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This volume builds on an international workshop held in 2019, inspired by James Lovelock's "The Revenge of Gaia - Why the Earth Is Fighting Back, and How We Can Still Save Humanity". It, therefore, understands the Gaia concept as an umbrella term for the living world...
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Springer
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2021-09-20
Collection :
Strategies for Sustainability
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Global Environmental CareersGlobal Environmental Careers – The Worldwide Green Jobs Resource This book is the ideal guide to equipping you with the tools and know-how to develop an environmental career. It is filled with practical advice, case studies, personal profiles...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-09-20
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This book explores many recent techniques including ANN, fuzzy logic, hydraulic models and IWRM utilized for integrated water resources management, a real challenge in India for obtaining high irrigation efficiency.The book deals with topics of current interest, such as...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-09-20
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River RestorationRiver restoration initiatives are now widespread across the world. The research efforts undertaken to support them are increasingly interdisciplinary, focusing on ecological, chemical, physical as well as societal issues.River Restoration: Political,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-09-20
Collection :
Advancing River Restoration and Management
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This volume constitutes the most recent and most comprehensive consideration of the largest family of bony fishes, the Cichlidae.This book offers an integrated perspective of cichlid fishes ranging from conservation of threatened species to management of cichlids as...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-09-19
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Bengaluru is one of the fastest growing megacities in India. As such, it provides an in-situ laboratory for studying rural-urban transitions. While urbanization is most evident in the changing landscape with increasing built-up areas, it comes...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-09-18
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The nonequilibrium behavior of nanoscopic and biological systems, which are typically strongly fluctuating, is a major focus of current research. Lately, much progress has been made in understanding such systems from a thermodynamic perspective. However, new theoretical...
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Springer
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2021-09-18
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This book advances understanding of light-induced phase transitions and nonequilibrium orders that occur in a broken-symmetry system. Upon excitation with an intense laser pulse, materials can undergo a nonthermal transition through pathways different from those in...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-09-17
Collection :
Springer Theses
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For centuries, our ancestors carefully observed the movements of the heavens and wove that astronomical knowledge into their city planning, architecture, mythology, paintings, sculpture, and poetry. This book uncovers the hidden messages and advanced science encoded...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-09-17
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This book is the Welsh Language Edition.Build essential maths, literacy and working scientifically skills to boost marks in GCSE Chemistry and ensure that students reach their full potential.Suitable for all specifications, this skills book provides additional support...
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Hodder Education
Parution :
2021-09-17
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This book is the Welsh Language edition.Build essential maths, literacy and working scientifically skills to boost marks in GCSE Physics and ensure that students reach their full potential.Suitable for all specifications, this skills book provides additional support and...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2021-09-17
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This book makes the case that several urban technologies contribute to wicked problems such as climate change and vast social and economic inequalities. Such situations often create unfavorable conditions for mental life in cities. These conditions force us to expand...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-09-17
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Wetlands Conservation An up-to-date overview of approaches for addressing wetlands degradation and its effects on ecosystem services, human health, and other ecosystemsWetlands are essential sources of biodiversity, water purification, groundwater replenishment, flood...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-09-17
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In the Anthropocene sustainable development responds to socio-economic, environmental and political crises provoked by humankind due to global warming and the great acceleration of human intervention in ecosystems. This book introduces readers to current debates on...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-09-16
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ASTROBIOLOGY This unique book advances the frontier discussion of a wide spectrum of astrobiological issues on scientific advances, space ethics, social impact, religious meaning, and public policy formulation. Astrobiology is an exploding discipline in which not only...
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Wiley-Scrivener
Parution :
2021-09-16
Collection :
Astrobiology Perspectives on Life in the Universe
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This book serves as the first comprehensive compilation describing the breeding strategies and genetics and genomics of the coconut palm. It describes gene evolution of economically important traits such as oil biosynthesis, aroma and fragrance, disease-resistant genes...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-09-16
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In Appearance in Reality, John Heil addresses a question at the heart of metaphysics: how are the appearances related to reality, how does what we find in the sciences comport with what we encounter in everyday experience and in the laboratory? Objects, for instance,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-09-16
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In Appearance in Reality, John Heil addresses a question at the heart of metaphysics: how are the appearances related to reality, how does what we find in the sciences comport with what we encounter in everyday experience and in the laboratory? Objects, for instance,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-09-16
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This book highlights the importance of outdoor thermal comfort for improving urban living quality in the context of urban planning and urban geometry design. It introduces readers to a range of assessment methods and applications of outdoor thermal comfort and addresses...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-09-16
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METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS WITH HETEROGENEOUS STRUCTURES A unique book that sheds light on Metal-Organic Frameworks complex systems that often display behaviors that surprise and cannot be easily described. In this book, MOF-based heterostructures technology with key...
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Wiley-Scrivener
Parution :
2021-09-16
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