This volume addresses pivotal problems about our planet’s environment and ecology. It highlights inter-related topics from agriculture to global health and concludes with an ethical analysis of the multiple, overlapping challenges that require urgent attention.
The Great 1976 Tangshan Earthquake
In 1975, China predicted the Haicheng earthquake, saving thousands. Eighteen months later, jubilation turned to despair when the unpredicted Tangshan quake killed over 250,000. This book explores this epic success and failure and offers a viable future for earthquake prediction.
This book helps naturalists, nature stewards, and students comprehend basic statistical concepts as a bridge to more complex themes. Using the Florida scrub as an example, it connects with the needs of field practitioners, focusing on the analytical decision-making process.
Globally, over two thirds of soils are affected by constraints, causing significant yield loss. This book brings together global experts to outline the most successful strategies to manage these constraints for sustainable food production worldwide.
Despite a demand for public spaces in Nairobi’s Central Business District, existing ones are under-utilized. This book analyzes their spatial evolution and sustainability, establishing factors for creating better-utilized spaces suitable for commerce, transit, and recreation.
Coastal Management Revisited
An overview of the maturing field of coastal and ocean management. Written by leading experts, it reviews 25 years of research on issues from governance to climate change, drawing on global case studies to address urgent challenges and propose a new theory of coasts and oceans.
Third-Party Risk Policies in the Netherlands
Keeping people safe in the densely populated Netherlands means balancing public health against the profits of industries creating hazardous risks. This book explores this balancing act, offering valuable insight into how sustainable policy can be achieved for all.
History can teach leaders to solve complex environmental problems. Through case studies of forest management in Australia and the USA, this book reveals how non-linear thinking leads to success. While historical contexts change, the principles for tackling them do not.
Integrated Waste Management
This book investigates Circular Economy (CE) solutions to the issue of waste. It merges science and management to offer practical, techno-managerial solutions for transitioning to a low carbon economy, exploring both managerial aspects and advances in technical detailing.
This book investigates municipal solid waste in India, covering both urban and rural challenges. It considers waste prevention strategies like recycling and reuse, and highlights the connection between waste management, clean water, and sanitation from an Indian perspective.
This guide presents practical guidelines on how to find your creative role in the journey to sustainability. It offers innovative ideas for solving pressing global challenges and invites you to examine your values to achieve personal victories on the path to a better world.
This book contributes to a better understanding of the environment and climate change, assisting students in scoring higher marks in competitive exams. It covers environmental ecology, bio-diversity, natural hazards, disaster management, climate change, and other key topics.
This collection of influential essays and articles will help your community develop people-first strategies for becoming smarter and more intelligent. Learn from in-depth global examples of innovation, connectivity, sustainability, and inclusive, equitable growth.
General Principles of Ecological Risk Assessment
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the modern concepts and tools for ecological risk assessment of environmental stressors. It describes methods to evaluate exposure and effects, with sections on bioaccumulation models, emerging stressors, and regulatory instruments.
Technological development is threatening to make the earth uninhabitable. This book presents scientific and engineering perspectives on promising, cost-effective technologies for restoring degraded environments and producing clean, low-carbon energy.
Protected areas are our most effective tool for conserving biodiversity, but their success hinges on effective management. This book assesses national and natural parks, comparing data from 2005, 2009, and 2022 to offer crucial suggestions for our protected area systems.
Global waste threatens our ecosystem, but it also presents an opportunity. This collection of essays discusses transforming underutilized biomass waste into value-added products, covering sources, techniques, and policies for a circular economy.
Climate change and biodiversity decline are today’s major challenges. This book offers a bird’s eye view of these interconnected crises and details practical policy imperatives for mitigating their impacts, promoting the essential link between biodiversity and climate action.
The Finance Sector and Climate Change
While fossil fuel interests are blamed for thwarting climate policy, this book shows the financial sector’s influence is greater. It funds a ‘climate crisis’ narrative to serve its investments in renewables, imposing restrictions that harm the developing world, as revealed here.
Studying Shanghai and Nanjing, this book examines the behavior and impact of pollutants in developing metropolises. It offers innovative solutions, including a method to distinguish human-added trace metals in soil from natural levels. A guide for researchers and policymakers.