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The array of colours found on the Scarini tribe (family: Labridae) commonly known as the Parrotfish, is truly astounding and is showcased to breathtaking effect in this book. Michelle Brayshaw reveals the array of colour changes which these fish display through ontological (slow) and physiological (fast) processes.

Low-carbon energy transformations to support carbon-neutral societies is an important and urgent topic and subject to current national priorities and socio-economic planning. This book addresses systematically and comprehensively the low-carbon energy transition in EU membver states, including the barriers and societal implications.

The book explores the complex correlation between blockchain technology and sustainability, demonstrating the potential of cutting-edge computational intelligence methods to address critical environmental and societal challenges.

Nature has often been understood in literature through a disjunction to human systems. This can be seen in the nature-culture binary, or even more clearly in the opposition of 'wilderness' to 'civilization'.

Bringing together the works of 19th and 20th century writers Henry David Thoreau and Anna Shepherd, the book discovers a common approach of poetic forms of writing that enact kinds of poetic environmental activism, and in doing so, re-position them in the context of current environmental crises.

This book evaluates the effectiveness of the Green Belt planning policy in England. It is one of the most well-known strategies internationally, with similar growth restraint policies having been adopted in a diverse range of cities around the world such as Portland, Medellin and Bangkok.

Bringing together 17 authors from diverse perspectives, Insights on Human Rights and Journalism offers an accessible introduction to the characteristics and complexities of reporting human rights issues in a changing media environment.

Bringing together 17 authors from diverse perspectives, Insights on Human Rights and Journalism offers an accessible introduction to the characteristics and complexities of reporting human rights issues in a changing media environment.

This book explores the dialectical relationship between the craft of weaving and the changing climate. The book discusses case studies of creative economy clusters in India. The author employs ethnographic fieldwork to share lived and embodied experiences of climate change.

Challenging conventional leadership models, this timely and pioneering volume offers a critical rethinking of educational leadership in the context of global crises, particularly climate change and social inequality.

This first of its kind volume introduces Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction (DIDRR) in unprecedented critical and interdisciplinary ways covering the complex conceptual, theoretical and practice terrain.

Through an indigenous and new materialist thinking approach, this book discusses various examples in Africa where colonial public art, statues, signs, and buildings were removed or changed after countries' independence.

This is the first book to offer concise treatment of polymer-carbonaceous fill based composites in wastewater treatment. It details recent developments and novel methods for the synthesis of carbonaceous derivatives-based fillers for polymer composites, their characterization techniques, and applications for remediation of water contamination.

Modern Maternities: Medical Advice about Breastfeeding in Colonial Calcutta medical advice on breastfeeding in colonial Calcutta.

Discusses sustainable energy development, the main path for achieving carbon neutrality, and the use of multi-criteria decision making in assessing energy transition in both operational and socio-political forms. It proposes ways to support responsible decision making towards sustainable energy in distribution, household energy, and transportation.

The book covers issues pertaining to uranium tailings with special reference to consolidation of radioactivity including systematic ecological strategy for consolidation of radionuclides in Uranium tailings. It discusses sustainable consolidation of radioactivity and migration of unextracted uranium from tailing piles to plants and atmosphere.

This volume offers spatial theories of the emergent based on a careful close reading of the complete works of nineteenth century writer and mathematician Lewis Carroll-from his nonsense fiction, to his work on logic and geometry, including his two short pamphlets on architecture.

This edited collection discusses various methods by which a firm can create a competitive advantage in a dynamic situation.

The intended audience includes readers at the graduate level in the fields of history, political science, and anthropology, general readers interested in the history of communism. It is hoped that research questions inspire new research for exploring convergent and divergent elements in social transformation in former communist countries.

This book addresses the nexus between science and migration, and examines how the two are inextricably intertwined. It addresses the science of global climate change, and examines how this change is more than a region being too hot or too cold, rather it is also about heightened military tensions, political instability, and other factors.

Life's context is uncertain environmental information, communication is its means, and genes are its tools. Evolution is its yield as continuous non-random self-referential cellular problem-solving.

This book presents URBAL, an approach that applies impact pathway mapping to understand how food system innovations in cities, and their territories, change and impact food system sustainability.

This book argues that the pandemic represents a wake-up call for financial systems to be better prepared for the climate crisis and social risk and has provided a stimulus to scale down the reliance of the global economy on fossil fuels.

This book explores the various issues characterizing the African mining sector, it draws examples from different African countries and regional organisations.

Climate Change and Geodynamics in Polar Regions covers most of the scientific aspects of geoscientific investigation undertaken by Indian researchers in the Polar Regions: Antarctic, Arctic, and Himalayan regions.

The streets and roads constitute an enormous part of civil infrastructure and a large part of our cities- a social resource that must be properly managed and developed. Advances in Design and Testing of Future Smart Roads deals with adapting current road designs to better withstand future challenges.