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  • Computational Neuroscience

    Second Latin American Workshop, LAWCN 2019, São João Del-Rei, Brazil, September 18–20, 2019, Proceedings

    Edited by Vinícius Rosa Cota, Dante Augusto Couto Barone, Diego Roberto Colombo Dias, Laila Cristina Moreira Damázio ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop of Computational Neuroscience, held in São João Del-Rei, Brazil, in September 2019.The 17 full papers and 3 short papers presented have been thoroughly reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections: artificial intelligence, machine learning, and related topics; ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Environmental Governance of the São Paulo Macrometropolis

    Perspectives on Climate Variability

    Edited by Pedro Roberto Jacobi, Alexander Turra, Célio Bermann, Edmilson Dias de Freitas, Klaus Frey, Leandro Luiz Giatti, Luciana Travassos, Paulo Antônio de Almeida Sinisgalli, Sandra Momm, Silvia Zanirato, Pedro Henrique Campello Torres ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents a set of chapters produced by six research groups that developed the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) Thematic Project Environmental Governance of the São Paulo macrometropolis (SPMM) in the face of Climate Variability (2017–2022). It represents an academic experience based on the articulation of knowledge and interdisciplinary dialogue. For this publication, the ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

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  • Strengthening European Climate Policy

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    Edited by Ester Galende Sánchez, Alevgul H. Sorman, Violeta Cabello, Sara Heidenreich, Christian A. Klöckner ...
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  • Tourism and Conservation-based Development in the Periphery

    Lessons from Patagonia for a Rapidly Changing World

    Edited by Trace Gale-Detrich, Andrea Ednie, Keith Bosak ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This open access book applies a social ecological systems (SES) lens to conservation-based development in Patagonia, bringing together authors with historical, contemporary, and future-oriented perspectives in order to increase understanding of the social and environmental implications of nature-based tourism and other forms of conservation-based territorial development. By focusing on Patagonia ... Read more

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  • Forest Governance by Indigenous and Tribal Peoples. An Opportunity for Climate Action in Latin America and the Caribbean

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    The document summarizes the report that, based on a review of more than 250 studies, demonstrates the importance and urgency of climate action to protect the forests of the indigenous and tribal territories of Latin America as well as the indigenous and tribal peoples who protect them. These territories contain about a third of the continent's forests. That's 14% of the carbon stored in tropical ... Read more

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  • High-Risk Feminism in Colombia

    Women's Mobilization in Violent Contexts

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    by Lin Chau Ming, Renata Cardoso Magagnin, Wenhua Wang ...
    The book Better City, Better Life brings together papers from different disciplines of researchers who have in common the theme Sustainability. This book is intended to reflect on current planning strategies and growth of cities, from the perspective of sustainable development. These reflections approach the spatial, economic, political, social, cultural and environmental model. This book is ... Read more

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  • The Drug Company Next Door

    Pollution, Jobs, and Community Health in Puerto Rico

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  • Smallholders, Forest Management and Rural Development in the Amazon

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    Concepts and Applications in Ecosystem Assessment

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    Bridging the gap between local knowledge and western science is essential to understanding the world's ecosystems and the ways in which humans interact with and shape those ecosystems. This book brings together a group of world-class scientists in an unprecedented effort to build a formal framework for linking local and indigenous knowledge with the global scientific enterprise.Contributors ... Read more

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    Climate change is perhaps the greatest threat to humanity today and plays out as a cruel engine of myriad forms of injustice, violence and destruction. The effects of climate change from human-made emissions of greenhouse gases are devastating and accelerating; yet are uncertain and uneven both in terms of geography and socio-economic impacts. Emerging from the dynamics of capitalism since the ... Read more

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