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  • Amphibious Concepts at the Edge of the Sea

    Series series Mechanical Engineering (R0)
    This book explores interfaces between land and sea and their geostrategic, ecological, urban, productive, indigenous, legal, historical, and artistic dimensions. The oceans, comprising two-thirds of the earth's surface, were initially utilised mainly for transportation and fishing. Today they serve diverse purposes such as supplying energy, freshwater, mineral resources, supporting leisure ... Read more

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  • Ecological Building Materials for Deserts and Drylands

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book examines prospective climate adaptive building materials in desert and drylands in the context of climate change, desertification, urbanisation demands, and the consequent sustainable urban development challenges.This preliminary collection of ecological materials covers the characterisation of biotic and abiotic resources for materials, their specifications and benefits for adequate bio ... Read more

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  • SeaCities

    Aquatic Urbanism

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book highlights the research outcome of Cities Research Institute's SeaCities group at Griffith University and a panel with the same title which took place at the World Expo in Dubai 2021/22 supported by the UN.It reflects on topics which are relevant for a future aquatic urbanism like the evolution of a taxonomy for aquatic urbanism, island and ecological wetland development, the planning ... Read more

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    Exploring Nature’s Values Across Landscapes

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This edited volume aims to widen the discussion about the diversity of human-nature relationships and valuation methods and to stimulate new perspective that are needed to build a more sustainable future, especially in face of ongoing socio-environmental changes. Conceptual and empirical approaches, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodologies have been used to highlight the ... Read more

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  • Aquaculture Perspective of Multi-Use Sites in the Open Ocean

    The Untapped Potential for Marine Resources in the Anthropocene

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    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This volume addresses the potential for combining large-scale marine aquaculture of macroalgae, molluscs, crustaceans, and finfish, with offshore structures, primarily those associated with energy production, such as wind turbines and oil-drilling platforms. The volume offers a comprehensive overview and includes chapters on policy, science, ... Read more

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  • Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management

    Confronting Tradeoffs

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    Responsible fisheries management is of increasing interest to the scientific community, resource managers, policy makers, stakeholders and the general public. Focusing solely on managing one species of fish stock at a time has become less of a viable option in addressing the problem. Incorporating more holistic considerations into fisheries management by addressing the trade-offs among the range ... Read more

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  • Ecosystem Based Management for Marine Fisheries

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    Showing how big-picture patterns can help overcome the failures of conventional management, this book is ideal for students, researchers and professionals involved with marine fisheries. It explores not only the current practice of the 'ecosystem approach' to fisheries management but also its critical importance to even larger perspectives. The first section gives a valuable overview of how more ... Read more

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  • Natural Area Tourism

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    Series Book 58 - Aspects of Tourism
    Natural Area Tourism provides a comprehensive description of tourism in natural areas allowing readers to understand the scope of, complexities arising from, and possibilities of undertaking successful tourism developments in natural areas. Furthermore, the second edition contains an overview of recent developments, such as mountain biking, adventure activities in protected areas and geotourism. ... Read more

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    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book reflects aims of the Blue Circular Economy (BCE) project, which focused on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) aiming to create value using circular economy concepts related to products and services within fishing gear recycling in the Northern Periphery and Arctic (NPA) area. Cluster establishment and operation were carried out in collaboration with academia, industry ... Read more

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  • Climate and Conservation

    Landscape and Seascape Science, Planning, and Action

    Climate and Conservation presents case studies from around the world of leading-edge projects focused on climate change adaptation-regional-scale endeavors where scientists, managers, and practitioners are working to protect biodiversity by protecting landscapes and seascapes in response to threats posed by climate change.The book begins with an introductory section that frames the issues and ... Read more

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  • Assessing, Mapping and Modelling of Mangrove Ecosystem Services in the Asia-Pacific Region

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents the state-of-the-art of knowledge in assessing, mapping, and modeling mangrove ecosystem services and outlines various scientific tools and techniques, including environmental scenario-building, spatial and econometric modelling to understand the fluctuations and future availability of mangrove ecosystem services. The book also highlights the current gaps and measures in policy ... Read more

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