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This textbook provides a foundation for understanding how the changes underway impact structure and function in the world's major biomes, while also describing how evolution has resulted in a multitude of features that shaped plants and their capacities to persist across widely contrasting environments.

This book explores intelligent systems in computing and informatics, focusing specifically on their role in advancing Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No. 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities.

This book explores intelligent systems in computing and informatics, focusing specifically on their role in advancing Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No. 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities.

Truffles are economically valued macro-fungi with numerous environmental, agricultural, and human health applications. They have attracted attention due to their ability to produce varied metabolites of basic, health and industrial significance.

It probes the ethical, practical, and sociopolitical implications of leveraging innovative and disruptive means to address the world's environmental crises. It's of interest to students and scholars of environmental science, environmental decision-making, ecology, climate change, environmental philosophy, and the philosophy of science.

It probes the ethical, practical, and sociopolitical implications of leveraging innovative and disruptive means to address the world's environmental crises. It's of interest to students and scholars of environmental science, environmental decision-making, ecology, climate change, environmental philosophy, and the philosophy of science.

This book focuses on the present and future trends, technologies, as well as regulations for the reuse and recycling of technological waste globally from the perspective of environmental, social, and economic elements of the different connected systems.

Mike Berners-Lee finds new perspectives on the climate and ecological emergency by standing further back, digging deeper and joining up every element of the polycrises that we face. The need for radically higher standards of honesty emerges as the single most critical leverage issue for those seeking meaningful change.

The third edition of this foundational text on housing tenure, housing policy, homelessness, and housing in a global context delves into the complexities of housing and related issues, to provide a deep understanding of housing's relationship to national economic factors and housing policies.

The third edition of this foundational text on housing tenure, housing policy, homelessness, and housing in a global context delves into the complexities of housing and related issues, to provide a deep understanding of housing's relationship to national economic factors and housing policies.

Exploring the ways in which an integrated landscape vision can help deliver regional, national and international agendas, this book investigates how a new idea of landscape can reimagine governance, policy, economics, culture, identity, health, transport and development priorities by connecting with local aspirations and demands.

Exploring the ways in which an integrated landscape vision can help deliver regional, national and international agendas, this book investigates how a new idea of landscape can reimagine governance, policy, economics, culture, identity, health, transport and development priorities by connecting with local aspirations and demands.

The book comprehensively analyses whether a state may be held responsible for environmental damage resulting from its wrongful conduct in international armed conflict. It will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the field of international law, the law of armed conflict, environmental, water and human rights law.

Earth in Flames discusses how the dinosaurs died, and how their deaths parallel what might happen to people after a nuclear war. The book reflects on the odds of future asteroid impacts, how to stop them, and what the readers personally and together can do to prevent a nuclear war, so that humans don't end up like the dinosaurs.

Unifying the Field of Digital Twins for Urban Management presents a holistic and integrated approach to the rapidly evolving field of digital twins for urban management. The framework offers a structured approach that encompasses both theoretical underpinnings and practical applications.

There are currently over eight billion people on Earth: how did we arrive at the current distribution of humans on the planet? What shape is it taking, and how will it evolve? This book proposes an original answer to this, which is based on the explicit desire to place settlement at the heart of its questioning, by varying the level of analysis from global to local. After recalling how humans colonized the entire planet, this book presents their current distribution, which is predominantly urban. Population dynamics (birth rate, death rate and migration) are driving changes - including the demographic decline of certain regions - which are presented and explained from the angle of residential mobility and international migration, as well as the impact of ongoing climate change. Global Settlement Dynamics concludes with a discussion of the future of these settlements, based on data from the United Nations, and the question of the sustainability of human settlements on Earth.

This book investigates various disastrous events and their aftermath in Japan to reveal a novel philosophy of life in contemporary Japan, which link humans, nature, and different forms of nonhumans including scientific technology.

This book provides a groundbreaking exploration of satellite remote sensing's role in tracking the mobility and spread of COVID-19, focusing on its origin in Wuhan City.

Google Earth Engine and Artificial Intelligence for Earth Observation: Algorithms and Sustainable Applications explores a wide range of transformative data fusion techniques of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies applied to Google Earth Engine (GEE) techniques. It includes a wide range of scientific domains that can utilize remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) through detailed case studies. This book delves into the challenges of AI-driven tools and technologies for Earth observation data analysis, offering possible solutions and directly addressing current and upcoming needs within Earth observation. Google Earth Engine and Artificial Intelligence for Earth Observation: Algorithms and Sustainable Applications is a useful reference for geospatial scientists, remote sensing experts, and environmental scientists utilizing remote sensing to apply the latest AI techniques to data obtained from GEE for their research and teaching.

This book provides insights into the functioning of marine ecosystems and their responses to both natural and human-induced drivers within the framework of sustainable marine resource utilization.

Explore the beauty of the Lake District dales with this enchanting and absorbing guide.The Lake District has over 100 dales, many of them tranquil enclaves far from the hectic comings and goings of daily Lakeland life. Yet beyond the main river arteries, most dales remain little-known; some see more sheep and deer than humans. Even locals would be hard pressed to pinpoint some with certainty.Ticking your way through a list of Lake District summits is easy; they stick up and are easily accounted for. Less so the dales. Where, for example, is Blengdale, or Miterdale, seldom-visited Woundale, Fusedale, Moasdale and Pasture Bottom?In Exploring Lake District Dales, Terry Marsh champions the cause of the dales. Diving into their geology, geography, history, culture, folklore and matters of curious and touristic interest, this book reveals the beauty and appeal of dales, great and small.Among captivating text and stunning photography, Exploring Lake District Dales also provides you with essential visitor information such as transport links, the most inspiring visitor attractions and sights, unmissable restaurants and great places to stay, making this book the complete package for all Lake District admirers.

Muddying the divide between land and waterThis interdisciplinary collection delves into the experiences and meanings of life in environments where water levels and availability are in constant flux. Amphibious Anthropologies brings together a global set of case studies, from Italy's historic marshes to the tidal pools of the Bahamas, to show how living with unpredictable wetness has become crucial in the age of climate crisis. The book introduces "amphibious anthropologies" as a framework to challenge the dichotomy of water and land and interrogate spaces marked by rapid and profound environmental change. It brings to light the everyday creativity and uncertainty in wet environments like California's Salton Sea and India's North Bihar floodplain. Engaging with disciplines like anthropology, geography, and STS, this work offers a timely discourse on environmental change and resilience.

Muddying the divide between land and waterThis interdisciplinary collection delves into the experiences and meanings of life in environments where water levels and availability are in constant flux. Amphibious Anthropologies brings together a global set of case studies, from Italy's historic marshes to the tidal pools of the Bahamas, to show how living with unpredictable wetness has become crucial in the age of climate crisis. The book introduces "amphibious anthropologies" as a framework to challenge the dichotomy of water and land and interrogate spaces marked by rapid and profound environmental change. It brings to light the everyday creativity and uncertainty in wet environments like California's Salton Sea and India's North Bihar floodplain. Engaging with disciplines like anthropology, geography, and STS, this work offers a timely discourse on environmental change and resilience.