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 …
Why Focusing on Urban Climate Change Resilience in Southeast Asia Is Relevant and Urgent -- Part 1: Understanding Vulnerability: Neighbourhoods, Cities, and Nations Beyond -- Bridging Systems and People-centred Approaches in Urban Vulnerability Research: Insights for Resilience from Dawei, Myanmar.- Water Access and Resilience to Climate-induced Droughts in the Thai Secondary City of Khon Kae…
Section 1 Problems of SUITMA diagnostic and classification -- Section 2 Spatial temporal variability of urban soils features and processes -- Section 3 Urban soils' functions and ecosystem services: from concepts to application -- Section 4 Bioremediation and reclamation of soils contaminated with oil products, heavy metals and radionuclide -- Section 5 Genesis, geography, soil features and pro…
Brief overview of origin of EW idea -- Theory -- Natural Resource Management: Water and Land Use -- The Built Environment -- City Planning: Rural and Urban -- Agriculture -- Water: Vernacular water systems -- Energy. .This book offers an introduction to the theory and practice of ecological wisdom (EW). EW is the integration of robust contemporary science with proven cultural and historical pra…
1.Complexity and consequence in coupled natural urban systems -- Section 1.The Galapagos as a living laboratory -- 2.The Galapagos Urban Context -- 3.Understanding Coupled Urban-Natural Dynamics as the Key to Sustainability: The Example of the Galapagos -- 4.Scales and Transformative Change: Transitions in the Galápagos -- Section 2.Socio-ecological models -- 5.Demographics of Change: Modellin…
Preface -- Introduction -- Environmental Education and Biodiversity Conservation -- Relevance of Ecotourism -- Education and Ecotourism -- Philosophy of Ecotourism -- National Parks and Biodiversity Conservation -- Indigenous Ecotourism -- Environmental Impact -- Wetland Ecotourism -- Conclusion.Ecotourism is an important field of tourism that has bridged environmentally friendly practices and …
Forward -- Preface -- 1. The Risk to Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services: a Framework for the Ecosystem Service Atlas -- 2. The Ecosystem Service Concept: Linking Ecosystems and Human Wellbeing- 3. The Link Between Diversity, Ecosystem Functions and Ecosystem Services -- 4. Embracing Community Resilience in Ecosystem Management and Research -- 5. Risk and Uncertainty as Sources of Economic Value …
Introduction -- Part 1. Cities and Nature in History -- Chapter 1. Understanding Landscape: Cultural Perceptions of Environment in the UK and China -- Chapter 2. Green Wedges: the Resilience of a Planning Idea -- Chapter 3. Demystified Territories: City vs. Countryside in Andrea Branzi’s Urban Models -- Chapter 4. The Introduction of Nature in the Austrian Radicals Practice -- Chapter 5. Univ…