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Human-Nature Interactions
he threats posed by climate change and global biodiversity loss are increasingly seen as a major problem for the future of nature and humanity. Significant improvements in the understanding of how human and nature interact are thus required to address both challenges comprehensively. Over the past decade, different nature-based approaches, such as Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA), Green In…
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- 9783031019807
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- XVIII, 438
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Climate-Smart Food
This open access book asks just how climate-smart our food really is. It follows an average day's worth of food and drink to see where it comes from, how far it travels, and the carbon price we all pay for it. From our breakfast tea and toast, through breaktime chocolate bar, to take-away supper, Dave Reay explores the weather extremes the world’s farmers are already dealing with, and what ne…
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- 9783030182069
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- XIV, 201 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Biodiversity of Angola: Multidisciplinary Methods and Tools for a Low Carbon …
This open access book analyzes and seeks to consolidate the use of robust quantitative tools and qualitative methods for the design and assessment of energy and climate policies. In particular, it examines energy and climate policy performance and associated risks, as well as public acceptance and portfolio analysis in climate policy, and presents methods for evaluating the costs and benefits o…
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- 9783030030834
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- XVIII, 549hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Mosquitopia : The Place of Pests in a Healthy World
This edited volume brings together natural scientists, social scientists and humanists to assess if (or how) we may begin to coexist harmoniously with the mosquito. The mosquito is humanity’s deadliest animal, killing over a million people each year by transmitting malaria, yellow fever, Zika and several other diseases. Yet of the 3,500 species of mosquito on Earth, only a few dozen of them a…
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Sterile Insect Technique : Principles And Practice In Area-Wide Integrated Pe…
The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an environment-friendly method of pest control that integrates well into area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programmes. This book takes a generic, thematic, comprehensive, and global approach in describing the principles and practice of the SIT. The strengths and weaknesses, and successes and failures, of the SIT are evaluated openly and fairly f…
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Area-wide Integrated Pest Management : Development and Field Application
Over 98% of sprayed insecticides and 95% of herbicides reach a destination other than their target species, including non-target species, air, water and soil. The extensive reliance on insecticide use reduces biodiversity, contributes to pollinator decline, destroys habitat, and threatens endangered species. This book offers a more effective application of the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) a…
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- 9781003169239
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Human-Nature Interactions
This edited volume aims to widen the discussion about the diversity of human-nature relationships and valuation methods and to stimulate new perspective that are needed to build a more sustainable future, especially in face of ongoing socio-environmental changes. Conceptual and empirical approaches, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodologies have been used to highlight the imp…
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- 978-3-031-01980-7
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Applying Reflective Equilibrium
This open access book provides the first explicit case study for an application of the method of reflective equilibrium (RE), using it to develop and defend a precautionary principle. It thereby makes an important and original contribution to questions of philosophical method and methodology. The book shows step-by-step how RE is applied, and develops a methodological framework which will be us…
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- 978-3-031-04333-8
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- Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning
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- XI, 273
Global Resource Scarcity Catalyst for Conflict or Cooperation?
A common perception of global resource scarcity holds that it is inevitably a catalyst for conflict among nations; yet, paradoxically, incidents of such scarcity underlie some of the most important examples of international cooperation. This volume examines the wider potential for the experience of scarcity to promote cooperation in international relations and diplomacy beyond the traditional b…
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Mining and indigenous livelihoods: rights, revenues, and resistance
The space left for indigenous peoples' voices in Canadian and Fennoscandian mining legal frameworks : a comparative analysis / Zoé Boirin-Fargues and Sophie Thériault -- Closure and connection : a Southwest Pacific reappraisal of the mining enclave / Pierre-Yves Le Meur and Glenn Banks -- Foreign investor accountability for the violation of indigenous peoples' rights in international invest…
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