Electronic Books

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Affordable housing for smart villages / Hemanta Kumar Doloi, Sally Donovan

Initiates a fresh discussion of affordability in rural housing set in the context of the rapidly shifting balance between ...

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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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Art Intervention in the City / Hadas Ophrat

This book focuses on the phenomenon of art intervention—an expression of local initiatives by artists, collectives, and ...

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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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Changing Land Use Patterns in the Coastal Zone

Coastal ecosystems make up some of the most important, yet most endangered, regions in the world. The protection of the unique ...

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Climate-Smart Food

This book asks just how climate-smart our food really is. It follows an average day's worth of food and drink to see where ...

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Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism : Leisurescapes in the Global Sunbelt / Sibel Bozdoğan, Panayiota Pyla, Petros Phokaides

offers a critical and complicated picture of how leisure tourism connected the world after the World War II, transforming ...

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Decoding the City Urbanism in the Age of Big Data / Dietmar Offenhuber, Carlo Ratti

Shows how Big Data change reality and, hence, the way we deal with the city. They demonstrate how the Lab interprets digital ...

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Deltas in the Anthropocene

The Anthropocene is the human-dominated modern era that has accelerated social, environmental and climate change across the ...

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Design Studio Vol. 1: Everything Needs to Change: Architecture and the Climate Emergency / Sofie Pelsmakers, Nick Newman

Everything Needs to Change. Exploring architecture and the climate emergency, editors Sofie Pelsmakers (author of Environmental ...

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Designing landscape architectural education : studio ecologies for unpredictable futures / Rosalea Monacella, Bridget Keane

Asks designers and academic practitioners to describe their own work through an ecological lens, and then to articulate design ...

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Earth Observation Science and Applications for Risk Reduction and Enhanced Resilience in Hindu Kush Himalaya Region A Decade of Experience from SERVIR

This book is a consolidation of lessons learnt and experiences gathered from our efforts to utilise Earth observation (EO) ...

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Forest and Rangeland Soils of the United States Under Changing Conditions A Comprehensive Science Synthesis

This book synthesizes leading-edge science and management information about forest and rangeland soils of the United States. ...

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Fostering Transformative Change for Sustainability in the Context of Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)

This book is a compilation of case studies that provide useful knowledge and lessons that derive from on-the-ground activities ...

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Land-Use and Land-Cover Change

The book presents recent estimates of the rates in changes of major land classes such as forest, cropland and pasture. Among ...

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Landscape Design in Color: History, Theory, and Practice 1750 to Today / Mira Engler

Posits that though color and lighting effects appear natural, fleeting, and difficult to comprehend, the sensory palette ...

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Landscape Performance Modeling Using Rhino and Grasshopper / Phillip Zawarus

A guidebook for landscape architects to learn the fundamental practices and use of the computational software Rhino 3D and ...

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NoIMG
Methods for Measuring Greenhouse Gas Balances and Evaluating Mitigation Options in Smallholder Agriculture

This book provides standards and guidelines for quantifying greenhouse gas emissions and removals in smallholder agricultural ...

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Multifunctional Land Use

The book contributes to the scientific basis for future land development strategies and helps supporting land use decision ...

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Planning Abu Dhabi : An Urban History / Alamira Reem Bani Hashim

Alamira Reem, a native Abu Dhabian and urban planner and researcher who has studied the emirate’s development for more ...

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