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A city in blue and green : the Singapore story
This open access book highlights Singapore’s development into a city in which water and greenery, along with associated environmental, technical, social and political aspects have been harnessed and cultivated into a liveable sustainable way of life. It is also a story about a unique and thoroughgoing approach to large-scale and potentially transferable water sustainability, within largely ur…
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- 978811395970
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- iii, 152p. : ill.
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- 363.70095957 ROW c
Status and dynamics of forests in Germany : results of the National Forest Mo…
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 regar…
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- 9783030157340
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- x, 384p. : ill.
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- 634.90943 STA s
From assessing to conserving biodiversity : conceptual and practical challenges
This open access book features essays written by philosophers, biologists, ecologists and conservation scientists facing the current biodiversity crisis. Despite increasing communication, accelerating policy and management responses, and notwithstanding improving ecosystem assessment and endangered species knowledge, conserving biodiversity continues to be more a concern than an accomplished ta…
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- 9783030109912
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- xiv, 452p. : ill.
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- 333.9516 FRO f
Earth 2020: An Insider’s Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet
Fifty years have passed since the first Earth Day, on 22 April 1970. This accessible, incisive and timely collection of essays brings together a diverse set of expert voices to examine how the Earth’s environment has changed over this past half century, and what lies in store for our planet over the coming fifty years. Earth 2020: An Insider’s Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet responds to …
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- 9781783748471
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- xii, 279p.: ill
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- 550 EAR e
Biodiversity conservation and phylogenetic systematics : preserving our evolu…
Phylogenetic diversity is now a key concept for biodiversity conservation due to its link to option value, evolutionary potential and to the possibility of guiding conservation across scales. Present facilities for obtaining molecular sequences and metagenomes are powering this research field, rendering available detailed information of phylogenetic diversity for a wide taxonomic sample in a sh…
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- 9783319224619
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- XVII, 390 p.
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- 333.95 BIO b
Managing socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes for sustainable…
This open access book presents up-to-date analyses of community-based approaches to sustainable resource management of SEPLS (socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes) in areas where a harmonious relationship between the natural environment and the people who inhabit it is essential to ensure community and environmental well-being as well as to build resilience in the ecosystems tha…
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- 9789811511332
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- x, 179p. : ill.
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- 333.7 MAN m
Installation art and the museum : presentation and conservation of changing a…
Installation art has become mainstream in artistic practices. However, acquiring and displaying such artworks implies that curators and conservators are challenged to deal with obsolete technologies, ephemeral materials and other issues concerning care and management of these artworks. By analysing three in-depth case studies, the author sheds new light on the key concepts of traditional conser…
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- 9789089644596
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- 225p. : ill.
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- 709.0407 VAN i
Conservation of natural and cultural heritage in Kenya : a cross-disciplinary…
In Kenya, cultural and natural heritage has a particular value. This book brings together essays by heritage experts from different backgrounds, including conservation, heritage management, museum studies, archaeology, environment and social sciences, architecture and landscape, geography, philosophy and economics to explore three key themes: the underlying ethics, practices and legal issues of…
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- 9781910634844
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- XVIII, 249 p.
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- 363.69 CON c
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