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  • Boundary Science: Re-imagining Water-Energy-Food Interactions in the Context of a Data Light Approach to Monitoring the Environment- Development Nexus

    by Mathew Kurian, Yu Kojima ...
    Boundary Science and the Pursuit of Sustainable Development: Lessons from Global Public Goods Research on the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus addresses the problem of how global research can reorient itself to better address sustainable goals and objectives through the use of place-based observatories that support multi-dimensional modelling. The book will provide an overview of the impact of case ... Read more

    $88.79 CAD

  • Resources, Services and Risks

    How Can Data Observatories Bridge The Science-Policy Divide in Environmental Governance?

    by Mathew Kurian, Reza Ardakanian, Linda Gonçalves Veiga, Kristin Meyer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book discusses the role of observatories in supporting evidence-based decision-making. The book focuses on issues of data accessibility, monitoring frameworks and governance processes with regard to environmental resources – water, soil and waste. This publication highlights challenges related to policy-implementation measures and examines current monitoring approaches, and illustrates how ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Green Nanomaterials for Energy and Environment

    Protocols and Applications

    Edited by Kuruvilla Joseph, Manju Kurian, Meegle S. Mathew ...
    Series series Woodhead Publishing in Materials
    Green Nanomaterials for Energy and Environment: Protocols and Applications provides a comprehensive account of the various green protocols used for the synthesis of nanomaterials, their characterization techniques, toxicity evaluation, and various applications in the field of energy and environment. The book covers the optimal experimental routes and mechanisms for the formation of benign ... Read more

    $309.59 CAD

  • Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations

    Questions of Accountability and Autonomy

    by Linda Gonçalves Veiga, Mathew Kurian, Reza Ardakanian ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book examines and analyzes issues related to public finance in subnational governments, along with a discussion of case studies on decentralization. Most of the analysis applies to all public goods and services provided by subnational governments, with some placed on the role of subnational governments in the management of environmental resources, notably water and wasteCoverage includes ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Peri-urban Water and Sanitation Services

    Policy, Planning and Method

    Edited by Mathew Kurian, Patricia McCarney ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    More than 2.6 billion people in the developing world lack access to safe water and sanitation service. The Millennium Development Goal’s (MDG) target is to halve the number of people without access to a sustainable source of water supply and connection to a sewer network by 2015. That target is unlikely to be met. If there is anything that can be learnt from European experience it is that ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Governing the Nexus

    Water, Soil and Waste Resources Considering Global Change

    Edited by Mathew Kurian, Reza Ardakanian ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Global trends such as urbanization, demographic and climate change that are currently underway pose serious challenges to sustainable development and integrated resources management. The complex relations between demands, resource availability and quality and financial and physical constraints can be addressed by knowledge based policies and reform of professional practice. The nexus approach ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Infrastructure Design for Multi-Use Water Services

    by Čedo Maksimović, Mathew Kurian, Reza Ardakanian ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    As we approach a historic tipping point in the global trend toward urbanisation – within two decades urban dwellers will increase from 49% to 60% of the planet’s population – this book identifies and addresses a critical problem: water. The editors show how cities can shift from being water consumers to resource managers, applying urban water management principles to ensure access to water and ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Life-cycle Cost Approach for Management of Environmental Resources

    A Primer

    by V. Ratna Reddy, Mathew Kurian, Reza Ardakanian ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book demonstrates the application of Life-cycle Cost Approach (LCCA) in the management of infrastructure and other investment projects in the context of developing countries. The main goal is to identify potential opportunities for the adoption LCCA in developing countries, with the help of case studies and best practices. The editors observe that developing countries are plagued with poor ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • Digital Soil Mapping Across Paradigms, Scales and Boundaries

    Edited by Dick Brus, Feng Liu, Xiao-Dong Song, Philippe Lagacherie, Gan-lin Zhang ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book contains papers presented at the 6th Global Workshop on Digital Soil Mapping, held 11-14 November 2014 at the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences of Nanjing, China. Digital soil mapping is advancing on different fronts at different paces throughout the world. The researches and applications on DSM are moving from method development to realizations in different scales ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Precision Crop Protection - the Challenge and Use of Heterogeneity

    Edited by Erich-Christian Oerke, Roland Gerhards, Gunter Menz, Richard A. Sikora ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Precision farming is an agricultural management system using global navigation satellite systems, geographic information systems, remote sensing, and data management systems for optimizing the use of nutrients, water, seed, pesticides and energy in heterogeneous field situations. This book provides extensive information on the state-of-the-art of research on precision crop protection and recent ... Read more

    $307.99 CAD

  • Issues in the Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on Agriculture

    Applications to the southeastern United States

    Edited by Linda O. Mearns ...
    This book presents a collection of articles concerning key topics which examine the impacts of climate change and variability on agriculture. The application region is the southeastern United States. The main topics include an investigation of the effect of variations in the spatial scale of climate change scenarios on an agricultural integrated assessment, methods of simulating adaptations of ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques in Land- and Water-management

    Edited by A. van Dijk, M.G. Bos ...
    Managing land and water is a complex affair. Decisions must be made constantly to allocate and use natural resources. Decision and action in any use of resources often have strong interactions and side-effects on others, therefore it is extremely important to monitor and forecast the impacts of the decisions very carefully. Reliable information and clear data manipulation procedures are compulsory ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD