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Institutions, Sustainability, and Natural Resources

A new economic theory, rather than a new public policy based on old theory, is needed to guide humanity toward sustainability. ...

Integrated Assessment of Water Resources and Global Change

The key papers in this volume from the Bonn conference focus on the challenges of integrated assessment of water resources ...

Invasive Forest Insects, Introduced Forest Trees, and Altered Ecosystems

Demand for timber and fibre continues to grow and is being met by increased reliance on plantation forestry. Many of the ...

Invasive Plants: Ecological and Agricultural Aspects

The study of plant invasions is the science that attempts to understand causes and consequences of plant introductions outside ...

Issues in Bioinvasion Science

Biological invasions are a global problem whose local impact can be of great magnitude. The prevention and minimization of ...

Landscape Analysis and Visualisation : Spatial Models for Natural Resource Management and Planning

This book presents a collection and synthesis of many of these perspectives — perhaps it could only be produced in a land ...

Landscape Ecological Applications in Man-Influenced Areas

This book also includes several case studies concerning landscape analysis and evaluation using spatial analysis and landscape ...

Legitimacy In European Nature Conservation Policy : Case Studies In Multilevel Governance

This volume focuses on the issue of legitimacy in the context of European nature conservation policy. It provides insights ...

Lentil : An Ancient Crop for Modern Times

This book presents the most comprehensive and up to date review of research on lentil production systems, biotic and abiotic ...

Living Rivers: Trends and Challenges in Science and Management

All over the world, sustainable river basin management is a leading principle of policy plans and legal instruments for water ...

Managing Protected Areas in Central and Eastern Europe Under Climate Change

This book addresses the need for sharing knowledge and experience in the field of biodiversity conservation and climate change. ...

Marine Biodiversity

Understanding the functioning of Marine Ecosystems is the first step to measure and predict the influence of Man, and to ...

Marine Biotechnology I

Oceans, which occupy up to two thirds of the surface of our planet, were not really approached from scientific point of view ...

Marine Biotechnology II

This volume of Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology illustrates several topics in line with the following broad ...

Marine Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation: The Application and Future Development of the IMOs Particularly Sensitive Sea Area Concept

Despite the potential benefits that PSSA designation can deliver, recent practice both within the IMO and by individual member ...

Marine Organic Matter: Biomarkers, Isotopes and DNA

The oceans contain a great biodiversity of marine organisms. They include a rich variety of unusual genes and biochemistries ...

Marine, Freshwater, and Wetlands Biodiversity

Marine, coastal and wetland habitats are threatened, not only through exploitation, but also by the prospect of climate change ...

Mathematical Modelling for Sustainable Development

Mathematics needs Sustainable Development. When science was gradually reinvented in European medieval societies, it was legitimised ...

Methods in Gut Microbial Ecology for Ruminants

Asaresultofvarioushumanactivities,suchasincreaseinhumanpopulation,decrease in arable land due to soil degradation, urbanization, ...

Methods to Study Litter Decomposition

Decomposition of organic matter is a major ecosystem process involving an array of different organisms, including bacteria, ...

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