Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions: Practices of legitimation and accountable governance
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Genre: Science & Maths, Earth Sciences
Size: Unknown
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Spationomy: Spatial Exploration of Economic Data and Methods of Interdisciplinary Analytics
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Genre: Science & Maths, Earth Sciences
Size: Unknown
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Participatory Research and Planning in Practice (The Urban Book Series)
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Genre: Science & Maths, Earth Sciences
Size: Unknown
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Planning for Ecosystem Services in Cities (SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science)
This open access book presents current knowledge about ecosystem services (ES) in urban planning, and discusses various urban ES topics such as spatial distribution of urban ecosystems, population distribution, and physical infrastructure properties. The book addresses all these issues by: i) investigating to what extent ecosystem services are currently included in urban plans, and discussing what is still needed to improve planning practice; ii) illustrating how to develop ecosystem services indicators and information that can be used by urban planners to enhance plan design; iii) demonstrating the application of ES assessments to support urban planning processes through case studies; and iv) reflecting on criteria for addressing equity in urban planning through ecosystem service assessme...
Genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Urban Planning & Development, Science & Maths, Biological Sciences, Earth Sciences, Nature & Ecology
Size: 87 pages
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This open access book focuses on the Salween River, shared by China, Myanmar, and Thailand, that is increasingly at the heart of pressing regional development debates. The basin supports the livelihoods of over 10 million people, and within it there is great socio-economic, cultural and political diversity. The basin is witnessing intensifying dynamics of resource extraction, alongside large dam construction, conservation and development intervention, that is unfolding within a complex terrain of local, national and transnational governance. With a focus on the contested politics of water and associated resources in the Salween basin, this book offers a collection of empirical case studies that highlights local knowledge and perspectives. Given the paucity of grounded social science studie...
Genre: Professional & Technical, Technology & Engineering, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Science & Maths, Earth Sciences
Size: 344 pages
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This book is an open access publication.Forest ecosystems in Central Europe are changing as a result of anthropogenic influences and changing climate conditions. As such, a large-scale monitoring programme was undertaken in order to understand the influence of site modification, deposition of air pollutants, and climate.This book presents the scientific findings of this study for Germany, including the major challenges with regard to the future preservation and management of forest ecosystems under environmental change. In addition, it addresses a number of central questions: what are the main factors affecting forest stands and soil integrity? How, and how rapidly, are forest ecosystems changing? How diverse are the changes across Germany? What will be the main risks in sustainable forest...
Genre: Science & Maths, Biological Sciences, Earth Sciences, Environment, Nature & Ecology
Size: 368 pages
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A City in Blue and Green: The Singapore Story
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Genre: Home & Garden, Home Design, Professional & Technical, Technology & Engineering, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Science & Maths, Earth Sciences
Size: 152 pages
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NATURAL BEAUTY is a collection of my favorite photographs I have taken in the Comox Valley between 2011-2016....
Genre: Arts & Photography, Photography, Children's eBooks, Nonfiction, Science & Maths, Earth Sciences, Environment
Size: 40 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 20 February 2020 onward
5 reviews
Charisma
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People are automatically drawn to charismatic individuals. They always seem to possess that magnetic aura, a trait usually akin to celebrities or certain figure heads, hence why ...
Genre: Business & Finance, Nonfiction, Science & Maths, Earth Sciences, Self-Help & Counselling, Self-Help
Size: 62 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 19 February 2020 onward
Geographies of Schooling (Knowledge and Space Book 14)
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Genre: Education & Reference, Education, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Science & Maths, Earth Sciences
Size: 358 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 19 February 2020 onward
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Genre: Nonfiction, Professional & Technical, Technology & Engineering, Science & Maths, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Earth Sciences
Size: 303 pages
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Atlas of Challenges and Opportunities in European Neighbourhoods
This atlas provides a macro-regional overview of the areas that surround the European Union, from the Sahara to the Middle East, Western Balkans to European Russia, Turkey to the Arctic. Detailing key socio-economic data as well as developmental trends, the maps provide a comprehensive territorial analysis at a local scale and explore the potential for regional integration and cooperation.These pioneering maps examine challenges that threaten this wide, yet inter-connected, region, including environmental concerns in the North, political unrest in the East, social factors in the Western Balkans, and the upheaval in the Mediterranean since the Arab spring. Coverage investigates such key countries and areas as Libya, Israel, Palestine, Syria, and the Ukraine as well as explores such essentia...
Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Science & Maths, Earth Sciences
Size: 198 pages
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Water Resource Systems Planning and Management: An Introduction to Methods, Models, and Applications
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license.This revised, updated textbook presents a systems approach to the planning, management, and operation of water resources infrastructure in the environment. Previously published in 2005 by UNESCO and Deltares (Delft Hydraulics at the time), this new edition, written again with contributions from Jery R. Stedinger, Jozef P. M. Dijkman, and Monique T. Villars, is aimed equally at students and professionals. It introduces readers to the concept of viewing issues involving water resources as a system of multiple interacting components and scales. It offers guidelines for initiating and carrying out water resource system planning and management projects. It introduces alternative optimization, simulation, and statistical methods useful for ...
Genre: Nonfiction, Professional & Technical, Technology & Engineering, Science & Maths, Earth Sciences
Size: 624 pages
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Thinking Time Geography: Concepts, Methods and Applications (Routledge Studies in Human Geography)
Time-geography is a mode of thinking that helps in the understanding of change in society, the wider context and ecological consequences of human actions. This book presents its assumptions, concepts and methods, and example applications. The intellectual path of the Swedish geographer Torsten Hägerstrand is a key foundation for this book. His research contributions are shown in the context of the urbanization of Sweden, involvement in the emerging planning sector and empirical studies on Swedish emigration. Migration and innovation diffusion studies paved the way for prioritizing time and space dimensions and recognizing time and space as unity. From these insights time-geography grew. This book includes the ontological grounds and concepts as well as the specific notation system of ...
Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Science & Maths, Earth Sciences
Size: 172 pages
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Genre: Business & Finance, Economics, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Science & Maths, Earth Sciences
Size: 112 pages
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5 reviews
Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516: Study and Transcription of the Long Legends
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Genre: History, Europe, World, Science & Maths, Earth Sciences
Size: Unknown
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Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides: Volume 1 ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025
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Genre: Business & Finance, Economics, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Science & Maths, Earth Sciences, Environment
Size: 586 pages
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3D Recording and Interpretation for Maritime Archaeology (Coastal Research Library Book 31)
This open access peer-reviewed volume was inspired by the UNESCO UNITWIN Network for Underwater Archaeology International Workshop held at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia in November 2016. Content is based on, but not limited to, the work presented at the workshop which was dedicated to 3D recording and interpretation for maritime archaeology. The volume consists of contributions from leading international experts as well as up-and-coming early career researchers from around the globe. The content of the book includes recording and analysis of maritime archaeology through emerging technologies, including both practical and theoretical contributions. Topics include photogrammetric recording, laser scanning, marine geophysical 3D survey techniques, virtual reality, 3D modelling and ...
Genre: Computing, Software, Professional & Technical, Technology & Engineering, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Science & Maths, Earth Sciences
Size: 237 pages
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Genre: Science & Maths, Earth Sciences
Size: 488 pages
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4 reviews
This open access book is an original contribution to the knowledge on fishing and research associated with one of the most enigmatic fish of our seas: bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus (L.). Based on available evidence, it reconstructs the possible methods used to catch large spawners in the Strait of Gibraltar thousands of years ago and describes the much more recent overfishing that led to a great reduction in the catches of the trap fishery on the area and the disappearance of the northern European fisheries. It is the first book to relate the overfishing of juvenile fishes in certain areas to the decline of large spawners in other very distant areas, revealing one of the main underlying causes of this decline, which has remained a mystery to the fishing sector and scientists alike for over...
Genre: Science & Maths, Biological Sciences, Earth Sciences
Size: 136 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 16 February 2020 onward
Young Entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa (Routledge Spaces of Childhood and Youth Series)
Young people in sub-Saharan Africa are growing up in rapidly changing social and economic environments which produce high levels of un- and underemployment. Job creation through entrepreneurship is currently being promoted by international organizations, governments and NGOs as a key solution, despite there being a dearth of knowledge about youth entrepreneurship in an African context.This book makes an important contribution by exploring the nature of youth entrepreneurship in Ghana, Uganda and Zambia. It provides new insights into conceptual and methodological discussions of youth entrepreneurship as well as presenting original empirical data. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative research, conducted under the auspices of a collaborative, interdisciplinary and comparative research proj...
Genre: Business & Finance, Small Business & Entrepreneurship, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Science & Maths, Earth Sciences, Teen & Young Adult
Size: 292 pages
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Well-being, Sustainability and Social Development: The Netherlands 1850–2050
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Genre: Business & Finance, Economics, History, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy, Science & Maths, Earth Sciences, Environment, Physics
Size: 572 pages
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Genre: Business & Finance, Economics, Professional & Technical, Technology & Engineering, Science & Maths, Earth Sciences, Nature & Ecology
Size: 282 pages
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Genre: Business & Finance, Economics, Finance, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Science & Maths, Earth Sciences
Size: 383 pages
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Solar energetic particles (SEPs) emitted from the Sun are a major space weather hazard motivating the development of predictive capabilities. This book presents the results and findings of the HESPERIA (High Energy Solar Particle Events forecasting and Analysis) project of the EU HORIZON 2020 programme. It discusses the forecasting operational tools developed within the project, and presents progress to SEP research contributed by HESPERIA both from the observational as well as the SEP modelling perspective. Using multi-frequency observational data and simulations HESPERIA investigated the chain of processes from particle acceleration in the corona, particle transport in the magnetically complex corona and interplanetary space, to the detection near 1 AU. The book also elaborates on the un...
Genre: Nonfiction, Science & Maths, Astronomy, Earth Sciences, Environment
Size: 203 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 15 February 2020 onward
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Genre: Science & Maths, Earth Sciences
Size: Unknown
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Los Angeles and the Summer Olympic Games: Planning Legacies (SpringerBriefs in Geography)
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Genre: Science & Maths, Earth Sciences
Size: Unknown
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6 reviews
Climate Bogeyman: The Criminal Insanity of the Global Warming / Climate Change Hoax
In bold and certain defiance of “the great and the good” who continue to proclaim “Global Warming” to be “settled science,” author M S King aligns himself firmly and proudly in the camp of what the media refers to as “climate change deniers.” What separates this work from that of so many other excellent books and documentaries which debunk the hoax of manmade “Global Warming” is that it provides a complete picture of the scam – one that not only encompasses the Fake Science, but also ties it into the public relations component and the historical geopolitical context which drives the “Climate Bogeyman.”It is self-defeating to “respectfully disagree” with the warmists. Any respect afforded to that crowd implies that they, in the words of one “denialist” film...
Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Science & Maths, Earth Sciences, Environment
Size: 254 pages
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1 review
Faith, Reason, & Earth History: A Paradigm of Earth and Biological Origins by Intelligent Design
The ground is shifting. New research programs, and new discoveries, are constantly changing the landscape of our knowledge of "how it all began." And for those considering these matters from a position of biblical faith, there are new and promising frontiers to explore. Many of those remarkable recent changes are addressed in this fully updated third edition of this landmark work, now in its twentieth year of publication. With additional contributions from joint author Arthur Chadwick, Faith, Reason, and Earth History presents Leonard Brand's continuing argument for constructive thinking about origins and earth history in the context of Scripture, showing readers how to analyze available scientific data and approach unsolved problems. Faith does not need to fear the data but can contribute...
Genre: Nonfiction, Science & Maths, Earth Sciences
Size: 604 pages
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5 reviews
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Genre: Nonfiction, Science & Maths, Earth Sciences
Size: 352 pages
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