Paleoceanographic Evolution -- Paleoclimate Evolution -- Paleoenvironmental Evolution -- Spatio-temporal Patterns of Climate Change -- Sea Level Variability: Past, Present and Future -- Climate Change Impacts and Migration Schemes.Middle East and Mediterranean region locates at a crossroad of global climatic patterns. The region is under the influence of a convergence of different maritime cond…
1 The State of America’s Water Resource -- 2 Internal Pressures on the Resource -- 3 External Pressures on the Resource: Growth and Urbanization -- 4 Climate Change Pressures on the Resource -- 5 Beginnings of Water Resource Management in the U.S. -- 6 Federal Water Regulators -- 7 Water Resource Regulation Comes of Age -- 8 Managing Water Conflicts -- 9 Retail Water Management -- 10 Managing…
Chapter1. Introduction -- Chapter2. Understanding contested energy spaces -- Chapter3. Zooming in on contested energy spaces: the study area -- Chapter4. Methodology -- Chapter5. Empirical cases -- Chapter6. Conclusions and contributions.This authored brief discusses how to conceptualize the socio-material complexity of contested energy spaces in the Canadian North, specifically in the context …
Part I Managing Environmental and Climate Change Induced Risks from a Human Security Perspective: The Need for a Paradigm and Governance Shift -- Part II Environmental and Climate Change: Case Studies on Conflicts and Human Security -- Part III Environment and Development: Case Studies. .This book discusses ways to deepen the debate on the linkages between global risks and human and environment…
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Pampa: The South Brazil -- Chapter 3: Subtropical Araucaria Plateaus -- Chapter 4: Atlantic Tropical Brazil -- Chapter 5: Pantanal: The Brazilian Wetlands -- Chapter 6: Semi-Humid: The Landscape of Central Brazil -- Chapter 7: The Semi-Arid Domain of the NorthEast of Brazil -- Chapter 8: The Cocais Forest Landscape -- Chapter 9: Amazonia -- Chapter 10: Natu…
TanDEM-X DEM, Sentinel Optical and Radar Data, Landsat Surface Reflectance -- Machine Learning Using SVMs and Random Forest -- Statistical Time-Series Evaluation -- Maps of Land Use and Cover (LULC) -- Time-Series Showing the Impact of ENSO.How is the vegetation distribution influencing the erosion and surface formation in the different eco zones of Chile? To answer this question, it is mandato…
- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Environmental Challenges in Vietnam -- Chapter 2: Evolving Environmental Governance -- Chapter 3: The Vietnamese Government and Institutional Changes -- Chapter 4: The Failure to Implement Environmental Policies -- Chapter 5: The Society -- Chapter 6: The Role of Businesses -- Chapter 7: The International Dimension -- Chapter 8: Perspectives for the future.‘This…
1. Introduction: Transdisciplinary Environmental Engagement -- 2. The Professors -- 3. The Post Docs -- 4. The Mixed Encounter -- 5. Conclusion: How Does Transdisciplinary Practice Make a Difference?This book explores the practice of transdisciplinary research through the narratives of different individuals taking part in a project investigating local water management. The research project ran …
- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Environmental Determinism: What Is It? -- Chapter 3. Environmental Determinism: What Was It? -- Chapter 4. Environment as Determinant vs. Environment as Irrelevant? A False Dichotomy and an Alternative -- Chapter 5. Neo-Environmental Determinism -- Chapter 6. Conclusion: “‘Geography’ vs. Institutions”?.“This book provides a unique, cogent, engag…
Chapter 1: Introduction: Alternative Development in the Age of Global Capitalism -- Chapter 2: Two Tales of a City -- Chapter 3: Techniques of Going Slow: Cycling in Mui Wo -- Chapter 4: Taking Care of Our Own Waste -- Chapter 5: All Roads Lead to Development, or How Small Paths Lead Us Home -- Chapter 6: Whose Development? Transnational Capitalism and Homogenisation of Space -- Conclusion: The…