Climate change impacts on water resources -- Climate Changes in Slovakia – Analysis of Past and Present Observations and Scenarios of Future Developments -- Meteorological Drought Occurrence in Slovakia -- Hydrological Drought Occurrence in Slovakia -- Groundwater Drought Occurrence in Slovakia -- Drought as Stress for Plants, Irrigation and Climatic Changes -- Major Droughts in Slovakia in t…
Introduction of the Book -- 1956-1973: I Believe Large Dams Provide An Exceptional Opportunity For Integrated River Basin Development -- 1976-1995: The International Research Activities of the Institute for Development Anthropology and Increasing Concerns About The Environmental and Socio-Economic Costs of Large Dams for Free Flowing Rivers and River Basin Communities -- My Increasing Disillusi…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Flood Impact on Buildings -- Chapter 3. Flood Impact on Human Beings Stability -- Chapter 4. Flood Impact on Mobilizable Objects -- Chapter 5. Global Criteria for Impact Estimation -- Chapter 6. Hydrodynamic Criteria for Impact Evaluation -- Chapter 7. Flood Proofing Methods -- Chapter 8. Temporary flood proofing techniques planning -- Chapter 9. Temporary …
- Defining Urban Water Insecurity: Concepts and Relevance -- Water Insecurity in Asian Cities -- Climate Change: Implication on Urban Drought -- Developing Water Security Index for Urban Areas -- Water Energy Food Nexus: A Provision to Tackle Urban Drought -- Coping with Scarcity and Urban Water Governance: Case of Udon Thani’s City Region -- Bridging the Distances between Far Water and Near …
Section I -- General -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Space Technology: Challenges, Potential and Future Trends -- Section II Challenges in Geospatial Technology for Water Resources Management -- Chapter 2 Natural Resource Assessment in Flood Prone Areas of Lower Rapti River Valley: An Application of Geoinformatics -- Chapter 3 Probabilistic Landslide Hazard Vulnerability assessment using weight-of…
Introduction: The Evolving Data–Driven Smart Sustainable Approach to Urbanism for Tackling the Challenges of Sustainability and Urbanization -- Smart Sustainable Urbanism and Big Data Computing: A Topical Literature Review -- Conceptual, Theoretical, and Disciplinary Foundations: An Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Perspective -- The Data-Driven Smart Sustainable Paradigm of Urbanism: …
1. Geography and Ecological Sustainability -- 2. Ecological Security Assessment -- 3. From Urban Remote Sensing to Urban Sensing -- 4. Green Development Strategies for Shanxi Province, China -- 5. Lessons for the Future from Perspectives of the Last Great Global Warming -- 6. Soil Security Utilization and Spatial Regulation in the Pearl River Delta, China -- 7. Urbanization in the Pearl River D…
Scholar-Participated Governance as an Alternative Solution to the Collective Action Dilemma -- Four Major Roles of Scholars Participation: A Game Theoretical Analysis -- A Product-Institutional Analysis (PIA) Framework -- Significance and Mechanisms of Scholars’ Participation -- Seven Design Principles of Successful Scholar-Participated Governance -- Institutional Performance, Institutional C…
Chapter1: Introduction and Context: The State of the World -- Chapter2: The Collective Leadership Compass: A Practice Model for Navigating Complex Change -- Chapter3: Global Transformation as a Collective Leadership Challenge -- Chapter4: A Living Systems Perspective for Stewarding Sustainability Transformations -- Chapter5: The Patterns of Aliveness Theory -- Chapter6: Stewarding Sustainabilit…
Energy Footprints of Food Products -- Energy and Carbon Footprint of Food Industry -- Energy Footprints of Textile Products.This book addresses energy footprints in the food and textile sectors. Each footprint case study presents essential background information and discusses the scientific consensus, methodological framework, assessment checklist, calculation tools and techniques, applications…