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“benjamin dewals”

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  • Transboundary Water Management in a Changing Climate

    Edited by Benjamin Dewals, Maïté Fournier ...
    Most large river basins in the world are transboundary. Experience with such basins emphasizes the urgent need for more efficient transnational water management. This book details recent initiatives undertaken in the Meuse basin (North-West Europe) to develop a transnational adaptation strategy to deal with the impact of climate change.In the 21st ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

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  • Forests, Carbon Cycle and Climate Change

    by Denis Loustau ...
    Series series Update Sciences & technologies
    The results presented in this book summarize the main findings of the CARBOFOR project, which brought together 52 scientists from 14 research units to investigate the effects of future climate on the carbon cycle, the productivity and vulnerability of French forests. This book explains the current forest carbon cycle in temperate and Mediterranean climates, including the dynamics of soil carbon ... Read more

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  • The Age of Low Tech

    Towards a Technologically Sustainable Civilization

    by Philippe Bihouix ...
    People often believe that we can overcome the profound environmental and climate crises we face by smart systems, green innovations and more recycling. However, the quest for complex technological solutions, which rely on increasingly exotic and scarce materials, makes this unlikely.A best-seller in France, this English language edition introduces readers to an alternative perspective on how we ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Agroecology: research for the transition of agri-food systems and territories

    by Thierry Caquet, Chantal Gascuel, Michèle Tixier-Boichard ...
    Series series Matière à débattre et décider
    Agroecology was chosen by INRAE as one of the interdisciplinary foresight projects aimed at identifying research fronts in response to major societal challenges. Eighty researchers drew up an assessment and proposed research avenues for agroecology. This book summarizes their main conclusions. ... Read more

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  • Towards a Sustainable Future - Life Cycle Management

    Challenges and Prospects

    Edited by Zbigniew Stanislaw Klos, Joanna Kalkowska, Jędrzej Kasprzak ...
    This open access book includes a selection of contributions from the Life Cycle Management 2019 Conference (LCM) held in Poznań, Poland, and presents different examples of scientific and practical contributions, showing an incorporation of life cycle approach into the decision processes on strategic and operational level. Special attention is drawn to applications of LCM to target, organize, ... Read more

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  • Process Engineering and Industrial Management

    Edited by Jean-Pierre Dal Pont ...
    Process Engineering, the science and art of transforming raw materials and energy into a vast array of commercial materials, was conceived at the end of the 19th Century. Its history in the role of the Process Industries has been quite honorable, and techniques and products have contributed to improve health, welfare and quality of life. Today, industrial enterprises, which are still a major ... Read more

    $197.00 USD

  • Governance for Drought Resilience

    Land and Water Drought Management in Europe

    Edited by Hans Bressers, Nanny Bressers, Corinne Larrue ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents the findings of a team of scientists and practitioners who have been working on the project “Benefits of Governance in Drought Adaptation” (in short: the DROP project), which is included in the European Union’s INTERREG IVB NWE programme. The DROP governance team developed a Governance Assessment Tool (GAT), which allows the governance setting of a given region for planning and ... Read more

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  • Ecosystem Services

    Global Issues, Local Practices

    Edited by Sander Jacobs, Nicolas Dendoncker, Hans Keune ...
    Ecosystem Services: Global Issues, Local Practices covers scientific input, socioeconomic considerations, and governance issues on ecosystem services. This book provides hands-on transdisciplinary reflections by administrators and sector representatives involved in the ecosystem service community. Ecosystem Services develops shared approaches and scientific methods to achieve knowledge-based ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Geographical Information and Climatology

    Edited by Pierre Carrega ...
    This book includes two parts. The first part is more theoretical and general, and it covers fundamental principles : geospatial climate data measurement ; spatial analysis, mapping and climate ; geographical information, remote sensing and climatology ; and geographical information for initialisation of forecasting and climate models.The second part describes geographical information used in ... Read more

    $142.00 USD

  • Cities and Flooding: A Guide to Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management for the 21st Century

    by Abhas K. Jha, Robin Bloch, Jessica Lamond ...
    Urban flooding is a significant challenge which today increasingly confronts the residents of the expanding cities and towns of developing countries, as well as policymakers and national, regional and local government officials. The Global Handbook presents the state-of-the art in urban flood risk management in a thorough and user-friendly way. It serves as a primer in integrated urban flood risk ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Integrated Groundwater Management

    Concepts, Approaches and Challenges

    Edited by Anthony J Jakeman, Olivier Barreteau, Randall J Hunt, Jean-Daniel Rinaudo, Andrew Ross ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The aim of this book is to document for the first time the dimensions and requirements of effective integrated groundwater management (IGM). Groundwater management is a formidable challenge, one that remains one of humanity’s foremost priorities. It has become a largely non-renewable resource that is overexploited in many parts of the world. In the 21st century, the issue moves from how to simply ... Read more

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  • The forestry & wood sector and climate change mitigation

    From carbon sequestration in forests to the development of the bioeconomy

    by Alice Roux, Antoine Colin, Jean-François Dhôte, Bertrand Schmitt ...
    Series series Matière à débattre et décider
    Forests and forestry in temperate regions face what may appear to be contradictory goals: to increase atmospheric carbon capture through sequestration in biomass and soils, while providing a growing share of the resources needed to produce essential material goods and energy for human societies as well as gradually renewing forests to enable them to adapt to future climate conditions. INRAE and ... Read more

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