Geopedology
Geopedology

Author: Joseph Alfred Zinck

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-01-30

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 3031206673

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This updated and revised second edition brings geopedology issues into the current context. This new edition extends the work on popular topics such as digital soil mapping, GIS and landscape mapping, and it also gives valuable insight with up-to-date theoretical discussions and new application with relevant case studies. This textbook offers a proven approach for reliable mapping of soil-landscape relationships to derive information for policy, planning and management at scales ranging from local to regional. Filled with didactic elements such as case studies, visual aids (maps, charts and figures), questions and answers, the book is of interest to geohazard studies, land use conflict analysis, land use planning, land degradation assessment, and land suitability analysis. Soil is a vital resource for society at large and an important determinant of the economic status of nations. The intensification of natural disasters and the increased land use competition for food and energy have raised awareness of the relevant role the pedosphere plays in natural and anthropogenic environments. Recent papers and global initiatives show a renewed interest in soil research and its applications for improved planning and management of this fragile and finite resource.

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Publisher: Odile Jacob

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Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 2738185525

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Convergence of Catastrophes
Convergence of Catastrophes

Author: Guillaume Faye

Publisher: Arktos

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1907166467

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Faye rigorously examines today's escalating crises one by one. He reminds readers they should not give in to pessimism, that what is being experienced is not an apocalypse, but a metamorphosis of humanity.

Geographers
Geographers

Author: Hayden Lorimer

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-09-25

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1472566637

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Volume 33 of Geographers Biobibliographical Studies adds significantly to the corpus of scholarship on geography's multiple histories and biographies with six essays on individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography in the twentieth century. This volume focuses on European geographers, including essays on individuals from Britain, France and Hungary. These are individuals who have made important and distinctive contributions to a diverse range of fields, including cartography, physical geography, oceanography and urban theory. As with previous volumes, these biographical essays demonstrate the importance of geographers' lives in terms of the lived experience of geography in practise.

The Coming Authoritarian Ecology
The Coming Authoritarian Ecology

Author: Fabrice Flipo

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2018-07-31

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 178630242X

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The book examines ecological issues such as climate change and biodiversity, articulating local and global scales, and short and long term perspectives, questioning what "development" and "progress" are. The goal is to show how diverging points of view are conflictingly articulated to one another, in a political ideology perspective. This perspective, which is close to the main actor's point of view, allows displacement of the usual analysis, and offers a new synthesis.

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Publisher: Nicolas de POTTER

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Total Pages: 288

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Resource Policy
Resource Policy

Author: Institute for Research on Public Policy

Publisher: IRPP

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780920380642

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Cultural Heritage
Cultural Heritage

Author: Hani Hayajneh

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2023-04

Total Pages: 868

ISBN-13: 3643912528

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Human heritage is an endless mine of knowledge, skills, ethos and accomplishments, which visualize and examine the power of human creativity and innovation throughout the history. The contributions cast an insight into the human psyche to perceive its Weltanschauung, and its way of thinking and making artefacts associated with knowledge, existence and identity in the context of other existing systems in the world. They demonstrate the diversity of topics as well as the state-of-the art of interdisciplinary approaches that participants of the Humboldt-Kolleg use in their research on cultural heritage, and confirm, once again, that the strengths of the Alexander von Humboldt Network should be celebrated and honoured. The present volume invites us to seek more novel research approaches that aim towards an understanding of the complex nature of human inheritance.

Environmental Transition and Technological Change Transition
Environmental Transition and Technological Change Transition

Author: Smail Aït-El-Hadjait

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2024-07-23

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1786306387

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Faced with the scale and intensity of the ecological crisis, environmental transition is underway, consisting of a first phase of technological mutation, aimed at replacing technologies harmful to the environment with those which have no destructive effects on the earth system and its equilibrium. This book examines the roots of the concept of environmental transition, identifying and characterizing the negative effects of technology on the environmental crisis. We will then identify the technological mutations that have the potential to contribute to environmental transition, and demonstrate how these changes are already forming part of a new emerging "technological system". We will conclude by addressing the question of the limits of technological responses to the environmental crisis, demonstrating the importance of the dimensional factors of human activity and weight of growth in this crisis, thus raising the issue of global reconsideration, with reference to the place and articulation of human activity in the Earth system.

Chemical agriculture and pollinators: signs of a Planet in danger
Chemical agriculture and pollinators: signs of a Planet in danger

Author: Giuseppe Zicari

Publisher: Youcanprint

Published: 2023-02-24

Total Pages: 687

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Bees, that have inhabited the Planet for over 100 million years, are the common thread that tells the story of various ecological challenges such as the reduction of biodiversity, climate change, soil degradation, and energy transition. Paradoxically, agriculture is one of the major causes of irreversible and, therefore, unsustainable changes such as global warming and the extinction of pollinators from which it derives its benefits and wealth. The massive use of fossil fuels, the distribution of poisons such as pesticides (persistent, toxic, and bioaccumulative), the loss of fertility in monocultures of plants selected to satisfy economic needs, are some of the main causes of an ecologically unsustainable food production system. The book tries to show a different vision of the World we are building, a story of backstories and underestimated dangers. This book received two prizes: "Steli di Pace" (Stems of Peace) by the Union of European Journalists and Communicators in 2023 and it was the winner of the "Concorso Nazionale per la divulgazione scientifica Kerit-LC Edizioni" (National Competition for science dissemination) in 2024.