastal, riverine, forest,
urban and biological activities, with each chapter providing a
review of the current knowledge in the focus area, and evaluating
where future efforts should be directed. The text compiles a
collection of recent developments and rigorous applications of
Geospatial computational intelligence (e.g., artificial neural
network, spatial interpolation, physical and environmental
modelling and machine learning algorithms etc) in geomorphic
processes from a team of expert contributors. The authors address
the wide range of challenges and uncertainties in the study of
earth system dynamics due to climate change, and complex
anthropogenic interferences where spatial modelling may be applied
in the risk assessment of vulnerable geomorphological landscapes.
The book will act as a guide to find recent advancements in
geospatial artificial intelligence techniques and its application
to natural and social hazards. This information will be helpful for
students, researchers, policy makers, environmentalists, planners
involved in natural hazard and disaster management, NGOs, and
government organizations.
This book explores global implications of human activities that
trigger changes in climate and the appropriate scientific,
adaptive, and sustainable approaches as a proven information tool.
It reveals that the ecological, social, and economic dynamics of
the changing earth encompasses huge uncertainties coupled with its
ability to be linked to other forms of global change. From a
scientific perspective, multiple efforts are expedient to integrate
the many aspects of global changes. Increases in science and
technology have afforded nations the ability to plan for the future
by investing in adaptive and mitigative measures to monitor present
and future changes. Just as the climatic and ecological impacts of
climate change are unequally distributed, so is the adaptive
capacity to cope with these impacts in different nations.
Considering that wealth, infrastructure, and political stability
all contribute to a nation's capacity to anticipate and respond to
change. So, global South nations who are disadvantaged in these
areas are faced with more inequalities and more unique adaptive
strategies. There is need for increased aggregate efforts and
interaction between scientists, stakeholders, and policy makers to
improve both decision-making and global change in science.
Scientists and researchers need to work on expanding the range of
polices that are proposed, debated, and implemented. This way,
novelty, new ideas and methodologies are infused into the society.
At this point of multiple climate footprints, there is an immense
need to explore all ideas evaluating their possibilities in
presenting alternative futures, developing alternative policies,
and adaptive options to solve the intractable ecological footprints
of climate change.
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