A Biomass Future for the North American Great Plains
The Great Plains of North America is a major global breadbasket but its agriculture is stressed by drought, heat spells, ...
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A City in Blue and Green
Highlights Singapore’s development into a city in which water and greenery, along with associated environmental, technical, ...
Lee masA Handbook of Sustainable Building Design and Engineering : An Integrated Approach to Energy, Health and Operational Performance / Dejan Mumovic, Mat Santamouris
Equips students with the tools they will need to tackle the challenges of sustainable building design and engineering. The ...
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Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals
Presents detailed pathways to achieve 100% renewable energy by 2050, globally and across ten geographical regions. Based ...
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Acid in the Environment
This book is the result of a conference held biannually at the Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental ...
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Advances in Integrated Soil Fertility Research in sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
Food insecurity is a central concern and a fundamental challenge for human welfare and economic growth in Africa. Low agricultural ...
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Advances in Renewable Energy and Sustainable Environment
comprises the select peer-reviewed proceedings of the National Conference on Renewable Energy and Sustainable Environment ...
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Advances in the Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide
As is now generally accepted mankind’s burning of fossil fuels has resulted in the mass transfer of greenhouse gases to ...
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Agriculture and Climate Beyond 2015
Interactions between agriculture, climate and patterns of land use are complex. Major changes in agriculture, and land use ...
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Assessing Climate Change : Temperatures, Solar Radiation, and Heat Balance
The chapters of the book attempt to answer a number of essential questions in relation to global warming and climate change. ...
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Beyond Kyoto - A New Global Climate Certificate System
This book shows how humankind can ‘prevent dangerous interference with the c- mate system’ without dangerous interference ...
Lee masBeyond the Limits to Growth : New Ideas for Sustainability from Japan
This book offers an optimistic view of the future and provides a road map for societies to get there. Drawing upon extensive ...
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Bio-based Building Skin
This book provides a compendium of material properties, demonstrates several successful examples of bio-based materials’ ...
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Biofuels and Sustainability
This open access book presents a comprehensive analysis of biofuel use strategies from an interdisciplinary perspective using ...
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Biofuels, Solar and Wind as Renewable Energy Systems : Benefits and Risks
With shortages of fossil energy, especially oil and natural gas, and heavy biomass energy use occurring in both developed ...
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Biogeochemical Cycles in Globalization and Sustainable Development
This valuable study of environmental subsystems functioning under various climatic and anthropogenic conditions provides ...
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Boundary Integral Equations
This book is devoted to the basic mathematical properties of solutions to boundary integral equations and presents a systematic ...
Lee masBuilding Services Design for Energy Efficient Buildings / Paul Tymkow, Savvas Tassou, Maria Kolokotroni, Hussam Jouhara
The following issues are addressed: background issues on climate change, whole-life performance and design collaboration generic ...
Lee masBuilding Systems in Interior Design / Sam Hurt
takes an entirely new approach to teaching this essential topic for Architects, Designers and Building Engineers. Written ...
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Building from Tradition: Local Materials and Methods in Contemporary Architecture / Elizabeth Golden
Examines the recent resurgence of interest in the handmade building and the use of local and renewable materials in contemporary ...
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