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This book explains in depth the issues and challenges faced by rice farmers in India in relation to production and productivity, and the possible adaptation strategies to climate change.
Based on five years of groundbreaking research on emerging trends in cultivation...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-07-04
Collection :
India Studies in Business and Economics
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This book documents the United States Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) shift from a rancher-dominated agency to an energy-dominated agency.This shift is analyzed by identifying the conditions under which the expansion of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the Rocky...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-01-31
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This book investigates multidimensional change in the Arctic and policy response to it. It focuses its attention on the need for effective leadership within the region. In so doing it considers the contribution made by the main international organization of the region,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-01-29
Collection :
Springer Polar Sciences
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The inspiration for Nuclear Now, the new Oliver Stone film, co-written by Joshua Goldstein As climate change quickly approaches a series of turning points that guarantee disastrous outcomes, a solution is hiding in plain sight. Several countries have already replaced...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2019-01-08
ePub
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A James Beard Award-winner and the author of What to Eat and Soda Politics, leading nutritionist Marion Nestle exposes how the food industry corrupts scientific research for profit. Is chocolate heart-healthy? Does yogurt prevent type 2 diabetes? Do pomegranates help...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2018-10-30
ePub
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14,99€
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This book applies a justice framework to analysis of the actual and potential role of international law with respect to people on the move in the context of anthropogenic climate change. That people are affected by the impacts of climate change is no longer doubted,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-10-24
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This book applies a justice framework to analysis of the actual and potential role of international law with respect to people on the move in the context of anthropogenic climate change. That people are affected by the impacts of climate change is no longer doubted,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-10-18
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This book will survey past and present efforts to democratize international institutions, and will advance the argument that a new degree of transparency and accountability on a global scale is necessary to address the threat of climate change. The volume will analyse...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-09-10
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This book brings together a series of theory and practice essays on risk management and adaptation in urban contexts within a resilient and multidimensional perspective. The book proposes a transversal approach with regard to the role of spatial planning in promoting...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-08-02
Collection :
Resilient Cities
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The book investigates the relationship between ecosystem services (ES) and spatial planning, and explores potential means of integrating the two concepts to support the decision-making process. In addition, it presents case studies demonstrating the outcomes,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-07-12
Collection :
Green Energy and Technology
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The global food system is the largest segment of the world's economy. As agribusiness-studies pioneer Ray Goldberg suggests, it is also the largest health system on the planet. And it is changing fast. Its size and importance to human, environmental, and economic health...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-06-06
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This book aims to identify the challenges presented by current urban environmental governance practices in fast growing Indian cities, to propose changes to the current governance implementation strategies, and to explore the best practices to achieve sustainable urban...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-03-29
Collection :
The Urban Book Series
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This book discusses sustainable forest management from the perspectives of sociology, anthropology, politics, economics and policy. It examines the roles of governments, private sectors, NGOs, academics and local communities in implementing sustainable plantation...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-03-15
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In recent years, environmental and human rights advocates have suggested that we have entered the first new geological epoch since the end of the ice age: the Anthropocene.In this new epoch, humans have come to reshape unwittingly both the climate and natural world;...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-03-01
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This multidisciplinary book examines the diverse ways in which environmental disasters with compounding impacts are being governed as they traverse sovereign territories across rapidly urbanising societies in Asia and the Pacific. Combining theoretical advances with...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-12-06
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This book presents pioneering work on a range of innovative practices, experiments, and ideas that are becoming an integral part of urban climate change governance in the 21st century. Theoretically, the book builds on nearly two decades of scholarships identifying the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-09-27
Collection :
The Urban Book Series
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This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book summarizes presentations and discussions from the two-day international workshop held at UC Berkeley in March 2015, and derives questions to be addressed in multi-disciplinary research toward a new...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-08-15
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This book presents a conceptual and practical tool for those involved directly or indirectly in the planning and management of basic provision of water supply, wastewater and stormwater services in metropolitan regions by offering insights into governance paradigms and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-05-09
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Water Science and Technology
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This book analyses the performance and potential of India’s oilseed sector, identifies the major constraints facing the industry and suggests options for increasing the country’s oilseed production and productivity, taking into account the changing policy environment,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-04-07
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The Greening of Everyday Life develops a distinctive new way of talking about environmental concerns in post-industrial society. It brings together several conceptual frameworks with a diversity of case studies and practical examples of efforts to orient everyday...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-05
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