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  • The Water-Energy-Food Nexus

    Human-Environmental Security in the Asia-Pacific Ring of Fire

    Edited by Aiko Endo, Tomohiro Oh ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book highlights the water-energy-food nexus as one of the most important and fundamental global environmental issues facing the world. Climate and social changes are putting increased pressure on water, energy and food resources. As water is the central aspect within this cluster, the book focuses on the inherent tradeoffs in water resources between producing/consuming energy and food. In ... Read more

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    by Vaclav Smil ...
    An interdisciplinary and quantitative account of human claims on the biosphere's stores of living matter, from prehistoric hunting to modern energy production.The biosphere—the Earth's thin layer of life—dates from nearly four billion years ago, when the first simple organisms appeared. Many species have exerted enormous influence on the biosphere's character and productivity, but none has ... Read more

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  • Conservation for Cities

    How to Plan & Build Natural Infrastructure

    It's time to think differently about cities and nature. Understanding how to better connect our cities with the benefits nature provides will be increasingly important as people migrate to cities and flourish in them. All this urban growth, along with challenges of adapting to climate change, will require a new approach to infrastructure if we're going to be successful. Yet guidance on how to plan ... Read more

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  • Design for Human Ecosystems

    Landscape, Land Use, and Natural Resources

    by John Lyle ...
    For more than 30 years, John Tillman Lyle (1934-1998) was one of the leading thinkers in the field of ecological design. Design for Human Ecosystems, originally published in 1985, is his classic text that explores methods of designing landscapes that function in the sustainable ways of natural ecosystems. The book provides a framework for thinking about and understanding ecological design, along ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Ecological and Environmental Restoration

    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    Ecological restoration is a rapidly evolving discipline that is engaged with developing both methodologies and strategies for repairing damaged and polluted ecosystems and environments. During the last decade the rapid pace of climate change coupled with continuing habitat destruction and the spread of non-native species to new habitats has forced restoration ecologists to re-evaluate their goals ... Read more

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  • Methods of Environmental and Social Impact Assessment

    Series series Natural and Built Environment Series
    Environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) is an important and often obligatory part of proposing or launching any development project. Delivering a successful ESIA needs not only an understanding of the theory but also a detailed knowledge of the methods for carrying out the processes required. Riki Therivel and Graham Wood bring together the latest advice on best practicefrom experienced ... Read more

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  • Environmental Impact Assessment

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    Environmental Impact Assessment: Theory and Practice describes the various pieces of knowledge necessary to speak the language of EIA and carry out EIAs focusing on a variety of environmental issues, including impacts on environmental components, like air, water, soils, land, noise and biological environments. Organized into 15 chapters, the book provides engineers with the tools and methods to ... Read more

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  • Wetlands

    Integrating Multidisciplinary Concepts

    Edited by Ben A. LePage ...
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    The science of wetlands and our understanding of these complex ecosystems have improved considerably. The emergence of multidisciplinary strategies is providing new opportunities and innovative approaches to address issues such as climate change and coastal protection. This book, with contributions from 19 specialists from academia, government, and industry, provides a trans-disciplinary approach ... Read more

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  • An Integrated Approach to Environmental Management

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  • Freshwater Management

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    Edited by M. Kumagai, W.F. Vincent ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The globalization of trade, monetary and fiscal policies, capital markets, and investment patterns is reshaping the world economy and is leading to new financial, commercial, and marketing structures as well as unprecedented economies of scale. Simultaneously, national and international awareness and to strengthen. There is consensus among responses to accelerating environmental degradation ... Read more

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  • Industrial Water Resource Management

    Challenges and Opportunities for Corporate Water Stewardship

    Series series Challenges in Water Management Series
    Provides the tools that allow companies to understand the fundamental concepts of water resource management and to take proper action towards sustainable developmentBusinesses, communities, and ecosystems everywhere depend on clean freshwater to survive and prosper. When the same source of water is shared for economic, social, and environmental causes it becomes the responsibility of every sector ... Read more

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  • Assessment of Carbon Footprint in Different Industrial Sectors, Volume 2

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Followed by the previous part (Volume-1), Volume-2 of carbon footprint assessment book deals with the assessment of carbon footprint in different other sectors, which were not dealt in the first part. Attention on Carbon footprint is growing day-by-day from the public, government and media. Certainly it is one of the most important topics in the agenda of every nation, which is trying its best to ... Read more

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