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  • Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980

    Reconstruction and Spatiotemporal Characteristics

    by Xiaobin Jin, Yinkang Zhou, Xuhong Yang, Yinong Cheng ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book explores various approaches to reconstruct the spatial and temporal distribution of historical farmland in China. The book contains background information about political regimes, economic and social development, population changes and land resource utilization in the past 300 years in China. A literature review focuses on the assumptions, methodologies and models of reconstructing ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Rainwater-Smart Agriculture in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas

    Fostering the Use of Rainwater for Food Security, Poverty Alleviation, Landscape Restoration and Climate Resilience

    Edited by Walter Leal Filho, Josep de Trincheria Gomez ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book introduces state-of-the-art approaches, methods and research, focusing on smart management of rainwater. In addition, it provides an overview of projects from across the world, illustrating how rainwater-smart management has been implemented in drylands. Focusing on the scientific perspective it demonstrates how rural dryland agriculture can be improved. It also documents the wealth of ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Landscape Interfaces

    Cultural Heritage in Changing Landscapes

    Edited by Hannes Palang, G. Fry ...
    Series Book 1 - Landscape Series
    This book has been initiated by the workshop on Cultural heritage in changing landscapes, held during the IALE (International Association for Landscape Ecology) European Conference that started in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 200 1 and continued across the Baltic to Tartu, Estonia, in JUly. The papers presented at the workshop have been supported by invited contributions that address a wider range ... Read more

    $260.09 USD

  • Farming on the Fringe

    Peri-Urban Agriculture, Cultural Diversity and Sustainability in Sydney

    by Sarah James ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This volume offers a new perspective to debates on local food and urban sustainability presenting the long silenced voices of the small-scale farmers from the productive green fringe of Sydney’s sprawling urban jungle. Providing fresh food for the city and local employment, these culturally and linguistically diverse farmers contribute not only to Sydney’s globalizing demographic and cultural ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Socio-Metabolic Perspectives on the Sustainability of Local Food Systems

    Insights for Science, Policy and Practice

    Edited by Eva Fraňková, Willi Haas, Simron J. Singh ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book delves into diverse local food systems and critically assesses their ecological and societal benefits and trade-offs, their limits and opportunities for improving sustainability of food production, and framework conditions which either hinder or promote their development.More and more people with gradually meat heavier diets will demand growth in food production, whilst our increasingly ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Italian Historical Rural Landscapes

    Cultural Values for the Environment and Rural Development

    Edited by Mauro Agnoletti ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Sustainable development and rural policies have pursued strategies where farming has been often regarded as a factor deteriorating the ecosystem. But the current economic, social and environmental problems of the Earth probably call for examples of a positive integration between human society and nature. This research work presents more than a hundred case studies where the historical ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Risk Governance

    The Articulation of Hazard, Politics and Ecology

    Edited by Urbano Fra.Paleo ...
    This book explores the common language of politics, ecology and risk, and crosses their conceptual divides. It seeks to shed light on the underlying structural factors, processes, players and interactions in the risk scenario, all of which influence decision-making that both increases and reduces disaster risk.The first section explores risk governance under conditions of increasing complexity, ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Integrated Studies of Social and Natural Environmental Transition in Laos

    Edited by Satoshi Yokoyama, Kohei Okamoto, Isao Hirota, Chisato Takenaka ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book examines social and natural environmental changes in present-day Laos and presents a new research framework for environmental studies from an interdisciplinary point of view. In Laos, after the Lao version of perestroika, Chintanakaan Mai, in 1986, for better or worse, rural development and urbanization have progressed, and people’s livelihoods are about to change significantly. Compared ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Islamabad and the Politics of International Development in Pakistan

    by Markus Daechsel ...
    This is a highly original account of the design and development of Pakistan's capital city; one of the most iconic and ambitious urban reconstruction projects of the twentieth century. Balancing archival research with fresh, theoretical insights, Markus Daechsel surveys the successes and failures of Greek urbanist Constantinos A. Doxiadis's most ambitious endeavour, Islamabad, analysing how the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Developing Adaptation Policy and Practice in Europe: Multi-level Governance of Climate Change

    Edited by E. Carina H. Keskitalo ...
    Mitigation will not be sufficient for us to avoid climate change and we will need to adapt to its consequences. This book targets the development of adaptation policy in European countries with different relations between central and regional/local government. ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Big Data Support of Urban Planning and Management

    The Experience in China

    Edited by Zhenjiang Shen, Miaoyi Li ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    In the era of big data, this book explores the new challenges of urban-rural planning and management from a practical perspective based on a multidisciplinary project. Researchers as contributors to this book have accomplished their projects by using big data and relevant data mining technologies for investigating the possibilities of big data, such as that obtained through cell phones, social ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • European Landscapes in Transition

    Implications for Policy and Practice

    by Teresa Pinto-Correia, Jørgen Primdahl, Bas Pedroli ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Landscape Ecology
    European rural landscapes as we experience them today are the result of ongoing processes and interactions between nature and society. These are changing fast: the future landscapes will be different from those we know currently. Written for academics, policy-makers and practitioners, this book is the first to explore the complex histories of rural landscapes in Europe as a basis for their sound ... Read more

    $90.19 USD