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Weed Ecology and Diversity
The term "weed" is rather subjective, as we are the ones who decide what plants are called weeds, and the term usually carries a negative connotation. However, there is a reason why weeds grow in some places and behave in their particular manner. Today, certain groups of weeds have become extremely rare, and some species have even gone extinct where they were once abundant. Climate change also creates a huge challenge, and weeds often act as indicators of this change.This Special Issue discusses the ecology and diversity of weeds in natural and human-impacted agroecosystems on different continents. The focus is on the weeds' distribution, abundance, and diversity and how anthropogenic factors, pedoclimatic conditions, and genetics create, alter, and destroy specific weed communities.
Feature Papers for Land Innovations - Data and Machine Learning
The Special Issue "Feature Papers for Land Innovations-Data and Machine Learning" makes valuable contributions relating to spatial data science for obtaining, processing, analyzing, harnessing, and visualizing social, economic, environmental, and other data related to land. In particular, this Special Issue welcame geospatial artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques for dealing with spatial big data, including remotely sensed data and social media data. Manuscripts can be theoretical, applied, or review articles. Interdisciplinary manuscripts were particularly welcome as well.
Tangled in Vow & Beseech
Tangled in Vow & Beseech vows to remember what we lose and beseeches us to embrace every moment. Throughout, McCabe Johnson writes intimately about family, nature, and animals, while also protesting the violences of religion, patriarchy, and racism. The lyricism of these poems carries the speaker into the "clear slipstream of memory" to "river me home. River me home."-Craig Santos Perez, author of from incorporated territory [疇mot], winner of the National Book Award for PoetryThrough an array of poetic forms, Jill McCabe Johnson explores a deep sense of interconnectedness. These lyric tangles help us grapple with a life where the ugliest abuses of person and planet occur alongside a mother's love for her son, the grace of childhood innocence, the anniversary of a first kiss, and the understanding that "in this land" of "dogwood blossom, swordfern and fen" is "everything" we need to "believe." -Derek Sheffield, author of Not for Luck, co-editor of Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry, and Poetry Editor of Terrain.org
How to Avoid Going Down the Toilet
A comparison between Earth's cyclical and balanced processes before and after the introduction of humans is made. An analysis of the attempts of the civilized to understand Nature and their eventual turning away from it to construct a reality of their own. This alternate reality is examined through economics, culture, and scientific lenses and their effects on the Earth and its inhabitants. The future is contemplated for humanity and the planet in light of current climatic and other worldwide events such as global warming and depletion of water resources to name just two of many. "How to Avoid Going Down the Toilet" pleads for a change in our attitude toward Nature because it is the final authority on how things work on our planet. The Only Alternative to our current way of life is introduced in Five action steps achievable in our lifetime.
Application of Plant Biotechnology in Forestry
The aim of this reprint is to immerse the reader in the latest biotechnological approaches employed in forestry. From rejuvenation through clonal propagation to somatic embryogenesis, the cryopreservation of germplasm, and the use of molecular techniques and genetic engineering, we aim to unravel the potential and promise of these cutting-edge technologies. In this reprint, leading experts in the field share their insights, research findings, and visions for the future. Together, we embark on a journey to unlock the full potential of biotechnology in forestry, seeking sustainable solutions that balance our insatiable need for forest resources with our responsibility to preserve the harmony of our planet's ecosystems. We pave the way towards a greener, more sustainable future where forests thrive and humanity prospers in harmony with nature.
Hydrological Processes Modelling and Data Analysis
This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of the concepts and methodologies of data and modelling-driven hydrological analyses and their wide range of practical applications. The book is driven by the realisation that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) concepts are essential in engineering hydrology to produce well-trained hydrologists. Such hydrologists will be equipped to face future societal challenges that require enhanced information and communication technology tools and integration of technical and non-technical areas. The book contains 12 chapters that introduce the principles of hydrological data analysis and highlight the current and emerging tools and techniques for analysing hydrologic data. The book describes the types of data typically used in hydrological analyses. It highlights the revolutionary technological advancements made toward hydrological data collection, including the use of drones and smartphones. The foremost objective of the book is to present the hydrological data analysis procedures. It explains the steps involved in data analysis for easy understanding of the reader, including students and professionals. This book presents case studies that demonstrate step-by-step procedures involved in typical analysis problems and may guide students and professionals in planning and executing steps to analyse the problem at hand. Case study examples will guide them to understand the intricacies of hydrological data analysis. It provides the readers with a complete package to enrich their understanding of the hydrological data analysis tools and techniques. Subsequently, as well-trained hydrologists, they could execute their learning to meet any specific grand challenge of the twenty-first century.
Pokot Pastoralism
Examines how pastoral peoples imagine, or even design, their futures under the pressure of changing environments and large-scale government projects. In East Africa and beyond, pastoral groups find themselves and their livelihoods under increasing threat when dealing with rapid environmental change. On the one hand, they contemplate major upheaval as a result of landscape and climate change on a scale never seen before. At the same time, these often-marginalised groups find themselves subsumed by the wider interests of national political economies prioritising new investment in land as well as encouraging tourism. This book investigates one such group - the nomadic pastoralists in East Pokot in north-west Kenya - and traces their social and ecological transformation over the past two hundred years to show how modern challenges are linked to the past history and also shape the perceptions of pastoral futures. In East Pokot the grass bush savannah upon which the pastoral lifestyle depends has strongly declined over a long period of time, with encroachment of acacia. Though traditionally cattle-rearing, its people have been forced to diversify into raising other browsing animals as well as cattle husbandry. The development efforts of the Kenyan government to use natural resources have also threatened their environment and their way of life. Bringing a long view to the history of human-environmental relations, the author reveals a more complex picture of change that, contrary to earlier assumptions, is not due exclusively to the pastoralists' pasture management, but also to the extinction of wildlife populations in the region, which were hunted heavily in colonial times. Attempts to move beyond Pokot territory, to the regions west of Lake Baringo and to the hard-fought Laikipia Plateau, have often been compromised by violent conflicts. While a younger generation looks to develop new sources of income through the job opportunities created by geothermal energy production, and diversify into other agricultural activities, this has also brought a dynamic social transformation: increasing production and sale of alcohol, decreasingly nomadic lifestyle, growing differences between the older and younger generations, and so on. Contributing to debates on future rural Africa, ecological history and environmental change, the book will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, historians and development scholars.Published in association with the Collaborative Research Centre FUTURE RURAL AFRICA, funded by the German Research Council (DFG).
Sustainable Development Leaders
For successful leadership progress, no one should think of, or be put in a position to, start from the top. Leadership development is progressive. It does not mean that if you can walk, you can run! There are six main criteria that individuals should be evaluated on to be pre-qualified for leadership responsibilities. These criteria are: Academic Achievements, Experience, Personal Achievements, Leadership Training, Skills, Loyalty.Sustainable Development Leadership responsibilities necessitate extensive knowledge, experience, and achievements; therefore, the assignment of such responsibilities should be via a vertical movement and not horizontal. Often, Sustainable Development Leadership failure starts from Human Resource Corruption.
Strengthening Cooperation Over Transboundary Groundwater Resources
This book considers various aspects of the management and regulation of transboundary groundwater resources. It presents case studies and explores recent efforts to engage the international community on best practices and global standards for governing transboundary aquifers.
Between Two Rivers
Located in Albuquerque's south valley, Atrisco is a vibrant community that predates the city, harking back to a land grant awarded in 1692. Joseph P. S獺nchez explores the evolution of this parcel over the four centuries since the first Spanish settlers arrived. He tracks its transformation from an individual to a community grant, peeling away the layers of historical events that have made Atrisco the last piece of undeveloped real estate in a growing metropolitan area. S獺nchez examines the creation of Atrisco as a frontier community during the Spanish and Mexican periods and shows how it maintained its identity and land ownership into the American era. He describes the historical processes of colonization, land tenures and transfers, and social and economic activity. He also assesses the transfer of the land grant to a private corporation and its subsequent fate, and considers Atrisco's role in the future of Albuquerque. Today more than 30,000 New Mexicans are descended from the early settlers of Atrisco; and because few places in the United States have retained their Spanish and Mexican influences as have the New Mexican land grants, the history of Atrisco offers a unique perspective. S獺nchez's study preserves Atrisco's origins as part of that area's Hispano heritage, depicting people who learned to defend their culture against outside challenges and embedding local history in a larger regional saga.
The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Environmental Knowledge
The volume provides an overview of key themes in Indigenous Environmental Knowledge (IEK) and anchors them with brief but well-grounded relevant empirical case studies for each of these themes, drawn from bioculturally diverse areas around the world. It provides an incisive, cutting-edge overview of the conceptual and philosophical issues.
Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Heritage
This handbook presents cutting-edge and global insights on sustainable heritage, engaging with ideas such as data science in heritage, climate change and environmental challenges, indigenous heritage, contested heritage, and resilience.
Visual Participatory Arts Based Research in the City
Visual Participatory Arts Based Research in the Cities maps ontological, aesthetic and ethic differences between humanist and posthumanist arts-based research, while providing insight on methodological orientations to develop arts-based research with frameworks based on process-philosophies.
The Anthropocene
This book is devoted to the Anthropocene, the period of unprecedented human impacts on Earth's environmental systems, and illustrates how Geographers envision the concept of the Anthropocene. This edited volume illustrates that geographers have a diverse perspective on what the Anthropocene is and represents. The chapters also show that geographers do not feel it necessary to identify only one starting point for the temporal onset of the Anthropocene. Several starting points are suggested, and some authors support the concept of a time-transgressive Anthropocene. Chapters in this book are organized into six sections, but many of them transcend easy categorization and could have fit into two or even three different sections. Geographers embrace the concept of the Anthropocene while defining it and studying it in a variety of ways that clearly show the breadth and diversity of the discipline.This book will be of great value to scholars, researchers, and students interested in geography, environmental humanities, environmental studies, and anthropology. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
The Urban Politics of Policy Failure
This book contributes to debates in geography and urban studies by analysing the spatial dimensions and politics of urban policy failure.
The Routledge Handbook of Critical Resource Geography
With original contributions from more than 60 authors with expertise in a wide range of resource types and world regions, this handbook offers an essential guide to the study of resources and their role in socio-environmental change.
The Routledge Handbook of Waste, Resources and the Circular Economy
The Handbook introduces, contextualises, critiques, and discusses a range of perspectives associated with the concept of the circular economy, including economics, environmental policymaking, sociology, environmental science, environmental and industrial engineering, management, international development, and human geography.
Intergenerational Challenges and Climate Justice
Climate change poses questions of intergenerational justice, but some of its features make it difficult to determine whether we have obligations of climate justice to future generations. This book offers a novel argument, justifying the present generation's obligation to future people.
The Complete Encyclopedia of Plants
Are you tired of struggling to keep your plants thriving?Have you ever wondered why your plants refuse to bloom, grow, or even survive? Do you find yourself asking why some plants thrive while others struggle? And do you wish there was a comprehensive solution to your gardening challenges?If you're nodding along, you're not alone. The struggle of nurturing plants is a shared experience among many of us.The Complete Encyclopedia of Plants An In-Depth Guide to Plant Care and IdentificationThe author, a seasoned horticulturist with decades of experience, has not only nurtured gardens but also weathered the ups and downs of plant care. They've felt the despair of wilting leaves and the triumph of a blossom in bloom. This guide is born from their firsthand struggles and triumphs in the world of plants.Unlock the secrets behind optimal plant nutrition.Discover the art of soil preparation for different plant species.Master the techniques for pest and disease management without harmful chemicals.Learn the tricks of seasonal care for year-round thriving gardens.Explore the best practices for watering, sunlight, and temperature control.Understand the subtleties of pruning, shaping, and propagation.Get insider tips on how to create stunning landscapes.Decode the mystery of indoor plants and their unique needs.
Mysterious Waters
The investigation of different social viewpoints on the puzzle unfurls as a spellbinding excursion across mainlands and ages, uncovering a rich embroidery of human translation. In Western practices, the traditional Greek logicians moved toward the puzzle with scientific thoroughness, looking for legitimate answers for life's secrets. Judeo-Christian viewpoints entwined the puzzle with divine secrets, welcoming devotees to mull over the indescribable idea of God. The Edification time introduced a shift from strict clarifications to logical request, outlining the conundrum as a test to be demystified through reason.Wandering into Eastern domains, Taoism embraced the riddle as a vital piece of the regular request, upholding for agreement with enormous powers. Harmony Buddhism used incomprehensible koans to rise above common comprehension and access higher awareness. Hindu mystery, with its perplexing layers of the real world, considered the riddle to be an entryway to profound disclosure and an impression of the enormous play (Lila).Native societies, like Local American practices, saw the puzzle from the perspective of nature, participating in customs to associate with the baffling powers of the land. African animism, with its lively practices, utilized functions to explore the conundrum inside the otherworldly domain. In the Cold and Subarctic locales, Inuit and Yupik societies integrated the riddle into their accounts of endurance in unforgiving scenes, mixing otherworldliness and common sense.Southeast Asian viewpoints, affected by Buddhism, saw the puzzler interweaved with the fleetingness of life, inciting supporters to look for edification through reflection. Animist customs in the area found the puzzle implanted in their association with nature spirits. Polynesian societies explored the puzzle of the immense Pacific through modern route strategies, transforming the strange signs of the regular world into guides for marine.In the core of the Center East, Islamic magic (Sufism) embraced the riddle as a profound mission for divine association, communicated through metaphorical verse. Persian magic wove stories of the riddle into accounts of the spirit's excursion and its longing for divine get-together. In the contemporary globalized world, logical realism looked to demystify the puzzle through exact request, while postmodern relativism tested the idea of a widespread translation, underlining emotional and socially built implications.
Denierland
Denierland is the place where sceptics of climate catastrophe have been exiled.Sceptics refuse to bow to the consensus that the Wealthy West faces "Migration crises, civil wars, crop failures, famines, extreme weather, looting, wildfires and flooding" if we don't cut our emissions of carbon dioxide to the fabled "Net Zero." Why? Are we too proud? Funded by fossil fuel interests? Is it pure selfishness? Maybe we're too stupid? Is it because we think climate action is a ruse to install undemocratic global government? Do we think it is all a Chinese hoax to bankrupt the West? Nope, nope and nope again. The reason is far more prosaic. Sceptics have very good evidence that the alarmists' fire and brimstone predictions are wildly exaggerated, and that the measures they propose won't make life better for normal people anywhere. Instead, they will reduce our freedoms and make us poorer.And rationalising all the world's problems onto a single axis - carbon dioxide - won't solve the biodiversity crisis either. It will just make things worse for wildlife. Denierland explains why: CLIMATE CHANGE IS REALHUMAN-CAUSED CLIMATE CHANGE IS REALBUT HUMAN-CAUSED CLIMATE APOCALYPSE IS NOT.
Brief Eulogies for Lost Animals
In this collection of one hundred brief eulogies, science writer and poet Daniel Hudon gives a literary voice to the losses stacking up in our present-day age of extinction. Natural history, poetic prose, reportage, and eulogy blend to form a tally of degraded habitats, and empty burrows, and of the songs of birds never to be heard again.
Routledge Handbook of Energy Democracy
This handbook offers a comprehensive transdisciplinary examination of the research and practices that constitute the emerging research agenda in energy democracy. A premier source for all students and researchers interested in the field of energy; including policy, politics, transitions, access, justice, and public participation.
Rebel, Rebel
Rebel Rebel, An Emergency Dialogue by experimental novelists Susana Medina and Roc Sandford is a blazing call to save our planet from the disasters being cooked up for it. A collage or 'pastiche' of different sorts of writing (dialogue, erotic fable, emails, poetry, texting, short stories, essays), it is a historical snapshot of Extinction Rebellion in 2019 and 2020; a literary experiment scattered with references to Dante, Cervantes, Baudelaire, Kafka, Benjamin, Camus, Szymborska, Ballard, Atwood, Callenbach, Gablik, Gosh and others; an intellectual exposition; and an act of planetary defence, registering the life of a rebel family and the friendship of two rebels.
Rebel, Rebel
Five years ago, experimental writers Susana Medina and Roc Sandford met at the Extinction Rebellion climate protests which were enthralling and irritating people all over the world. Rebel, Rebel, An Emergency Dialogue is a street-level account of those days, a blazing call to help protect our planet from the disasters being cooked up for it, and a collage or 'pastiche' of different sorts of writing (dialogue, erotic fable, emails, poetry, texting, short stories, essays). A historical snapshot of Extinction Rebellion in 2019 and 2020, it is an intellectual exposition, an act of planetary defence which registers the life of a rebel family and the new friendship of two rebels, and a literary experiment scattered with references to Dante, Cervantes, Baudelaire, Kafka, Benjamin, Camus, Szymborska, Ballard, Atwood, Callenbach, Gablik, Gosh and others.
AI for Marine, Ocean and Climate Change Monitoring
The oceans play a pivotal role in regulating the Earth's climate, absorbing excess heat with far-reaching consequences such as rising sea levels and shifts in ocean circulation. To address these complex challenges, there is a growing interest in using advanced statistical, machine learning, and AI techniques to observe and model these ocean processes from space. This approach holds immense potential for identifying and predicting these intricate mechanisms, providing valuable insights into the impacts of climate change. This Special Issue reprint is dedicated to advancing climate science by integrating machine learning, remote sensing, and oceanography. It explores the application of cutting-edge technologies such as artificial neural networks and data-driven algorithms to skillfully analyze and forecast ocean-related processes. These cutting-edge techniques are essential for the challenges posed by ocean warming and its effects, emphasizing the urgent need for interdisciplinary research that combines expertise in AI, machine learning, and earth sciences. By fostering innovation and knowledge exchange, this Special Issue compiles recent advancements in ocean and climate sciences. It offers a wide array of methodological perspectives and tools to enhance our understanding of global and regional climate change monitoring, elevate forecasting capabilities, and clarify sources of uncertainty in predictive models. This effort signifies a crucial step in addressing the challenges arising from technological gaps and the impacts of climate change on our oceans and the planet.
Advanced Oxidation Process
This topic has tried to know the current state-of-the-art advanced oxidation technologies and the green technological solutions that can be offered at the industrial level for today's society. It is a multidisciplinary topic that has collaborated with several journals, including "Catalysts, Processes, Sci, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, and Water," to cover the broad areas of solutions/applications that the current state-of-the-art technology offers.
Climate Change, Shifting Cultivation and Livelihood Vulnerabilities in India
​This book explores how climate change affects households that rely on shifting cultivation and how to assess their vulnerability. This study looks at micro and macro levels in Indian states with indigenous communities practicing shifting cultivation. The micro-level study has been conducted in 52 villages, with 1469 households covering 7067 population in seven states of India in the Northeastern region. The book covers different topics related to climate change, such as its patterns, impact on households and agriculture, forest management, and the role of indigenous knowledge in mitigation. This research is associated with different sectors like shifting agriculture, forestry sector, climate change and rural development etc. and integrated with large respondents and stakeholders through both direct and focus group discussions. Research scholars, climate activists, institutional and non-institutional organisations, people interested in environmental science, social science and policymakers will find this book very relevant.
Environmental Footprints of Drought
"Environmental Footprints of Drought: Focusing on Emerging Issues and Their Underlying Mechanisms" features studies on understanding the climate system's vulnerability, droughts relationships with large-scale climate patterns, underlying effects of droughts and land-atmosphere feedback using observations or modeling studies, targeted field campaigns, or long-term measurements ranging from local to regional spatial scales. The papers published in the Special Issue offer a comprehensive exploration, ranging from hydro-meteorological, atmospheric feedbacks and socio-economic implications. Notably, publications pivot around forecasting drought events using data-driven approaches and provide applications on how earth observation datasets can used for drought monitoring, comprehensive evaluations of drought characteristics and associated drivers, watershed warmings, drought vulnerability for agricultural systems, and groundwater droughts.
XIII General Meeting of the Russian Mineralogical Society and the Fedorov Session
This book presents the materials of the XIII General Meeting of the Russian Mineralogical Society. Over 190 participants prepared the result of their scientific work on mineralogy: mineral diversity and the evolution of mineral formation (S1); minerals as markers of petro- and ore genesis and new methods of their determination (S2); mineralogy and formation conditions of deposits of strategic minerals (S3); problems of applied (technological and ecological) mineralogy and geochemistry (S4); natural stone in art and architecture (S5); modern research in the field of stone and gemological studies (S6); mineralogical crystallography, crystallochemistry, and new minerals (F1); history of science, museumification, and popularization of natural science knowledge (F2). The Russian Mineralogical Society is the oldest mineralogical Society in Russia (from 1817). The Russian Mineralogical Society joins more than 1200 researchers from universities, academic and industryinstitutes, and production organizations in Russia's major scientific centers. The Society has 17 sections, including crystallochemistry, radiography and spectroscopy of minerals, ore mineralogy, technological mineralogy, experimental mineralogy, ecological mineralogy and geochemistry, and new mineral nomenclature classification. The main scientific and organizing event for the Russian Mineralogical members is the meeting session, organized every fourth year.
Holy in My Nature
Fretwell uses indents, varied line lengths, and single line stanzas to emphasize her verse that reflect both poise and poignancy on the impact humans are having on the planet. Her earthy affection is delivered in a contemporary Canadian style that, put in a musical context, would compare to a soulful sax-jazz rhythm, combined with rapped alliteration and set in a classical theory of personal point of view. Fretwell breathes what she feels. At times, deadly serious, or seriously funny, she holds a beat to the world's telling problem, humanities careless activity, that mirrors a Burtynsky photo like an expenditure statement of accounts owing. Keith Inman, author of "The War Poems -Screaming at Heaven" What might we say is ''the usefulness of poetry"? Might it give us hope for a rescuing from past and present harms, a restoration of nature's equilibrium, what the biologists call homeostasis, the balance within the ecology we have disturbed by our hubris, our greed to consume, our proclivity for destruction, and even the ironic taxonomy of Adam's role in naming the beasts and husbanding the flock betrays a kind of vanity. Perhaps we are simply intelligent parasites doomed to self-destruction. There seems to be a sufficiency of wildfire, flood, drought, hurricane, to warn us we're on a path to ruination. Katerina Fretwell in her book, Holy in My Nature, uses the word 'solastalgia' to help the reader begin to comprehend the individual and collective malaise we feel because of the deleterious impact we're having on our environment. Climate change, the loss of wilderness, mass extinction, the melting of the polar ice caps, and on and on we seem to go. She dedicates her book 'to nature lovers, everyone concerned about our planetary impact." Her poems make a compelling argument. Might the voice of the poet be called upon to awaken humanity to a kind and gentler stewardship? Fretwell writes in one poem, "Nature sings, listen " and reading these poems is a form of deeply attentive listening, and that's the doorway to the possibility of healing. John B. Lee, Poet Laureate of Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Sustainable Land Use and Management
With the rapid development of urbanization and social economy, the utilization and protection of land have become one of the great social problems globally. Unreasonable land-use planning and allocation are gradually reducing the efficiency and sustainability of urban land use, and also branching out the conversion scale of farmland to construction land. Farmland reduction and urbanization not only give rise to ecological environmental issues, such as land degradation, environmental pollution, carbon emission increases, and so on, but also induce many social problems around land interests. We hope that if sustainable development and a harmonious human-land relationship can be integrated into the land-use planning and management processes, it will be possible to fulfill the diversified requirements of urbanization and minimize adverse ecological and social impacts at the same time.This Special Issue gathers together studies regarding sustainable land use and management from different research perspectives, aiming to contribute to the global challenges of sustainable urban and rural development in a rapidly urbanizing world.
CLIMATE.help.EU
Thinking at EU, national and regional level and acting locally is not a contradiction, but rather a dynamic energy policy. If someone tells you that they can explain the opportunities and possibilities of environmental and climate aid within a few minutes, then you should be extremely skeptical. This book CLIMATE.help.EU introduces you to the numerous tangents of climate aid and the energy transition in an exciting way. The many interfaces of the energy transition are not necessarily immediately obvious, but the regional and local swarm contributions are of great importance for the common multiple. The renaturation, the sustainable bridge technologies, the climate-neutral future technologies, the sector coupling (Power-to-X) of electricity + heat + gas products + fuel products with hydrogen . . . the regional and local opportunities are manifold and have already triggered a booming job engine with German technology know-how and German infrastructure know-how in addition to the proof of concept for the energy transition. Hydrogen energy storage is the comprehensive bracket for the sustainable energy transition with environmentally neutral technologies to reduce climate change. This book CLIMATE.help.EU would like to engage you in an imaginative dialog on the energy transition and has a broad target group: interested citizens, students and teachers, municipal and regional actors, urban planners, politicians, entrepreneurs, actors in the construction industry, in agriculture and in the energy industry . . . as well as basically all people who keep asking themselves what sustainable action can look like. In the most positive sense, this book CLIMATE.help.EU actually dispenses with cautionary scenarios and starts directly with the presentation of the promising possibilities in the potential grid of the EU energy transition. The success of the energy transition depends crucially on the start and speed of implementation of defined goals, which requires determinati
Enigmatic Mists
Perplexing Fogs Reverberation Across Mainlands, winding around an embroidery of secret and interest that rises above topographical limits. These subtle fogs, covered in ethereal magnificence, manifest themselves in assorted scenes, making a permanent imprint on the creative mind of those lucky enough to observe their cryptic dance.Picture a far off mountain range, where the pinnacles reach towards the sky, darkened by wisps of the puzzling fogs. Here, the air is fresh and slim, and the scene is changed into a strange dreamscape as the fogs spread out their spooky ringlets. The mountains, when emotionless and steady, become transient, their shapes mellowed by the cover of secret. One could feel a feeling of wonderment, as though seeing a divine execution organized by powers outside human ability to understand.Adventure further, and the perplexing fogs navigate mainlands, wrapping old timberlands in a shroud of extraordinary polish. As they wander through thick coverings, the actual pith of the trees appears to reverberate with the murmurs of the fog. The air becomes accused of an illogical energy, as though the fogs hold the insider facts of time itself. In the midst of the transcending trees, their trunks darkened by the moving fog, one could track down comfort in the dreamlike hug of nature's persona.Across tremendous deserts, where the sun singes the earth, the baffling fogs manifest in an alternate pretense. Here, they are not ethereal wisps, but instead hallucinations that dance not too far off, prodding the exhausted voyager with deceptions of far off desert gardens and shining lakes. The parched scene changes into a delusion loaded dreamscape, where reality and deception entwine, obscuring the limits between what is substantial and what exists just in the domain of the puzzling.On waterfront shores, the confounding fogs take on a charming sea structure, coming in from the huge territory of the sea. They cover the waterfront bluffs like a divine breath, obscuring the line among ocean and sky. The pungent air conveys a feeling of old insight, as though the fogs have borne observer to the rhythmic movement of developments all through the ages. Remaining on the cliff, one might feel an association with the everlasting beat of the tides, directed by the cryptic fogs that cross the sea scope.
Statistics and Data Visualization in Climate Science with R and Python
A comprehensive overview of essential statistical concepts, useful statistical methods, data visualization, and modern computing tools for the climate sciences and many others such as geography and environmental engineering. It is an invaluable reference for students and researchers in climatology and its connected fields who wish to learn data science, statistics, R and Python programming. The examples and exercises in the book empower readers to work on real climate data from station observations, remote sensing and simulated results. For example, students can use R or Python code to read and plot the global warming data and the global precipitation data in netCDF, csv, txt, or JSON; and compute and interpret empirical orthogonal functions. The book's computer code and real-world data allow readers to fully utilize the modern computing technology and updated datasets. Online supplementary resources include R code and Python code, data files, figure files, tutorials, slides and sample syllabi.
Securitizing Marine Protected Areas
This book presents a novel examination of Marine Protected Areas within a security context, bridging science, policy and geopolitics, and addressing the often-under-emphasized aspect of environmental justice.
Machine Learning, IoT and Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development
Nowadays, the newest technologies, devices, and techniques related to IoT, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are constantly developing. Therefore, they have a significant impact on our sustainable lifestyle. Accordingly, the application domain of these technologies and tools involves agriculture, water management, healthcare, bioinformatics, smart grid, smart cities, security, and so on. In addition, the IoT has brought an innovative perspective that is totally distinct from the usual approaches: the former consists of a device that can communicate with the network and is capable of implementing intelligent solutions. The goal of this Special Issue is to create a common gateway between researchers, allowing them to exchange and share their results related to the application of IoT, artificial intelligence, and machine learning in various domains.
Subcritical
Subcritical: Third Culture Field Notes explores an innovative, interdisciplinary collaboration between scientists and artists. Based on a project funded by the National Science Foundation that studies how climate change influences the breakdown of rocks and the cracking of mountains, Subcritical integrates the arts with scientific research to communicate findings. Subcritical brings together scholarly and theoretical essays as well as richly illustrated artwork and case studies of design investigations. This novel work represents the type of multidisciplinary synergies possible when artists and scientists collaborate with each other.Volume edited by Martha Cary (Missy) Eppes, Marek Ranis, and Jose L. S. Gamez. Essays contributed by Martha Cary (Missy) Eppes, Jose L. S. Gamez, Ken Lambla, Brook Muller, Marek Ranis, Monica Rasmussen, and Melissa Riker.
The Earth is Wrapped in Plastic
Modern societies have discovered that plastic can cause severe harm to the environment and human health. But, do enough people know how poor plastic control and dispensation can specifically impact them to care for and make a difference? The Earth is Wrapped in Plastic gives a detailed overview of human dependence on plastic and the potential consequences of plastic pollution. Understanding the history and manufacturing of plastic helps explain the massiveness of the problem that would take a lot of effort and people to mitigate the effects of unsustainable plastic use. Growing pressure on governmental agencies and large corporations has effectively started the push for safer consumption of plastic and environmentally-friendly alternatives. Sustained efforts would help reduce our 'plastic footprint' on the Earth.
Two Years Before the Mast
"Two Years Before the Mast" by Richard Henry Dana Jr. is a gripping memoir that chronicles the author's adventurous two-year sea voyage from Boston to California aboard a merchant ship in the mid-1830s.This classic work, first published in 1840, offers a vivid, unvarnished glimpse into the life of a common sailor during a bygone era. Dana's journey takes him from the harsh winters of Cape Horn to the bustling ports of Alta California, then a province of Mexico. His narrative is rich with details about the challenging conditions at sea, the intricate hide trade in California, and the diverse cultures he encounters. The memoir stands out for its authentic portrayal of maritime life, highlighting the struggles and triumphs of sailors, as well as the natural beauty and peril of the sea. Dana's experiences are both educational and deeply personal, offering a unique perspective on early American maritime history. His work not only captures the spirit of adventure but also served as a critical commentary on the social and working conditions of sailors, making it a timeless piece of American literature.
Transitioning to Zero Hunger
In 2015, the United Nations decided to establish the goal of achieving "zero hunger" in the world by 2030 through "outcome targets" such as eliminating hunger and improving access to food, ending all forms of malnutrition, promoting sustainable and resilient agriculture, and maintaining genetic diversity in food production. As a result of this decision, strategies are under way in different countries around the world in the form of political, academic, development, and non-governmental organization projects and programs. Five years later, these strategies have certainly generated results that need to be documented and analyzed so as to answer the following questions: what are the progress and success stories in terms of policies, innovations, technologies, and approaches to reach the zero hunger goal? What are the constraints and mitigation strategies? Are we really in a phase of transition towards the zero hunger goal? What new directions do we need to consider to achieve this goal, particularly in the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic, which affects all sectors of development around the world? This book volume will be published within MDPI's new open access book series entitled "Transitioning to Sustainability". It welcomes contributions of empirical research, position pieces, and presentations of important research programs or stakeholder initiatives that cover any of the four "outcome targets" of the zero hunger goal. The contributions may come from academics, students, and policy makers of any region in the world and may be related to specific discipline or inter and/or transdisciplinary. Transitioning to Zero Hunger is part of MDPI's new Open Access book series Transitioning to Sustainability. With this series, MDPI pursues environmentally and socially relevant research which contributes to efforts toward a sustainable world. Transitioning to Sustainability aims to add to the conversation about regional and global sustainable development according to the 17 SDGs. Set to be published in spring 2020, and coinciding with the SDGs' 5-year anniversary, the book series is intended to reach beyond disciplinary, even academic boundaries. Furthermore, Transitioning to Sustainability will be presented and serve as a basis for discussion at the World Sustainability Week, to be held from 14-19 September 2020 in Geneva.MDPI supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. For use of the SDG logos and design, please see the according Guidelines for the use of the SDG logo, color wheel, and 17 icons.
What Happened Was
In Katharine Haake's new eco-fable, What Happened Was, emissaries from the post-world return to us with accounts of a future that spools itself out because we're not paying attention. In it, everything looks a lot like now, only a little different. Intimate, precarious, often beguiling, sometimes hilarious, and never free of political context, these reports are haunted by loss. Whether parts of the body or children in trees, things disappear in this world without warning or sense as everything fades toward oblivion and dead parents taunt from the grave: What made you think you were so special it wouldn't happen to you?
Wild & Free in the City
In the bustling world of concrete jungles, finding your inner calm and reconnecting with nature might seem like a distant dream. But what if I told you that you can tap into the wisdom of the natural world without leaving the city? "Wild & Free in the City: An Urbanite's Guide to Finding Nature's Pulse Amid the Hustle" is your guide to transforming urban landscapes into havens of tranquillity, inspiration, and personal growth. Your journey through the pages of this book will reveal that the wilderness is not a distant, inaccessible realm but is available within your reach, within the city's heart, and within your soul. You will explore dozens of accessible, practical ways to reintroduce nature into your daily life, not as an idyllic, distant dream, but as a tangible, everyday reality.
Water Resources in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin: Impact of Climate Change and Human Interventions
This open access book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date picture of the current state of knowledge covering climate change, surface water change, arsenic pollution, water utilization, water-food-energy nexus, water related hazards, water management, and water governance in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin. Considering the widely concerned fact that the climate change and human intervention induced impacts on water will bring unprecedented threats to human societies and ecosystems, the book intends to support UN's sustainable development goals through sustainable use of water by providing the most accurate and updated information on climate and water changes in a consistent way. Underlying all aspects of the book is a strong commitment to assessing the science comprehensively, without bias and in a way that is relevant to policy but not policy prescriptive. It can provide implications to support decision-makers and stakeholders for integrated water resources management and sustainable development at all levels.
Language of Trees
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Inspiring. . . . insights that are scientific, intimate and surprising. . . . a call to action for those who still care."--The Washington Post Inspired by forests, trees, leaves, roots, and seeds, The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape invites readers to discover an unexpected and imaginative language to better read and write the natural world around us and reclaim our relationship with it. In this gorgeously illustrated and deeply thoughtful collection, Katie Holten gifts readers her tree alphabet and uses it to masterfully translate and illuminate beloved lost and new, original writing in praise of the natural world. With an introduction from Ross Gay, and featuring writings from over fifty contributors including Ursula K. Le Guin, Ada Lim籀n, Robert Macfarlane, Zadie Smith, Radiohead, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, James Gleick, Elizabeth Kolbert, Plato, and Robin Wall Kimmerer, Holten illustrates each selection with an abiding love and reverence for the magic of trees. She guides readers on a journey from creation myths and cave paintings to the death of a 3,500-year-old cypress tree, from Tree Clocks in Mongolia and forest fragments in the Amazon to the language of fossil poetry, unearthing a new way to see the natural beauty all around us and an urgent reminder of what could happen if we allow it to slip away. The Language of Trees considers our relationship with literature and landscape, resulting in an astonishing fusion of storytelling and art and a deeply beautiful celebration of trees through the ages.
South Africa's Water Predicament
The book provides a critical evaluation of South Africa's freshwater resources to illustrate the way in which its freshwater resources, water access, services and infrastructure have continued to decline over the past three decades. The continued decline of water governance, management, water service delivery, dilapidated water infrastructure, dysfunctional local governments and overall excessive water degradation is illustrated and emphasized using real-life examples and case studies from various contexts within the country.The main argument of the book is that South Africa's freshwater resources have declined to such an extent that it can be described as a predicament. Questionable water governance decisions and reactive water management practices have led to no improvement and/or increased degradation of freshwater resources. An overall lack of service delivery exists across the country, in various contexts, leading to further water and social decline.An inter-disciplinary evaluation of South Africa's current water predicament is provided, major water crises are prioritized, and suitable recommendations are given to transform its predicament into problems which can be addressed. Suitable background information is given to emphasize the necessity of good water governance, management, and service delivery. South Africa's freshwater resources are evaluated with specific focus on the decline of informed water governance, management, service delivery and water quality. Factors requiring urgent attention are determined and suitable recommendations and/or actions are provided.An evaluation and overall synthesis focused on the transformation of the predicament into problems is provided. Primary water problems are prioritized according to urgency and suitable recommendations are given to assist in transforming the country's current complex water predicament into "simpler" water problems. Political will, collaboration with researchers, stakeholders, non-governmental organizations, and cooperation of civil society is required.South Africa's already scarce freshwater resources and decaying infrastructure will persist and possibly collapse if no major actions or interventions are implemented.
Nature's Advocate
This book explores in detail the last ten years at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida. There is a story about the spread of the Burmese python throughout south Florida. Another examines guiding development east of Highway 941 and in Lee County when the State of Florida took overwetlands destruction permitting. An additional tale reveals how mangrove forest research in the estuaries played heavily into recommendations for hurricane protection. And, a chapter or two about new campus facilities. These stories and others celebrate 60 years of education featuring natural resource and wildlife protection in search of a better southwest Florida.
Nature's Advocate
This book explores in detail the last ten years at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida. There is a story about the spread of the Burmese python throughout south Florida. Another examines guiding development east of Highway 941 and in Lee County when the State of Florida took overwetlands destruction permitting. An additional tale reveals how mangrove forest research in the estuaries played heavily into recommendations for hurricane protection. And, a chapter or two about new campus facilities. These stories and others celebrate 60 years of education featuring natural resource and wildlife protection in search of a better southwest Florida.
