The Great Plains of North America is a major global breadbasket but its agriculture is stressed by drought, heat spells, ...
Lire la suiteHighlights Singapore’s development into a city in which water and greenery, along with associated environmental, technical, ...
Lire la suiteEquips students with the tools they will need to tackle the challenges of sustainable building design and engineering. The ...
Lire la suitePresents detailed pathways to achieve 100% renewable energy by 2050, globally and across ten geographical regions. Based ...
Lire la suiteThis book is the result of a conference held biannually at the Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental ...
Lire la suiteFood insecurity is a central concern and a fundamental challenge for human welfare and economic growth in Africa. Low agricultural ...
Lire la suitecomprises the select peer-reviewed proceedings of the National Conference on Renewable Energy and Sustainable Environment ...
Lire la suiteAs is now generally accepted mankind’s burning of fossil fuels has resulted in the mass transfer of greenhouse gases to ...
Lire la suiteInteractions between agriculture, climate and patterns of land use are complex. Major changes in agriculture, and land use ...
Lire la suiteThe chapters of the book attempt to answer a number of essential questions in relation to global warming and climate change. ...
Lire la suiteThis book shows how humankind can ‘prevent dangerous interference with the c- mate system’ without dangerous interference ...
Lire la suiteThis book offers an optimistic view of the future and provides a road map for societies to get there. Drawing upon extensive ...
Lire la suiteThis book provides a compendium of material properties, demonstrates several successful examples of bio-based materials’ ...
Lire la suiteThis open access book presents a comprehensive analysis of biofuel use strategies from an interdisciplinary perspective using ...
Lire la suiteWith shortages of fossil energy, especially oil and natural gas, and heavy biomass energy use occurring in both developed ...
Lire la suiteThis valuable study of environmental subsystems functioning under various climatic and anthropogenic conditions provides ...
Lire la suiteThis book is devoted to the basic mathematical properties of solutions to boundary integral equations and presents a systematic ...
Lire la suiteThe following issues are addressed: background issues on climate change, whole-life performance and design collaboration generic ...
Lire la suitetakes an entirely new approach to teaching this essential topic for Architects, Designers and Building Engineers. Written ...
Lire la suiteExamines the recent resurgence of interest in the handmade building and the use of local and renewable materials in contemporary ...
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