Understanding the Creeping Crisis
This book explores a special species of trouble afflicting modern societies: creeping crises. These crises evolve over time, ...
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Urban Environmental Management and Technology
This book examines the importance of urban environmental management in the face of formidable challenges. It offers a comprehensive ...
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Urban Groundwater Management and Sustainability
Given that around 50% of the world’s population live in cities, and that urban populations are expanding rapidly, the issues ...
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Urban Transportation Planning in the United States
The book focuses in-depth at the most significant event in transportation planning--the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1962; ...
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Vegetation-Climate Interaction
This book has been written with the aim of providing an accessible introduction to the many ways in which plants respond ...
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Venezuela: A Petro-State Using Renewable Energies : A Contribution to the Global Debate about New Renewable Energies for Electricity Generation
In spite of the economic role of oil, Venezuela has started developing hydroelectricity since the 1950s. At present, the ...
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Verifying Treaty Compliance
International treaties requiring binding commitments on the part of the member states and appropriate compliance verification ...
اقرأ المزيدWadi Flash Floods : Challenges and Advanced Approaches for Disaster Risk Reduction
The book chapters comprehensively and significantly highlight different scientific research disciplines related to wadi flash ...
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Water Politics and Development Cooperation : Local Power Plays and global Governance
This statement in the most recent Human Development Report articulates a conv- tion that has increasingly gained ground in ...
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Water Resource Systems Planning and Management
This revised, updated textbook presents a systems approach to the planning, management, and operation of water resources ...
اقرأ المزيدWater Security, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia : Flows across Boundaries
This book explores the implications of urbanization in South Asia for water (in-) security in the peri-urban spaces of Dhaka ...
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Water and the Search for Life on Mars
This highly absorbing book relates how NASA and ESA have sought evidence of life on Mars. ‘Follow the water’ with noted ...
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Weather & Climate Services for the Energy Industry
This open access book showcases the burgeoning area of applied research at the intersection between weather and climate science ...
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Wellbeing Economics
Economists have long sought to maximise economic growth, believing this to be their best contribution to improving human ...
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Wetlands and Natural Resource Management
We have given the organizers of these symposia the opportunity to produce one chapter for these books with the integrated ...
اقرأ المزيدWetlands and Water Framework Directive : Protection, Management and Climate Change
This book compares the lessons learned from a wetland-perspective approach to the changing climate and the requirements of ...
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When Can Oil Economies Be Deemed Sustainable?
This book questions the stereotype depicting all Gulf (GCC) economies as not sustainable, and starts a critical discussion ...
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White Sea
The authors address a wide range of issues, including geographical position and the paleogeological background of the White ...
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eIoT : The Development of the Energy Internet of Things in Energy Infrastructure
This book explores the collision between the sustainable energy transition and the Internet of Things (IoT). In that regard, ...
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olution Sets for Net Zero Energy Buildings: Feedback from 30 Buildings Worldwide / Françios Garde, Joseph Ayoub, Laura Aelenei, Daniel Aelenei, Alessandra Scognamiglio
Presents a unique study of 30 NZEBs that have been constructed and have had their performance measured for at least 12 months. ...
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