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  • Sustainable Food Security in the Era of Local and Global Environmental Change

    Edited by Mohamed Behnassi, Olaf Pollmann, Gabrielle Kissinger ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume discusses a broad range of vital issues encompassing the production and consumption of food in the current period of climate change. All of these add up to looming, momentous challenges to food security, especially for people in regions where malnutrition and famine have been the norm during numerous decades. Furthermore, threats to food security do not stop at the borders of more ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Climate Change, Food Security and Natural Resource Management

    Regional Case Studies from Three Continents

    Edited by Mohamed Behnassi, Olaf Pollmann, Himangana Gupta ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book contributes to the on-going debates on climate change by focusing on the SDGs and exploring linkages between environmental change and food security as well as the relevance and need to consider the management of natural resources, especially water, soil and forest. Compared to relevant existing publications, this book covers case studies that capture the everyday realities of the local ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Human and Environmental Security in the Era of Global Risks

    Perspectives from Africa, Asia and the Pacific Islands

    Edited by Mohamed Behnassi, Himangana Gupta, Olaf Pollmann ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book discusses ways to deepen the debate on the linkages between global risks and human and environmental security. The approach put forward in this book is one of questioning the ability of existing concepts, regulatory frameworks, technologies and decision-making mechanisms to accurately deal with emerging risks to human and environmental security, and to act in the direction of effectively ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Cereal Straw as a Resource for Sustainable Biomaterials and Biofuels

    Chemistry, Extractives, Lignins, Hemicelluloses and Cellulose

    by RunCang Sun ...
    Materials from renewable resources are receiving increased attention, as leading industries and manufacturers attempt to replace declining petrochemical-based feedstocks with products derived from natural biomass, such as cereal straws. Cereal straws are expected to play an important role in the shift toward a sustainable economy, and a basic knowledge of the composition and structure of cereal ... Read more

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  • Geothermal Engineering

    Fundamentals and Applications

    by Arnold Watson ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book explains the engineering required to bring geothermal resources into use. The book covers specifically engineering aspects that are unique to geothermal engineering, such as measurements in wells and their interpretation, transport of near-boiling water through long pipelines, turbines driven by fluids other than steam, and project economics. The explanations are reinforced by drawing ... Read more

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  • Characterization of Improved Sweet Sorghum Cultivars

    Edited by P. Srinivasa Rao, C.Ganesh Kumar ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    A number of driving forces, including the soaring global crude oil prices and environmental concerns in both developed and developing nations has triggered a renewed interest in the recent years on the R&D of biofuel crops. In this regard, many countries across the globe are investing heavily in the bioenergy sector for R&D to increase their energy security and reduce their dependence on imported ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Weather Modeling and Forecasting of PV Systems Operation

    by Marius Paulescu, Eugenia Paulescu, Paul Gravila, Viorel Badescu ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    In the past decade, there has been a substantial increase of grid-feeding photovoltaic applications, thus raising the importance of solar electricity in the energy mix. This trend is expected to continue and may even increase. Apart from the high initial investment cost, the fluctuating nature of the solar resource raises particular insertion problems in electrical networks. Proper grid managing ... Read more

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  • Knowledge-Driven Developments in the Bioeconomy

    Technological and Economic Perspectives

    Edited by Jochen Weiss, Andreas Pyka, Iris Lewandowski, Stephan Dabbert ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is at the cutting edge of the ongoing research in bioeconomy and encompasses both technological and economic strategies to master the transformation towards a knowledge- and bio-based production system. The volume combines different international perspectives with approaches of the various fields of research. Bioeconomy is one of the future concepts of an economy which, while based on ... Read more

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  • Transplant Production in the 21st Century

    Proceedings of the International Symposium on Transplant Production in Closed System for Solving the Global Issues on Environmental Conservation, Food, Resources and Energy

    Edited by Chieri Kubota, Changhoo Chun ...
    We are facing global issues concerning environmental pollution and shortages of food, feed, phytomass (plant biomass) and natural resources, which will become more serious in the forthcoming decades. To solve these issues, immeasurable numbers of various plants and huge amounts of phytomass are required every year for food, feed and for the improvement of amenities, the environment and our quality ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Energy

    Diagrams, Charts, and Tables

    by Cutler J. Cleveland, Christopher G. Morris ...
    Handbook of Energy, Volume I: Diagrams, Charts, and Tables provides comprehensive, organized coverage on all phases of energy and its role in society, including its social, economic, political, historical, and environmental aspects. While there is a wealth of information about energy available, it is spread across many books, journals, and websites and it tends to target either a particular form ... Read more

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  • Nutrient Use Efficiency: from Basics to Advances

    Edited by Amitava Rakshit, Harikesh Bahadur Singh, Avijit Sen ...
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