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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “hongbo su”
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  • Land Use Impacts on Climate

    Edited by Xiangzheng Deng, Burak Güneralp, Jinyan Zhan, Hongbo Su ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book introduces a key issue in research on the climatic impact of land cover and land use changes via terrestrial biogeophysical processes. The parameterization of surface processes and a systematic approach to modeling the climatic impacts of land use change are discussed respectively, and can be used to improve parameterization schemes for climate numerical models and to provide a ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Global Change and Regional Impacts

    Water Availability and Vulnerability of Ecosystems and Society in the Semiarid Northeast of Brazil

    Edited by Jose C. de Araujo, Maarten Krol, Thomas Gaiser, Horst Frischkorn ...
    Global climatic change will most likely affect natural resources and human living conditions in semiarid regions. This volume presents disciplinary as well as integrative methods to assess these impacts considering the interactions between climate variability and change, water availability, land-use systems, and quality of life. Taking the semiarid northeastern area of Brazil as an example, a wide ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Adaptive Capacity and Environmental Governance

    Edited by Derek Armitage, Ryan Plummer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Rapid environmental change calls for individuals and societies with an ability to transform our interactions with each other and the ecosystems upon which we depend. Adaptive capacity - the ability of a social-ecological system (or the components of that system) to be robust to disturbances and capable of responding to changes - is increasingly recognized as a critical attribute of multi-level ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Alternative Types of Roundabouts

    An Informational Guide

    by Tomaž Tollazzi ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book presents a history of roundabouts, an introduction to their design, calculations of their capacity and traffic-safety features. It describes the key features of standard roundabouts and their limitations. Alternative types of roundabouts are a fairly recent development and have only been implemented in a few countries to date. The book illustrates a broad variety of these recent ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Urban Development Challenges, Risks and Resilience in Asian Mega Cities

    Edited by R.B. Singh ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    In this book, an interdisciplinary research group of faculty members, researchers, professionals, and planners contributed to an understanding of the dynamics and dimensions of emerging challenges and risks in megacities in the rapidly changing urban environments in Asia and examined emerging resilience themes from the point of view of sustainability and public policy. The world’s urban population ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Climate Adaptation Santiago

    Edited by Kerstin Krellenberg, Bernd Hansjürgens ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book addresses the complexity of urbanization, impacts of climate change and climate change adaptation for the metropolitan region of Santiago de Chile, with a special focus on the most pressing issues of natural hazards, water and energy supply. The book exemplifies a conceptual approach for the development of adaptation measures, their evaluation and implementation in a decision support ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Developing Adaptation Policy and Practice in Europe: Multi-level Governance of Climate Change

    Edited by E. Carina H. Keskitalo ...
    Mitigation will not be sufficient for us to avoid climate change and we will need to adapt to its consequences. This book targets the development of adaptation policy in European countries with different relations between central and regional/local government. ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Sustainable Rural and Urban Ecosystems: Design, Implementation and Operation

    Manual for Practice and Study

    Edited by Gunther Geller, Detlef Glücklich ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    These days human beings have a profound influence on aspects of the planetary ecosystem, e.g. on climate change and biodiversity, to name only two. This manual is intended to help practitioners, who are dealing with human-based rural and urban settlement-ecosystems, in the key steps towards their realization (design, implementation, and operation) and helpful for all, who are concerned about ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Beka-Ocizla Cave System

    Karstological Railway Planning in Slovenia

    Edited by Martin Knez, Metka Petrič, Tadej Slabe, Stanka Šebela ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    A proposed railway on the 5th European Railway Corridor (Venice-Kiev) between the northern Adriatic ports of Koper (Slovenia) and Trieste (Italy) and the interior of Slovenia required extensive karstological studies and planning. This book contains the knowledge gained from these studies as well as further information on the regional karst surface and underground, the karst hydrogeology and the ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Greening Cities

    Forms and Functions

    Edited by Puay Yok Tan, Chi Yung Jim ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book offers an overview of recent scientific and professional literature on urban greening and urban ecology, focusing on diverse disciplines such as landscape architecture, geography, urban ecology, urban climatology, biodiversity conservation, urban governance, architecture and urban hydrology. It includes contributions in which academics, public policy experts and practitioners share their ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Coastal Change, Ocean Conservation and Resilient Communities

    Edited by Marcha Johnson, Amanda Bayley ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This collection of essays and design case studies explores a range of ideas and best practices for adapting to dynamic waterfront conditions while incorporating nature conservation in urbanized coastal areas. The editors have curated a selection of works contributed by leading practitioners in the fields of coastal science, community resilience, habitat restoration, sustainable landscape ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Rainwater-Smart Agriculture in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas

    Fostering the Use of Rainwater for Food Security, Poverty Alleviation, Landscape Restoration and Climate Resilience

    Edited by Walter Leal Filho, Josep de Trincheria Gomez ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book introduces state-of-the-art approaches, methods and research, focusing on smart management of rainwater. In addition, it provides an overview of projects from across the world, illustrating how rainwater-smart management has been implemented in drylands. Focusing on the scientific perspective it demonstrates how rural dryland agriculture can be improved. It also documents the wealth of ... Read more

    $143.09 USD