- Chapter 1: Ontology of the Self -- Chapter 2: India and Climate Change -- Chapter 3: Media Coverage in India -- Chapter 4: The Personal Choices of Indian Experts -- Chapter 5: India’s Official Stance -- Chapter 6: Looking Ahead.This book presents a new and innovative approach to understanding the dynamics of international climate change negotiations using India as a focal point. The authors…
1. Introduction.-2. Assessment of Warming Projections and Probabilities for Brazil -- 3. Agricultural Sector -- 4. Health Sector -- 5. Biodiversity Sector -- 6. Energy Sector -- 7. Final Remarks and Recommendations -- Glossary.This book maps extreme temperature increase under dangerous climate change scenarios in Brazil and their impacts on four key sectors: agriculture, health, biodiversity an…
Part I – Introduction -- Part II - State of forest genetic resources conservation in Southeast Europe (8 chapters) -- Part III – Legal and institutional framework for forest genetic resources conservation (8 chapters) -- Part IV – In situ conservation case studies (8 chapters) -- Part V – Ex situ conservation case studies (10 chapters) -- Part VI – Climate change aspects in forest ge…
This book discusses the history of environmental science and climate change, and the initiation and development of different parameters determining climate changes. The account of the history of such changes and turmoil in India and abroad starts in the prehistoric period, long before the emergence of “Rigveda”, the first human written work. The book describes the writings of Aristotle and …
Chapter 1: Ecohealth and human ecology as underlying theoretical background -- Chapter 2: Health impact of urban physicochemical environment considering the mobility of the people -- Chapter 3: Population mobility modeling based on call detail records of mobile phones for heat exposure assessment in Dhaka, Bangladesh -- Chapter 4: Air pollution and children’s health: Living in urban areas in …
Preface -- Chapter 1: Motivation -- Chapter 2: State-of-the-Art -- Chapter 3: Objectives -- Chapter 4: Physical Background -- Chapter 5: Data -- Chapter 6: Methodology -- Chapter 7: A Statistical Model based on Non-stationary Predictors -- Chapter 8: Interdecadal changes in the SST-driven teleconnections with the Sahel -- Chapter 9: Modulation of the non-stationary Mediterranean-Sahel teleconne…
Introduction - Climate Change and Cities: Perspectives, Planning, and People -- Stakeholder Methods to Climate Change and Sustainable Development -- Case Study Reviews: People, Perspective, and Planning -- The Review of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): People, Perspective and Planning -- Sustainable Urban Development in the Age of Climate Change.This book considers the impact of climate ch…
Components of The Payaswani River Basin (India) Using SWAT Model -- Estimation of Evapotranspiration in the part of Doon Valley Using Landsat TM Data -- Assessment of Changes in Wetland Storage in Gurupura River Basin of Karnataka, India, Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques -- Statistical Analysis of Long Term Spatial and Temporal Trends of Temperature During 1901 -2002 at Kancheepuram in T…
Chapter 1-An introduction to the climate-smart agriculture papers -- Chapter 2-Future climate projections in Africa: where are we headed? -- Chapter 3-Climate change and infectious livestock diseases: the case of rift valley fever and tick-borne diseases -- Chapter 4-Large scale crop suitability assessment under future climate using the ecocrop model: the case of six provinces in Angola’sPlan…
Part I: Introduction -- Nature-based solutions in flood risk management -- Nature-based solutions & issues of scale -- Part II: small scale property solutions -- Small retention programme in the Polish forests -- Privately funded natural water retention measures in the Czech Republic -- Experimenting with re-parcelling by means of land swop -- Part III: Medium sized infrastructure solutions -- …