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Climate-Smart Forestry in Mountain Regions
This open access book offers a cross-sectoral reference for both managers and scientists interested in climate-smart forestry, focusing on mountain regions. It provides a comprehensive analysis on forest issues, facilitating the implementation of climate objectives. This book includes structured summaries of each chapter. Funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme, CLIMO has brought togethe…
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- 12
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- 9783030807672
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- xxiii; 574p; ill.
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- -
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- 634.9 CLI R
Environmental groups and legal expertise : shaping the Brexit process
Environmental Groups and Legal Expertise explores the use and understanding of law and legal expertise by environmental groups. Rather than the usual focus on the court room, it scrutinises environmental NGO advocacy during the extraordinarily dramatic Brexit process, from the referendum on leaving the EU in June 2016 to the debate around the new Environment Bill in the first half of 2020. T…
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- -
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- 9781787358584
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- xxi, 191 p.
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- -
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- 344.4046 ENV C
Creating resilient futures : integrating disaster risk reduction, sustainable…
This excellent text recognises that efforts towards improving development outcomes must work in concert with strategies which promote planetary health and support the transition to a sustainable and climate-resilient future. — Rt Hon Helen Clark, Patron, The Helen Clark Foundation, Auckland, New Zealand. The threat multiplier of climate change is carefully used to examine best practic…
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- 11
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030807917
- Collation
- xix; 257p; ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 363.346 CRE S
CONTEMPORARY FICTION AND CLIMATE UNCERTAINTY : narrating unstable futures
This open access book argues that storytelling is an important resource in coming to terms with the loss of the feeling of living a grounded existence where the future remains relatively stable and predictable. Faced with the specter of climate catastrophe, we lose confidence in the future—a well-documented response in the environmental movement, for example. Yet stories, and in particular so…
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- 7
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781350233911
- Collation
- ix, 232p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 333.7 CON c
A Guide to Sustainable Corporate Responsibility From Theory to Action
This open access book discusses the challenges and opportunities faced by companies in an age that increasingly values sustainability and demands corporate responsibility. Beginning with the historical development of corporate responsibility, this book moves from academic theory to practical application. It points to ways in which companies can successfully manage their transition to a more res…
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- -
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- 9783030882037
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- XIV, 274 p ; ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 658.408 GUI
Sociology of Interdisciplinarity : The Dynamics of Energy Research
This Open Access book builds upon Science and Technology Studies (STS) and provides a detailed examination of how large-scale energy research projects have been conceived, and with what consequences for those involved in interdisciplinary research, which has been advocated as the zenith of research practice for many years, quite often in direct response to questions that cannot be answered (or …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030884550
- Collation
- xix, 125 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 001.4 SOC A
Oxygen Isotopes of Inorganic Phosphate in Environmental Samples
This open access book distinguished itself from other publications by offering step-by-step instructions on how to extract, purify, provide modifications, and major issues to be encountered during the process. For the δ18OP method to progress, further fundamental research as well as field and laboratory studies need to be conducted for a better understanding of P cycling in the environment. Ch…
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- 6
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030974978
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 333.7 OXY J
The Political Regulation Wave : A Case of How Local Incentives Systematically…
Why has there been uneven success in reducing air pollution even in the same locality over time? This book offers an innovative theorization of how local political incentives can affect bureaucratic regulation. Using empirical evidence, it examines and compares the control of different air pollutants in China-an autocracy-and, to a lesser extent, Mexico-a democracy. Making use of new data, appr…
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- -
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- 9781009103664
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- xviii, 164 p ; ill
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- -
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- 363.7392 POL
Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship : Transformative Methods in Social Sust…
This open access book explores creative and collaborative research methods within the social sustainability sciences. The term co-creativity is used in reference to both individual methods and overarching research approaches that, through socially inclusive forms of action and reflection, stimulate alternative understandings of why and how things are, and how they could be. Supported by a wide-…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030842482
- Collation
- xxxi, 559 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 338.927072 COC A
The Birth of Energy : Fossil fuels, thermodynamics and the politics of work
In The Birth of Energy Cara New Daggett traces the genealogy of contemporary notions of energy back to the nineteenth-century science of thermodynamics to challenge the underlying logic that informs today's uses of energy. These early resource-based concepts of power first emerged during the Industrial Revolution and were tightly bound to Western capitalist domination and the politics of indust…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781478005346
- Collation
- ix, 280 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 333.79 BIR C
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