Environmental Science, Engineering & Technology

This book presents the latest research that shows how design thinking, making, and acting contribute to the co-designing and development of product...

Energy as a Sociotechnical Problem offers an innovative approach to equip interdisciplinary research on sociotechnical transitions with coherence a...

The Ocean Sunfishes: Evolution, Biology and Conservation is the first book to gather into one comprehensive volume our fundamental knowledge of the...

Managing Complexity: Earth Systems and Strategies for the Future introduces and explores systems and complexity in relation to near-synchronous wor...

This book is devoted to the study of human thought, its systemic structure, and the historical development of mathematics both as a product of thou...

Indigenous sustainability and environmental management cannot be understood apart from a community, its traditions, and ways of practices. Interest...

In recent years, there has been a rapid expansion of the growing of crops for use in bioenergy production rather than for food. This has been parti...

Eruptions, Initiatives and Evolution in Citizen Activism is the result of a collaborative research project spanning Asia, Africa, Latin America, an...

The new fifth edition of Ecotourism focuses on an array of economic, social and ecological inconsistencies that continue to plague ecotourism in th...

The development of integrated silicon photonic circuits has recently been driven by the Internet and the push for high bandwidth as well as the nee...

Published in 1992, this book concentrates on recent developments, applications and aspects relating to numerical hydraulic models for predicting fl...

Because marine governance in most countries is sectoral, maritime policies are frequently fragmented, reactive, and even contradictory, meaning tha...

Climate change brings about a new set of major economic risks arising from changing weather patterns, extreme weather events and rising sea levels....

The scientific and technological advances that influence the protection of cultural heritage are developing at an ever-increasing pace. Systems to ...

The growth of the administrative state and legislative gridlock has placed the White House at the center of environmental policymaking. Every recen...

This collection of papers is a snapshot of modern hydrogeology in which highly technical methods and approaches sit side-by-side with overlapping l...

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which were adopted by the United Nations in September 2015 are universally applicable in all 193 UN Mem...

This book traces the economic and biological pattern of forest development from initial settlement and harvest activity at the natural forest front...

Strigolactones, Alkamides and Karrikins in Plants: Recent Updates and Future Prospects provides comprehensive knowledge on the various aspects of p...

During the early development and throughout the short history of green/conservation criminology, limited attention has been directed toward quantit...

Volume I of Geospatial Information Handbook for Water Resources and Watershed Management discusses fundamental characteristics, measurements, and a...

Decentralization in Environmental Governance is a critical reflection on the dangers and risks of governance renewal; warning against one-sided cri...

Volume III of Geospatial Information Handbook for Water Resources and Watershed Management discusses water and watershed issues such as water quali...

Intelligent Systems and Robotics focuses on new developments in robotics and intelligent systems and provides insight, guidance and specific techni...