Chapter1: Introduction -- Chapter2: Agroecosystem Design -- Chapter3: The Agroecological Matrix -- Chapter4: Agrotechnologies -- Chapter 5: Productive Intercropping -- Chapter6: Feed Systems and Facilitative Intercrops -- Chapter7: Complex Agroecosystems -- Chapter8: Risk -- Chapter9: Landscape Agroecology -- Chapter10: Advanced Economics -- Chapter11: Macro-Challenges -- Chapter12: Summary.Thi…
Prologue -- Seas of Yore -- Effects of Overfishing -- Effects of Pollution -- Effects of Climate Change -- Future Perspectives -- Epilogue.What is happening in our oceans? By describing their main elements, this book shows how and why the oceans are being transformed, and suggests possible future scenarios to address this complex, yet often-asked, question. The ocean is being dramatically trans…
Introduction: Beginnings of an Adventure -- Chapter 1: The Lure of the Poles -- Chapter 2: The Mountain and Its Madness -- Chapter 3: First Step: Getting There -- Chapter 4: Second Step: McMurdo -- Chapter 5: Working on the Edge -- Chapter 6: Our Voyage Up the Mountain -- Chapter 7: Landscapes on This and Other Worlds -- Chapter 8: Future Explorations -- Chapter 9: Journal Entries -- Glossary -…
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Channeling Disaster Aid: Process and Problems -- Chapter 3: Disaster Relief Provision -- Chapter 4: Response to and Emergency Relief Efforts for the Selected Disasters -- Chapter 5: Convergence Phenomenon -- Chapter 6: Conclusion.‘Dr. Paul has again provided an exceptional foundation in disaster studies, this time on the complex and evolving nature of hum…
Chapter 1. Global Problem of Timber Trafficking -- Chapter 2. Convergence between Green Criminology and Security Studies -- Chapter 3. The Environment and Forests in Vietnam -- Chapter 4. Timber Trafficking in Vietnam -- Chapter 5. Impacts of Timber Trafficking on Human Security -- Chapter 6. Solutions to Curtail Timber Trafficking in Vietnam -- Concluding Remark.This book is the first systemat…
Remediation of Contaminated Sites -- Study of the Clinoptilolite-Rich Tuff-Based Composites for Some Aqueous Anionic Species Recovery -- Testing of Sorption Materials for Arsenic Removal From Waters -- Zirconium(IV) Loaded Diaion CRP200 Resin as a Specific Adsorbent to as(III) and as(V) -- Bifunctional Cation Exchange Fibers Having Phosphonic and Sulfonic Acid Groups -- Fate of Contaminants in …
Sustainable Consumption and the Public’s Room to Maneuver in Energy Use -- Targets of Intervention for Sustainable Consumption -- Energy, Environment, and Society -- Field Study with Computer-Aided Interviews -- Achievements, Open Questions, and Lessons Learned.Origin of this book In 1998 the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) initiated the 2000 Watt Society, a University-wide resear…
The Johannesburg Conference -- Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development -- Production, Consumption and the World Summit on Sustainable Development -- Water for Sustainable Development in Africa -- Energy and Sustainable Development at Global Environmental Summits: An Evolving Agenda -- Management of Chemicals for Sustainable Development -- Health: A Necessity for Sustainable Development --…
Archaeology -- Chronology and Cultural Affinity of the Kurgan Arzhan-2 Complex According to Archaeological Data -- Some Chronological Problems of European Scythia: Archaeology and Radiocarbon -- Migrations of Early Nomads of the Eurasian Steppe in a Context of Climatic Changes -- The North Black Sea Steppes in the Cimmerian Epoch -- Chronology -- Radiocarbon, the Calibration Curve and Scythian …
Averaging, Detrending, and Filtering of Eddy Covariance Time Series -- Coordinate Systems and Flux Bias Error -- Uncertainty in Eddy Covariance Flux Estimates Resulting from Spectral Attenuation -- Low Frequency Atmospheric Transport and Surface Flux Measurements -- Measurements of Trace Gas Fluxes in the Atmosphere Using Eddy Covariance: WPL Corrections Revisited -- Concerning the Measurement …