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This book is the result of three symposia of the Dutch Society for Landscape Ecology (Werkgemeenschap voor Landschapsecologisch Onderzoek) about • the Dutch National Ecological Network • urban ecology • and civil infrastructure. The three topics - among others - show important contexts in which landscape ecologists do their research and apply their knowledge and skills. The book focuses on urbanisation, intensive land use and water management as characteristic features of the Netherlands and therefore presents an important view on landscape ecology in the Dutch context.
The urban environment – buildings, cities and infrastructure – represents one of the most important contributors to climate change, while at the same time holding the key to a more sustainable way of living. The transformation from traditional to sustainable systems requires interdisciplinary knowledge of the re-design, construction, operation and maintenance of the built environment. Sustainable Urban Environments: An Ecosystem Approach presents fundamental knowledge of the built environment. Approaching the topic from an ecosystems perspective, it shows the reader how to combine diverse practical elements into sustainable solutions for future buildings and cities. You’ll learn to con...
This book provides an introduction to a fairly new approach to natural resources management practice entitled ecohydrology-based landscape restoration. Ecohydrology-based landscape restoration integrates landscape restoration practices with ecohydrology science and principles in order to help address the limitations of current management practices in developing countries. Focusing on both the theory and practice of implementing new management practices, the book includes conceptual designs and practical demonstrations for a variety of sites, including hillsides, farmlands, gullies, riparian buffers and wetlands, while also drawing on field research conducted in Ethiopia. The book puts forwar...
Successful management of agricultural landscapes depends on the recognition of the relationships between the processes and the structures that maintain the system. The rapidly growing science of Landscape Ecology quantifies the ways these ecosystems interact and establishes a link between the activities in one region and repercussions in another. A
La 4e de couv. indique : "De quelles sciences les paysages - les perceptions d'un espace matériel - peuvent-ils être l'objet ? Quels sont les rôles des paysagistes et des professionnels du paysage aujourd'hui et demain par rapport aux domaines professionnels et scientifiques voisins et souvent concurrents ? Pour répondre à ces questions, entre autres, cet ouvrage de synthèse traverse une grande partie des savoirs sur les pensées et les pratiques des professionnels des paysages et des jardins. Il développe l'idée que les sociétés contemporaines ont la possibilité de penser localement et globalement leurs relations souhaitées à l'espace et à la nature. Cet ouvrage appréhende le...
Antisense Research and Applications is a comprehensive review of oligonucleotide research covering molecular biological advances in this field, the current status of antisense drug research, and strategies for future research and therapeutic applications. In bringing together the latest research from an array of authoritative scientists, Antisense Research and Applications provides an integrated conceptual basis for considering oligonucleotide therapeutics. Topics covered in the 32 chapters of this book include nucleic acid structure and function, antisense RNA, medicinal chemistry of oligonucleotides, analogs, pharmacokinetics and toxicology, and activities of current antisense drugs. This volume addresses advances in a broad range of disciplines and is an excellent resource for basic researchers and applied investigators in pharmaceutical laboratories and in such fields as biochemistry and molecular biology.
The last ten years have witnessed a remarkable increase in our awareness of the importance of events subsequent to transcriptional initiation in terms of the regulation and control of gene expression. In particular, the development of recombinant DNA techniques that began in the 1970s provided powerful new tools with which to study the molecular basis of control and regulation at all levels. The resulting investigations revealed a diversity of post-transcriptional mechanisms in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Scientists working on translation, mRNA stability, transcriptional (anti)termination or other aspects of gene expression will often have met at specialist meetings for their own resear...
This book provides an institutional analysis of green planning.