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Human Ecology

Beginning with resource use and food procurement behaviour, the text examines major subsistence modes, the circumstances ...

Human-Nature Interactions : Exploring Nature’s Values Across Landscapes / Ieva Misiune, Daniel Depellegrin, Lukas Egarter Vigl

Highlights how humans value nature, the opportunities and challenges in changing socio-ecological systems Provides insights ...

Increasing Climate Variability and Change

One of the major challenges facing humankind is to provide an equitable standard of living for this and future generations: ...

Information Security Handbook / Noor Zaman Jhanjhi, Khalid Hussain, Mamoona Humayun, Azween Bin Abdullah, João Manuel R.S. Tavares

Provides a comprehensive collection of knowledge for emerging multidisciplinary research areas such as cybersecurity, IoT, ...

Innovative Models for Sustainable Development in Emerging African Countries

This book explores key issues and presents recent case studies in areas of importance for the transition to a circular model ...

Insects and Ecosystem Function

In the past two decades, an increasing number of ecologists have started to investigate the importance of biodiversity for ...

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 Groundwater Management : Concepts, Approaches and Challenges

The aim of this book is to document for the first time the dimensions and requirements of effective integrated groundwater ...

Integrated Urban Water Resources Management

Growing populations and rising standards of living exert stress on water supply and the quality of drinking water. In wastewater ...

Integrated Water Management : Practical Experiences and Case Studies

This book introduced a whole range of specific definitions, objectives and constraints regarding the various aspects of water ...

Integration of Information for Environmental Security

Currently the necessary information exists in a multitude of forms and formats geographically and physically scattered over ...

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 ...

Invasive Species in Forests and Rangelands of the United States A Comprehensive Science Synthesis for the United States Forest Sector

This book describes the serious threat of invasive species to native ecosystems. Invasive species have caused and will continue ...

Issues in Bioinvasion Science

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

Lagomorph Biology

Lagomorphs are a mammalian order which includes rabbits, hares and pikas. They are distributed throughout the world and are ...

Lagoons and Coastal Wetlands in the Global Change Context: Impact and Management Issues

This interdisciplinary volume comprehensively reviews recent developments in wetland science and global change. The aim is ...

Lake Taihu, China

There are many shallow lakes in the world. Many of them play an important socio-economic role as contributors to the drinking ...

Lake Verevi, Estonia - A Highly Stratified Hypertrophic Lake

The present book summarises investigations on Lake Verevi (surface 12.6 ha, mean depth 3.6 m). The seventeen articles in ...

Lamto

Known as "a dream place for scientists," the Lamto savannas, located on the edge of the Cote d'Ivoire rain forests, are ...

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