Introduction -- Common Trace-Making Endobenthic Invertebrates -- Descriptive Ichnology -- Biophysical Mechanisms of Crab Burrowing -- Ichnozones and their Characterization -- Preservation of Traces -- Ichnofacies and Ichnofabrics -- Spatio-Temporal Changes in Ichnozones -- Geological Significance -- Summary and Conclusions.This book focuses on the world’s largest mangrove delta complex, locat…
Introduction: Communicate about resource efficiency -- PART I - Introduction to the topic -- 1 Resource efficiency in the industrial society -- 2 approaches to operational resource efficiency -- 3 Methods and tools -- 4 Resource efficiency as an export product -- 5 The 100-company project -- PART II - Examples of companies -- Mining and quarrying -- Food industry -- Textile industry -- Wood ind…
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…
An Overview of Egyptian Northern Coastal lakes -- Land use in Egyptian coastal lakes: opportunities and challenges -- Adaptive Management Zones of Egypt’s Lakes and Depressions -- Sediments Contaminations in Egypt’s Northern Coastal Lakes -- Chemical and Physical properties of Egyptian shallow coastal lake -- Lake El-Manzala Characteristics and Main Challenges -- Phytoplankton Ecology along…
Part I: Sustainable Manufacturing and EOL Management -- Sustainable Manufacturing -- Green Supply Chain Management -- Rare Metal Issue & 3R Technologies -- Part II: Sustainability Assessment and Incentives for EcoDesign -- EcoDesign Policy and Regulations -- Economics of EcoDesign -- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Footprints.This 2-volume book covers the state-of-the-art of the research and pr…
Foreword -- Preface -- Index -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Setting the Scene -- WG1 DRIVERS OF CHANGE AND INTEGRATED FUTURE SCENARIOS -- Chapter 2 Drivers of Change to Mountain Sustainability -- Chapter 3 Climate Change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya -- Chapter 4 Exploring Futures of the Hindu Kush Himalaya: Scenarios and Pathways -- WG2 SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN THE HKH -- Chapter 5 Sustain…
Fate and Persistence of Herbicide Residue in India -- Environmental fate of herbicides use in Central India -- Environmental Aspects of Herbicides Use under Intensive Agriculture Scenario of Punjab -- Herbicide Residues in Rice–Rice System in Kerala -- Dissipation and Impact of Herbicides on Soil Properties in Tamil Nadu -- Herbicide Residues under Potato-Pearlmillet Cropping System in Wester…
This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of the much acclaimed Encyclopedia of Coastal Science edited by M. Schwarz (Springer 2005), presents an interdisciplinary approach that includes biology, ecology, engineering, geology, geomorphology, oceanography, remote sensing, technological advances, and anthropogenic impacts on coasts. Within its covers the Encyclopedia of Coastal Science, 2nd ed…
"I know of no similar work (in scope, content and orientation). That is why we are all waiting so anxiously for this volume to be completed. Its perspective is unique." Charles Finkl, Editor to the Journal of Coastal Research.
1. An introduction to the research on Mediterranean cold-water corals -- PART I – Past -- 2. Paleoecology of Mediterranean cold-water corals -- 3. Drop chapter. Cold water corals in the Mediterranean: a history of discovery -- 4. A turbulent story: Mediterranean contourites and cold-water corals -- 5. Drop chapter. Messinian salinity crisis: what happened to cold-water corals? -- 6. Drop chap…