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.
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Birdwatching in Maine
An invaluable site guide for New England birders, now available in a new updated edition. With over 470 species of birds recorded, Maine offers an abundance of birding opportunities for people of all levels of interest and experience, from those looking beyond their backyards for the first time to knowledgeable visitors looking to plug a hole in their list of sightings. The state's wealth of undeveloped land and its extensive coastline, countless islands, and varied habitat combine to host an impressive diversity of birds at all times of the year. Birders travel to Maine from near and far to seek hard-to-find species, from the only Atlantic puffins breeding in the United States on offshore islands to Bicknell's thrushes high in the mountains. This book fills an important niche for the birdwatching community by offering comprehensive entries detailing the best locations for finding birds throughout the state for enthusiasts of all levels of skill and interest. It contains descriptions of 202 birding sites in Maine, with explicit directions on how to get there, for all sixteen of the state's counties, several as large as other New England states! Each chapter features a county map, a brief overview by Derek J. Lovitch, numerous specific site guides, and a list of rarities. The book also contains a detailed and useful species accounts guide for finding the most sought-after birds. Lavishly illustrated in color throughout, Birdwatching in Maine is the best available resource for finding birds in the largest of the New England states. This updated edition features a new introduction, as well as new birding sites and maps.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sustainable Farming of Giant Freshwater Prawn (Macrobrachium Rosenbergii) in India
Ocean Depths Yield Secrets
Underneath the immense spread of the world's seas lies a domain of unmatched secret and interest - the sea profundities, a space covered in haziness, yet overflowing with mysteries ready to be disentangled. As courageous voyagers and researchers dig into the deep profundities, an embroidery of oceanic secrets starts to unfurl, offering a brief look into the cryptic world that has charmed human creative mind for quite a long time.The sea, covering over 70% of the World's surface, has for quite some time been a wellspring of interest and motivation. Notwithstanding, it is the deep profundities, the significant and subtle locales of the sea, that have remained generally neglected as of not long ago. With headways in marine innovation and the appearance of submarines, researchers have started to open the mysteries concealed underneath the devastating tensions and ceaseless murkiness of the remote ocean.One of the most convincing disclosures from the sea profundities is the revelation of old wrecks that have quietly laid on the sea floor for quite a long time. These oceanic time containers give a window into the past, offering a substantial connection to former periods and sea societies. From incredible vessels lost adrift to neglected shipping lanes, the sea profundities hold the protected remainders of oceanic history, ready to be unraveled and perceived.As wayfarers dive further into the chasm, they experience environments and life shapes that oppose creative mind. Odd and powerful animals, adjusted to get by in outrageous circumstances, wander the profundities in a fragile dance of endurance. Bioluminescent living beings enlighten the dimness, making a hypnotizing exhibition that challenges how we might interpret life's cutoff points. The sea profundities, a long way from being ruined, harbor a rich embroidery of biodiversity that proceeds to flabbergast and baffle researchers.Past the natural ponders, the sea profundities likewise disguise geographical wonders that shape the World's hull. Submerged volcanoes, aqueous vents, and remote ocean channels are only a couple of instances of the unique geographical cycles unfurling underneath the waves. These elements add to the World's actual development as well as assume an essential part in managing worldwide environment and supporting life in the sea's profundities.Also, the sea profundities hold the way to grasping the many-sided elements of the World's environment and the effect of human exercises on marine biological systems. As scientists gather information on sea flows, temperatures, and synthetic structures from the deep profundities, they gain significant experiences into the many-sided trap of associations that connect the remote ocean to the more extensive environment framework. This information is vital for resolving squeezing natural issues and carrying out maintainable practices to shield the sensitive equilibrium of our planet.
Sodium Minerals
Sodium minerals, the geographical fortunes concealed underneath the World's surface, assume a critical part in both regular cycles and human progress. These minerals, rich wellsprings of sodium, one of the fundamental antacid metals, are dissipated across the globe, ready to be uncovered and used for different modern, agrarian, and mechanical purposes. The essential wellspring of sodium minerals is underground stores, frequently found in sedimentary rocks like halite (rock salt) and trona. These land arrangements result from the dissipation of old oceans and lakes, abandoning concentrated stores of sodium compounds. The extraction of sodium minerals includes mind boggling cycles of mining, penetrating, and refining, requiring a cautious harmony between natural manageability and asset use. One of the most plentiful sodium minerals is halite, a translucent mineral generally known as rock salt. Halite stores are vital for preparing our food as well as for modern applications like de-icing streets and assembling chlorine and harsh pop. Trona, one more huge sodium mineral, is dug for its sodium carbonate content, which finds applications in glass creation, water mellowing, and different substance processes. Past their modern applications, sodium minerals contribute essentially to horticulture. Sodium is a fundamental supplement for plants, and certain sodium minerals act as regular composts, upgrading soil fruitfulness and advancing harvest development. Understanding the land dispersion of these minerals is imperative for manageable farming works on, guaranteeing ideal soil wellbeing and yield efficiency. Besides, sodium minerals assume an essential part in propelling innovation. Sodium compounds are essential parts in the development of different materials, like earthenware production, cleansers, and drugs. The investigation and extraction of sodium minerals consequently become necessary to mechanical progressions, driving advancement in different ventures.
Water Resources and Sustainable Development
This Reprint is designed to serve as a platform for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to disseminate their most recent findings, innovative ideas, and effective strategies to address the critical issue of water security. This volume encompasses sixteen chapters, organized into four principal thematic areas: Hydrochemical Characteristics and Water Quality, Impact of Human Activities on Water Resources, Water Management Strategies, and Technological Applications for Water Resource Management. By amalgamating a diverse range of studies across various geographical and contextual backgrounds, this Reprint provides a sweeping overview of the current state of water resource management and its pivotal role in sustainable development.
The Nexus of Climate Change and Land-Use - Global Scenario with Reference to Nepal
This book delves into the intricate connections between land use and climate change in Nepal, shedding light on significant challenges and potential opportunities.
Urban Resilience and Climate Change in the Mena Region
This book provides an overview of the geopolitical context and climate change risk profile of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region.
Method and Technology of Green Coal Mining
residual coal pillar; gob-side entry driving; extra-thick coal seam; coal pillar size; surrounding rock control; directional long borehole; long-distance; heading face; permeability evolution; gas pressure evolution; gas drainage; pre-splitting blasting; roof cutting technology; hydraulic fracturing; no-coal pillar mining; thick hard roof; pressure relief technology; sandstone; deformation behavior; permeability evolution; mining stress path
The Other of Climate Change
If the predictions are correct, climate change will force millions of people from their homes, threatening a future of humanitarian crises, political violence, and strife. In The Other of Climate Change, Andrew Baldwin intervenes in the international political debate about climate change and human migration to tell a different story. He argues that international attempts to govern those who stand to be displaced by climate change are as much or more to do with resuscitating European humanism at a moment in which geophysical phenomena like climate change and the Anthropocene threaten to extinguish the human altogether. Through detailed interpretations of the figure of the climate migrant/refugee, Baldwin traces the contours of an emerging form of planetary racial rule - racial futurism - unfolding in the context of the climate change crisis. He shows how racial futurism takes shape as a political response to the crisis of humanism that is said to lay at the heart of the climate change crisis. Along the way, he examines numerous themes that are at the forefront of contemporary thinking about climate change and politics, including the political, humanism, sovereignty, neoliberalism, the international, and race. Ultimately, the book is a plea for scholars, activists, and policymakers to take seriously the way race and racism are bound up with the political discourse on climate change and migration and to ask what this means for the wider political debate about climate change and the future.
Mysteries Of The Deep Blue
The secrets of the dark blue sea have dazzled the human creative mind for quite a long time, welcoming us to investigate the mysterious domains underneath the waves. This tremendous and generally unknown world holds mysteries and marvels that keep on escaping our comprehension. From the 12 PM zone's inky profundities to the dynamic coral reefs close to the surface, the sea disguises secrets that challenge our insight and fuel our interest. Perhaps of the most captivating secret lies in a twilight zone, a faintly lit locale where daylight scarcely enters. Here, odd and supernatural animals explore the limitlessness in close to murkiness. Bioluminescent living beings, equipped for delivering their own light, make a hypnotizing display as they gleam in the inky profundities. The biodiversity in this zone remains to a great extent unseen, with endless species yet to be distinguished. More profound still, in the deep zone, aqueous vents discharge geothermally warmed water, making a desert garden of life in a generally unwelcoming climate. These outrageous environments, covered in dimness and high strain, have strange animals adjusted to flourish in conditions that were once remembered to be contrary with life. Monster tube worms, spooky white and a few feet long, group around these vents, testing how we might interpret the restrictions of life on The planet. The sea's profundities additionally conceal the leftovers of old civic establishments and wrecks, protecting authentic secrets that keep on catching the creative mind of students of history and archeologists. Submerged urban communities and buried treasures lie undisturbed on the sea depths, holding on to uncover their insider facts to the people who try to investigate. The submerged archeological locales, like the lowered city of Pavlopetri in Greece, offer a brief look into the secrets of our past, saved by the dark blue's defensive hug. However, maybe the best secret of the dark blue lies in the neglected districts that actually evade us. The Mariana Channel, the most profound point on the planet's seas, arrives at profundities of north of 36,000 feet. This goliath abyss stays quite possibly of the least-investigated region on The planet, with its outrageous circumstances and squashing pressures introducing considerable difficulties to investigation. What secretive animals and topographical marvels anticipate disclosure in this deep territory? The secrets of the dark blue sea allure researchers, voyagers, and visionaries the same to unwind the mysteries concealed underneath the surface. As innovation propels, permitting us to dive further and all the more definitively into the sea's profundities, the cover over these secrets gradually lifts. Nonetheless, with every disclosure comes the acknowledgment that the sea, covering more than 70% of our planet, actually holds innumerable insider facts ready to be uncovered. The secrets of the dark blue keep on moving stunningness and light an enthusiasm for revelation, helping us that our comprehension to remember the sea is just starting to expose the marvels that lie underneath.
Fixing America
Have you been wondering about the big issues dominating the news? Is climate change a massive threat or not? What is really going on with immigration? More importantly, how did American politics become so divided and hostile?Finally, one of America's top engineers has brought these topics and others together in a thought-provoking book. This book is rooted in history, facts, and logic, and it lays out solutions to America's problems. A book focused to get Americans talking to one another again, so we can rise to the occasion and solve today's problems together.
The Climate Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER We still have time to change the world. From climate activist Greta Thunberg, comes the essential handbook for making it happen. You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. There is hope--but only if we listen to the science before it's too late. In The Climate Book, Greta Thunberg has gathered the wisdom of over one hundred experts--geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists; engineers, economists and mathematicians; historians, philosophers and Indigenous leaders--to equip us all with the knowledge we need to combat climate disaster. Alongside them, she shares her own stories of demonstrating and uncovering greenwashing around the world, revealing how much we have been kept in the dark. This is one of our biggest challenges, she shows, but also our greatest source of hope. Once we are given the full picture, how can we not act? And if a schoolchild's strike could ignite a global protest, what could we do collectively if we tried? We are alive at the most decisive time in the history of humanity. Together, we can do the seemingly impossible. But it has to be us, and it has to be now.
The Cultural Value of Trees
This volume focuses on the tree, as a cultural and biological form, and examines the concept of folk value and its implications for biocultural conservation.Folk value refers to the value of the more-than-human living world to cultural cohesion and survival, as opposed to individual well-being. This field of value, comprising cosmological, aesthetic, eco-erotic, sentimental, mnemonic value and much more, serves as powerful motivation for the local performance of environmental care. The motivation to maintain and conserve ecology for the purpose of cultural survival will be the central focus of this book, as the conditions of the Anthropocene urgently require the identification, understanding and support of enduring, self-perpetuating biocultural associations. The geographical scope is broad with chapters discussing different tree species from the Americas and the Caribbean, East Asia, Eurasia and Australia and Africa. By focusing on the tree, one of the most reliably cross-culturally-valued and cross-culturally-recognized biological forms, and one which invariably defines expansive landscapes, this work illuminates how folk value binds the survival of more-than-human life forms with the survival of specific peoples in the era of biocultural loss, the Anthropocene. As such, this collection of cross-cultural cases of tree folk value represents a low hanging fruit for the larger project of exploring the power of cultural value of the more-than-human living world.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of conservation, biodiversity, biocultural studies and environmental anthropology.
Glorious Mud
How did a boy from the South Dakota prairies end up as a tropical oceanographer?When he was young, Gregg roamed the hills on horseback, hunting for fossils and rattlesnake dens, dreaming of adventure in faraway lands.Fuelled by a boundless thirst for knowledge (and exotic food), always open to the call of serendipity, Gregg abandoned a budding career in music to go in pursuit of ....MUD.Why mud? Layers of sediment in lakes and oceans reveal the sequence of everything that has settled through the water, from pesticides to bomb fallout.This history helps us to understand man-made impacts on the natural world. Unravelling these stories took Gregg to the ends of the earth: drilling throughlake ice in the high Arctic, dangling precariously over the ship's rail in the Coral Sea, or wading up to his hips in Fly River mud. It was exciting, often dangerous work. He loved it.Devoted family man, accomplished musician, respected scientist: Gregg found his adventures. This is his story.
