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Land-Use and Land-Cover Change
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

Land-Use and Land-Cover Change

This book presents recent estimates on the rate of change of major land classes. Aggregated globally, multiple impacts of local land changes are shown to significantly affect central aspects of Earth System functioning. The book offers innovative developments and applications in the fields of modeling and scenario construction. Conclusions are also drawn about the most pressing implications for the design of appropriate intervention policies.

Telecoupling
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

Telecoupling

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-03-21
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book presents a comprehensive exploration of the emerging concept and framework of telecoupling and how it can help create a better understanding of land-use change in a globalised world. Land-use change is increasingly characterised by a spatial disconnect between its main environmental, socioeconomic and political drivers and the main impacts and outcomes of those changes. The authors examine how this separation of the production and consumption of land-based resources is driven by population growth, urbanisation, climate change, and biodiversity and carbon conservation efforts. Identifying and fostering more sustainable, just and equitable modes of land use and intervening in unsusta...

Foundations of Socio-Environmental Research
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 775

Foundations of Socio-Environmental Research

Interdisciplinary anthology of 53 foundational readings on socio-environmental research with expert commentary and links to contemporary scholarship.

Medical Sciences - Volume I
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 546

Medical Sciences - Volume I

Medical Sciences is a component of Encyclopedia of Biological, Physiological and Health Sciences in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. This 2-volume set contains several chapters, each of size 5000-30000 words, with perspectives, applications and extensive illustrations. It carries state-of-the-art knowledge in the fields of Medical Sciences and is aimed, by virtue of the several applications, at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students, Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers and NGOs.

The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 469

The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-02-11
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture provides an essential guide to the key issues, methodologies, concepts, debates, and policies that shape our everyday relationship with advertising. The book contains eight sections: Historical Perspectives considers the historical roots and their relationship to recent changes of contemporary advertising and promotional practice. Political Economy examines how market forces, corporate ownership, and government policies shape the advertising and media promotion environment. Globalization presents work on advertising and marketing as a global, intercultural, and transnational practice. Audiences as Labor, Consumers, Interpreters, ...

The Evolution of Knowledge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 584

The Evolution of Knowledge

A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technology This book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human history in which knowledge serves as a critical factor of cultural evolution. Jürgen Renn examines the role of knowledge in global transformations going back to the dawn of civilization while providing vital perspectives on the complex challenges confronting us today in the Anthropocene—this new geological epoch shaped by humankind. Renn reframes the history of science and technology within a much broader history of knowledge, analyzing key episodes such as the evolution of writing, the emerge...

Scaling Up
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Scaling Up

When citizens take collaborative action to meet the needs of their community, they are participating in the social economy. Co-operatives, community-based social services, local non-profit organizations, and charitable foundations are all examples of social economies that emphasize mutual benefit rather than the accumulation of profit. While such groups often participate in market-based activities to achieve their goals, they also pose an alternative to the capitalist market economy. Contributors to Scaling Up investigated innovative social economies in British Columbia and Alberta and discovered that achieving a social good through collective, grassroots enterprise resulted in a sustainable...

Elemental-Embodied Thinking for a New Era
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 198

Elemental-Embodied Thinking for a New Era

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SIMPLE-G
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

SIMPLE-G

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De Gruyter Handbook of Sustainable Development and Finance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 428

De Gruyter Handbook of Sustainable Development and Finance

Beginning with an exploration of the origins and evolution of sustainable development and finance, this book continues with sections on public and private sector finance and investment for sustainable development, climate finance, and the emerging ‘blue’ economy. A concluding chapter incorporates the recommendations for sustainable finance going forward in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and escalating global environmental crisis.