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Theory and Practices on Innovating for Sustainable Development
This book explains how income growth and better environmental qualities go hand in hand, and reviews the drivers and barriers to sustainable innovation on the basis of real-life cases. It discusses why innovation-based income growth reduces environmental impacts and how the huge global markets for sustainable innovation are currently hampered by protectionist policies. Subsequently, diverse sus…
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- 978-3-319-18636-8
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- XI, 195
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New Ecoinformatics Tools in Environmental Science:Applications and Decision-m…
This book provides new insights on the study of global environmental changes using the ecoinformatics tools and the adaptive-evolutionary technology of geoinformation monitoring. The main advantage of this book is that it gathers and presents extensive interdisciplinary expertise in the parameterization of global biogeochemical cycles and other environmental processes in the context of globaliz…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-13977-7
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- XXXIII, 903
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- Environmental Earth Sciences
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Nanotechnology to Aid Chemical and Biological Defense
This book presents research into chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) defense and environmental security, exploring practical implications of the research. Contributions from a diverse group of international civilian researchers present the latest work on nanotechnology problems in this area, looking at detection, protective technologies, decontamination and threats to environm…
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- 1
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- 978-94-017-7217-4
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- XIV, 221
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- NATO Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology
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Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods
This volume provides an overview of (1) the physical and chemical foundations of dating methods and (2) the applications of dating methods in the geological sciences, biology, and archaeology, in almost 200 articles from over 200 international authors. It will serve as the most comprehensive treatise on widely accepted dating methods in the earth sciences and related fields. No other volume has…
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- 978-94-007-6304-3
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- 115 b/w illustrations, 260 illustrations in colour
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Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2014
The Netherlands Yearbook of International Law was first published in 1970. It offers a forum for the publication of scholarly articles of a more general nature in the area of public international law including the law of the european Union. One of the key functions or purposes of international law (and law in general for that matter) is to provide long-term stability and legal certainty. Yet, …
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- 1
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- 978-94-6265-059-6
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- XII, 413
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- Netherlands Yearbook of International Law
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The Water We Eat Combining Virtual Water and Water Footprints
This book pursues a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach in order to analyze the relationship between water and food security. It demonstrates that most of the world’s economies lack sufficient water resources to secure their populations’ food requirements and are thus virtual importers of water. One of the most inspiring cases, which this book is rooted in, is Italy: the third largest…
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- 978-3-319-16393-2
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Nanoparticles' Promises and Risks
The focus of this interdisciplinary volume is on four areas of nanoparticle research: characterization, manipulation, and potential effects on humanity and the environment. The book includes a comprehensive collection of data on industrial nanoparticle creation and the characterization of the nanoscale products of these processes. The authors describe the effects of these nanoscale structures o…
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- 978-3-319-11727-0
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- XIV, 355
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Nanoparticle Emissions From Combustion Engines
This book focuses on particulate matter emissions produced by vehicles with combustion engines. It describes the physicochemical properties of the particulate matter, the mechanisms of its formation and its environmental impacts (including those on human beings). It discusses methods for measuring particulate mass and number, including the state-of-the-art in Portable Emission Measurement Syste…
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- 2194-8119
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- X, 139
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- Springer Tracts on Transportation and Traffic
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Nature, Economy and Society:Understanding the Linkages
This book presents an enquiry into the interface between nature, economy and society, which is still in its early stages, notwithstanding the commendable progress and advances made in the field of environmental and natural resource economics within the ever-expanding boundaries of economics as a discipline. It further delineates the evolution of an inter-disciplinary framework for analyzing the…
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- 978-81-322-2403-7
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- XII, 357
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Naturalists, Explorers and Field Scientists in South-East Asia and Australasia
"Alfred Russel Wallace- His Predecessors and Successors. Naturalists, Explorers and Field Scientists in South-east Asia and Australasia. An International Conference" will be the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of studies on Alfred Russel Wallace and other natural historians, past and present, as well as contemporary research on South-east…
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- 978-3-319-26159-1
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- XI, 283
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- Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation
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