Environmental Management

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is an established methodology used to quantify the environmental impacts of products, processes and services. Circular ...

Port cities have distinctive global dynamics, with long histories of casual labour, large migrant communities, and international trade networks. Th...

Since the mid-1970s, the tropical savanna, known as Cerrado, has been transformed into one of the world's largest grain-growing regions. This book ...

In this important new primer, Dustin Mulvaney makes a passionate case for the significance of solar power energy and offers a vision for a more sus...

Washington 101 offers a layman's introduction to the richness and diversity of the nation's capital. An exploration of the history, politics, archi...

Although the progress of environmental restoration projects in the Florida Everglades remains slow overall, there have been improvements in the pac...

Social Network Analysis (SNA), a quantitative approach to the study of social relations, has recently emerged as a key tool for understanding the g...

In the United States (U.S.), the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976, now known as the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Manage...

Until now, biological invasions have been conceptualised and studied mainly as a linear process: from introduction to establishment to spread. This...

Following the 1917 Mexican Revolution inhabitants of the states of Chihuahua and Michoacán received vast tracts of prime timberland as part of Mexi...

Sustainable management of natural resources is an urgent need, given the changing climatic conditions of Earth systems. The ability to monitor natu...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Discourse about water and power in the modern era have lar...

Ultrasocial argues that rather than environmental destruction and extreme inequality being due to human nature, they are the result of the adoption...

What can you do to improve your health and at the same time improve the health of our home planet? Do you want to be a healthier and more sustainab...

Fatty alcohols are mainly used in the production of detergents and surfactants. They are also components of cosmetics, foods and as industrial solv...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the relationship between tourism and earthquakes through all stages of a disaster. It discusses the me...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the relationship between tourism and earthquakes through all stages of a disaster. It discusses the me...

To understand modern principles of sustainable management and the conservation of wildlife species requires intimate knowledge about demography, an...

The transformation of the built environment during the last few decades has placed enormous demands for land. About 7.7 billion people live on the ...

In August 2007 a Russian flag was planted under the North Pole during a scientific expedition triggering speculation about a new scramble for resou...

Dieses Buch ist eine Brücke zwischen wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen und alltäglichem Handeln für einen gesünderen Planeten. Von der Bewältigung d...