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Smart Cities, Energy and Climate - Governing Cities for a Low-Carbon Future

Collective insight of key thought leaders in the field, combining theoretical, methodological, and empirical knowledge Smart Cities, Ener...

Climate Change and the Future of Boston

An in-depth analysis of the climate impacts facing Boston and the city's efforts to mitigate and adapt to a changing climate.

The Ethics of the Climate Crisis

The planet is in crisis. Time is short, but it is still possible to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions before disaster overtakes us all. R...

Sustainable Resilient Built Environments - Proceedings of Srbe 2022, India

The proceedings of Sustainable Resilient Built Environments are based on the SRBE 2022 conference held in December 2022. It focuses on th...

Natural Resources Management and Sustainable Livelihoods in the Mountainous Region - Evidence, Gap and Future Strategies

This book explores the relationships between natural resources management, sustainable livelihoods, and integrated watershed management i...

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Advanced Renewable Energy Systems - Icares'22, 18-20 Dec, Tipaza, Algeria

This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the First International Conference on Advanced Renewable Energy Systems (ICARES'22) held i...

We Will Not Be Saved - A memoir of hope and resistance in the Amazon rainforest

'Full of wisdom, sadness, flourishes of joy and psychedelic visions' GUARDIAN 'Astonishing' IPAPER 'Beautiful and gripping . . . a fascin...

Food Planet Future - The Art of Turning Food and Climate Perils into Possibilities

Food Planet Future takes the reader on an extraordinary visual tour of everyday foods and in the process, connects us more deeply to the ...

Before They Vanish - Saving Nature's Populations -- And Ourselves

Legendary conservationists show us that we still have the power to prevent critical consequences of the sixth extinction in this game-cha...

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Control - Theory and Applications

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Control: Theory and Applications examines the basics of structural dynamics with its application fo...

Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management, Digitalization and Sustainability

This Open Access book addresses all aspects of bridge maintenance, safety and management. Specifically, it deals with bridge repair and r...

Energy Capitol - The Waning of Regulatory Form

Energy Capitol explores the waning of regulatory politics surrounding large-scale energy systems in the United States at the turn of the ...

Artificial Intelligence - Technical and Societal Advancements

This book provides an examination of cutting-edge research and developments in the field of Artificial Intelligence. It seeks to extend t...

The Science of Land Subsidence

The Science of Land Subsidence explains the current science underpinning natural and human-caused land subsidence events and provides stu...

Sustainability of Natural Resources - Planning, Development, and Management

Sustainability of Natural Resources: Planning, Development, and Management addresses water resources exploration, planning, recent geogra...

Bio-Inspired Computational Paradigms - Security and Privacy in Dynamic Smart Networks

Smart cities with various technological innovations have played an important role and influenced society as well. Due to voluminous data ...

Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters

This book hosts a collection of historical and fieldwork-based case studies and conceptual discussions of climate change in the greater H...

Regulating Hate Speech Created by Generative AI

This book examines ways to regulate generative AI to reduce online hate and secure justice in a digital environment. Featuring research a...

Sdgs Amidst Multiple Global Shocks - Challenges and Way Forward

This book provides a comprehensive perspective by taking an interdisciplinary approach to issues of attaining SDGs in India. It starts wi...

Managing Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes - Conservation, Restoration and Rewilding

Despite recent efforts, agricultural production continues to threaten biodiversity, disrupt delivery of key ecosystem services and contri...

Artificial Intelligence-Based 6G Networking

This book deals with the emerging 6G networking and services, which are expected to be implemented in 2030. With 6G, there will be a deep...

Our Renewable Energy Future - the Remarkable Story Of How Renewable Energy Will Become the Basis for Our Lives

Our Renewable Energy Future delves into the clean energy technology evolution and where our energy system is going. While the book's foun...

Physics and Mechanics of New Materials - Synthesis, Processing, and Emerging Applications

Details advances in materials science and engineering technology. Covers their usefulness in design, fabrication, testing, and industrial...

Smart Mobility and Intelligent Transportation Systems for Commercial and Hazardous Vehicles

Discusses the challenges and solutions to transportation issues involving smart applications like artificial intelligence, Internet of Th...

Green Automation - Increasing Sustainability, From Industry to Our Home

Environmental issues are a growing concern for our society, and should deserve increased attention, given the extremely negative climate ...

Hope in the Anthropocene - Agency, Governance and Negation

Explores the centrality of hope to political thought and policy practice in the Anthropocene

Biogeochemistry of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter

Biogeochemistry of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter, Third Edition is the most up-to-date revision of this fundamental reference on the bi...

Private Spaces in Public Places - Comfort Stations, Fitting Rooms, Public Baths, and Locker Rooms in America, 1880-1930

"This work takes a unique slant on the concept of privacy-not in terms of threats or law, but as it manifested in physical spaces"--

Beyond the Sea - The Hidden Life in Lakes, Streams, and Wetlands

An exciting foray into Earth's inland waters, the remarkable species they contain, and the conservation challenges of protecting them. We...

Data Science - A First Introduction with Python

Data Science: A First Introduction with Python focuses on using the Python programming language in Jupyter notebooks to perform data mani...

Fabrication and Applications of Biomass-Derived Porous Carbon

This book systematically introduces the fundamentals, preparation technology, state-of-the-art applications, and future development of bi...

Your Health When The Climate Changes

Climate Change is coming for us. Its impacts will be universal and will have profound effects upon human health. It is vital we understan...

Sustainability at Work - Careers That Make a Difference

Sustainability at Work is a compelling guide for anyone who seeks both a successful career and a career that makes a positive difference ...

Grouted Soil and Rock Anchors

This delves into the crucial aspects of grouted soil and rock anchors, covering anchor design, construction, testing, durability, and mai...

Databases for Data-Centric Geotechnics - Geotechnical Structures

This is the second of a definitive guide to databases in geotechnical and rock engineering to enhance decision-making in geotechnical pra...

Databases for Data-Centric Geotechnics - Site Characterization

This is the first of two volumes forming a definitive guide to databases in geotechnical and rock engineering to enhance decision-making ...

Blockchain and Cryptocurrency - Management Systems and Technology Challenges

Blockchain and cryptocurrency have become the most revolutionary technologies of the 21st century, potentially transforming how we conduc...

Artificial Intelligence and Information Technologies - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Information Technologies (ICAIIT 2023), 3-4 November 2023, Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Volume 2

This book begins with exploring the research and innovation in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Information Technologies includin...

Future Vision - Stories of Our Brilliant Tomorrow

Future Vision takes young readers on a beautifully illustrated and hopeful adventure into tomorrow's world, exploring the technological a...

The Age of Melt - What Glaciers, Ice Mummies, and Ancient Artifacts Teach Us about Climate, Culture, and a Future Without Ice

An entertaining pop-sci narrative investigating ice patch archaeology and the role of glaciers in the development of human culture. Glaci...

Artificial Intelligence and Information Technologies - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Information Technologies (ICAIIT 2023), 3-4 November 2023, Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Volume 1

This book begins with exploring the research and innovation in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Information Technologies includin...

Unfracked - The Struggle to Ban Fracking in New York

Since fracking emerged as a way of extracting natural gas, through intense deep drilling and the use of millions of gallons of water and ...

Sustainable Energy Development - Technology and Investment

This book provides deeper insights into sustainable energy development, technology, and investment in climate-oriented solutions; climate...

The Future of Natural Gas and Petroleum Engineering

Principles of Soundscape Ecology - Discovering Our Sonic World

"From a founding figure in the field, the definitive introduction to an exciting new science. What do the sounds of a chorus of tropical ...

Glacier-Permafrost Interactions

Glacier-Permafrost Interactions A systematic exploration of the interactions between glaciers and permafrost In Glacier-Permafrost Intera...

Fundamentals of Environmental Sampling and Analysis, 2e Set

This book introduces a comprehensive overview on the fundamentals and applications of environmental sampling and analysis for students in...

The Construction of Ecological Civilization in China

The book introduces China's ecological environmental protection in urban and rural areas. China's economic development and the achievemen...

Seismic Performance of Corroded Reinforced Concrete Structures Retrofitted with Frp

This monograph is written based on the author's research on seismic assessment and retrofitting of corrosion-damaged reinforced concrete ...

Good News, Planet Earth - What's Being Done to Save Our World, and What You Can Do Too!

Join sustainability enthusiast and climate activist Sam Bentley as he shares the hopeful developments combating climate change! Do you fe...

A Natural History of the Future - What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species

Over the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. In A Nat...

Warnsignal Klima 21: Hilft Technik gegen die Erderwärmung? - Climate Engineering in Diskussion

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Spinning Out - Climate Change, Mental Health and Fighting for a Better Future

Utterly brilliant - engaging, thrilling, disturbing, revelatory, explosive' George Monbiot An urgent, eye-opening study by leading climat...

Fen, Bog and Swamp - A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week`Magnificent¿ Guardian`Remarkable ¿ A compact classic!¿ Bill McKibben`I learned something new ¿ and found s...

Breathe - Seven Ways to Win a Greener World

New book from Penguin Random House publishing May 2023

Urban Jungle - Wilding the City, from the author of Metropolis

An eye-opening and urgent re-examination of nature in our cities, from the Sunday Times bestselling winner of the Somerset Maugham Award ...

Not Zero - How an Irrational Target Will Impoverish You, Help China (and Won't Even Save the Planet)

'Bravely challenging the Establishment consensus ... forensically argued' - Mail on SundayThe British government has embarked on an ambit...

Waking Up to Climate Change: Five Dimensions of the Crisis and What We Can Do About It

For 15 years, author George Ropes has followed the unfolding story of climate change for the timely website ClimateYou.org. Along the way...

365 Ways to Save the Planet - A Day-by-day Guide to Sustainable Living

Step up your sustainability and unlock your full eco potential with 365 easy, trackable changes. What if sustainability didn't have to be...

How to Live in a Chaotic Climate - 10 Steps to Reconnect with Ourselves, Our Communities, and Our Planet

A 10-step holistic guide to help you cope with the climate crisis—from the founders of the Good Grief Network. Eco-distress is real. How ...