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  • Biodiversity

    Science and Solutions for Australia

    Australians have stewardship of a beautiful, diverse and unique environment. We have long had a sense that the biodiversity of this country is special. Yet, despite our sense of its importance, in many parts of our country biodiversity is in trouble. Given the economic, ecological and social importance of biodiversity to our nation, CSIRO has been conducting research into Australia's biodiversity ... Read more

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  • Qualità dell'aria e salute

    L'integrazione fra le discipline scientifiche. Le nuove frontiere del monitoraggio e della partecipazione.

    Il libro raccoglie gli articoli pubblicati da Ecoscienza, rivista di Arpae Emilia-Romagna, sul tema del rapporto tra qualità dell'aria e salute.Conoscere e misurare la qualità dell'aria.Politiche e piani per la qualità dell'aria.La situazione in ItaliaQualità dell'aria e salute.Comunicazione, partecipazione, rischio e percezione ... Read more

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  • #Climate 101: Everything You Need to Know

    by Suzanne Chew ...
    Ever wanted to learn about climate change in an afternoon over tea and biscuits? Now you can, with this super-short speed read (that's also free)! Filled with engaging 'Frequently Asked Questions' and funny cartoons, this book will whet your appetite to save the world! What will you get out of it? You'll have a firm grasp of the important basics every citizen needs to know, and a clear idea of ... Read more

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  • Biocultural Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities

    Protecting Culture and the Environment

    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    This volume presents a comprehensive overview of biocultural rights, examining how we can promote the role of indigenous peoples and local communities as environmental stewards and how we can ensure that their ways of life are protected.With Biocultural Community Protocols (BCPs) or Community Protocols (CPs) being increasingly seen as a powerful way of tackling this immense challenge, this book ... Read more

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  • The Seine River Basin

    Series Book 90 - The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry
    This open access book reviews the water-agro-food and socio-eco-system of the Seine River basin (76,000 km2), and offers a historical perspective on the river’s long-term contamination. The Seine basin is inhabited by circa 17 million people and is impacted by intensive agricultural practices and industrial activities. These pressures have gradually affected its hydrological, chemical and ... Read more

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  • Sensemaking in Safety Critical and Complex Situations

    Human Factors and Design

    Sensemaking in Safety Critical and Complex Situations: Human Factors and DesignHuman factors-based design that supports the strengths and weaknesses of humans are often missed during the concept and design of complex technical systems. With the focus on digitalization and automation, the human actor is often left out of the loop but needs to step in during safety-critical situations. This book ... Read more

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  • Indian Agriculture Towards 2030

    Pathways for Enhancing Farmers’ Income, Nutritional Security and Sustainable Food and Farm Systems

    Series series India Studies in Business and Economics
    This open access book brings together varying perspectives for transformational change needed in India’s agriculture and allied sectors. Stressing the need of thinking for a post-Green Revolution future, the book promotes approaching this change through eight broad areas, indicating the policy shifts needed to meet the challenges for the coming decade (2021-2030).The book comprises of ten ... Read more

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  • Environmental Leadership Capacity Building in Higher Education

    Experience and Lessons from Asian Program for Incubation of Environmental Leaders

    Edited by Takashi Mino, Keisuke Hanaki ...
    The Graduate Program in Sustainability Science under the Department of Urban Engineering of The University of Tokyo has been running an environmental leadership education program at the graduate student level since 2007 called the Asian Program for Incubation of Environmental Leaders (APIEL). This book describes the University’s experiences in establishing and organizing that program and provides ... Read more

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  • Long-Term Ecosystem Changes in Riparian Forests

    Edited by Hitoshi Sakio ...
    Series series Ecological Research Monographs
    This open access book presents and analyzes the results of more than 30 years of long-term ecological research in riparian forest ecosystems with the aim of casting light on changes in the dynamics of riparian forests over time. The research, focusing on the Ooyamazawa riparian forest, one of the remaining old-growth forests in Japan, has yielded a number of interesting outcomes. First, it shows ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Rice Straw Management

    This open access book on straw management aims to provide a wide array of options for rice straw management that are potentially more sustainable, environmental, and profitable compared to current practice. The book is authored by expert researchers, engineers and innovators working on a range of straw management options with case studies from Vietnam, the Philippines and Cambodia.The book is ... Read more

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  • Advancing Energy Policy

    Lessons on the integration of Social Sciences and Humanities

    Edited by Chris Foulds, Rosie Robison ...
    This open access book advocates for the Social Sciences and Humanities to be more involved in energy policymaking. It forms part of the European platform for energy-related Social Sciences and Humanities’ activities, and works on the premise that crossing disciplines is essential. All of its contributions are highly interdisciplinary, with each chapter grounded in at least three different Social ... Read more

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  • Quantitative Sustainability

    Interdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Development Goals

    This open access book focuses on how scientific methodologies can help industrial managers, entrepreneurs and policymakers handle the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in an efficient and realistic way. It also offers an operative scheme for scientists to overcome their discipline barriers. Is interdisciplinarity an intrinsic research value or is it merely instrumental for handling the increasing ... Read more

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  • Climate Change in Central Asia

    Decarbonization, Energy Transition and Climate Policy

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Climate Studies
    This open access book explores climate change impacts, adaptation, and mitigation in Central Asia and discusses policy options for the Central Asian governments. To address the urgent need for local scholarship on climate change in Central Asia, and in particular the need for more research by social scientists, this book features a wide range of contributions on climate change impacts, adaptation ... Read more

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  • Assessing Progress in Decarbonizing Spain’s Building Stock

    Indicators and Data Availability

    Series series Digital Innovations in Architecture, Engineering and Construction
    This open access book delves into the topic of monitoring the effectiveness of building renovation policies within the European Union (EU) using indicators. Given the substantial environmental impact of existing buildings on energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonizing them is imperative for achieving climate neutrality in Europe. The use of indicators for monitoring ... Read more

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  • Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions

    Practices of legitimation and accountable governance

    Edited by Siddharth Sareen ...
    This open access book reframes sustainable energy transitions as being a matter of resolving accountability crises. It demonstrates how the empirical study of several practices of legitimation can analytically deconstruct energy transitions, and presents a typology of these practices to help determine whether energy transitions contribute to sustainability.The real-world challenge of climate ... Read more

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  • Climate-Smart Forestry in Mountain Regions

    Series Book 40 - Managing Forest Ecosystems
    This open access book offers a cross-sectoral reference for both managers and scientists interested in climate-smart forestry, focusing on mountain regions. It provides a comprehensive analysis on forest issues, facilitating the implementation of climate objectives. This book includes structured summaries of each chapter.Funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme, CLIMO has brought together ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Business

    Managing the Challenges of the 21st Century

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Business
    This open access book is a compact guide to the development of sustainable business, which has become the central concept in discussions about the future development of humanity and planet earth. It provides basic terminology and concepts on sustainable business and offers insights into a new management paradigm that integrates social and environmental dimensions into business models, strategies, ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Southeast Asia: Innovations and Policies for Mountainous Areas

    Series series Springer Environmental Science and Engineering
    This book is based on the findings of a long-term (2000-2014) interdisciplinary research project of the University of Hohenheim in collaboration with several universities in Thailand and Vietnam. Titled Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountainous Areas in Southeast Asia, or the Uplands Program, the project aims to contribute through agricultural research to the conservation of ... Read more

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  • Life Cycle Management

    Series series LCA Compendium – The Complete World of Life Cycle Assessment
    This book provides insight into the Life Cycle Management (LCM) concept and the progress in its implementation. LCM is a management concept applied in industrial and service sectors to improve products and services, while enhancing the overall sustainability performance of business and its value chains. In this regard, LCM is an opportunity to differentiate through sustainability performance on ... Read more

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  • Proceedings of the Scientific-Practical Conference "Research and Development - 2016"

    This open access book relates to the III Annual Conference hosted by The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation in December 2016. This event has summarized, analyzed and discussed the interim results, academic outputs and scientific achievements of the Russian Federal Targeted Programme “Research and Development in Priority Areas of Development of the Russian Scientific and ... Read more

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  • Spinning a Green Yarn: Another Inconvenient Truth

    by D Cecchini ...
    “Green” Energy from Commercial Wind Power--Really? What are you thinking when you hear “green energy”? Benign for the environment and wildlife around it right? With Commercial Wind Energy, that assumption may be wrong. This book will help you to have a better understanding of the full impact of commercial wind power on the environment. With their tall gleaming white towers and intimidating ... Read more

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  • Rangeland Systems

    Processes, Management and Challenges

    Edited by David D. Briske ...
    Series series Springer Series on Environmental Management
    This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.This book provides an unprecedented synthesis of the current status of scientific and management knowledge regarding global rangelands and the major challenges that confront them. It has been organized around three major themes. The first summarizes the conceptual advances that have occurred in the rangeland profession. The second addresses the ... Read more

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  • The Economics of Water

    Rules and Institutions

    Series series Springer Water
    This open access textbook provides a concise introduction to economic approaches and mathematical methods for the study of water allocation and distribution problems. Written in an accessible and straightforward style, it discusses and analyzes central issues in integrated water resource management, water tariffs, water markets, and transboundary water management. By illustrating the interplay ... Read more

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  • Bio-based Building Skin

    Series series Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes
    This book provides a compendium of material properties, demonstrates several successful examples of bio-based materials’ application in building facades, and offers ideas for new designs and novel solutions. It features a state-of-the-art review, addresses the latest trends in material selection, assembling systems, and innovative functions of facades in detail. Selected case studies on buildings ... Read more

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