Télécharger le livre :  Adaptation to Climate Change and Sea Level Rise
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The book provides a concise and interdisciplinary outlook on the impacts of climate change on coastal areas and how coastal communities adapt to them.The first chapter analyses how sea level rise, changing ocean conditions, or increased climate variability and the...

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Parution : 2015-04-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Toxic Pollutants in China
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The book presents some of the findings of research into China’s water quality criteria for toxic pollutants, including heavy metals, PAHs and emerging pollutant. Water quality criteria (WQC) are the scientific basis for establishing water quality standards (WQSs). For a...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-02-27
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Télécharger le livre :  The Ethics of Energy Sustainability
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This book is an easy to use instructional aide. Explore sustainability issues in contemporary society through a transdisciplinary approach. Chapters include ethics, public resources, public policy, combustion, heat exchangers, nuclear, solar, water, and wind energy. A...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-02-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Socioeconomic and Environmental Implications of Agricultural Residue Burning
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This book discusses the important issue of the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of agricultural residue burning, common in agricultural practices in many parts of the world. In particular, it focuses on the pollution caused by rice residue burning using primary...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-11-20
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Télécharger le livre :  The Controversy over Marine Protected Areas
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This book is a critical analysis of the concept of marine protected areas (MPAs) particularly as a tool for marine resource management. It explains the reasons for the extraordinary rise of MPAs to the top of the political agenda for marine policy, and evaluates the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-10-17
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Télécharger le livre :  The Impact of Melting Ice on the Ecosystems in Greenland Sea
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Arctic marine ecosystems are largely impacted by changes associated with global warming. The sea ice in Greenland Sea plays an important role in regional and global climate system. The book investigate the relationships between phytoplankton biomass, measured using...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-10-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Rethinking Infrastructure Design for Multi-Use Water Services
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As we approach a historic tipping point in the global trend toward urbanisation – within two decades urban dwellers will increase from 49% to 60% of the planet’s population – this book identifies and addresses a critical problem: water. The editors show how cities can...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-08-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Life-cycle Cost Approach for Management of Environmental Resources
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This book demonstrates the application of Life-cycle Cost Approach (LCCA) in the management of infrastructure and other investment projects in the context of developing countries. The main goal is to identify potential opportunities for the adoption LCCA in developing...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-08-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Countering 21st Century Social-Environmental Threats to Growing Global Populations
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This book brings together in a single volume a grand overview of solutions - political, economic, and scientific - to social and environmental problems that are related to the growth of human populations in areas that can least cope with them now. Through progressive...

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Parution : 2014-08-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Plant Phenology as a Biomonitor for Climate Change in Germany
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The investigations refer to the development of plant phenology since the 1960s in Germany. Spatiotemporal trends were assessed by means of regression kriging. It could be shown that there already is a distinct shift of phenological onset towards the beginning of the...

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Parution : 2014-08-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations
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This book examines and analyzes issues related to public finance in subnational governments, along with a discussion of case studies on decentralization. Most of the analysis applies to all public goods and services provided by subnational governments, with some placed...

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Parution : 2014-08-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Managed Realignment : A Viable Long-Term Coastal Management Strategy?
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Managed realignment has been a preferred coastal management strategy in England in the 21st century and has also been increasingly implemented elsewhere. Climate change and environmental and financial concerns have led to a shift from the traditional ‘hold-the-line’...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-07-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Healing Traditions of the Northwestern Himalayas
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This book discusses the perception of disease, healing concepts and the evolution of traditional systems of healing in the Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh, India. The chapters cover a diverse range issues: people and knowledge systems, healing in ancient scriptures,...

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Parution : 2014-06-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Environmental Perspectives
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This short, readable book is intended as a big-picture introduction/overview for environmental students and lay-people involved with environmental issues. Every freshman in college intending to study environmental science should read it. It begins with a historical...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-06-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Integrated River Basin Management
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Establishing multi-scale optimal water allocation modes which takes the enhancement of utilization efficiency as core is a research hotspot for the international water resources management of river basins. This book aims to introduce how to compile the first set of...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-05-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Towards a Territorial Multi-Disaster Buildings' Resistance Certification
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Disaster risk is increasing, not only in number of events, but also in incurred losses. Such increases are being driven also by the growing exposure of assets, due to the rapid urban growth, because vulnerability decreases as countries develop, but not enough to...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-05-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Modelling Potential Malaria Spread in Germany by Use of Climate Change Projections
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This book investigates the spatial distribution of potential temperature-driven malaria transmissions, using the basic reproduction rate (R0) to model the reproduction of the malaria pathogen Plasmodium vivax. The authors mapped areas at risk of an outbreak of tertian...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-12-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Combating Water Scarcity in Southern Africa
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This book offers a close examination of water scarcity as a developmental challenge facing member nations of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the interventions that have been implemented to combat the situation and the challenges still...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-08-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Extraterrestrial Influence on Climate Change
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Climate change has been addressed since last decade based on the influence of human activities like production of industrial effluents, land use changes and other activities due to development of the society. These are very important issues no doubt but the activities...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2012-08-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Teaching Environmental Health to Children
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Every day we are exposed to toxins and toxicants that can impact our health.  Yet we rarely teach elementary and secondary students about these exposures and how they can reduce their risk to them.  In this book we highlight activities and curriculum developed at nine...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2012-01-14
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