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  • Ecosystem Services for Well-Being in Deltas

    Integrated Assessment for Policy Analysis

    Edición de Robert J. Nicholls, Craig W. Hutton, W. Neil Adger, Susan E. Hanson, Md. Munsur Rahman, Mashfiqus Salehin ...
    This book answers key questions about environment, people and their shared future in deltas. It develops a systematic and holistic approach for policy-orientated analysis for the future of these regions. It does so by focusing on ecosystem services in the world’s largest, most populous and most iconic delta region, that of the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh. The book covers the conceptual ... Leer más

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  • Deltas in the Anthropocene

    Edición de Robert J. Nicholls, W. Neil Adger, Craig W. Hutton, Susan E. Hanson ...
    The Anthropocene is the human-dominated modern era that has accelerated social, environmental and climate change across the world in the last few decades. This open access book examines the challenges the Anthropocene presents to the sustainable management of deltas, both the many threats as well as the opportunities. In the world’s deltas the Anthropocene is manifest in major land use change, the ... Leer más

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    Australia in a Hot World

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  • Conserving and Valuing Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity

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  • Applied Geography

    Principles and Practice

    Edición de Michael Pacione ...
    Applied Geography offers an invaluable introduction to useful research in physical, environmental and human geography and provides a new focus and reference point for investigating and understanding problem-orientated research. Forty-nine leading experts in the field introduce and explore research which crosses the traditional boundary between physical and human geography. A wide range of key ... Leer más

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  • Environmental Economics in Developing Countries

    Issues and Challenges

    Edición de Achiransu Acharyya ...
    The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the vulnerabilities of socio-economic systems globally and exposed the risks that natural capital degradation imposes on human health, economy, and society. This book studies the environmental challenges faced by developing economies in a post-COVID-19 world.Exploring diverse case studies from South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, the volume discusses the impact ... Leer más

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  • Arguments for Protected Areas

    Multiple Benefits for Conservation and Use

    de Nigel Dudley, Sue Stolton ...
    Most protected areas (e.g.national parks and nature reserves) have been created to protect wildlife and land- and seascape values. They currently cover over 13% of the world's land surface, around 12% of marine coastal areas and 4% of the marine shelf. Retaining and expanding these areas in the future will depend on showing their wider benefits for society.This book provides a concise and ... Leer más

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  • Megacities and the Coast

    Risk, Resilience and Transformation

    Edición de Mark Pelling, Sophie Blackburn ...
    Based on a major international study, this volume provides a synthesis of scientific knowledge on megacity urbanization on the coast, environmental impacts, risks and management choices, including a focus on adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk management. It is the primary output of a major international scientific project sponsored by the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme, the Land ... Leer más

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  • A Region at Risk

    The Human Dimensions of Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific

    de Asian Development Bank ...
    Asia and the Pacific continues to be exposed to climate change impacts. Home to the majority of the world's poor, the population of the region is particularly vulnerable to those impacts. Unabated warming could largely diminish previous achievements of economic development and improvements, putting the future of the region at risk. Read the most recent projections pertaining to climate change and ... Leer más

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  • Local Governance of Peatland Restoration in Riau, Indonesia

    A Transdisciplinary Analysis

    Edición de Masaaki Okamoto, Takamasa Osawa, Wahyu Prasetyawan, Akhwan Binawan ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book is one in a series of four volumes introducing peatland conservation and restoration in Indonesia. It focuses on local governance, in particular on regional and local perspectives in Riau, the most peat-destructed province of Indonesia. The book fills a vital gap in the existing literature that overlooks social science and humanities perspectives. Written by authors from ... Leer más

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  • Valuation of Regulating Services of Ecosystems

    Methodology and Applications

    Edición de Pushpam Kumar, Michael Wood ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
    Policy and management decisions are often made on financial grounds. However, the economic value of the benefits that people derive from ecosystems, that is, ecosystem services, may not be fully recognised and hence ecosystem considerations may not be incorporated adequately into decision-making processes. This is particularly true for regulating services, the benefits obtained from the regulation ... Leer más

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  • Nature's Wealth

    The Economics of Ecosystem Services and Poverty

    Edición de Pieter J. H. van Beukering, Elissaios Papyrakis, Jetske Bouma, Roy Brouwer ...
    Series series Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation
    Increasing pressure from economic development and population growth has resulted in the degradation of ecosystems around the world and the loss of the essential services that they provide. Understanding the linkages between ecosystem service provisioning and human well-being is crucial for the establishment of effective environmental and economic development policy. Presenting new insights into ... Leer más

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