Chapter Development of a sustainable accessibility model for the Marine Prote…

The Marine Protected Area Gaiola Underwater Park was instituted in 2002 for the preservation of natural and archaeological aspects. Due to the urban context, the anthropic pressure has always been high and it has always undermined the preservation of the cultural and environmental heritage. The public beach in the General Reserve has always been impacted by great problems of overcrowding. The s…

Chapter Determination of natural radioactivity levels of sludges collected fr…

226Ra (10.8), 232Th (13.4) and 40K (135.7) and 137Cs (3.2) concentration levels (Bq kg-1) of the wastewater treatment plant sludges in Antalya were assessed and were found to be consistent with the literature. The absorbed gamma dose rate (D: 3.1-17.5 nGyh-1), radium equivalent activity (Raeq: 6.4-37.7 Bq kg-1), annual equivalent dose (AED: 3.8–21.4 µSv h-1), internal (Hin

Chapter Earth Observation Technologies: Low-End-Market Disruptive Innovation

After decades of traditional space businesses, the space paradigm is changing. New approaches to more efficient missions in terms of costs, design, and manufacturing processes are fostered. For instance, placing big constellations of micro- and nano-satellites in Low Earth Orbit and Very Low Earth Orbit (LEO and VLEO) enables the space community to obtain a huge amount of data in near real-time…

Chapter 5 Mercury Tonics (Rasāyana) in Sanskrit Medical Literature

This chapter will provide a brief survey of the uses of mercury preparations in rasāyana therapy, discussing their position within rejuvenation therapy in regard to other rasāyana formulations and exploring their link with Indian alchemical traditions.

Chapter 5 Consequences of Anthropogenic Changes in the Sensory Landscape of M…

Human activities are altering a wide range of key marine cues at local and global scales, and it is important to know how animals may respond. Species survival and performance depend on the ability of individuals to successfully extract and interpret information from their environment about preferred abiotic conditions and the presence of prey, predators, competitors, mates and suitable habitat…

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Anthropocene; Environment and sustainability; Environmental humanities; Environmental media; Indigenous; Media studies

Chapter 4 Planetary environing The biosphere and the Earth system

Anthropocene; Environment and sustainability; Environmental humanities; Environmental media; Indigenous; Media studies

Chapter 4 Nanomaterials

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Chapter …in finibus Lucaniae. Historical cartography of the Tyrrhenian coas…

The towns of Calabria Tortora, Aieta and Praia a mare with the Dino island and Fiuzzi gravitated towards Castrocucco and Maratea . Although divided by the Noce river they are in finibus Lucaniae they seem to belong to the same conformation as Castrocucco with vast coasts and beaches of very large dimensions. With the twentieth century and the mass tourism of the 60s, Aieta and Tortora begin a s…

Chapter 4 Exploring the environmental and social impact of informal market pr…

This chapter explores global apparel consumption and its dependence on production supply chains in low-income countries where unsustainable and informal market practices are rampant. Recent life cycle studies of garments show that over 80 percent of environmental impact stems from the production phase of apparel. Up to 80 percent of this production is outsourced to the informal sector in develo…