Natur

This book revitalizes the discourse on backsliding democracy and the global rise of autocracy, extending the consequences of their changes to a sustainable future.

This book develops a methodological framework for measuring the efficiency of regional integration and the integration profile of member states. It includes rich case studies, which offer a comparative analysis of ten integrations spanning four continents. The book shows the importance of regional economic integration in the world economy.

This book is not about aspirational living; it's about practical living. It's about looking at the world around you and finding where it's at fault, rather than blaming yourself. It's about dropping the comfortable prisons we create for ourselves to find the real freedom and happiness we deserve. We live in a world that is overfed but malnourished, sunlight deficient, overly competitive, sedentary, and sleep deprived. Our blood pressure and stress levels are at record highs, our mental health at record lows. Our eyes are strained from looking at screens all the time, and our backs are killing us. We buy far too much of what we don't need, and we aren't even pooing in the right position!Yet step outside, maybe walk a few minutes down the road, and you will inevitably see plants bursting with nourishment, hear calming birdsong, breath in fresh air, move your stiff body. Perhaps we have the answer to all our modern malaises right here, outside our own homes. Perhaps it is time for a New Wild Order. Join forager, author, dad, and everyday fella Andy Hamilton, as he answers his own call of the wild, and discovers how it might just save his life - and yours.

This book examines ten select projects to illuminate Fehn's approach to the city, the embodiment of that thinking in his designs, and the broader lessons those efforts offer for better understanding the relationship between architecture and urban life.

This book provides an original and compelling analysis of registration as a dynamic process which makes and unmakes legal identities.

The essays collected in this book offer a variety of critiques of the modernist idea of endless growth in the fields of architecture, literature, philosophy, and the history of science. They range in scope from studies of the history of modernity to reflections of our contemporary world.

The comprehensive case study presents the research results of an international team established within the "CCS-CCU technology for carbon footprint reduction using bio-adsorbents" (BIOCO2) project.

This book is an analysis of the philosophical chapters of the Tattv¿rth¿dhigama (TA) & includes the first English translation of its oldest commentary, the Tattv¿rth¿dhigamabh¿¿ya (TABh). It will be of interest to those studying Indian philosophy, Indian thought and Asian Religions.

This book explains selection of suitable technology for waste treatment and energy recovery under different conditions. It contains techno-economic analysis, life cycle assessment, optimization of tools and technologies including overview of various technologies involved in the treatment of wastes and factors influencing the processes.

This book explicitly brings together Cognitive Digital Twins for smart lifecycle management of built environment and infrastructure and focuses on the challenges and opportunities of data-driven cognitive systems by integrating the heterogeneous data from multiple resources.

Environmental finance and green banking are central drivers of the transition to a sustainable economy and essential components in solutions to climate change. This book presents the latest research on theory and practices in these interdisciplinary fields, incorporating both public and corporate finance.

This volume explores the dialogic relationship between myths and places in the historically, geographically and culturally diverse context of India.

This book presents an overview of modeling and simulation of environmental systems via diverse research problems and pertinent case studies, covering air pollution modeling, sustainable water resources modeling, IoT based applications in environmental systems, and future algorithms and conceptual frameworks in environmental systems.

This book takes a deep dive into the innovation aspect of the circular economy (CE), with a specific focus on India as a geography. It lays foundations on mainstreaming and challenges of RE / CE pertaining to global supply chain including innovation within businesses and need for collaborations, partnerships, and frameworks.

This book highlights plastic disposal especially microplastics and the consequences on environment and reaching human diet through food chain and web transmission, and contamination through processing and packaging of various human food items including water and beverages, including their origin, distribution and categories.

This book provides a detailed account of the political economy around investment deal negotiations between African governments and private Chinese investors. It will be of interest to researchers working on Chinese and African investment, politics, institutions, business, economics, and international relations.

This pioneering monograph examines how culture informs popular understandings and experiences of mental health in East Asia, as well as providing resolutions for the future.

Andrew Bibby walks south from Edinburgh through the Scottish borders to the Cheviots and the English border and then carries on until he reaches North Yorkshire and the river Swale. His journey is one of discovery into the distinctive landscapes of the border lands,

A narrator and her dog are criss-crossing the Swiss Alps. She travels with friends who share her interest in food, languages and their topographical contexts. They collect colours, even look for colourlessness, and develop the idea of a walk-in diary, a vain attempt to archive their observations. Gradually, other mountains appear in their observations and memories, as do the mountains of literature and art. Mountains may be sites of fear and awe, of narrow-mindedness, racism and ever-looming collapse; Alpine lodges may be places of hospitality, retreat and unexpected encounters; of nature under threat. In 515 notes, Zsuzsanna Gahse unfolds a finely woven interplay between her six characters while giving us a vivid panorama of mountain worlds, a multi-layered typology of all things mountainish.