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Reindeer Husbandry
This open access book focuses on climate change, Indigenous reindeer husbandry, and the underlying concept of connecting the traditional knowledge of Indigenous reindeer herders in the Arctic with the latest research findings of the world’s leading academics. The Arctic and sub-Arctic environment, climate, and biodiversity are changing in ways unprecedented in the long histories of the n…
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- Springer Polar Sciences
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- XXVI, 278
Spider Venoms
This volume provides an overview of the biochemical characterization, structure-function studies, proteomics, bioinformatics, molecular biology, transcriptomics and genomics of various spider species. The book also covers our current knowledge of venom components, toxins and their modes of action. The first section of Spider Venom includes contributions regarding the wide diversity of spider ve…
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- 978-94-007-6389-0
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Groundwater Vulnerability and Pollution Risk Assessment
This volume offers detailed comparisons and validations of different methods of assessing groundwater vulnerability (DRASTIC, GOD, PI, RTt, AVI, SINTACS, COP). It contains new aspects of vulnerability assessment for the evaluation of coastal aquifer vulnerability and aquifer vulnerability to methane gas leakage from shale gas wells. The book also contains the results of studies on intrinsic and…
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- 9780367822927
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- 230 p
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- 900 WIT g
Honouring and admiring the immoral: an ethical guide
Is it appropriate to honour and admire people who have created great works of art, made important intellectual contributions, performed great sporting feats, or shaped the history of a nation if those people have also acted immorally? This book provides a philosophical investigation of this important and timely question. The authors draw on the latest research from ethics, value theory, phil…
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- 9780367810153
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- 138 p
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- 170 ARC h
Introduction to Supersymmetric Field Theory
Ideas and Methods of Supersymmetry and Supergravity: Or a Walk Through Superspace provides a comprehensive, detailed, and self-contained account of four dimensional simple supersymmetry and supergravity. Throughout the book, the authors cultivate their material in detail with calculations and full discussions of the fundamental ideas and motivations. They develop the subject in its superfield f…
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- 9780367802530
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- 656 p
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- 530 KUZ i
Cultural Resources : Planning And Management
ABSTRACT Cultural resource management is a new and vital field that has come about as a result of intensified federal efforts to identify, evaluate, and manage cultural resources as an element of the environment. Anthropologists, sociologists, historians, folklorists, planners, and others have had to pool their talents and knowledge to properly respond to n
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- 9780429047817
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- 216 p
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- 300 HIL c
The conservation of ecosystems and species
ABSTRACT Originally published in 1987, Conservation of Ecosystems and Species examines conservation as a major world issue for governments, industrialists and the general public. The need for conservation has become more urgent as human activity continues to encroach upon the remaining natural ecosystems of our planet. This book examines a wide range of conservation issues and explains the sci…
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- 9780367815660
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- 302 p
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- 900 JON c
Social and Economic Vulnerability of Roma People: Key Factors for the Success…
This open access volume provides an understanding of the different aspects of success, school continuity and social mobility among European Roma, including the motives justifying the high rates of school dropout and failure among this group. It offers a critical and reflexive perspective about social reality from a multidisciplinary and transversal point of view, sharing knowledge and practices…
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- 978-3-030-52588-0
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Invasive Species in Forests and Rangelands of the United States: A Comprehens…
This open access book describes the serious threat of invasive species to native ecosystems. Invasive species have caused and will continue to cause enormous ecological and economic damage with ever increasing world trade. This multi-disciplinary book, written by over 100 national experts, presents the latest research on a wide range of natural science and social science fields that explore the…
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- 978-3-030-45367-1
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Decision Science for Future Earth: Theory and Practice
This open access book provides a theoretical framework and case studies on decision science for regional sustainability by integrating the natural and social sciences. The cases discussed include solution-oriented transdisciplinary studies on the environment, disasters, health, governance and human cooperation. Based on these case studies and comprehensive reviews of relevant works, including l…
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- 978-981-15-8632-3
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