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The transition to renewable energy is essential for ensuring energy supply, and to mitigate environmental effects of fossil fuels, particularly climate change. However, because renewable energy resources do not provide a constant supply of energy and they are not sufficiently portable for many applications, the development of energy storage methods is necessary. The book reviews historical and current energy use, as well as provides predictions for future energy demands. The main sources of renewable energy are introduced including hydroelectric, wind, solar, geothermal, and biofuels, along with an analysis of the need for energy storage.

This book uses SEA ethnography to provide new insights into human-environmental relationships & ecologies, with theoretical innovations& will interest pol-ecology, environmental anthropology, sustainability & pol.sci, development std., human geography & ecology, SEA & Asian std.

India is the fastest growing and world's third largest economy in terms of GDP in PPP terms. Sustainable development of India will ensure the welfare of the inhabitants of this most populated country. This book assesses trends of natural capital and areas of improvement through climate resilient agricultural adaptation in India.

This book provides an advanced overview of formaldehyde-free binder and materials based on it, including the procedures and prescriptions for their application. It discusses the synthesis of materials, measurement of the physical and mechanical properties as well as the durability, and analysis of the inner structure of such materials.

The book is a useful resource for scientists, professionals, and students engaged in academic and industrial research pertaining to chitin, chitosan, and polysaccharides.

In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Michael Pollan, The Nature of Our Cities is a stirring exploration of how innovators from around the world are combining urban nature with emerging technologies, protecting the planet's cities from the effects of climate change and safeguarding the health of their inhabitants. We live in an age when humanity spends 90% of its time indoors, yet the nature around us-especially in America's cities-has never been more vital. This distancing from nature has sparked crises in mental health, longevity, and hope for the next generation, while also heightening the risks we face from historic floods, heatwaves, and wildfires. Indeed, embracing nature holds untapped potential to strengthen and fortify our cities, suburbs, and towns, providing solutions spanning flood preparation, wildfire management, and promoting longevity. As ecological engineer Dr. Nadina Galle shows in The Nature of Our Cities nature is our most critical infrastructure for tackling the climate crisis. It just needs a little help.  A fellow at MIT's Senseable City Lab and selected for Forbes' 30 under 30 list, Galle is at the forefront of the growing movement to fuse nature and technology for urban resilience. In THE NATURE OF OUR CITIES, she embarks on a journey as fascinating as it is pressing, showing how scientists and citizens from around the world are harnessing emerging technologies to unlock the power of the natural world to save their cities, a phenomenon she calls the "Internet of Nature." Traveling the globe, Galle examines how urban nature, long an afterthought for many, actually points the way toward a more sustainable future. She reveals how technology can help nature navigate this precarious moment with modern advances such as:Laser-mapping that identifies at-risk neighborhoods to fight deadly health disparitiesA.I.-powered robots that prevent wildfires from reaching urban areasIntelligent water gardens that protect cities from floods and hurricanesAdvanced sensors that achieve 99% tree survival in dry, hot summers   Optimistic in spirit yet pragmatic in approach, Galle writes persuasively that the future of urban life depends on balancing the natural world with the technology that can help sustain it. By turns clear-eyed and lyrical, THE NATURE OF OUR CITIES marks the emergence of an invigorating, prescient new talent in nature writing.

This book presents the opinions and perspectives of many eminent researchers, professors and experts from various countries on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

The integrated chapters in this book, authored by prominent scholars, together illuminate the many facets of Lowenthal's biography and written works. This book comes with an updated Editor's introduction and a new afterword by Charles Sumarez-Smith. It was originally published as a special issue in Landscape Research.

This timely book provides a methodological guide for how to conduct and theorize research in human-animal studies. In response to critiques of the anthropomorphic slant to human-animal research, and the increasing political relevance of animals in contemporary environmental debates.

This book aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of food security by exploring the interconnections between agricultural practices, nutritional status, socioeconomic factors, and technological advancements.

This book gives a wide overview of different microbial-based processes for green fuels production. The book also includes techno-economic analysis and highlights strategic, commercial and environmental interests in promoting green fuels.

Between Brexit, efforts to 'Make America great again' and ongoing appeals for patriotic consumption to boost economies, the intersection between national identity, marketing campaigns, and consumer choices has been brought to the fore. This book argues that the history of 'Made in' can be used to shed light on society at large.

(Eco)Anxiety in Nuclear Holocaust Fiction and Climate Fiction demonstrates that disaster fiction-nuclear holocaust and climate change alike-allows us to unearth and anatomize contemporary psychodynamics, and enables us to identify pre-traumatic stress as the common denominator of seemingly unrelated types of texts.

This book presents the potential of using advanced and emerging technologies to effectively treat waste. It uniquely addresses treatment techniques for waste in all three phases, solid, liquid, and gas, with the goals of mitigating negative impacts of waste and producing valued-added products, such as biogas and fertilizer.

This edited collection explores the visibility of modernization in architecture produced in different capitalist regions across the world and provides readers with a historico-theoretical and historico-geographical discussion.

This handbook examines the study of International Relations (IR) in Russia, giving a comprehensive analysis of historical, theoretic-conceptual, geographical, and institutional aspects.

Todd Fisher's photos of New York in winter show slushy, dirty snow. Household objects, TVs, cars and chairs, have been chucked unlovingly onto the street. The home comforts look strange in their new, hostile setting. Photographed over the last decade, the photos preserve moments that would otherwise have long melted away. The photograph is the rescue - temporary scenes that are becoming harder to come across, as the city changes. New York is a city being scrubbed squeaky clean.

This book synthesizes ecofeminist theory, American studies, and postcolonial theory to interrogate what New Americanist William V. Spanos articulates as the "errand into the wilderness". It will be a significant discussion text for students, scholars and researchers in environmental humanities, ecofeminism, and postcolonial studies.

It provides an engaging and contextualised insight into a South African township-based arts centre that has survived the vicissitudes of steady militarisation in townships worst years of apartheid as well as the exhilaration of a new democratic policy while attempting to circumnavigate different policies & funding dispensations.

This book attempts to delineate three main characteristics for an architecture of the EXTERIORLESS.These three aspects-Interface, Expanded Domains, and New Forms of Urbanity-constitute the three main sections of the book.

This book constructs a number of discourses, dialectics, and analyses across the disciplines of urban form, architecture, and urban experience, thus incorporating both conservation and design issues. It will be of interest to architecture, urbanism, urban geography, design studies, landscape architecture, Asian/SEA Studies.