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  • America’s Most Sustainable Cities and Regions

    Surviving the 21st Century Megatrends

    by John W. Day, Eric Roy, Matthew Moerschbaecher, David Pimentel, Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia, Charles Hall, Chris D'Elia ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book takes you on a unique journey through American history, taking time to consider the forces that shaped the development of various cities and regions, and arrives at an unexpected conclusion regarding sustainability. From the American Dream to globalization to the digital and information revolutions, we assume that humans have taken control of our collective destinies in spite of potholes ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Coasts and Estuaries

    The Future

    Edited by Eric Wolanski, John W. Day, Ramachandran Ramesh, Michael Elliott ...
    Coasts and Estuaries: The Future provides valuable information on how we can protect and maintain natural ecological structures while also allowing estuaries to deliver services that produce societal goods and benefits. These issues are addressed through chapters detailing case studies from estuaries and coastal waters worldwide, presenting a full range of natural variability and human pressures. ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Mississippi Delta Restoration

    Pathways to a sustainable future

    Edited by Jori A. Erdman, John W. Day ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is a new and provocative treatment dealing with and defining sustainable pathways for the restoration of the Mississippi Delta. Based on a consideration of natural functioning of the Mississippi delta, factors that led to its severe deterioration, and major global trajectories of the 21st century, the authors investigate possible future pathways for sustainable management of the delta. ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota

    Volume 4, Ecosystem-Based Management

    by Hector Alafita Vásquez, Mr. William W. Arzapalo, Donald M. Baltz, Alfonso Banda, Donald F. Boesch, Luis Capurro Filograsso, John F. Caddy, Ernesto A. Chávez, Francisco A. Comin, Michael Dardeau, Alejandro Fierro-Cabo, Lisa González, Gerardo Quiroga Goode, José R. Hernández Santana, Jorge A. Herrera-Silveira, Sergio Jiménez Hernández, Eric Jordan Dahlgren, Ana Laura Lara-Domínguez, L. James Lester, Patricia Méndez-Linares, William J. Mitsch, Maria A. Ortíz-Pérez, Roberto Padilla-Hernández, Jonathan R. Pennock, Gary L. Powell, Hector Reyes Bonilla, John R. Rybczyk, Patricia Sánchez-Gil, Juan Carlos Seijo, Elizabeth H. Smith, Paul H. Templet, John W. Tunnell Jr., Robert R. Twilley, John F. Valentine, Guillermo J. Villalobos, Priscilla A. Weeks, Kim Withers, David Zárate-Lomelí, Bruce Currie-Alder, Kenneth L. Heck Jr., Robert J. Livingston, Christopher J. Madden, Enrique Reyes, Daniel O. Suman, Alfonso J. Cuevas, Dr. Thomas S. Bianchi ...
    Series series Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies Series, Sponsored by the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
    The fourth volume in the Harte Research Institute’s landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides a comprehensive study of ecosystem-based management, analyzing key coastal ecosystems in eleven Gulf Coast states from Florida to Quintana Roo and presenting case studies in which this integrated approach was tested in both the US and in Mexico. Two overview chapters cover related ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Perspectives on the Restoration of the Mississippi Delta

    The Once and Future Delta

    Edited by John W. Day, G. Paul Kemp, Angelina M. Freeman, David P. Muth ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Human impacts and emerging mega-trends such as climate change and energy scarcity will impact natural resource management in this century. This is especially true for deltas because of their ecological and economic importance and their sensitivity to climate change. The Mississippi delta is one of the largest in the world and has been strongly impacted by human activities. Currently there is an ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Global Change and Baltic Coastal Zones

    Edited by Thomas Neumann, Gerald Schernewski, Jacobus Hofstede ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Climate change and ongoing transformation processes in economy and agriculture will have strong and multiple impacts in the Baltic region. In particular coastal zones face increasing hazards, e.g. due to sea level rise or changes in riverine nutrient loads and eutrophication. These changes also offer a wide range of new opportunities in the Baltic Region. Adaptation measures are needed but require ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Eutrophication and Oligotrophication in Japanese Estuaries

    The present status and future tasks

    Edited by Tetsuo Yanagi ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents lessons learnt from Japan’s past, in relation to coastal waters, industrial pollutants and concentrated urban populations. It examines ecosystem damage and pollution in coastal sea areas and addresses the question: What is the present status of Japanese estuaries from the view point of eutrophication and oligotrophication? The authors describe three typical situations, namely ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • China's Energy Efficiency and Conservation

    Sectoral Analysis

    Edited by Bin Su, Elspeth Thomson ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This Brief identifies various aspects of energy challenges faced by the Chinese central/local governments, and also provides an opportunity to study how best to achieve green growth and a low-carbon transition in a developing country like China. The progress of China’s carbon mitigation policies also has significant impacts on the on-going international climate change negotiations. Therefore, both ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Sustaining River Ecosystems and Water Resources

    by Ellen Wohl ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This work is designed to broaden the scope with which many people regard a river. Rivers are commonly regarded from a very simplistic perspective as conduits for downstream flows of water. In this context, it may be considered acceptable and necessary to engineer the channel to either facilitate such flows (e.g., channelization, levees) or limit flows and store water (e.g., water supply reservoirs ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • How to Read Water

    Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea

    by Tristan Gooley ...
    Series series Natural Navigation
    **A New York Times BestsellerA Forbes Top 10 Conservation and Environment Book of 2016The ultimate guide to interpreting natural signs in water**From oceans to puddles, lakes to streams, rain to fog, our planet is covered in water of all kinds. And once you learn to read water’s hidden clues the way writer and navigator Tristan Gooley can, the world becomes a trove of secret signs. In How to Read ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • When the Rivers Run Dry

    Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century

    by Fred Pearce ...
    In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce travels to more than thirty countries to examine the current state of crucial water sources. Deftly weaving together the complicated scientific, economic, and historic dimensions of the world water crisis, he provides our most complete portrait yet of this growing danger and its ramifications for us all. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Building Sustainable Cities of the Future

    Edited by Justin Bishop ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book draws upon the expertise of academic researchers, urban planners and architects to explore the challenge of building the sustainable cities of the future. It addresses this challenge by considering current cities and those of the near future, and creates a picture of the sustainable city from the bottom up.Individual chapters cover topics such as transport, energy supply, sustainable ... Read more

    $143.09 USD