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River Basin Management
Many of the challenges facing farmers and human communities from hydrographical basins are not new. But, due to the fact that the nature and extents of the problems vary from one region to another and from one basin to another, the responses are highly diversified. There is no generally valid solution for all the problems. However, in addressing issues on ensuring the prevention or mitigation of the destructive consequences of flood damage or prolonged drought as for the optimal use of water by consumers, sustainable basin land use, biodiversity conservation, and environment protection as well, fourteen specialists and their colleagues present the state of the art in these important matters and new possible solutions to solve, identified from the scientific investigations undertaken.
Mediterranean Identities
What is the Mediterranean? The perception of the Mediterranean leans equally on the nature, culture, history, lifestyle, and landscape. To approach the question of identity, it seems that we have to give importance to all of these. There is no Mediterranean identity, but Mediterranean identities. Mediterranean is not about the homogeneity and uniformity, but about the unity that comes from diversities, contacts, and interconnections. The book tends to embrace the environment, society, and culture of the Mediterranean in their multiple and unique interconnections over the millennia, contributing to the better understanding of the essential human-environmental interrelations. The choice of 17 chapters of the book, written by a number of prominent scholars, clearly shows the necessity of the interdisciplinary approach to the Mediterranean identity issues. The book stresses the most serious concerns of the Mediterranean today - threats to biodiversity, risks, and hazards - mostly the increasing wildfires and finally depletion of traditional Mediterranean practices and landscapes, as constituent parts of the Mediterranean heritage.
Research on Soil Erosion
Soil loss for erosion is a natural phenomenon in soil dynamics, influenced by climate, soil intrinsic properties, and morphology, that can both trigger and enhance the process. Anthropic activities, like inappropriate agricultural practices, deforestation, overgrazing, forest fires and construction activities, may exert a remarkable impact on erosion processes or, on the other hand, contribute to soil erosion mitigation through a sustainable management of natural resources. The book is the continuation of previously published "Soil Erosion Studies"; it is organized in a unique section collecting nine chapters focusing on a variety of aspects of the erosion phenomena.
Soil Erosion
Soil erosion affects a large part of the Earth surface, and accelerated soil erosion is recognized as one of the main soil threats, compromising soil productive and protective functions. The land management in areas affected by soil erosion is a relevant issue for landscape and ecosystems preservation. In this book we collected a series of papers on erosion, not focusing on agronomic implications, but on a variety of other relevant aspects of the erosion phenomena. The book is divided into three sections: i) various implications of land management in arid and semiarid ecosystems, ii) erosion modeling and experimental studies; iii) other applications (e.g. geoscience, engineering). The book covers a wide range of erosion-related themes from a variety of points of view (assessment, modeling, mitigation, best practices etc.).
ATAS das I Jornadas Lusófonas de Ciências e Tecnologias de Informação Geográfica
O Livro de Atas das I Jornadas Lusófonas de Ciências e Tecnologias de Informação Geográfica (I JL-CTIG2014) constitui um documento de compilação dos trabalhos apresentados durante o congresso que decorreu na Universidade de Coimbra, entre 11 e 13 de setembro de 2014. Tratando-se do primeiro evento desta natureza realizado no Espaço Lusófono, no qual foram debatidas questões relativas às Geotecnologias, incluindo resultados de trabalhos de investigação e aplicações em diversos contextos, este congresso internacional representa, por essa razão, a pedra basilar da construção de um edifício que terá continuidade na realização de futuras edições em outras instituições lusófonas de ensino superior.
Geografia, Turismo e Território
Trata-se de um livro de homenagem a uma geógrafa de elevado mérito académico, científico e pedagógico que recentemente atingiu o momento da sua jubilação na Universidade de Coimbra, onde trabalhou durante mais de quarenta anos. As suas áreas de interesse científico vão da Geografia Humana (Geografia da População; Geografia Cultural e, nomeadamente, a Geografia Literária; o Ordenamento do Território e o Desenvolvimento Local) aos Estudos sobre o Turismo. Por isso, neste livro de Homenagem, que reúne 28 trabalhos de 40 autores, são tratados estes temas, dando uma panorâmica recente e actualizada dos estudos de Geografia Humana e de Turismo, de grande utilidade para investigadores, docentes e estudantes destas áreas científicas.
