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Itatinga Ecotourism Theme Park Project - Itatinga Ecopark
This book presents the Itatinga Ecotourism Theme Park Project - Itatinga Ecopark. The project is for the Itatinga Hydroelectric Power Station area, in the municipality of Bertioga - Baixada Santista, SP, Brazil. Bertioga is related to the origins of S瓊o Paulo and Brazil, as a strategic point for the first settlements in the 16th century, a landmark in the defense of Vila de S瓊o Vicente - the first official village in Brazil. The SP Council for the Defense of Historical Heritage - CONDEPHAAT - opened the process of listing Itatinga and its facilities (Process No. 40036/2000). The Itatinga Ecopark, through tourist use, aims to guarantee the preservation of the environment and of the historical, cultural, architectural, landscape, technological and scenic heritage. In its conception, in order to consolidate a general vision, planning and formulation of proposals was developed, with identification of thematic content, uses, sizing of support capacity, risks, equipment, environmental preservation and other actions, delimiting spaces with specific objectives, including management. The proposal preserves history, the past and memory in order to achieve sustainable development.
Demographic Rebuild after the Battle of Sexes
The big wars of the 20th century have devastated our beautiful cities and left deep wounds in our people that are visible in the population pyramid. However, it was not before the onset of the Battle of the Sexes in the 1970ies that this population pyramid became permanently disfigured. It is as if there is a war against humanity, beauty, nature, love and life that sucks souls from us humans and the world we live in. Time to end this war and to start rebuilding our people.
Demographic Rebuild after the Battle of Sexes
The big wars of the 20th century have devastated our beautiful cities and left deep wounds in our people that are visible in the population pyramid. However, it was not before the onset of the Battle of the Sexes in the 1970ies that this population pyramid became permanently disfigured. It is as if there is a war against humanity, beauty, nature, love and life that sucks souls from us humans and the world we live in. Time to end this war and to start rebuilding our people.
Foundations of Stream and River Ecology
For students and practitioners, a comprehensive primer on the key literature in stream and river ecology. The study of streams and rivers combines ecology, chemistry, hydrology, and geology to reveal the factors that control the biological diversity and functioning of these unique ecosystems. Although stream ecology is a relatively young discipline, foundational papers published over the past half century have shaped our current understanding of these ecosystems and have informed our efforts to manage and protect them. Organized by topics such as the physical template, community structure, food webs, ecosystem energetics, and nutrient dynamics, the chapters of this book offer summaries of the key literature, historical and contextual information, and insightful discussions of how past research has influenced present studies and may shape future work.
The Mountain
Exploring the complex kinship between mountains and human thought, traditions, and ways of being Since antiquity, mountains have captured the human imagination. The Mountain takes readers into higher realms, exploring the complex kinship between mountains and human thought, traditions, and ways of being. Told through the author's own journeys, the narrative ranges across cultures and iconic naturalists to consider how varied ideas and experiences related to mountains--from sacred to scientific, romantic to retreat, to simply home--are all facets of the same intricate topography. No matter where one starts on the spectrum of understanding, an intimate encounter with a mountain leads to a broader perspective. High places create a simultaneous humbleness at our human insignificance and a sense of belonging within the greater world. That quality of belonging, and the associated commitment of caring for the planet and all that it holds, has never been more important than it is today.
Rainfall impacts in the urban area of Rio Claro - SP
Most Brazilian cities face various environmental problems related to the atmosphere, such as changes in temperature and increased rainfall. As a result, there are countless impacts related to heavy rainfall in cities, which causes various inconveniences to the population, including damage to street and avenue pavements, landslides and flooding. It is clear that more and more impacts caused by rainfall are manifesting themselves in the city of Rio Claro (SP). It is therefore essential to study the location and different types of impacts, so as to enable knowledge of the city's most problematic areas, facilitating the taking of measures by public authorities to resolve the problems encountered. The aim of this study was to map the occurrences of heavy rainfall events in each area of the city of Rio Claro (SP), correlating them with the atmospheric systems involved.
Farming practices and techniques
The rural commune of Gbomblora, in the South-West region of Burkina Faso, relies on rainfed and off-season agriculture. Farmers face major constraints, particularly at the start of the rainy season. The aim of this document is to analyze the constraints encountered in relation to national and communal planning. The start of the season is spread out over time. The practices and techniques implemented are not very efficient, and planning takes little account of them. Instead, the focus is on general food and nutrition security themes and physical achievements. The expected results are certainly relevant, but farmers' needs must be better taken into account. Agricultural projects and programs need to find solutions to the constraints actually experienced by farmers.
Resistance and challenges in securing land ownership
This paper exposes the issue of quilombo land in the state of Sergipe and the struggle of the Mocambo community to have their territory regulated by the responsible authorities, through institutional procedures. It also represents an alternative for this population to strengthen itself in the face of the possibilities of intense change in the agrarian space. The research carried out has made it possible to ponder the conflict relations involved throughout history, and to recover the memory of the main subjects who have historically been part of this struggle to win the right to land ownership through titling in order to maintain their livelihoods, while at the same time transforming and reconfiguring the countryside of Sergipe.
Soil Erosion
Linear erosion is one of the forms of water erosion that causes land degradation through furrows and gullies that reach the advanced stage of gullies. When there is no human intervention, they lead to the loss of arable land and Permanent Preservation Areas (PPAs), the interruption of roads, the contamination of watercourses and also become areas at risk of landslides, accidents and animal deaths. Furthermore, in agricultural areas, they generate excessive costs for municipalities and farmers, in terms of chemical nutrients and working hours, with the use of machinery to maintain roads and crops. This research proposes an analysis of the conditioning factors of the environment (geology - lithology and structure, geomorphology, soil types and land use) in relation to the occurrence of linear erosion processes (gullies/vo癟orocas) in the municipality of Chuvisca, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Environmental performance assessment for small mining operations
This work is the result of a demand for environmental performance information for sand extraction by dredging. It aims to combine the development of a system of environmental indicators with a management practice that is more in line with modern times. Its general objective is to present a set of environmental performance assessment indicators for sand mining by dredging, drawing up guidelines that should be answered and/or observed, making up an environmental report or report on the situation. The writing presents a set of indicators in eight (8) areas: environmental policy; environmental management system; risk management system; legal compliance; product management; financial performance; environmental development and accounting criteria, which are presented in the form of items. The set of indicators applied reports on the environmental situation of companies. In the end, it establishes a hierarchy of environmental behaviour in four (4) classes (reactive, beginning to be implemented, being implemented and proactive), with the two mines studied being in the first class (reactive).
Analysis of Tectonics of Tashkent Region by Satellite Methods
The monograph is devoted to the study of geodynamic processes in the Tashkent region using modern satellite methods. The work focuses on analyzing the stress-strain state of the Earth's crust, identifying tectonic structures and monitoring their changes. Methods such as GNSS, multilevel automated lineament analysis and others are used to determine the parameters of geodynamic processes. The study also includes construction of a geoid model, calculation of point velocities, and analysis of the dynamics of lineament structures.The book is intended for masters, specialists in geodesy, geoinformatics and geology, as well as for researchers dealing with the problems of geodynamics and tectonics.
London Baby Wildlife
'Wildlife' is one of a kind collection of poems devoted to wild urban dwellers. Through rich vocabulary, unusual perspectives, factual references and inspiring illustrations, the author shares incredible depictions of birds, mammals and amphibians. The bat, crow, fox, deer, cut, gull, hedgehog, heron, magpie, parakeet, pelican, pigeon, rabbit, rat, robin, squirrel, swan, terrapin and toad all come together in this beautifully presented poetic recollection.It fits nicely in the hand and makes a wonderful pocket size companion and gift to Londoners, visitors, tourists, guides, city fans, culture and geography explorers, naturists, gardeners and family adventurers across all age groups. It is a must have for any parent wanting to navigate their family through London's wild world in a fun and informative way.
Social and environmental vulnerability in the municipality of Natal/RN
The city of Natal/RN has risk areas due to the occupation of spaces that have legal and/or physical-natural limitations, as well as a lack of urban organization, increasing the vulnerability of the population living there. The aim of the research was to map areas of social vulnerability and natural hazards in Natal, taking into account the interrelationships between social vulnerabilities and differentiated exposure to natural hazards. According to the methodology used to draw up the Environmental Vulnerability Index, the classification of risk areas and their degree of vulnerability was based on morphodynamic processes; and to organize the Social Vulnerability Index, a multifactorial analysis was carried out using data that denoted social disadvantage at the census sector level. Then, by overlaying these two indices, the Socio-environmental Vulnerability Index was created. This research spatialized risk areas, indicating the degree of vulnerability of individuals potentially exposed to natural hazards.
Tourism, local resources and human development
Rural tourism development encompasses the connotation of achieving an improvement in both the well-being of the community and of rural territories in general. It is preferable to plan strategies designed to enhance social, environmental and economic benefits. The starting point for this research is the observation that tourism development, as currently conceived and implemented in Morocco's rural areas, makes no tangible contribution to the human development of the societies and territories concerned. The aim of this research is to analyze emerging forms of tourism in the sidi boulkhalf territorial commune and to examine their potential involvement in the process of enhancing territorial resources with a view to reliable human development. In other words, the aim is to assess how tourism exploits the resources of these areas and what impact it has on human development. The ultimate aim is to define measures for building a local tourism offer that favors a project-based approach.
Public Land and Democracy in America
In recent years the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah has figured prominently in the long and ongoing struggle over the meaning and value of America's public lands. In 1996 President Bill Clinton used the Antiquities Act to create the monument, with the goal of protecting scientific and historical resources. His action incensed Utah elected officials and local residents who were neither informed nor consulted beforehand, and opposition to the monument has continued to make its day-to-day management problematic. In 2017 President Donald Trump reduced the monument's size, an action immediately challenged by multiple lawsuits; subsequently, President Joe Biden restored the monument in 2021. In Public Land and Democracy in America Julie Brugger brings into focus the perspectives of a variety of groups affected by conflict over the monument, including residents of adjacent communities, ranchers, federal land management agency employees, and environmentalists. In the process of following management disputes at the monument over the years, Brugger considers how conceptions of democracy have shaped and been shaped by the regional landscape and by these disputes. Through this ethnographic evidence, Brugger proposes a concept of democracy that encompasses disparate meanings and experiences, embraces conflict, and suggests a crucial role for public lands in transforming antagonism into agonism.
Foundations of Stream and River Ecology
For students and practitioners, a comprehensive primer on the key literature in stream and river ecology. The study of streams and rivers combines ecology, chemistry, hydrology, and geology to reveal the factors that control the biological diversity and functioning of these unique ecosystems. Although stream ecology is a relatively young discipline, foundational papers published over the past half century have shaped our current understanding of these ecosystems and have informed our efforts to manage and protect them. Organized by topics such as the physical template, community structure, food webs, ecosystem energetics, and nutrient dynamics, the chapters of this book offer summaries of the key literature, historical and contextual information, and insightful discussions of how past research has influenced present studies and may shape future work.
Public Land and Democracy in America
In recent years the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah has figured prominently in the long and ongoing struggle over the meaning and value of America's public lands. In 1996 President Bill Clinton used the Antiquities Act to create the monument, with the goal of protecting scientific and historical resources. His action incensed Utah elected officials and local residents who were neither informed nor consulted beforehand, and opposition to the monument has continued to make its day-to-day management problematic. In 2017 President Donald Trump reduced the monument's size, an action immediately challenged by multiple lawsuits; subsequently, President Joe Biden restored the monument in 2021. In Public Land and Democracy in America Julie Brugger brings into focus the perspectives of a variety of groups affected by conflict over the monument, including residents of adjacent communities, ranchers, federal land management agency employees, and environmentalists. In the process of following management disputes at the monument over the years, Brugger considers how conceptions of democracy have shaped and been shaped by the regional landscape and by these disputes. Through this ethnographic evidence, Brugger proposes a concept of democracy that encompasses disparate meanings and experiences, embraces conflict, and suggests a crucial role for public lands in transforming antagonism into agonism.
Electoral Geography
Electoral geography is the study of the spatial dimension of the electoral process. It examines the factors and patterns underlying long-standing ideological and political splits in society and their territorial diff erences, as well as the political activity of voters and their voting habits by administrative and territorial unit, constituency and district. This book conceptualizes and operationalizes the phenomenon of geographic favouritism and spatial disproportionality in electoral and party systems. Spatial statistical analysis and geoinformation modelling are used to develop algorithms for assessing the role of space in the electoral behaviour of citizens. This monograph is aimed at researchers in political science, electoral sociology and election law, as well as political consultants. It can also be used as a teaching aid in a specialized university course on electoral geography.
A Place in Rio
On this academic journey, intertwined with my place, I draw on my lived experience and, together with the members of my community, undertake this saga about our lived universe. This memorable place, inscribed in our hearts and minds, Ilha de Guaratiba, has been metamorphosed by the urbanization march that is taking place in its domains. I was born here. I saw the neighborhood with its rural/agricultural physiognomy in previous decades, now replaced more strongly by urban residential. Considering that the individual cannot be distinguished from their place, the process in vogue has caused a series of spatial/environmental/existential changes to the place. This thesis aims to unveil the geographies of Ilha de Guaratiba using the lived experiences of its residents. The symbolic and/or sentimental metamorphoses that occur in the midst of this spatial event will also be highlighted in this research. Rio is moving forward in the context of major international events and, as such, Ilha de Guaratiba flows into and out of this Olympic perspective.
Barriers to effective Waste Management in Macao SAR
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject Environmental Sciences, University of Saint Joseph (CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL & HEALTH SCIENCE ), course: Governance, language: English, abstract: Empirical studies have shown that the rapid growth and development of the Macau economy did not only improve the standard of living of the local citizens, but also brought a change in their consumption behavior leading to a high level of solid wastes generation. With a limited land resource and growing population, the government of Macau and local waste management companies are currently faced with the challenge of managing the growing volume of solid wastes generated by the local population. It is therefore the focus of this study to identify and examine the barriers to effective solid waste management in Macau.
Birding in Al Qudra
About the Book -This book is intended for anyone who holds even fledgling interest in nature. Our natural habitats, around the world, have been seriously threatened by human encroachment under the garb of development. Unbridled and irresponsible consumption have pushed much of the natural world into near obliteration. However, there is also a growing consciousness that sustainable living and conservation of our natural habitats can coexist with human development. Al Qudra is one such brilliant example. On the outskirts of the bustling hypermodern city of Dubai lies this magical place of conservation. It is seen to be believed how, in the middle of the desert, local authorities carefully nurture a man-made natural ecosystem which routinely attracts migratory birds and allows numerous others to call it their home. There are over 200 species of birds recorded here and increasing. Goutam has tried to share his experience of this natural wonder which reminds us - there is still hope.About the Author -Goutam Mitra is a passionate wildlife lover. His tryst with nature started more than two decades ago when he was based in Japan where he started honing his skills in nature photography. He has lived in South Korea and the Philippines before being based in Dubai in the UAE. Living in all these beautiful countries as well as traveling to many more, Goutam has savoured their natural beauty through his hobby of photography. Photographing birds is his first love and much of his work can been seen on his Instagram page @goutam.mitra2. Goutam's day job is being a Global Marketing professional with a leading multinational corporation. He has two children working in Canada and the United Kingdom and he lives with his wife and his mother in Dubai.
The Urban Space
Breaking with the traditional approach to criminal studies, which was limited to the individual and legal aspects, the spatial dimension of the phenomenon of violence and crime has revealed the role of space in understanding and preventing the problem. Although it is not determinant, this dimension is crucial and its analysis must go beyond the simple spatial distribution of criminal occurrences. This study discusses the relationship between crime, violence and geographical space. To this end, the perception of geographic space was used as a relevant source for understanding the problem, as it takes into account the participation of people who deal with the problem on a daily basis. Based on the assumptions of currents in criminological studies that emphasize the role of space in crime studies, such as Environmental Criminology, it is believed that spatial characteristics not only intervene in the criminal act, but also in people's sense of security.
Land, State and Capital
In Brazil's territorial formation, there is evidence that shows the constant participation of rentier agrarian oligarchies in politics. The oligarchies came to control the state, once the patrimonialist state was consolidated, the core of whose relations is based on political patronage, through nepotism and private interests. The state is in constant dispute between the social classes. However, the power of the hegemonic classes, such as landowners and industrial capitalists, has dominated control of the state, since, in a land-capital alliance, they have used it to secure benefits. The aim of this study is to investigate the land-capital alliance in the municipality of Tr礙s Lagoas/MS, as well as its particularities in the dynamics of earning land rent and profit. In this sense, we considered the presence of the territorialization of cellulosic capital in the territory of Tr礙s Lagoas, which did not alter the local power dynamics. Landowners have diversified their businesses, especially in urban areas, in order to maintain and increase the possibility of earning income for the private realization of their class reproduction.
Landscape Design, Evaluation and Management Created by Novel Technologies
Landscape architecture, traditionally seen as a blend of art and science, is evolving rapidly due to data and technological advancements. This Special Issue reprints 10 groundbreaking articles from Land, underscoring how new technologies transform landscape design, evaluation, and management.The articles explore the following: 1. Expand Landscape Architecture: Advanced tools enable landscape architects to address a broader range of environmental and social issues, fostering sustainability and inclusivity; 2. Innovate Design Practices: Technological breakthroughs enhance creative expression and functionality, leading to more dynamic and user-focused landscapes. 3. Revolutionize Evaluation and Management: Data-driven methods are reshaping project assessment and management, offering deeper insights into user behavior and environmental impacts. These articles represent innovative research in landscape architecture, covering the following: 1. Big data analytics for evaluating public spaces;Generative adversarial networks (GANs) for color rendering in park designs; 2. GIS and machine learning for wildlife habitat analysis; 3. Spatial analysis for assessing urban green space access inequalities; 4. Content mining for insights into tourist perceptions. This Special Issue is significant for landscape architects, urban planners, environmental scientists, and others invested in the future of our built environment, highlighting how embracing innovation helps redefine landscape architecture and contributes to a more sustainable, livable world for future generations.
Separation Techniques and Circular Economy
Efficient separation techniques play an important role in the process of resource recovery, and these techniques include physical, chemical, physicochemical, and/or biological methods that are selected for their low cost and low energy consumption and for being free of secondary pollution. Additionally, the highest possible value added of the separated products is obtained to enhance the economy. This reprint presents novel separation technologies involving the recovery of extracellular polymeric substances, calcium alginate in wastewater treatment, plasmid DNA in gene therapy, lactose in the dairy industry, lactic acid in the fermented broth of kitchen waste, phenylalanine losses in neutralization dialysis, the removal of secondary effluent organic matter, acetaldehyde in the atmosphere, and the purification of the liquid fraction of digestates.
Challenges for Mountain Regions
Mountains make up around a third of the surface area of the world's mainland and islands. While they are home to one tenth of the world's population, they provide resources to more than a third of all humans. Mountain areas are hotspots of biodiversity as well as offering recreation, or even recuperation after an illness, for many people. There is cause for concern as global change in the form of climate change and as globalization threatens mountain areas more intensely than lowlands. Global warming in the mountains occurs up to three times faster than elsewhere and has highly diverse effects. Globalization is hitting ill prepared traditional areas that are hard pressed to hold their own against global competition. Mountain ranges often run across national boundaries and possess conflict potential. At international level and with diminishing resources, these conflicts can arise around minerals and water. At national level, the inaccessibility of some mountain areas makes them a potential shelter for terrorists. For these reasons, mountain research is now becoming all the more important. The aim must be to maintain the functions of mountains and to introduce sustainable development processes. The UN has recognized this by passing the resolution "Sustainable Mountain Development". It adds to the mountain chapter of the Agenda 21 and to the declaration of an International Year of the Mountains in 2002 and 2010. This volume shows that Austrian mountain research is taking up the challenge of global change for mountain regions. The authors are, or have been, members of the Institute of Mountain Research: Man and Environment at the Austrian Academy of Sciences or are working closely with the institute. Readers who love the mountains will find here a new, more problem-oriented, view of these fascinating landscapes.
Between tourism and leisure. The case of the city of Panorama/SP
This paper aims to analyze the process of touristification in the municipality of Panorama-SP. Based on the assumption that tourism is an essentially territorial social practice, since it requires a territory in order to take place, tourism activity, when it develops in a given territory, starts to promote its (re)functionalization through the implementation of a set of objects that meet new needs. It can be said that the territory becomes touristized to the extent that its dynamics tend to meet the demands of tourism activity. This tourist territory is laden with the specifications of tourist activity, such as the "fixity of the product", whereby the consumer moves around, unlike other products which, once produced, continue on to the consumer. The production and consumption of tourist spaces overlap and make up the tourist territory.
Six Peaks Speak
Mountains can tell us much about our past. Six iconic peaks in Central Victoria, Australia: Mounts Kooroocheang, Beckworth, Greenock, Tarrengower, Alexander and Franklin, tower above the rich volcanic grasslands. Each has borne witness to dramatic changes in Dja Dja Wurrung Country over the past two centuries. Six Peaks Speak tells the unique stories and continuing legacies of these mountains from a multidisciplinary perspective. Created as part of Professor Barry Golding's State Library Victoria Creative Fellowship in 2023, it accesses seldom-visited archives, turning the idea of 'settling' on its head, instead using 'unsettling' as its key organising principle. The book threads together insights and evidence from diverse historic sources, including First Nations, geological, ecological, community and reserve management. The peak-specific stories illustrate how many 'taken for granted' aspects of mountains may not be as they seem. This timely book raises questions about the extent to which mountain peaks and their surrounding reserves have been managed in the public interest. In the process, it seeks to answer the broader question, 'How can we help future generations deal with the unsettling legacies of what has happened to mountains?' It makes reference in its conclusion to the origins of International Mountain Day in the US, in the same era as these peaks were being unsettled in Australia in 1838. Aside from what it reveals about the six peaks, the book showcases ideas and methodologies for creatively reconnecting with and healing other mountains and the people who today live on their flanks, and on Country in between.
Aerosol and Atmospheric Correction
When I taking pictures of beautiful sceneries, I gradually know that remote sensing is a complex system. The radiation signal received by the sensor is surface-atmosphere coupled, including the signal of path radiance, surface reflection, and surface-atmosphere interaction, a phenomenon which impedes quantitative information acquisition from both a surface and atmosphere aspect. This reprint collects a series of representative studies in the research field of aerosol and atmospheric correction, mainly focus on the improvement of aerosol identification and retrieval method; atmospheric aerosol formation, transfer, and spatio-temporal variation; and the effect of aerosol on the atmospheric correction and quantitative remote sensing. These advancements help to continuously improve our understanding of atmospheric aerosol and the accuracy of quantitative remote sensing research.
From the dream of freedom to migration for capital
This work, which looks like a book in Geography, attempts to reveal the actions and strategies of sugarcane agribusiness, from the perspective of migrant labor in the sugarcane fields, with the aim of understanding the relations of labor exploitation, taking the specific contradictions of what is happening in the municipality of Gast瓊o Vidigal - SP as a territorial basis. This research has allowed us to unravel the content of the "knots" of sugarcane migrants. Why they migrate to the capital and what assessments are contained in their thoughts about this process, which is being repeated and intensified at the beginning of the 21st century.
Occupancy dynamics and urban heat islands in Porto-Novo
Demographic growth in urban areas is not without consequences for natural resources in Benin, creating a number of environmental problems, including the phenomenon of urban heat islands (UHI). This research aims to analyze the influence of green spaces and built density on the number and intensity of heat islands in the city of Porto-Novo and its surroundings. The methodology combines the processing of satellite images and GIS to analyze land use, the use of the Cellular Automata Markov model to predict future occupation, and the estimation of carbon storage in green spaces. The results reveal a decline in green areas in favor of agricultural and built-up areas. The Jardin des Plantes et de la Nature absorbs 801.206 tC/ha, showing that the more trees there are, the more carbon is stored, reducing greenhouse gases and mitigating UHIs. High UHIs, concentrated in urbanized areas, result in high night-time and daytime temperatures, which can lead to environmental and health impacts.
Evolutionary Process of a Steep Rocky Reservoir Bank in a Dynamic Mechanical Environment
This book details experiments on the evolution of a severely steep rocky reservoir bank, which consider the influence of hydraulic coupling, dry-wet cycles, axial pressure, and time-dependent effects. The results support a new method for determining the stability of dangerous rock masses on reservoir banks.
The Story of the Earth and Man
The Story of the Earth and Man, is a classical book and has been considered important throughout the human history. So that this book is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this again in a modern format book for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
Digital Transforming the Paper-Based Cadastre by Use of GIS Technology
Historically, land was the primary capital in agriculture-based economies, and paper-based cadastre recorded land use and ownership. As practiced in ancient China, the cadastre faced limitations like; difficulty updating maps, wear and tear, outdated coordinate systems, and issues like boundary disputes and high land registration costs (FIG, 2020). Technological advancements, particularly GIS, have transformed cadastres into multipurpose systems essential for modern land governance (Polat, 2019).Despite these advancements, Cameroon still uses a paper-based cadastral system, contributing to its low ranking (178th out of 195 countries) in terms of ease of land registration (WBG, 2019). This research explored the challenges faced by Cameroon's system, including registration duration, user experience, and data security. To address these issues, a tier-3 WebGIS system was developed using open-source platforms like QGIS, PostgreSQL, and GeoServer, resulting in a Cadastral Information System (CIS). This digital system aims to improve the efficiency of land governance. The project also provided recommendations for implementing and scaling the system to enhance land management in Cameroon.
An Analysis of Heat Islands in the City of Caxias Maranh瓊o
The main objectives of this work are to describe the heat island phenomenon in the urban area of Caxias Maranh瓊o, measure the temperature in the morning and afternoon, compare the temperatures in the center of Caxias with outlying neighborhoods and present solutions for mitigating it. We believe that this study is necessary, since the consequences of the occupation and development process in Caxias Maranh瓊o, its poor urban planning, large-scale production of waste (solid, liquid and gaseous) have been causing thermal imbalance, hindering evaporation, reducing the dispersion power of atmospheric pollutants, generated mainly in the city center, which has raised its temperature.
Built and Natural Heritage in a Relationship of Harmony
The diversity of architectural styles and the typological richness of the buildings on Avenida Floriano Peixoto, which have marked different periods in the urban evolution of the city of Penedo, show their importance in the historical context of the place, forming part of the Historic Center's listed universe. The unique value, both historical and artistic, of its buildings and of the street itself, demonstrates the importance of recovering this landscape, which is currently so de-characterized by the disorderly occupation of urban equipment and commercial and service activity. At the beginning of the 20th century, the avenue was characterized as a tree-lined square and its historical monuments were preserved. Today we see a complete lack of trees, uncharacteristic fa癟ades and a great deal of visual pollution as a result of the number of parked vehicles and overhead electrical wiring. It is important to carry out an intervention that seeks a new image for the avenue, requalifying the site through the implementation of afforestation, communal areas and a new road organization, with the aim of improving the environmental comfort of the place, with afforestation as a key element in this process.
The Role of Coal in a Sustainable Energy Mix for India
This volume offers insights into the steps and challenges involved in this transition and addresses some urgent questions about the possible pathways for India's renewable energy generation.
Sustainability and the Philosophy of Science
This book demonstrates how the philosophy of science can enhance our understanding of sustainability and the practices we use to enact it. It is aimed towards academics, researchers, and post-graduates working in sustainability, as well as philosophers of science and environmental philosophers.
Integrated Drought Management, Volume 2
The second volume of this comprehensive global perspective on Integrated Drought Management is focused on drought modeling, meteorological prediction, and the use of remote sensing in assessing, analyzing, and monitoring drought. It discusses risk management, planning, policy, and societal impacts of drought.
Urban Expansion and Food Security in New Zealand
This book examines suburban development in New Zealand and its conflict with and impact on local horticulture and food security.
The Science of Climate Migration
This book addresses the nexus between science and migration, and examines how the two are inextricably intertwined. It addresses the science of global climate change, and examines how this change is more than a region being too hot or too cold, rather it is also about heightened military tensions, political instability, and other factors.
The Basic Economic Framework of Sustainability
The number of questions related to climate, pollution, mass extinction, threats from technology, are on a rise. How to understand our place within the environment, how to create a link between our economy and the environment, how to evaluate natural resources compared to market values? This book is seeking answers to the questions what sustainability means, what happens when our economy, our practice, our life, our political-economic establishment are unsustainable, if the reasonable and theoretically optimal use of resources does sum up to sustainability on the global scale, how technology affects sustainability, if there is anything missing from the Demand-Supply graph. My work intends to answer the less pronounced questions like how to make decisions if our way of life is sustainable or not; in case our answer is not, what we should take into consideration when we look for the way forward.
Statistics & Modeling Regional Climate Variability in China
This anthology reviews the cooperation between scientists from Qingdao and scientists from Hamburg from the 1980s until about 2020. Initially, Professors J羹rgen S羹ndermann (Hamburg University) and Wen Shengchang (Ocean University of China) were the primary drivers of this relationship, laying the groundwork for understanding the dynamics of China's marginal seas, and investigating how to build and run hydrodynamical models of the Bohai and Yellow Seas. Since 2010, this relationship has been further expanded by Professor Hans von Storch (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon) and Professor Chen Xueen (Ocean University of China).Statistics and Modeling of Regional Climate Variability in China focuses on this productive second phase, and deals with methodologies, reconstructions, and potential future climate changes mainly in the Chinese marginal seas. The book reproduces 12 articles that arose from this shared research and contributed significantly to the existing knowledge base. The articles build upon each other, exploring useful applications such as wind energy and scenarios of possible future climate conditions, but also providing basic knowledge, for instance, regarding unforced variability ('noise'). Together they offer valuable insights into various facets of coastal oceanographic and climatic phenomena, and underscore the importance of international cooperation in advancing our understanding of the ocean and climate.
Global Black Feminisms
This timely and informative volume centres how global Black feminist narratives of care are important to our contemporary theorizing and highlights the transgressive potential of a critical transnational Black feminist pedagogical praxis.
Climate Change and Geodynamics in Polar Regions
Climate Change and Geodynamics in Polar Regions covers most of the scientific aspects of geoscientific investigation undertaken by Indian researchers in the polar regions: the Antarctic, Arctic, and Himalayan regions. A firm understanding of the cryosphere region's geological perspectives helps students and geoscientists evaluate important scientific queries in the field.This book will help readers understand how the cryosphere's geoscientific evolution took place in the geological past, climate change throughout history, and how polar regions were affected by global warming. It also discusses how we might expect polar climate to change in the future. A firm understanding of the cryosphere region's geological perspectives helps students and geoscientists answer some of the most puzzling scientific queries and generate new ideas for future research in this field.
Ecolimits in Rio de Janeiro
The management of extensive urban growth has historically been the subject of numerous government interventions that have been translated into urban policy instruments. In some cases, these instruments have taken the form of physical boundaries, reinforcing or creating differentiations inside and outside the city. Throughout the 2000s, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, the notion of ecolimits was used at various times as an instrument for managing urban growth within the city. These were physical delimiters that should be located in the contact between favelas and environmental preservation areas. From a geographical point of view, it is interesting to investigate how these boundaries are produced, materially and symbolically, and what spatial categories are mobilized in policies to contain urban growth and how their interfaces are constructed. Analyzed as a process, the ecolimits policy mobilizes various spatial categories according to the different agents, documents and moments considered here and is constituted as a device for making and unmaking interfaces.
Silent Spring Revolution
New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of the modern environmental movement during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.With the detonation of the Trinity explosion in the New Mexico desert in 1945, the United States took control of Earth's destiny for the first time. After the Truman administration dropped atomic bombs on Japan to end World War II, a grim new epoch had arrived. During the early Cold War years, the federal government routinely detonated nuclear devices in the Nevada desert and the Marshall Islands. Not only was nuclear fallout a public health menace, but entire ecosystems were contaminated with radioactive materials. During the 1950s, an unprecedented postwar economic boom took hold, with America becoming the world's leading hyperindustrial and military giant. But with this historic prosperity came a heavy cost: oceans began to die, wilderness vanished, the insecticide DDT poisoned ecosystems, wildlife perished, and chronic smog blighted major cities. In Silent Spring Revolution, Douglas Brinkley pays tribute to those who combated the mauling of the natural world in the Long Sixties: Rachel Carson (a marine biologist and author), David Brower (director of the Sierra Club), Barry Commoner (an environmental justice advocate), Coretta Scott King (an antinuclear activist), Stewart Udall (the secretary of the interior), William O. Douglas (Supreme Court justice), Cesar Chavez (a labor organizer), and other crusaders are profiled with verve and insight. Carson's book Silent Spring, published in 1962, depicted how detrimental DDT was to living creatures. The expos矇 launched an ecological revolution that inspired such landmark environmental legislation as the Wilderness Act (1964), the Clean Air Acts (1963 and 1970), and the Endangered Species Acts (1966, 1969, and 1973). In intimate detail, this work of environmental history extrapolates on such epic events as the Donora (Pennsylvania) smog incident, JFK's Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Great Lakes preservation, the Santa Barbara oil spill, and the first Earth Day.With the United States grappling with climate change and resource exhaustion, Douglas Brinkley's meticulously researched and deftly written Silent Spring Revolution reminds us that this chapter of US history shows how a new generation of twenty-first-century environmentalists can save the planet from ruin.Silent Spring Revolution features two 8-page color photo inserts.This definitive work of American environmental history reveals: Presidential History: Go inside the White House as John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon are moved to heroic action, passing landmark environmental legislation in response to a rising generation of activists.The Ecology Revolution: Discover the seismic impact of Rachel Carson's groundbreaking book, Silent Spring, and how its expos矇 on DDT launched a movement that redefined public health and conservation.Landmark Legislation: Uncover the behind-the-scenes stories of crucial laws like the Wilderness Act, the Clean Air Acts, and the Endangered Species Acts that protect America's natural heritage to this day.Conservation Movement Leaders: Meet the indomitable figures who fought on the front lines, from Sierra Club director David Brower to Interior Secretary Stewart Udall and labor organizer Cesar Chavez.Pivotal Environmental Events: Witness the epic events that shaped a generation, from the Donora smog incident and the Santa Barbara oil spill to the very first Earth Day celebration.
Risky Futures
The volume examines complex intersections of environmental conditions, geopolitical tensions and local innovative reactions characterising 'the Arctic' in the early twenty-first century. What happens in the region (such as permafrost thaw or methane release) not only sweeps rapidly through local ecosystems but also has profound global implications. Bringing together a unique combination of authors who are local practitioners, indigenous scholars and international researchers, the book provides nuanced views of the social consequences of climate change and environmental risks across human and non-human realms.
