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  • Benefit-sharing in Environmental Governance

    Local Experiences of a Global Concept

    by Louisa Parks ...
    Taking a bottom-up perspective, this book explores local framings of a wide range of issues related to benefit-sharing, a growing concept in global environmental governance.Benefit-sharing in Environmental Governance draws on original case studies from South Africa, Namibia, Greece, Argentina, and Malaysia to shed light on what benefit-sharing looks like from the local viewpoint. These local-level ... Read more

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  • Urban Blue Spaces

    Planning and Design for Water, Health and Well-Being

    This book presents an evidence-based approach to landscape planning and design for urban blue spaces that maximises the benefits to human health and well-being while minimising the risks. Based on applied research and evidence from primary and secondary data sources stemming from the EU-funded BlueHealth project, the book presents nature-based solutions to promote sustainable and resilient cities ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Climate Change Impacts on Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities

    Edited by Victoria Reyes-García ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    This Handbook examines the diverse ways in which climate change impacts Indigenous Peoples and local communities and considers their response to these changes.While there is well-established evidence that the climate of the Earth is changing, the scarcity of instrumental data oftentimes challenges scientists’ ability to detect such impacts in remote and marginalized areas of the world or in areas ... Read more

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  • Political Economy of the Environment: Contemporary Issues and Pathways

    Energy, #1

    Series Book 1 - Energy
    The political economy of the environment refers to the study of the complex interactions between economic systems, political institutions, and environmental policies. It involves examining how economic decisions and actions impact the natural environment and how political institutions and policies influence economic behavior related to the environment.At its core, the political economy of the ... Read more

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  • Transition Engineering

    Building a Sustainable Future

    Transition Engineering: Building a Sustainable Future examines new strategies emerging in response to the mega-issues of global climate change, decline in world oil supply, scarcity of key industrial minerals, and local environmental constraints. These issues pose challenges for organizations, businesses, and communities, and engineers will need to begin developing ideas and projects to implement ... Read more

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  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering by Aerial and Ground Radar Objects

    Edited by Oleg I. Sukharevsky ...
    Electromagnetic Wave Scattering by Aerial and Ground Radar Objects presents the theory, original calculation methods, and computational results of the scattering characteristics of different aerial and ground radar objects. This must-have book provides essential background for computing electromagnetic wave scattering in the presence of different kinds of irregularities, as well asSummarizes ... Read more

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  • Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Improving Air Quality

    Two Interrelated Global Challenges

    The world’s atmosphere is a common resource. Air quality, along with energy, transportation, and climate change have significant impacts on our lives and this book helps readers understand the changes happening at the nexus of these areas, as they relate to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving air quality. Discussing the transitions to electric vehicles, solar and wind energy for ... Read more

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  • Security in Distributed, Grid, Mobile, and Pervasive Computing

    by Yang Xiao ...
    This book addresses the increasing demand to guarantee privacy, integrity, and availability of resources in networks and distributed systems. It first reviews security issues and challenges in content distribution networks, describes key agreement protocols based on the Diffie-Hellman key exchange and key management protocols for complex distributed systems like the Internet, and discusses ... Read more

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  • Biogás – a Energia Invisível

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  • The Circular Economy in Europe

    Critical Perspectives on Policies and Imaginaries

    Series series Routledge Explorations in Sustainability and Governance
    The Circular Economy in Europe presents an overview and a critical discussion on how circularity is conceived, imagined, and enacted in current EU policy-making. In 2013, the idea of a circular economy entered the stage of European policy-making in the efforts to reconcile environmental and economic policy objectives. In 2019 the European Commission declared in a press release that the Circular ... Read more

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  • Human-Nature Interactions

    Exploring Nature’s Values Across Landscapes

    This edited volume aims to widen the discussion about the diversity of human-nature relationships and valuation methods and to stimulate new perspective that are needed to build a more sustainable future, especially in face of ongoing socio-environmental changes. Conceptual and empirical approaches, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodologies have been used to highlight the ... Read more

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  • Arsenic in the Environment: Bridging Science to Practice for Sustainable Development As2021

    Proceedings of the 8th International Congress and Exhibition on Arsenic in the Environment (As2021), June 7-9, 2021, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Series series Arsenic in the Environment - Proceedings
    The Congress and Exhibition Series "Arsenic in the Environment" offers an international, multi- and interdisciplinary discussion platform for research and innovation aimed towards a holistic solution to the challenges posed by the environmental toxin arsenic, with global societal impact. The Congress has focused on cutting edge and breakthrough research in physical, chemical, toxicological, ... Read more

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  • Circular and Transformative Economy

    Advances towards Sustainable Socio-economic Transformation

    Series series Africa Circular Economy Series
    The main aim of this book is to illustrate circular models for sustainable resource management. It highlights the benefits of transformative approaches in integrating, simplifying, and facilitating understanding of complex systems and transforming systems towards greater sustainability while achieving multiple social, economic, and environmental outcomes. It provides pathways towards strategic ... Read more

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  • Biomedical Signal and Image Processing

    Written for senior-level and first year graduate students in biomedical signal and image processing, this book describes fundamental signal and image processing techniques that are used to process biomedical information. The book also discusses application of these techniques in the processing of some of the main biomedical signals and images, such as EEG, ECG, MRI, and CT. New features of this ... Read more

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  • Oceanography and Marine Biology

    An annual review. Volume 60

    Edited by S. J. Hawkins ...
    Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography. The ever-increasing interest in work in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance to global environmental issues, especially global climate change and its impacts, creates a demand for authoritative refereed reviews summarizing and synthesizing the results of both ... Read more

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  • Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2021

    Proceedings of the ENTER 2021 eTourism Conference, January 19–22, 2021

    This open access book is the proceedings of the International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism (IFITT)’s 28th Annual International eTourism Conference, which assembles the latest research presented at the ENTER21@yourplace virtual conference January 19–22, 2021. This book advances the current knowledge base of information and communication technologies and tourism in the areas of social ... Read more

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  • Fostering Transformative Change for Sustainability in the Context of Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)

    This open access book is a compilation of case studies that provide useful knowledge and lessons that derive from on-the-ground activities and contribute to policy recommendations, focusing on the relevance of social-ecological production landscapes and seascapes (SEPLS) to “transformative change.” The concept of “transformative change” has been gaining more attention to deal with today’s ... Read more

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  • Circuit Design

    Anticipate, Analyze, Exploit Variations

    Circuit Design = Science + Art! Designers need a skilled "gut feeling" about circuits and related analytical techniques, plus creativity, to solve all problems and to adhere to the specifications, the written and the unwritten ones. You must anticipate a large number of influences, like temperature effects, supply voltages changes, offset voltages, layout parasitics, and numerous kinds of ... Read more

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  • Indigenous Knowledges and the Sustainable Development Agenda

    Edited by Anders Breidlid, Roy Krøvel ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Indigenous Peoples and Policy
    This book discusses the vital importance of including indigenous knowledges in the sustainable development agenda. In the wake of colonialism and imperialism, dialogue between indigenous knowledges and Western epistemology has broken down time and again. However, in recent decades the broader indigenous struggle for rights and recognition has led to a better understanding of indigenous knowledges, ... Read more

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  • Advanced Concepts for Renewable Energy Supply of Data Centres

    The rapid increase of cloud computing, high performance computing (HPC) and the vast growth in Internet and Social Media use have aroused the interest in energy consumption and the carbon footprint of Data Centres. Data Centres primarily contain electronic equipment used for data processing (servers), data storage (storage equipment), and communications (network equipment). Collectively, this ... Read more

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  • Oceanography and Marine Biology

    An annual review. Volume 59

    Edited by Stephen J. Hawkins ...
    CHOICE Highly Recommended, Sept 2022Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography. The ever-increasing interest in work in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance to global environmental issues, especially global climate change and its impacts, creates a demand for authoritative refereed reviews summarizing and ... Read more

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  • Motion Structures

    Deployable Structural Assemblies of Mechanisms

    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.routledge.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.Motion structures are simply assemblies of resistant bodies connected by movable joints. Unlike conventional structures, they allow large shape transformations to satisfy practical requirements and they ... Read more

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  • Governance for Justice and Environmental Sustainability

    Lessons across Natural Resource Sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Edited by Merle Sowman, Rachel Wynberg ...
    Understanding the governance of complex social-ecological systems is vital in a world faced with rapid environmental change, conflicts over dwindling natural resources, stark disparities between rich and poor and the crises of sustainability. Improved understanding is also essential to promote governance approaches that are underpinned by justice and equity principles and that aim to reduce ... Read more

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  • Negotiating Gender Expertise in Environment and Development

    Voices from Feminist Political Ecology

    Series series Routledge Studies in Gender and Environments
    This book casts a light on the daily struggles and achievements of ‘gender experts’ working in environment and development organisations, where they are charged with advancing gender equality and social equity and aligning this with visions of sustainable development.Developed through a series of conversations convened by the book’s editors with leading practitioners from research, advocacy and ... Read more

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