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Large Asian Lakes in a Changing World

Author : Steffen Mischke
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030422542
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Large Asian Lakes in a Changing World written by Steffen Mischke and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describing the natural state of eight important lakes in Asia and the human impact on these lake ecosystems, this book offers a valuable reference guide. Over the past several decades the Aral Sea, Dead Sea, Lake Balkhash and other major lakes in Asia have undergone significant changes with regard to their size, water level, chemical composition, and flora and fauna. Most of these changes resulted from the loss of water from tributaries (now used for irrigation farming) or increasing consumption in local industries and households. However, significant human impacts may have begun as early as 2000 years ago. In addition to the three lakes mentioned above, Lake Sevan (Armenia), the Caspian Sea (Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan), Lake Issyk-Kul (Kyrgyzstan), and Lake Lop Nur (China) are discussed as the most prominent examples of changing lake ecosystems. In contrast, an example of an almost pristine lake ecosystem is included with the report on Lake Uvs Nuur (Mongolia). For each lake, the book summarizes its origin and early geological history, and reconstructs its natural state and variability on the basis of proxy records from drilled or exposed lake sediments that have accumulated since the last ice age. The frequently observed reductions in lake level and size during most recent decades led often to significant environmental impacts in the respective lake catchments including vegetation deterioration, soil erosion and badland formation, soil salinization or the formation of sinkholes.

International Law of Underwater Cultural Heritage

Author : Kim Browne
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031105680
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book International Law of Underwater Cultural Heritage written by Kim Browne and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together three distinct areas of International Law – namely Environmental, Heritage and Ocean Law – to address the international legal protection of historically significant wrecks, with particular focus on the environmental hazards they may pose. The confluence of Heritage Law and the Law of the Sea with International Environmental Law represents an important development in international governance strategies for the twenty-first century, in particular those legal and administrative regimes that concern the world’s oceans and underwater cultural heritage protection. Importantly, connections between international legal regimes, such as the 1982 Law of the Sea, and institutions like the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and United Nations Education Scientific Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), can play a crucial part in governance strategies that involve the regulation of marine pollution and historic shipwrecks.

The Great Lakes Water Wars

Author : Peter Annin
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 159726637X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book The Great Lakes Water Wars written by Peter Annin and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic? Peter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these upcoming battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, The Great Lakes Water Wars is a balanced, comprehensive look behind the scenes at the conflicts and compromises that are the past-and future-of this unique resource.

Water Quality and Agriculture

Author : James Shortle
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030470873
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Water Quality and Agriculture written by James Shortle and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-12 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water pollution control has been a top environmental policy priority of the world’s most developed countries for decades, and the focus of significant regulation and public and private spending. Yet, significant water quality problems remain, and trends for some pollutants are in the wrong direction. This book addresses the economics of water pollution control and water pollution control policy in agriculture, with an aim towards providing students, environmental policy analysts, and other environmental professionals with economic concepts and tools essential to understanding the problem and crafting solutions that can be effective and efficient. The book will also examine existing policies and proposed reforms in the developed world. Although this book addresses and has a general applicability to major water pollutants from agriculture (e.g., pesticides, pharmaceuticals, sediments, nutrients), it will focus on the sediment and nutrient pollution problem. The economic and scientific foundations for pollution management are best developed for these pollutants, and they are currently the top priorities of policy makers. Accordingly, the authors provide both highly salient and informative cases for developing concepts and methods of general applicability, with high profile examples such as the Chesapeake Bay, Lake Erie, and the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone in the US; the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe; and Lake Taupo in New Zealand.

Green and Transnational Crime in Europe and Beyond

Author : Petrus C. van Duyne
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 104023450X
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Green and Transnational Crime in Europe and Beyond by : Petrus C. van Duyne

Download or read book Green and Transnational Crime in Europe and Beyond written by Petrus C. van Duyne and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together research and studies in the fields of organised crime and of ‘green criminality’ against the natural environment. By bringing the research traditions of organised crime and ‘green criminology’ into closer proximity and combining contributions on traditional organised crime and ecological crime in one volume, it questions the need to draw artificial dividing lines between criminological sub-disciplines. Including chapters on the illegal trade in cobalt, in stolen motor vehicles, the illegal dog market, cross- border amber trafficking, deforestation and environmental harm in the Norwegian industrial salmon farming, the book offers an important rapprochement between studies in organised crime and green criminology, and considers the operational differences between underworld and upperworld criminal economies.

Climate Change 2022 – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

Author : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009445383
Total Pages : 3070 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Climate Change 2022 – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability written by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-22 with total page 3070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Working Group II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides a comprehensive assessment of the scientific literature relevant to climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. The report recognizes the interactions of climate, ecosystems and biodiversity, and human societies, and integrates across the natural, ecological, social and economic sciences. It emphasizes how efforts in adaptation and in reducing greenhouse gas emissions can come together in a process called climate resilient development, which enables a liveable future for biodiversity and humankind. The IPCC is the leading body for assessing climate change science. IPCC reports are produced in comprehensive, objective and transparent ways, ensuring they reflect the full range of views in the scientific literature. Novel elements include focused topical assessments, and an atlas presenting observed climate change impacts and future risks from global to regional scales. Available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Effects of novel environments on domesticated species

Author : Xinyi Liu
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832519407
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Effects of novel environments on domesticated species written by Xinyi Liu and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Neolithic Settlement of Aknashen (Ararat valley, Armenia)

Author : Ruben Badalyan
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803270039
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis The Neolithic Settlement of Aknashen (Ararat valley, Armenia) by : Ruben Badalyan

Download or read book The Neolithic Settlement of Aknashen (Ararat valley, Armenia) written by Ruben Badalyan and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first monograph devoted to the Neolithic period in Armenia. The volume concerns the natural environment, material culture and subsistence economy of the populations of the first half of the 6th millennium BC, who established the first sedentary settlements in the alluvial plain of the Araxes river.

Earth Surface Processes and Environmental Changes in East Asia

Author : Kenji Kashiwaya
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 4431555404
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (315 download)

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Book Synopsis Earth Surface Processes and Environmental Changes in East Asia by : Kenji Kashiwaya

Download or read book Earth Surface Processes and Environmental Changes in East Asia written by Kenji Kashiwaya and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines relationships between climate-hydrological changes and other phenomena including land use and natural disasters during the Holocene and recent past. In particular, periods of rapid climatic shifts such as global warming and global cooling are examined through paleohydrological and other studies of various lake-catchment systems in East Asia, from Mongolia in the north to Taiwan in the south. A number of different research techniques are used in the work presented here, including sediment analysis and optically stimulated luminescence dating and the reader learns how the lake-catchment system functions as a “proxy observatory” for past and present environmental monitoring. The lake catchments studied by the authors of this volume are under similar climatic conditions, i.e., under the East Asia monsoon, with some systematic difference in climatic factors. Both proxy and observation data are available for the surrounding countries’ provisions against natural disasters that are related to climate-hydrological events and readers will see how present instrumental observation data can be connected to past proxy data (sediment information) in the system.

Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World

Author : Josep G. Canadell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540327304
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World by : Josep G. Canadell

Download or read book Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World written by Josep G. Canadell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-01-10 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the impacts of global change on terrestrial ecosystems. Emphasis is placed on impacts of atmospheric, climate and land use change, and the book discusses the future challenges and the scientific frameworks to address them. Finally, the book explores fundamental new research developments and the need for stronger integration of natural and human dimensions in addressing the challenge of global change.

Global Biodiversity in a Changing Environment

Author : Osvaldo E. Sala
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780387952499
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (524 download)

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Book Synopsis Global Biodiversity in a Changing Environment by : Osvaldo E. Sala

Download or read book Global Biodiversity in a Changing Environment written by Osvaldo E. Sala and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-08-24 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climatic change, conservation biology

Water

Author : Brahma Chellaney
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1626160120
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Water written by Brahma Chellaney and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a pioneering study about the relationship between fresh water, peace, and security in Asia from the Middle East to Siberia but with a special focus on South and Southeast Asia. Asia is home to many of the world's great rivers and lakes, but its huge population and booming economies make it the most water-scarce continent on a per capita basis. Over extensive irrigation, pollution, and global warming add to the demographic and economic pressures on Asia's fresh water supplies. The location of the sources for much of South and Southeast Asia's fresh water is in the Chinese controlled Tibetan Plateau, and China's increasing exploitation of these water sources have created growing geopolitical tensions that could boil over into conflict. India is reliant on fresh water from Tibet, which gives the Chinese uncomfortable leverage over India and further exacerbates their unsettled border disputes. Vietnam, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and other countries of the region also find themselves in similarly vulnerable positions where water is scarce and the sources are increasingly being exploited and polluted upstream by the continent's most powerful country. Brahma Chellaney proposes strategies to avoid conflict and more equitably share and preserve Asia's water resources.

Himalayan Biodiversity in the Changing World

Author : Pavel Kindlmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400718020
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Himalayan Biodiversity in the Changing World by : Pavel Kindlmann

Download or read book Himalayan Biodiversity in the Changing World written by Pavel Kindlmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-09-18 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents some results on selected taxa in the Himalayan region (mainly Nepal), pinpoints the threats to their survival and suggests ways how to avoid their extinction. Most chapters are based on graduate research projects – relatively long-term field studies. The data presented here can be a good source of updated information on the subject and will prove to be a very useful reference in future studies of Himalayan biodiversity. They also tend to pinpoint the existing gaps in our knowledge of this region. All the chapters are based on recent trends of biodiversity and conservation vision, so the book can be a potential alternative to the existing relatively older books with outdated vision and information. Its main goal, however, is to disseminate the information about biodiversity conservation problems in the Himalayan region among the people in the developed world.

Shallow Lakes in a Changing World

Author : Ramesh D. Gulati
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402063997
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Shallow Lakes in a Changing World by : Ramesh D. Gulati

Download or read book Shallow Lakes in a Changing World written by Ramesh D. Gulati and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-03 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises the proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Shallow Lakes, held at Dalfsen, The Netherlands, in June 2005. The theme of the symposium was Shallow Lakes in a Changing World, and it dealt with water-quality issues, such as changes in lake limnology, especially those driven by eutrophication and pollution, increased nutrient loading and productivity, perennial blooms of cyanobacteria and loss of biodiversity.

World Water Resources at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century

Author : I. A. Shiklomanov
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521617222
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (172 download)

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Book Synopsis World Water Resources at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century by : I. A. Shiklomanov

Download or read book World Water Resources at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century written by I. A. Shiklomanov and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern assessment of the state of the world's water resources for researchers and policy-makers.

Witness To A Changing Earth

Author : C. Hans Nelson
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030718115
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Witness To A Changing Earth written by C. Hans Nelson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is of interest to all of you willing to gain perspective both in time and in depth about the global environmental crises we are facing in the Anthropocene as well as pondering potential solutions. Humans are dominating the Earth’s environment and causing global changes in the most recent geologic time called the Anthropocene. Global changes are caused by both natural events like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, or caused by humans like global warming and pollution of air, water, and soil. The author documents all types of global changes, beyond climate change, pointing out the risks for humanity when all these changes combine in time. Hans Nelson describes global changes while traveling through an earth scientist’s 60-year global journey. Throughout his memoirs, the author provides many humorous examples of adventures taking place during the scientific studies on land and at sea. He makes suggestions for a sustainable planet and shows that humans worldwide in the past, and can in the future, work together on solutions for global change problems. Students can use this book to learn about the many aspects of global change and methods that marine geologists use to obtain data on geologic hazards, resources, and environmental changes.

Handbook of Research on Sustainable Development Goals, Climate Change, and Digitalization

Author : Castanho, Rui Alexandre
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799884848
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on Sustainable Development Goals, Climate Change, and Digitalization written by Castanho, Rui Alexandre and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the world has been changing considerably. Within the many obstacles, barriers, and opportunities, three significant challenges should be considered for the future planning of our territories and cities: seeking to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), facing climate change, and performing a shift towards digitalization. Considering these three challenges, we can work toward a more sustainable future for the environment. The Handbook of Research on Sustainable Development Goals, Climate Change, and Digitalization elaborates on sustainability issues in the planning and development field regarding the environment. This text promotes understanding about the dynamics, challenges, and opportunities for the new decade regarding our common future planning. Covering topics such as circular economy, economic-ecological principles, and sustainable resilience, this book is essential for academicians, researchers, policymakers, environmentalists, scientists, technicians, decision makers, practitioners, and students.