Proposing a series of innovative steps towards better understanding human lives at the interstices of water and land, this volume includes eight ethnographies from deltas around the world. The book presents ‘delta life’ with intimate descriptions of the predicaments, imaginations and activities of delta inhabitants. Conceptually, the collection develops ‘delta life’ as a metaphor for ap…
Sustainable Natural Resource Management, a Global Challenge of This Century
The Potential of Biodiversity in the Andean Region: Use, Conservation and Regulations
People, Parks and Poverty: Integrated Conservation and Development Initiatives in the Free State Province of South Africa
The Medicinal Value of Biodiversity: New Hits to Fight Cancer
European Naturalists and Medicinal Plants of Brazil
Assessment of Livestock Loss Factors in the Western Serengeti, Tanzania
Biodiversity, Ecology and Toxic Principles in Plants – Case Study: Fungal Biocontrol
The fourth Factor X publication from the German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt, UBA), Sustainable Development and Resource Productivity: The Nexus Approaches explores the interdependencies of sustainable development paths and associated resource requirements, describing and analysing the necessities for a more resource efficient world.The use of and competition for increasingly scarce reso…
This volume provides an overview of the political economy of coal in diverse country contexts.Coal is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions globally, accounting for about 40 percent of energy-related CO2 emissions. Continued construction of coal-fired power plants could make the climate targets of the Paris Agreement infeasible to achieve. In spite of sharply declining costs for renewa…