Climate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales provides professionals with guidance on adapting the built environment to a changing climate. This edited volume brings together practitioners and researchers to discuss climate-related resilience from the building to the city scale. This book highlights North American cases that deal with issues such as climate projections, public health, adaptiv…
In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden Erfahrungen zur Zusammenarbeit und zum Wissensmanagement verschiedenster staatlicher, gemeinnütziger und privater Akteure in der Flüchtlingslage 2015/16 aufbereitet, mit praxisnahen Beispielen angereichert und um Übungen zur Vorbereitung auf zukünftige Lagen ergänzt. Die damalige Lage stellte die Beteiligten vor große Herausforderungen, sowohl im Hinblick…
This open access book is both a memoir and a biography. Born in Czechoslovakia in 1924, Herwig Schopper is one of the few people able to bear witness to 100 years of European history. His career has taken him from research to management to diplomacy, with a major part devoted to, and inspired by, CERN. Herwig enjoyed a rich childhood, spending his summers at his grandparent’s hotel on …
Produksi pangan di tanah salin saat ini dan masa depan patut mendapat perhatian dunia, khususnya karena ketahanan pangan merupakan isu yang mendesak, jutaan hektar tanah terdegradasi tersedia di seluruh dunia, air tawar semakin langka, dan kenaikan permukaan laut global mengancam produksi pangan di dataran rendah pesisir yang subur. Future of Sustainable Agriculture in Saline Environments bertu…
Racun sianobakteri termasuk zat berbahaya yang paling banyak ditemukan di air. Racun ini muncul secara alami, tetapi konsentrasi yang membahayakan kesehatan manusia biasanya disebabkan oleh aktivitas manusia. Oleh karena itu, untuk melindungi kesehatan manusia, pengelolaan danau, waduk, dan sungai untuk mencegah ledakan populasi sianobakteri sangatlah penting. Edisi kedua Toxic Cyanobacteria in…
This open access textbook provides an introduction to theories, concepts and methodological approaches concerning various facets of migration and migration-related diversities. It starts with an introduction to migration studies and continues with an introductory reading of migration drivers, migration infrastructures, migration flows, and several transversal topics such as gender and migration…