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  • Transitioning to a Prosperous, Resilient and Carbon-Free Economy

    A Guide for Decision-Makers

    Edited by Kenneth G. H. Baldwin, Mark Howden, Michael H. Smith, Karen Hussey, Peter J. Dawson ...
    This book is a comprehensive manual for decision-makers and policy leaders addressing the issues around human caused climate change, which threatens communities with increasing extreme weather events, sea level rise, and declining habitability of some regions due to desertification or inundation. The book looks at both mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and global warming and adaption to ... Read more

    $95.99 USD

  • Climate Change: Significance for Agriculture and Forestry

    Systems Approaches Arising from an IPCC Meeting

    Edited by S. Mark Howden, David H. White ...
    Societies throughout the world depend on food, fiber and forest products. Continuity and security of agricultural and forest production are therefore of paramount importance. Predicted changes in climate could be expected to alter, perhaps significantly, the levels and relative agricultural and forestry production of different nations over the next few decades.Agriculture and forestry are also ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change

    Preparing Australian Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries for the Future

    Edited by Chris Stokes, Mark Howden ...
    Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change is a fundamental resource for primary industry professionals, land managers, policy makers, researchers and students involved in preparing Australia’s primary industries for the challenges and opportunities of climate change. More than 30 authors have contributed to this book, which moves beyond describing the causes and consequences of climate change to ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

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  • Sepp Holzer's Permaculture

    A Practical Guide for Farms, Orchards and Gardens

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  • Paste Tailings Management

    Edited by Erol Yilmaz, Mamadou Fall ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This book provides an overview of paste tailings disposal at mine sites. It deals comprehensively with the characterization of sulphide-rich tailings, geotechnical and microstructural behaviour, surface tailings disposal applications, underground paste backfilling, and case studies. The authors place emphasis on the characterization, monitoring, disposal and treatment, as well as environmental ... Read more

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  • Distributed Hydrologic Modeling Using GIS

    by Baxter E. Vieux ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
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    $49.49 USD

  • Global Environmental Change and Land Use

    Edited by C.A. Rovers, Han Haarman, A. Verhagen ...
    The interaction between environmental change and human activities is com plex, requiring the concepts and tools of a number of disciplines for its effective analysis. Land-use and land-cover change has only recently become a topic susceptible to scientific research, as these concepts and tools have been devel oped and made available. Rooted in a broad community concemed with global change, ... Read more

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  • Australian Agriculture

    Its History and Challenges

    Edited by Ted Henzell ...
    Agriculture in Australia has had a lively history. The first European settlers in 1788 brought agricultural technologies with them from their homelands, influencing early practices in Australia. Wool production dominated the 19th century, while dairying grew rapidly during the first half of the 20th century. Despite having one of the driest landscapes in the world, Australia has been successful in ... Read more

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  • The Global Environment

    Edited by Kei Takeuchi, Masatoshi Yoshino ...
    The ffiM Japan International Symposium Energy and Environment - Global Warming was held in the Keidanren Guesthouse at the foot of Mt. Fuji, from October 21 to 24, 1990. The symposium was conducted in the context of ffiM Japan's longstanding commitment to good corporate citizenship. On this beautiful planet with its inter-dependent waters, lands and atmo sphere, we consider that the problems ... Read more

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  • Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories

    Interim Results from the U.S. Country Studies Program

    Edited by Barbara V. Braatz, B.P. Jallow, S. Molnár, D. Murdiyarso, M. Perdomo, John F. Fitzgerald ...
    Series Book 9 - Environmental Science and Technology Library
    International concern for the continued growth of greenhouse gas emissions, and the potentially damaging consequences of resultant global climate change, led to the signing of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change by 155 nations at the Earth Summit in June 1992. The Convention came into force on 21 March 1994, three months after receiving its 50th ratification. All Parties to ... Read more

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  • Land of Plenty

    A Journey Through the Fields and Foods of Modern Britain

    by Charlie Pye-Smith ...
    Golden fields, ripening apples, lowing cattle: our idea of the landscape has been shaped by agriculture, as has the land itself. But in a fast-changing world, how does the great British countryside continue to provide the food we eat?Most people living in Britain today must go back several generations before they find an ancestor who worked on the land. How much do we really know about those who ... Read more

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