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An Introduction to Waste Management and Circular Economy
This introductory textbook provides an essential interdisciplinary guide to waste management and circular economy. It helps students to understand the drivers of waste, the environmental, social, and economic impacts of waste generation, and best…
Mobilities on the Margins
This open access book examines places on the margins and the dynamics through which a marginal position of a place is created. Specifically, it explores how places, mostly in sparsely populated areas, often perceived as immobile and frozen in time,…
Agroforestry as Climate Change Adaptation
This open access book provides multidisciplinary perspectives on the potential of agroforestry to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change on cocoa production. Against the backdrop of increasingly precarious farmer livelihoods, it focuses on…
Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Cities:
A Guidebook for Citizens, Public Officials and Planners
This guidebook presents a framework for climate adaptation planning for coastal cities, large and small, focused on the central roles of citizens, public officials, and planners. The book is designed to help all stakeholders in coastal cities…
Agroecology Now!: Transformations Towards More Just and Sustainable Food Systems
This open access book develops a framework for advancing agroecology transformations focusing on power, politics and governance. It explores the potential of agroecology as a sustainable and socially just alternative to today’s dominant food regime.…
Bioeconomy: Shaping the Transition to a Sustainable, Biobased Economy
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book defines the new field of "Bioeconomy" as the sustainable and innovative use of biomass and biological knowledge to provide food, feed, industrial products, bioenergy and ecological…
Ecological Risk Assessment for Chlorpyrifos in Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems in the United States
Ecotoxicology; Environmental Management; Waste Management/Waste Technology; Chlorpyrifos; Terrestrial systems; Aquatic systems; Ecological risk assessment
Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development
Climate Change; Sustainable Development; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Environmental Management
Goods and Services of Marine Bivalves
The aim of this open access book is to review and analyse the goods and services of bivalve shellfish. How they are defined, what determines the ecological functions that are the basis for the goods and services, what controversies in the use of…