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Carbon pricing is one of the key policy instruments available to help countries reach the goals of the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Applications of Digital Twins and Robotics in the Construction Sector inquires into the transformative impact of futuristic technologies in modern construction.

This edited collection presents successful business succession planning in smaller rural communities where profit margins are low, markets are shrinking, and there are few potential buyers. Chapters outline options for successfully transitioning businesses that have worked in Canada, England, and the U.S.

This edited collection presents successful business succession planning in smaller rural communities where profit margins are low, markets are shrinking, and there are few potential buyers. Chapters outline options for successfully transitioning businesses that have worked in Canada, England, and the U.S.

Building The City elaborates new critical insights into the everyday lives of migrant workers in cities around the world.

Volume 2 of Remote Sensing of LCLUC in South and Southeast Asia handbook explores the complex, dynamic interactions between land use, development, and the environment in the region. With contributions from NASA and regional experts, it highlights the transformative power of remote sensing and ML while calling stakeholders to action.

Volume 1 of Remote Sensing of LCLUC in South and Southeast Asia handbook showcases the practical utility of remote sensing data for effective LCLUC mapping and monitoring. It provides case studies on urban expansion, deforestation, and agricultural intensification and features contributions from NASA and regional experts.

This 2-volume set on Remote Sensing of Land Cover and Land Use Changes in South and Southeast Asia provides an interdisciplinary perspective. Volume 1 explores the drivers of LCLUC and the application in mapping and monitoring LCLUC hotspots. Volume 2 explores the impacts of LCLUC in the environment incorporating ML and DL.

Why modern and contemporary art-and art conservation-can't be understood without taking account of the revolutionary impact of plasticsModern and contemporary art wouldn't exist without the invention of plastics. From sculpture to paint, and photography to film, plastics have shaped every major medium of art. In turn, plastics have revolutionized art conservation, transforming the possibilities of preservation but also producing new challenges for conservators struggling to preserve toxic and degrading material. Hailed as utopian in the twentieth century, plastics today are often understood as pollution and waste-a central cause of ecological crisis. Plastics is the first book to address the multifaceted history of plastics from the perspective of artists, art historians, conservators, and environmental scientists. Plastics demonstrates that this material cannot easily be summarized as toxic or utopian, catastrophic or necessary. Instead, plastics define the modern world in both its possibility and failures. The book also reveals how artists have been a critical overlooked voice in debates about plastics, and how they have offered theories of the material through works that explore its potential and harmfulness. Presenting a variety of perspectives on the world of plastics through the lens of art, artmaking, art history, and art conservation, Plastics shows why and how coming to terms with this material is critical to understanding not only modern and contemporary art and art conservation but also the crises of the twenty-first century.

How the subtle but significant consequences of a hotter planet have already begun-from lower test scores to higher crime rates-and how we might tackle them todayIt's hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we think of it as an impending planetary catastrophe. In Slow Burn, R. Jisung Park encourages us to view climate change through a different lens: one that focuses less on the possibility of mass climate extinction in a theoretical future, and more on the everyday implications of climate change here and now. Drawing on a wealth of new data and cutting-edge economics, Park shows how climate change headlines often miss some of the most important costs. When wildfires blaze, what happens to people downwind of the smoke? When natural disasters destroy buildings and bridges, what happens to educational outcomes? Park explains how climate change operates as the silent accumulation of a thousand tiny conflagrations: imperceptibly elevated health risks spread across billions of people; pennies off the dollar of productivity; fewer opportunities for upward mobility. By investigating how the physical phenomenon of climate change interacts with social and economic institutions, Park illustrates how climate change already affects everyone, and may act as an amplifier of inequality. Wealthier households and corporations may adapt quickly, but, without targeted interventions, less advantaged communities may not. Viewing climate change as a slow and unequal burn comes with an important silver lining. It puts dollars and cents behind the case for aggressive emissions cuts and helps identify concrete steps that can be taken to better manage its adverse effects. We can begin to overcome our climate anxiety, Park shows us, when we begin to tackle these problems locally.

Diary of the voyage of the corvette Uranie, Toulon to Guam 1817 - 1819

Green Technologies for Pollutants Remediation and Recovery from Water and Soil presents a comprehensive examination of sustainable and environmentally friendly methods for remediation and recovery from various types of pollutants in water bodies and in soil.

This book examines ancient Buddhist traditions centered around water. It studies the sustainability and conservation practices of Buddhist monastics and examines how these early practices and ethos are applicable in the contemporary world.

Discusses challenges of repurposing wastewater in agriculture processes, with a special focus on low- and middle-income regions of the world. Topics include the application of wastewater for irrigation, problems in their use, innovative methods of application of the latest technology, Internet of Agribot Things (IoAT), and more.

Discusses reuse of food residue and byproduct valorization of foods. Provides theoretical and experimental methods of valorization techniques for agri-food wastes and byproducts management. Discusses sustainability challenges related to food wastes valorization along with emerging recovery technologies, and more.

Theatres of Compost places ecology at the center of performance scholarship and criticism, and it positions performance as a key cultural process for bringing about a more just and sustainable future.

This book investigates African philosophical contributions to the concept of deep ecology. This book is an important read for researchers, advocates and other stakeholders working in the fields of environmental philosophy, climate change, indigenous studies, and African Studies.