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  • Farming with Nature

    The Science and Practice of Ecoagriculture

    Edited by Sara J. Scherr, Jeffrey A. McNeely ...
    A growing body of evidence shows that agricultural landscapes can be managed not only to produce crops but also to support biodiversity and promote ecosystem health. Innovative farmers and scientists, as well as indigenous land managers, are developing diverse types of “ecoagriculture” landscapes to generate cobenefits for production, biodiversity, and local people.Farming with Nature offers a ... Read more

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  • Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities

    A Global Assessment

    Edited by Thomas Elmqvist, Michail Fragkias, Julie Goodness, Burak Güneralp, Peter J. Marcotullio, Robert I. McDonald, Susan Parnell, Maria Schewenius, Marte Sendstad, Karen C. Seto, Cathy Wilkinson ...
    Urbanization is a global phenomenon and the book emphasizes that this is not just a social-technological process. It is also a social-ecological process where cities are places for nature, and where cities also are dependent on, and have impacts on, the biosphere at different scales from local to global. The book is a global assessment and delivers four main conclusions:Urban areas are expanding ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Futures in Southern Africa’s Mountains

    Multiple Perspectives on an Emerging City

    Edited by Andrea Membretti, Sue Jean Taylor, Jess L. Delves ...
    Series series Sustainable Development Goals Series
    This open access book presents multiple disciplinary perspectives on the challenges and opportunities for sustainable development in the South African mountain city of Phuthaditjhaba. These challenges are embedded in the complex environmental, socio-cultural and political contexts of the region. Established as the capital of the QwaQwa ‘homeland’ under Grand Apartheid, this city is now home to ... Read more

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  • Rewilding European Landscapes

    Edited by Henrique M. Pereira, Laetitia M. Navarro ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Some European lands have been progressively alleviated of human pressures, particularly traditional agriculture in remote areas. This book proposes that this land abandonment can be seen as an opportunity to restore natural ecosystems via rewilding. We define rewilding as the passive management of ecological successions having in mind the long-term goal of restoring natural ecosystem processes. ... Read more

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  • Race to Save the Tropics

    Ecology And Economics For A Sustainable Future

    Edited by Robert Goodland ...
    Race to Save the Tropics documents the conflict between economic development and protection of biological diversity in tropical countries. ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Balanced Urban Development: Options and Strategies for Liveable Cities

    Edited by Basant Maheshwari, Vijay P. Singh, Bhadranie Thoradeniya ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides a unique synthesis of concepts and tools to examine natural resource, socio-economic, legal, policy and institutional issues that are important for managing urban growth into the future. The book will particularly help the reader to understand the current issues and challenges and develop strategies and practices to cope with future pressures of urbanisation and peri-urban land, ... Read more

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  • The Global Water System in the Anthropocene

    Challenges for Science and Governance

    Edited by Jan Leentvaar, Janos Bogardi, Anik Bhaduri, Sina Marx ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The Global Water System in the Anthropocene provides the platform to present global and regional perspectives of world-wide experiences on the responses of water management to global change in order to address issues such as variability in supply, increasing demands for water, environmental flows and land use change. It helps to build links between science and policy and practice in the area of ... Read more

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  • A Nexus Approach for Sustainable Development

    Integrated Resources Management in Resilient Cities and Multifunctional Land-use Systems

    Edited by Stephan Hülsmann, Mahesh Jampani ...
    This book explores how integrated management of environmental resources via a nexus approach can help in achieving the respective Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It provides conceptual considerations but mainly practical examples on how to implement a nexus approach in cities and multifunctional land-use systems to increase resource use efficiency and develop a low carbon economy.After ... Read more

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  • Biodiversity in the Green Economy

    Edited by Alexandros Gasparatos, Katherine J. Willis ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
    In the past decade, the growing realization that biodiversity and human wellbeing are inextricably linked has led to the adoption of numerous environmental policies. The concept of the Green Economy has gained particular attention as an economic system where growth is possible within environmental limits. The preservation of ecosystem services and the halt of biodiversity loss are identified as ... Read more

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