The cartographic scale at your fingertips
School cartography is very important for teaching and learning geography, as it makes it possible to analyse phenomena and objects through their spatiality. One of the most important cartographic concepts is scale, understood as the ratio of similarity between the real area and its representation, i.e. a quantifiable ratio. However, the notion of proportionality is first constructed in non-quantifiable terms based on first and second order relationships and perceptual measurements. Therefore, understanding the cartographic scale can be better realised by working with the notion of non-quantifiable proportion existing in the student's living space. Considering that visual impairment limits spatial apprehension and understanding, it is important to reflect on the construction of the notion of proportion and the concept of cartographic scale by visually impaired students, since this knowledge enables other learning in relation to Geography and contributes to the development of these individuals' orientation and mobility skills.
Hydrocarbon and geomaterial uses
Hydrocarbons and minerals continue to play a significant role in infrastructure development. Exploration of petroleum is challenging, requiring the interpretation and integration of scientific data from indirect sources, primarily derived from exploratory wells, geophysical surveys, and wireline well logs. An evaluation of source-reservoir-seal targets for exploration prospects and drillable structures in basins is given by meticulous data interpretation and analysis. This book also focuses on identifying and distinguishing typical mineral and rock types, their occurrences, and their uses as industrial geomaterials. The release of toxic fumes from quarrying and blasting operations poses significant environmental and safety challenges to human health. Changes in the natural profile of the ground and dust generated from vibration cause damage to infrastructures in the quarry's proximity.
The Living Climate
What are the causes of our current environmental and ecological crises? Is the enforcement of international "net-zero" carbon strategy the best solution to the problems we face, or are there deeper issues that need to be addressed? Rejecting the view of Earth as an isolated or "closed" system--as in conventional computer modelling--Luigi Morelli argues that our planet is an "open" system--a living entity that maintains a dynamic equilibrium within its own kingdoms and the wider solar system. Humans, however, still have a pivotal role to play.Building on the pioneering work of Goethe, Rudolf Steiner, Viktor Schauberger, and others, Morelli expands our view of the climate, from the oceans and atmosphere to the sun, and from the past 150 years to the history of our climate over millennia. In doing so, he exposes the weakness of the prevailing fixed narratives relating to our undoubtedly changing environment--in particular, the conventional hypothesis concerning carbon emissions. Such "consensus science" is often at the mercy of established economic interests, which have largely coopted academia and scientific institutions. In this thoroughly researched and accessible study, the author explores the intricacy and wisdom of an untold variety of cycles in nature and the critical and overlooked role of water within the "greenhouse gas" model. Morelli's holistic, scientific review challenges current mechanistic representations of the global ecosystem and offers potential solutions to our seemingly intractable problems.
Natural Theology - Exploring Nature through a Spiritual Lens
Natural Theology - Exploring Nature through a Spiritual Lens is the journey of an ordinary man who led two extraordinary lives. By merging facts about natural phenomena and spiritual practices, he bridged the gap between scientific theory and the reality of nature. He came to believe in a Higher Power behind all that exists.In this accesible book, he shares the path he took and argues that anyone can achieve similar revelations - whether by chance as he did, or through intentional practice.
Bauxite Deposits for Cement Manufacturing in Poiywek, Ainamoi, Kenya
This book explores the influence of minerals on infrastructure development. Geological knowledge is initially gained through field geological mapping, followed by investigative methods. The mineral mapping process involves analyzing historical data, geological mapping, field observations, and collecting field samples.Minerals can be used for cement manufacturing when the primary components of cement (CaO, SiO₂, Al₂O₃) are present in the required proportions, and impurities remain below allowable levels. Cement composition ranges from "natural cement rock," a single component containing the necessary proportions of all required minerals, to multi-component mixes (2 to 5 components). These mixes may include various grades of limestone, shale, or clay, combined with additives like SiO₂, Al₂O₃, or Fe₂O₃.
Environmental Effects of Natural Processes and Human Activities on the Water Environment in Watershed
This Special Issue brings together a diverse collection of research and perspectives, offering insights into how natural processes and human activities interact within watersheds to shape water environments. Moreover, it explores various methodologies and measurements with the dual goals of providing implications for future water management as well as exploring potential alternatives. The papers included in this Special Issue draw from numbers of perspectives, including heavy metal source identification, water salinization and alkalization, water environment deterioration, pollutant assessment methods, the influences of fluvial geomorphological processes, and hydraulic characteristics of water environments. They also emphasize the importance of integrative approaches that consider both the ecological and social dimensions of watershed management. The contributions of this Special Issue highlight different facets of the environmental effects of natural processes and human activities on the water environment of different aquatic ecosystems, including rivers, streams, reservoirs, lakes, and groundwaters connected to surface water on a watershed scale.
Translating Worlds, Defending Land
In 2019, after decades of ecological damage from oil, Waorani people took to the streets of Amazonian Ecuador to protest drilling on their ancestral lands. Working with international activists, lawyers, and other Indigenous groups, they successfully sued the government for selling oil concessions without prior consent. Placing their struggle for territorial autonomy in the global spotlight, this unprecedented legal victory for environmental rights by an Indigenous people reflected the new forms of collaboration emerging in contemporary Amazonia. Translating Worlds, Defending Land explores how Waorani collaborations, whether with environmentalists or academic researchers, bring about new possibilities, challenges, and imaginative horizons. Based on fieldwork over a period of twenty-five years, Casey High interrogates what these engagements mean for Indigenous communities and how they offer critical reflection on collaboration as a concept, method, and practice. The alliances, misunderstandings, and conflicts that emerge in these contexts challenge the assumption that productive collaborations reflect-or require-shared purposes, generating important implications for an engaged anthropology open to reconsidering what constitutes ethnographic knowledge and who it is for. As some young Waorani adults become not just community leaders or environmental citizens, but also skilled researchers and ethnographers, translating between Indigenous understandings of land and the Western language conservation, they create a powerful new voice in international environmental politics.
Benin's security arrangements in the Gulf of Guinea
Described as "the most dangerous maritime zone in the world", the Gulf of Guinea is an area where illicit acts at sea are still at a high level. Faced with this worrying lack of security, the countries bordering the Gulf have set up national security systems. Benin, as part of this maritime area, is no exception to the rule. Its maritime security system has two main dimensions: one institutional, the other operational. Both are based on the national maritime protection, safety and security strategy (SNPSSM) adopted in 2013. The first is based around the national authority in charge of State action at sea (ANCAEM), and its implementing body is the Pr矇fecture maritime. The second relies on the French Navy as the operational unit for intervention at sea. After a decade of implementing the SNPSSM, a number of shortcomings have been identified, to the point where there is already talk of updating it. This work sheds light on a subject that is little known to the general public. It encourages a maritime culture, essential for the development of a country bordering the Gulf of Guinea.
The Socio-Economic Values in Land Resource Management
This reprint aims to show how power-driven decisions in the form of different socioeconomic values (political, economic and societal) have shaped and still shape land resource management. Further, we are interested in values that decisions are based on and how ecosystem services (food, water, wood, leisure, pollination, culture, etc.) offered by land resources have been affected in different states, regions and communities all over the world. Land resources have high socioeconomic value and present the essence of society's existence. This book aims to show how power-driven decisions in the form of different socioeconomic values (political, economic and societal) have shaped and still shape land resource management. Further, the book assesses the values that decisions are based on and how ecosystem services (food, water, wood, leisure, pollination, culture, etc.) offered by land resources have been affected in different states, regions and communities all over the world.
Gilbert T Walker's Enduring Studies of Climate Variability
The new articles and reprints in this volume document the life and scientific contributions of British physicist and applied mathematician, Sir Gilbert T Walker (1868-1958). The collection bears witness to Walker's keen insights into statistically based climate prediction, the nature of atmospheric variability on time scales of a year or longer, and the detection and attribution of climate change. Chapter authors include Joy Monteiro, Timothy DelSole, Richard Katz, Jagadish Shukla, and Ka Kit Tung.Part 1 presents an overview of Walker's life and work while he was serving as Director of the India Meteorological Department from 1904 to 1924. Although he instituted many useful reforms, he did not achieve his goal of producing skillful predictions of Indian summer monsoon rainfall. While in India, Walker began writing a series of descriptive papers, based on statistical methods, in which he systematically documented the structure, seasonality, and evolution of the principal patterns of year-to-year climate variability - later known as teleconnection patterns - on a global basis.Part 2 provides an overview of Walker's work on teleconnection patterns. It features a reprint of his most widely cited paper, published in 1932, on his so-called North Atlantic Oscillation, North Pacific Oscillation, and Southern Oscillation. Parts 3 and 4 contain reprints of more recent papers relating to these patterns.
Strengthening the Climate Resilience and Restoration of Wetlands and Lakes in the Yangtze River Floodplain
This report shows how the wetlands and lakes of the People's Republic of China Yangtze River floodplain play a key role in supporting livelihoods and providing essential ecosystem services and offers actionable insights to increase its climate resilience. Taking its lead from the Hunan South Dongting Lake Wetland Ecological Restoration and Sustainable Development Project, the report highlights growing threats to the floodplain climate change, habitat loss, and pollution. Designed to integrate biodiversity conservation with sustainable livelihood strategies, it shows how greater cross-sector coordination alongside nature-based interventions and eco-compensation schemes can help support effective ecosystem conservation and management.
Southwestern Trees
Southwestern Trees is an easy-to-use, non-technical field guide to the trees found in Arizona and New Mexico, extending to the surrounding areas of southeastern California, southern Nevada, southern Utah, southern Colorado, western Texas, and northern Mexico. Included are descriptions, color photographs, and distribution maps for about 150 coniferous and broadleaf trees of the region, as well as the sometimes treelike species of agaves and yuccas, so characteristic of the desert flora. Also included are a number of species more commonly found as shrubs, but occasionally reaching tree-size in favorable environments.
Climate Action Road Map for Central and West Asia, 2025-2030
The Climate Action Road Map for Central and West Asia, 2025-2030 aims to operationalize ADB's Climate Change Action Plan at the regional level, setting out areas of focus for ADB operations across key themes and sectors.The road map promotes ADB's shift to provide more client-centered, cross-sector, and integrated solutions to climate and development challenges in Central and West Asia through strategic interventions clustered into thematic areas. The road map will be complemented by climate action plans to provide country-specific interventions that ensure a targeted and tailored approach to addressing climate change across the Central and West Asia region.
Unveiling the city
The focus of this study is the urban structure of Jata穩-GO. To this end, its internal structure was analysed in terms of socio-spatial distribution in the urban arrangement, seeking answers to the question: is there socio-spatial segregation in Jata穩? The aim was to unveil the city and propose new parameters that would collaborate with local development. The path followed in this work is not rigid, ready and finished; it is an analysis that starts from the urban landscape, since this presents a vast horizon to be explored, arriving at the place and analysing how it was produced. The research moves through political and social analyses, contextualised in a so-called 'post-modern' society, questioning and reflecting on the reality presented before our eyes, considering the action of capital and its relations in the construction of places. In this way, the dialectical perspective is presented as a guiding path for the work. In the end, we defined, classified, spatialised and cross-referenced information plans relating to income levels in Jata穩 and their implications for the urban fabric, demonstrating the urban segregation identified.
Socio-environmental impacts on the banks of the S瓊o Francisco River
This work is the result of a study carried out on the banks of the S瓊o Francisco River, showing aspects from its source to its mouth, bringing Porto da Folha/SE to the attention of the world in terms of the relationship between man and nature. From the 1970s to the end of the 20th century, when the riverbed was marked by a period of construction of several hydroelectric dams, environmental and social impacts were engendered in the place from the mid-1980s to the present. Despite the existing Sobradinho, Paulo Afonso I, II, III and IV, Luiz Gonzaga (formerly Itaparica) and Moxot籀 dams on the S瓊o Francisco riverbed, their impacts are not as heavy as those of Xing籀 on the aforementioned site. The concept of the term socio-environmental impact and the discussion of the area of influence of the Xing籀 Hydroelectric Undertaking should therefore be emphasised. The work is structured in four chapters, combining the context of the desired objective by responding to the hypothesis that these impacts did in fact occur as a result of the existence and activity of the Xing籀 Hydroelectric Power Plant, although the other dams had an indirect influence.
Living Water
LIVING WATER is an attempt to highlight and discuss some of the most striking examples of how Marine Ecotourism, or the non-consumptive use of marine wildlife and environments, can benefit both local people, economies and the environment itself, by providing much better alternatives for communities than 'business-as-usual' destroying species after species to simply make a living in a harsh world. But it is also a warning on how this amazing potential for good is being hampered or maligned by, first, neglect in developing adequate recognition and protection of these activities and their stakeholders at appropriate public policy fora-especially most Multilateral Environmental Agreements, where extractive use lobbies prevail-and a relentless barrage of attacks by the scientific establishment and even sectors of the environment and 'traditional community' movements on the perceived 'impact' of these activities which, as we shall see, oftentimes are anything but, regardless of sensationalistic headlines and published paper titles to the contrary. We need a less academic, proactive, local-based approach to acknowledge non-extractive uses and promote their benefits and sustainability. LIVING WATER is a call to arms for change, so that Marine Ecotourism can fulfil its promise even better and wider.
Atmospheric changes and the occurrence of diseases in C獺ceres
The characteristics of the climate, its cyclical changes and unexpected variations have harmful effects on society. This book addresses current questions about the implications of climate for the genesis and potentialisation of illnesses in the city of C獺ceres, in the state of Mato Grosso. The data presented here results from the synthesis of a course completion project in Geography (UNEMAT). The main aim of the book is to discuss variations in atmospheric weather as elements that cause or aggravate various symptoms, illnesses and changes in the clinical picture of health, which is the result of the human organism's reactions and vulnerabilities to climatic conditions and atmospheric changes. In this way, improving knowledge about the climate and its variations and effects on geographical space, and the possible risks/threats they pose to the population, are relevant perspectives discussed in this book. The data presented should subsidise and guide urban planning and environmental management.
Bad Naturalist
With humor, humility, and awe, one woman attempts to restore 200 acres of farmland long gone-to-seed in the Blue Ridge Mountains, facing her own limitations while getting to know a breathtaking corner of the natural world. When Paula Whyman first climbs a peak in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in search of a home in the country, she has no idea how quickly her tidy backyard ecology project will become a massive endeavor. Just as quickly, she discovers how little she knows about hands-on conservation work. In Bad Naturalist, readers meander with her through orchards and meadows, forests and frog ponds, as she is beset by an influx of invasive species, rattlesnake encounters, conflicting advice from experts, and delayed plans--but none of it dampens her irrepressible passion for protecting this place. With delightful, lyrically deft storytelling, she shares her attempts to coax this beautiful piece of land back into shape. It turns out that amid the seeming chaos of nature, the mountaintop is teeming with life and hope.
The Water, Energy, and Food Security Nexus in Asia and the Pacific
This Open Access book undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the water, energy, and food (WEF) security nexus with a regional focus on East and Southeast Asia. Individual chapters of this book provide interesting nexus dimensions of the region and explore socioeconomic implications of the nexus approach with a special focus on the cross-cutting issues, including climate change, gender, and trans-boundary cooperation. It also discusses innovative approaches, advanced nexus solutions, and various future scenarios. Finally, it suggests that an improved nexus understanding based on scientific evidence is a key element to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With explosive population growth and economic development, countries in East and Southeast Asia are witnessing competitive consumption of WEF resources across various sectors and across borders. The diverse range of geographical, political, and economic conditions combined with climatechange and urbanization is posing a new set of challenges in the region. The long-term security of WEF, therefore, would need an integrated nexus approach through an enhanced understanding how the interactions between WEF resources are shaped by environmental, economic, social, and political changes in the region. This book is a highly recommended source of information and inspiration for policy makers, research communities and practitioners dealing with any aspect of water, energy, and food security in East and Southeast Asia.
Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love
How Silent Spring stands as a monument to a unique, loving relationship between Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, and how such love underpins a new environmental politics After the success of her first bestseller, The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson settled in Southport, Maine. The married couple Dorothy and Stanley Freeman had a cottage nearby, and the trio quickly became friends. Their extensive and evocative correspondence shows that Dorothy and Rachel did something more: they fell in love. In this moving new book, Lida Maxwell explores their letters to reveal how Carson's masterpiece, Silent Spring, grew from the love these women shared for their wild surroundings and, vitally and increasingly, for each other. Carson had already demonstrated a profound environmental awareness by the time she purchased her home in Maine; Maxwell proposes that it took her love for Dorothy to open up a more powerful space for critique. As their love unsettled their heteronormative ideas of bourgeois life, it enabled Carson to develop an increasingly critical view of capitalism and its effects on nonhuman nature and human lives alike, and it was this evolution that made the advocacy of Silent Spring possible. In Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love, Silent Spring's expos矇 of the dangerous and loveless exhaustion of nature for capitalism's ends is set in bold relief against the lovers' correspondence, in which we see the path toward a more loving use of nature and a transformative political desire that, Maxwell argues, should inform our approach to contemporary environmental crises.
The Environment
It is undeniable that there is a belief in economic development, understood as the growth of production without limits. Despite its dissonance with the modern concept of sustainable development, this belief, which has stood the test of time, continues to hinder the desired relationship of synergy and co-operation between the economic and environmental spheres. New production systems, with the advance of new technologies, have also accelerated the depletion of natural and environmental resources, further reducing the age-old basis of sustainability. As far as the scientific community is concerned, it is likely that environmental degradation, which is increasingly accelerated and multidimensional, is exceeding the limits of sustainability and leading nature to irreversible deterioration, given the environmental liabilities that are accumulating. And although a new era of sustainability is on the way, overcoming its causes, both in urban and rural areas, is still a challenge. The search for a step forward in improving the relationship between society and nature is what motivated this book, which is not limited to political boundaries, although its main focus is on Mato Grosso do Sul.
Climate Financing in Ecuador
Climate change as a global problem requires an urgent global response. It does not respect borders and highlights social, economic, cultural and political problems. It also widens inequality gaps, conflicts and instability between countries. Climate finance is the cornerstone for the materialization of agreements, commitments and the fulfillment of climate goals. This research analyzes climate finance for REDD+ Ecuador under the UNFCCC, directed to PROAmazon. To evaluate the impact of climate finance, a climate investment analysis was conducted to determine the effectiveness, efficiency and equity (3E+) of the activities carried out with these funds, through the variables: deforestation rate, stakeholder participation and land tenure. After the conclusion of PROAmazonian activities in the period 2017-2023, the results show an increase in the deforestation rate, which is considered one of the highest in Latin America, caused by extractivist activities.
Current Sedimentation of the Rio Formoso Estuary - PE (Brazil)
This book focuses on oceanographic research carried out in the Formoso River estuary (08簞39'S/35簞10'W) and aimed to understand the seasonal dynamics of sedimentological and geochemical processes in the estuary. A total of 48 sediment samples were collected in September 2014 and March 2015. Particle size, geochemical analyses were carried out: MOT, CaCO3, TOC, PT, PO and PI and the C/P elemental ratio was calculated. The sediments were predominantly sandy and poorly sorted at both times. The gravel fraction accounted for little of the total samples and the largest proportion of the mud fraction occurred upstream of the estuary.As for the C/P ratio, there were dominant values above 300, indicating the continental origin of the organic matter. Seasonally, there was an increase in the parameters granulation, degree of selection and TOC, and a decrease in the parameters CaCO3, MOT, PT, PO and PI. It can be seen that the estuary is subject to the anthropogenic actions that surround it. It has shown anomalies in the spatial distribution of organic matter in the areas adjacent to the shrimp ponds and under the influence of sewage from the region's urban areas.
Drilling Engineering
This document presents the drilling program design for the Dokety-1 (A4-1) well. This is a deviated exploration well in the Doba Basin, Chad, whose objective is to intersect 2 targets: Kedeni and Mangara, located at depths of 9576.44 ft and 9037.4 ft respectively. In order to carry out this study efficiently, Halliburton Landmark and E-RedBook drilling engineering software were used to design the drilling program. The work followed a precise design process: first we designed the drilling trajectory using COMPASSTM software, then the casing program was developed using StressCheckTM and CasingSeatTM software, taking into account all possible worst-case scenarios that could destabilize the casing, including water hammer for burst strength, and loss of drilling fluid for crush strength. This was followed by the design of the cementing program, drilling mud and drilling tool. Finally, a detailed estimate of drilling time and cost was made using WellCostTM software.
Dreaming of local development
As early as 1980, C繫te d'Ivoire embarked on a policy of decentralization, with the aim of bringing decision-making closer to the people and enabling them to take charge of the running of decentralized communities (communes, regions and districts). Sixteen (16) powers were transferred to these communities by the 2003 law, whose implementing decrees, intended to clarify institutional relations, have not yet been issued. More than 40 years later, the results of this decentralization in social, economic and environmental terms are judged disappointing by informed observers. This lacklustre record is the result of a number of factors, including jurisdictional conflicts between institutional players, the glaring inadequacy of qualified human resources in sufficient numbers, the weakness of financial resources handicapped by the uniqueness of the coffers so deplored by local elected representatives, and above all the absence of a global strategy for the performance of local authorities.
Diagnosis and Management of Small-Scale and Data-Limited Fisheries
Small-scale and data-limited fisheries, often overlooked in global fisheries discussions, are crucial to the livelihoods of millions worldwide. These fisheries, characterized by their limited scale, reliance on local knowledge, and a lack of comprehensive biological and ecological information, face numerous challenges, including overfishing, climate change, habitat degradation, and market fluctuations. Their unique characteristics also pose significant management challenges.To ensure the sustainability of these valuable fisheries resources, effective diagnosis and management strategies are essential. This Reprint aims to provide an overview of the key issues facing small-scale and data-limited fisheries and to offer practical solutions. By examining case studies from diverse regions, it provides practical guidance for researchers, policymakers, and fisheries managers, and equips them with the tools and knowledge needed to address these complex issues. The chapters delve into a range of methodologies that can be applied to promote sustainable resource use and address the unique challenges posed by these fisheries.This reprint is intended to serve as a valuable reference resource for students, fisheries researchers, analysts, policymakers, and managers. We hope it will fulfill its intended purpose of providing insights into the challenges and opportunities associated with small-scale and data-limited fisheries.
Recent Advances in Sedimentology
The aim of this reprint is to immerse the reader in the latest advances in sedimentary geology. From investigations into modern and past oceans and marginal oceanic basins, as well as their marine ecosystems, we aim to unravel the geological dynamics and reconstruct the relevant past and/or modern sedimentary environments. In this reprint, leading experts in the field share their insights, research findings, and visions for the future. Together, we will embark on a journey to unlock the full potentiality of sedimentology for addressing the challenges posed by climate change in the sedimentary archive, the paleoceanographic regime, and the subsequent response of the marine biota through time. Understanding the intricate interplays among depositional processes, sequence stratigraphic controls, diagenetic transformations, and geochemical signatures within clastic and carbonate sequences is particularly essential for unraveling their geological significance and economic potential.
The Topographic Map Mystery
Most drainage system and erosional landform features as mapped on United States Geological Survey topographic maps represent anomalous evidence which the accepted Cenozoic geology and glacial history research community has almost always ignored. These features blanket most continental land areas and include river and stream valleys, drainage divides, mountain passes, through valleys (valley crossing drainage divides), canyons cut across mountain ranges, water gaps, wind gaps, abrupt river and stream direction changes, barbed tributaries, erosional escarpments, and many other similar features. How can the geology research community claim to understand Cenozoic geology and glacial history when geologists have never determined what the well-mapped topographic map drainage system and erosional landform evidence has to say?
The Topographic Map Mystery
Most drainage system and erosional landform features as mapped on United States Geological Survey topographic maps represent anomalous evidence which the accepted Cenozoic geology and glacial history research community has almost always ignored. These features blanket most continental land areas and include river and stream valleys, drainage divides, mountain passes, through valleys (valley crossing drainage divides), canyons cut across mountain ranges, water gaps, wind gaps, abrupt river and stream direction changes, barbed tributaries, erosional escarpments, and many other similar features. How can the geology research community claim to understand Cenozoic geology and glacial history when geologists have never determined what the well-mapped topographic map drainage system and erosional landform evidence has to say?
Urban Mobility
Urban Mobility sheds light on mobility in twenty-first century Canadian cities. The book explores the profound changes associated with technological innovation, pandemic-induced impacts on travel behaviour, and the urgent need for mobility to meaningfully respond to the climate crisis.Featuring contributions from leading Canadian and American scholars and researchers, this edited collection traverses disciplines including geography, engineering, management, policy studies, political science, and urban planning. Chapters illuminate novel research findings related to a variety of modes of mobility, including public transit, e-scooters, bike sharing, ride hailing, and autonomous vehicles. Contributors draw out the connections between urban challenges, technological change, societal need, and governance mechanisms. The collection demonstrates why the smart phone, COVID-19, and climate present a crucial lens through which to understand the present and future of urban mobility. The way we move in cities has been disrupted and altered because of technological innovation, the lingering impacts of COVID-19, and efforts to reduce transport-related emissions.Urban Mobility concludes that the path forward requires good public policy from all levels of government, working in partnership with the private sector and non-profits to direct and address the best urban mobility framework for Canadian cities.
Urban Mobility
Urban Mobility sheds light on mobility in twenty-first century Canadian cities. The book explores the profound changes associated with technological innovation, pandemic-induced impacts on travel behaviour, and the urgent need for mobility to meaningfully respond to the climate crisis.Featuring contributions from leading Canadian and American scholars and researchers, this edited collection traverses disciplines including geography, engineering, management, policy studies, political science, and urban planning. Chapters illuminate novel research findings related to a variety of modes of mobility, including public transit, e-scooters, bike sharing, ride hailing, and autonomous vehicles. Contributors draw out the connections between urban challenges, technological change, societal need, and governance mechanisms. The collection demonstrates why the smart phone, COVID-19, and climate present a crucial lens through which to understand the present and future of urban mobility. The way we move in cities has been disrupted and altered because of technological innovation, the lingering impacts of COVID-19, and efforts to reduce transport-related emissions.Urban Mobility concludes that the path forward requires good public policy from all levels of government, working in partnership with the private sector and non-profits to direct and address the best urban mobility framework for Canadian cities.
The impact of environmental policies
In recent years, for people and organizations worldwide, particularly in urban centers, there has been an increase in concern for integrating environmental policies in search of sustainable and resilient cities. Sustainable and resilient cities prioritize, within their development strategies, the integration of social, economic, and environmental dimensions in the decisions made during the elaboration, implementation, and development of urban projects seeking viability. They favor the present and future quality of life for current and future generations. With the growth of well-developed and interconnected infrastructure, the completion of the development of sustainable and resilient cities is a key issue for urban development. The ancient concepts of urban growth with the dominance of green urbanism and the recent concept of blue urbanism inevitably shape a city in a developed vision. Green and blue urbanism is a holistic, integrated vision of urban planning that incorporates sustainable development principles, considering the structure of the city and its inhabitants. This central objective of green and blue urbanism includes economic, social, urban, and future development.
Land-Use Management to Support Sustainable Settlements in South Africa
This book provides a theoretical and practical foundation needed to change the practice of land use management.
Sustainable Development Goals
Sustainable by passion and deliberate choice, not mere interest, pragmatic sustainability is a model of sustainability that contemplates the three dimensions of environmental, economic, and social factors and does not stop at announcing this concept but ensures that it is implemented in practice and is made concrete after providing analyses that support it. Pragmatic sustainability is based on the concept of altruism, just as the morning sentinels baptized by St. John Paul II defended "life at every moment of its earthly development" to make it "ever more habitable for all". We need PEACE. Not coincidentally, the research project inspiring this Special Issue is titled PEACE (Protecting the Environment: Advances in Circular Economy) and is funded by the Ministry of University and Research under the PRIN initiative, which involves Sapienza University of Rome, University of L'Aquila, University of Ferrara, Unitelma Sapienza University of Rome, and Tor Vergata University of Rome. This Special Issue, "Sustainable Development Goals: A Pragmatic Approach", contains one editorial, nineteen articles, four reviews, and one systematic review with international authors. All papers are highly innovative and support sustainable development goals.
Plant Genetic Resources In Vitro Culture
Plant genetic resources comprise a wide range of plant species, such as herbs, shrubs, and trees, that are of great importance forensuring food, nutrition, and health security. Biotic or abiotic stresses, human activities, and climate change have long threatened the biodiversity in their natural habitat, causing an exponential loss in plant germplasm throughout the world. Thus, there is an urgent need to slow down genetic erosion and support their conservation and sustainable utilization. Advances in biotechnology can generate new opportunities for the rational use and regeneration of valuable plant material by adopting techniques such as in vitro culture and in vitro conservation. The current reprint, "Plant Genetic Resources In Vitro Culture: Present Situation and Prospects for Propagation, Conservation and Sustainable Use", discusses novel approaches toin vitro culture that can positively influence the use of plant genetic resources for biomass or secondary metabolites production, as well as efficient in vitro storage methods and cryopreservation technologies applied to ensure a sustainable supply of high-quality plants as raw materials for different uses.
Decolonising Political Concepts
This book presents a transdisciplinary and transnational challenge to the enduring coloniality of political concepts, discussing the need to decolonise both their theoretical constructions.
Dynamics of Water Surface Flows and Waves
This graduate level textbook and reference takes a theoretical and analytical approach to theoretical surface and wave dynamics over wide ranging lengths and time-scales, from fundamental fluid dynamics, and the dynamics of free-surfaces and interfaces with vortices, to flow theory applications, and breaking wave dynamics.
Reflecting on the City Through Literature
This book develops and demonstrates an interdisciplinary method that reads literary works as a way of thinking about the city. Literary works do not only provide reflections of the city - depictions of the city as an aesthetically compelling setting - but the literary reflection of the city also offers a critical reflection on the city.
Migration, Community and Identity
Migration, Community and Identity analyses experiences of migration to rural Wales from 1965-1980. It focuses on people who were part of the era's counterculture, looking for an escape from mainstream society.
Climate Action in Southern Africa
Using climate justice as an analytical tool, this volume examines the role of local mitigation and adaptation actions in Southern Africa.
Salinity Monitoring and Modelling at Different Scales
The Special Issue offers a collection of articles on various techniques available for soil salinity monitoring and management at different scales, ranging from traditional sampling campaigns to advanced methods like proximal and remote sensing for soil salinity mapping, as well as the application of process-based modeling tools to predict salt transport in soil profiles and its impact on crops and yields. Together, they give an overview of state-of-the-art approaches for coping with one major land degradation process worldwide.
Green Mining
Mining is the basic industry for social development and national economic construction. In the whole process of mineral resource exploration and development, scientific and orderly mining is required. Disturbance to the ecological environment around the mining area is maintained within a controllable range. It is of great significance to understand and achieve improved environmental ecology, enhanced scientific mining methods, the efficient utilization of resources, the digitization of management information, and the harmony of mining communities. This research topic provides a platform for new research and to highlight the recent advances in green mine technology.
Volcanoes
Volcanoes, stands as a beacon in the world of books, bridging the gap between past and present. Once considered among the old books, this classic work-like so many forgotten and ancient books-has shaped our understanding of culture and history. It's a remarkable example of history books that have influenced generations, and now, through the dedication of Alpha Editions-your trusted book publisher-it's reborn in a fresh, elegant format. We've carefully retyped, redesigned, and improved this book so it's much more than just another title to read. Now you can enjoy clear, easy-to-read pages without any blurry scans or faded text. By choosing this edition, you're investing in more than a book-you're safeguarding a legacy. Your support keeps a remarkable piece of human heritage alive, ensuring its lessons and inspirations continue to resonate well into the future.
Volcanic Islands
Volcanic Islands, stands as a beacon in the world of books, bridging the gap between past and present. Once considered among the old books, this classic work-like so many forgotten and ancient books-has shaped our understanding of culture and history. It's a remarkable example of history books that have influenced generations, and now, through the dedication of Alpha Editions-your trusted book publisher-it's reborn in a fresh, elegant format. We've carefully retyped, redesigned, and improved this book so it's much more than just another title to read. Now you can enjoy clear, easy-to-read pages without any blurry scans or faded text. By choosing this edition, you're investing in more than a book-you're safeguarding a legacy. Your support keeps a remarkable piece of human heritage alive, ensuring its lessons and inspirations continue to resonate well into the future.
Volcanoes
Volcanoes: What They are and What They Teach, stands as a beacon in the world of books, bridging the gap between past and present. Once considered among the old books, this classic work-like so many forgotten and ancient books-has shaped our understanding of culture and history. It's a remarkable example of history books that have influenced generations, and now, through the dedication of Alpha Editions-your trusted book publisher-it's reborn in a fresh, elegant format. We've carefully retyped, redesigned, and improved this book so it's much more than just another title to read. Now you can enjoy clear, easy-to-read pages without any blurry scans or faded text. By choosing this edition, you're investing in more than a book-you're safeguarding a legacy. Your support keeps a remarkable piece of human heritage alive, ensuring its lessons and inspirations continue to resonate well into the future.
Volcanoes
Volcanoes: Past and Present, stands as a beacon in the world of books, bridging the gap between past and present. Once considered among the old books, this classic work-like so many forgotten and ancient books-has shaped our understanding of culture and history. It's a remarkable example of history books that have influenced generations, and now, through the dedication of Alpha Editions-your trusted book publisher-it's reborn in a fresh, elegant format. We've carefully retyped, redesigned, and improved this book so it's much more than just another title to read. Now you can enjoy clear, easy-to-read pages without any blurry scans or faded text. By choosing this edition, you're investing in more than a book-you're safeguarding a legacy. Your support keeps a remarkable piece of human heritage alive, ensuring its lessons and inspirations continue to resonate well into the future.
While the Earth Holds Its Breath
When the cold months make you hunker down and hide, how do you teach your soul to open up instead--to new rhythms and unlikely beauty--and begin participating in the unique joy of winter?Helen Moat used to dread winter. When it approached, she would hunker down inside, yearn for the sun, and wait it out. Then, determined to overcome this anxiety, she vowed to set out into the darkness in search of ways to embrace it.Beginning her discoveries at home in Scotland, she moves on across the world through the Arctic Circle to Asia. Along the way, she finds beauty in the small things that only winter can offer. Helen's quest to dispel her seasonal blues has its ups and downs; slowly, though, she learns not only to accept the darkness of winter, but to welcome it. When she travels to Lapland and Japan, their cultural and philosophical attitude to the season is a revelation.While the Earth Holds Its Breath nurtures resilience and determination, finding a joyous positivity that does not ignore the darkness, but finds something to love there.
Trees falling from the road
Many cities have been consolidated in a disorganised way, with no balance between green spaces and buildings. Trees provide shade, regulate the climate, make environments more welcoming, capture pollutants from the air and prevent flooding in waterproofed cities. However, for cultural reasons, they are considered negative by the population: leaves clog gutters, roots destroy pavements, trunks and tops get in the way of wires and, above all, they are susceptible to falls. This book consists of six chapters, the first of which is a brief introduction to the subject. The second provides a broad overview of the influence of climatic variables on tree falls in Piracicaba/SP/Brazil, with an emphasis on wind. Regions where falls are concentrated and the vulnerability of species are identified. The third chapter quantifies the Leaf Area Index (LAI) for different street trees, which was the basis for conducting the next four and five case studies using microclimate simulations with ENVI-met v3.1 software, in order to understand the behaviour of the area under predefined conditions. The final chapter summarises the main findings. Venture forth!
