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Forests Under Threat: Climate Change and the Need for Sustainable Management

Spruce trees, a mainstay of many forests, are facing a silent killer: climate change. Rising temperatures and erratic precipitation patterns are weakening these evergreens, making them vulnerable to pests…

Hans Zimmer

Planet Earth III

Fabrizio D'Aprile (Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, Arezzo, Italy), Piermaria Corona (Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, Arezzo and Professor, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy)

Effects of Climate Change on Forests

Outlines innovative tools to evaluate and assess forest management plans Provides guidelines and criteria for forest planning, sustainability and management techniques for adapting to climate change Helps…

Strategizing Agricultural Management for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

This volume aims to raise awareness and stimulate research on how agricultural management could help to mitigate climate change impacts, and focuses on technical progressions and innovations in climate ch…

Winfried Schröder, Angela Schlutow

Climate Change and Atmospheric Deposition as Drivers of Forest Ecosystem Integrity and Services

This book is intended to provide a hitherto missing English-language overview of a multi-year research project in which a comprehensive methodology was developed to assess a rule-based classification of t…

Taxing Choices for Managing Natural Resources, the Environment, and Global Climate Change

This book reviews taxing choices to protect the local and global environment and preserve and sustain natural resources. Alternative economic instruments such as carbon taxes and tradable permits to comba…

Fader

Bright Ideas for a Brighter Future: LEDs and the Fight Against Climate Change

Dim the lights on climate change with a bright idea: LEDs! These innovative light-emitting diodes are superstars of energy efficiency, using up to 80% less power than traditional bulbs. That translates to…

Abrar Juhar Mohammed, Kazuhiro Harada, Makoto Inoue, Yasuhiro Yokota

Participatory Forest Management in a New Age - Integration of Climate Change Policy and Rural Development Policy

The UN's International Initiative of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) has enabled wide comparative research on forestry in global climate change. In this book, an inter…

Accidental Bird

The Old News Shrug (Blue Transparent Vinyl)

Manchmal muss man die Tür einfach mit einer steilen These eintreten: Accidental Bird ist die vielleicht sanfteste Rockband Deutschlands. Was das bedeuten soll? E-Gitarren, Trommelwirbel und andere Roc…

Forest Management for Climate Change Mitigation

This book reviews the most recent research on soil, vegetation, and ecosystems within forestry landscapes under the pressures of climate change. It also explores the interplay between climate change, fore…

U. Sunday Tim (Associate Professor, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA), Sugam Sharma (Researcher, Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA)

The Geography of Climate Change Vulnerability

Geography of Climate Change Vulnerability: Exposure, Sensitivity and Adaptation explores the geographic dimensions of vulnerability of human- environmental systems to climate change. It provides informati…

Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich,

Saving Earth

A timely and inspiring nonfiction guide for middle grade readers about the history of our fight against climate change, and how young people today are rising to action. Inspired by Nathaniel Rich's Losin…

Adapting to Climate Change in Agriculture-Theories and Practices

This book brings together a series of chapters that provides updated information on adaptation practices against climate change in agriculture and livestock. Information on some new aspects like conservat…

Hans Von Storch, Nico Stehr

Die Wissenschaft in der Gesellschaft

Als die Autoren über die Grenzen zweier Wissenschaftskulturen hinweg Anfang der 90er Jahre begannen, über die wissenschaftliche und populäre Wahrnehmung und Konstruktion des Phänomens Klima, Klimawand…

Chandrasekar Vuppalapati

Specialty Crops for Climate Change Adaptation

Specialty crops are defined as fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, horticulture, and nursery crops including floriculture. The value of specialty crop production in the United States accounted…

Sustainability in the Oil and Gas Sector

The push for sustainability in the oil and gas sector has taken center stage in both climate action debates and mitigation/adaptation efforts in recent decades. As the global mission for sustainable energ…

Climate Change, Vulnerabilities and Adaptation

This contributed volume offers a wide variety of cases exploring how humanity can adapt to a changing climate. The volume features a wide variety of contributions from geographers, primarily in India but …

Urban Metabolism and Climate Change

This book provides a basic understanding and state-of-the-art of urban metabolism. Urban centres are increasingly challenged by population increase and the resultant environmental concerns including the u…

Francesco Carlucci, Francesco Fiorito, Ludovica Maria Campagna

Responsive Envelopes and Climate Change

This book provides the theoretical background and the practical tools to assess the energy behaviour of different responsive envelope technologies in current and future climate scenarios. Starting from th…