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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 nor…
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- 978-3-031-42289-8
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- XXXVI, 217
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Stakeholder Relationships And Sustainability
This open-access book analyses how stakeholder relationships impact the sustainability of health aid. It does this by providing an overarching analytical framework, which allows for a systematic analysis of sustainability, relationships, and a possible causal link between these phenomena. The book goes beyond universal paradigms and detailed single-case studies by offering a thorough analysis o…
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- 978-3-031-31990-7
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- XXV, 381
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Tourism and Conservation-based Development in the Periphery
This open access book applies a social ecological systems (SES) lens to conservation-based development in Patagonia, bringing together authors with historical, contemporary, and future-oriented perspectives in order to increase understanding of the social and environmental implications of nature-based tourism and other forms of conservation-based territorial development. By focusing on Patagoni…
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- 978-3-031-38047-1
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- XXXIV, 468
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Integrated Treatment Technology of Rural Domestic Sewage
This open access book provides integrated treatment technology of rural domestic sewage, and highlights ten typical cases in China. The integrated sewage treatment system (ISTE) combine sewage pretreatment, biological treatment, sedimentation, and disinfection, which particularly suitable for decentralized domestic wastewater treatment in rural areas without pipe networks. The main advantages o…
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- 978-981-99-5905-1
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- XIII, 140
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Transformative Governance for the Future
This open access book helps actors who are committed to change unlock true innovative potential for the common good in their organizations. Innovation and change processes are not linear. Hence, this book presents a novel way to manage complexity. The author introduces readers to a comprehensive change management framework, the Eoh-for-Good blueprint methodology. It presents the method and disc…
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- 978-3-031-43131-9
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Ecosystem Restoration through Managing Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes…
This open access book is a compilation of case studies that provide useful knowledge and lessons that derive from on-the-ground activities and contribute to policy recommendations, focusing on the relevance of social-ecological production landscapes and seascapes (SEPLS) to ecosystem restoration. Building on the concept of SEPLS, the Satoyama Initiative promotes landscape approaches as integrat…
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- 978-981-99-1291-9
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- XXII, 288
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Closing Rice Yield Gaps in Asia
This open access book contributes not only to the scientific literature on sustainable agricultural development and in particular rice agriculture but also is highly valuable to assist practitioners, projects, and policymakers due to its sections on reducing carbon footprint, agricultural innovations, and lessons learned from a multi-country/multi-stages development project. The scope of …
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- 978-3-031-37946-8
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- XXVII, 259
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Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Met…
Activists, analysts, and practitioners describe innovative strategies that promote healthy neighborhoods, fair housing, and accessible transportation throughout America's cities and suburbs.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255479
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- 1 online resource (xli, 446 pages) :illustrations.
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Hijacking Sustainability
How the sustainability movement has been co-opted: from ecobranding by Wal-Mart to the "greening" of the American military.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262254861
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- 1 online resource (xii, 209 pages) :illustrations
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Earth system analysis for sustainability
"Report of the 91st Dahlem Workshop on Earth System Analysis for Sustainabliity, Berlin, May 25-30, 2003"--Page [ii].Earth System Analysis for Sustainability uses an integrated systems approach to provide a panoramic view of planetary dynamics since the inception of life some four billion years ago and to identify principles for responsible management of the global environment in the future. Pe…
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- 9780262310635
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 454 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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