Telecoupling

Author : Cecilie Friis,Jonas Ø. Nielsen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030111052

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Telecoupling by Cecilie Friis,Jonas Ø. Nielsen Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive exploration of the emerging concept and framework of telecoupling and how it can help create a better understanding of land-use change in a globalised world. Land-use change is increasingly characterised by a spatial disconnect between its main environmental, socioeconomic and political drivers and the main impacts and outcomes of those changes. The authors examine how this separation of the production and consumption of land-based resources is driven by population growth, urbanisation, climate change, and biodiversity and carbon conservation efforts. Identifying and fostering more sustainable, just and equitable modes of land use and intervening in unsustainable ones thus constitute substantial, almost overwhelming challenges for science and policy. This book brings together leading scholars on land-use change and sustainability to systematically discuss the relevance of telecoupling research in addressing these challenges. The book presents an overview of the telecoupling approach, reflects on a number of the most pressing issues surrounding land-use change today and discusses the agenda for advancing understanding on sustainable land-use change through interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research.

Author : Sven Erik Jorgensen,Brian D. Fath
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 3829 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000082548

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Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition – Six Volume Set by Sven Erik Jorgensen,Brian D. Fath Pdf

Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, the Handbook of Environmental Management, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions. Through in-depth entries, and a topical table of contents, readers will quickly find answers to questions about pollution and management issues. This six-volume set is a reimagining of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published in 2013, and features insights from more than 500 contributors, all experts in their fields. The experience, evidence, methods, and models used in studying environmental management is presented here in six stand-alone volumes, arranged along the major environmental systems. Features of the new edition: The first handbook that demonstrates the key processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management. Addresses new and cutting -edge topics on ecosystem services, resilience, sustainability, food-energy-water nexus, socio-ecological systems and more. Provides an excellent basic knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems function and offers strategies on how to best manage them. Includes the most important problems and solutions facing environmental management today.

Author : Brian D. Fath,Sven Erik Jorgensen
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000063929

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Managing Global Resources and Universal Processes by Brian D. Fath,Sven Erik Jorgensen Pdf

Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions. Through in-depth entries and a topical table of contents, readers will quickly find answers to questions about environmental problems and their corresponding management issues. This six-volume set is a reimagining of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published in 2013, and features insights from more than 500 contributors, all experts in their field. The experience, evidence, methods, and models used in studying environmental management are presented here in six stand-alone volumes, arranged along the major environmental systems. Features The first handbook that demonstrates the key processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management Addresses new and cutting-edge topics on ecosystem services, resilience, sustainability, food–energy–water nexus, socio-ecological systems, and more Provides an excellent basic knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems function, and offers strategies on how to best manage them Includes the most important problems and solutions facing environmental management today In this first volume, Managing Global Resources and Universal Processes, the reader is introduced to the general concepts and processes used in environmental management. As an excellent resource for finding basic knowledge on environmental systems, it reflects an extensive coverage of the field and includes the most important problems and solutions facing environmental management today. This book practically demonstrates the key processes, methods, and models used in studying environmental management.

Author : Karen C. Seto,Anette Reenberg
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262026901

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Rethinking Global Land Use in an Urban Era by Karen C. Seto,Anette Reenberg Pdf

Today, global land use is affected by a variety of factors, including urbanization and the growing interconnectedness of economies and markets. This book examines the challenges and opportunities we face in achieving sustainable land use in the twenty-first century. The contributors, from a range of disciplines and countries, present new analytical perspectives and tools for understanding key issues in global land use.

Author : Thomas E Graedel,Matthew J Eckelman
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811277627

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Industrial Ecology And Sustainability by Thomas E Graedel,Matthew J Eckelman Pdf

Technology today is undergoing a rapid, unprecedented, and accelerating period of transformation. The implications of climate change, underpinned by geopolitics, for scientists and engineers are profound, as they and their societies attempt to harness these new technologies to address critical global environmental challenges, often without a full understanding of the long-term consequences. This textbook is designed to fill the gaps at a time of rapid changes in technology and the global environmental to develop sustainability situations.Written by world-renowned experts, this book comprehensively covers the broad spectrum of topics in sustainability science — industrial ecology, economic geology, environmental change, recycling and reuse, and sustainability — and brings readers up to date on the state-of-the-art. A feature of the book is the inclusion of worked examples in the text. Industrial ecology utilizes life cycle assessment (LCA), material flow analysis (MFA), matrix analytics, in-use stock derivation, and other mathematical and analytic tools; appropriate chapters include worked examples to illustrate their use, to develop reader-familiarity with the tools.

Author : Hans-Dieter Herrmann
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783758329203

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The Twofold Existence of Particles and Nuclei by Hans-Dieter Herrmann Pdf

This Book contains a new proposal for physics within more than four dimensions (3 spatial dimensions + 1 time coordinate). An extra space is introduced, called basic space, instead of extra dimensions, compactified or otherwise embedded in space-time. A "dual space concept" has been applied by the author to construct models of particles, photons and nuclei mainly in a bottom -- up process. The top - down reasoning, the dominating method in theoretical physics, is only used in a second step. The kind of "twofold existence" discussed in this book turns out to be useful for describing natural systems in the living and non-living world.

Author : Silja Klepp,Christiane Fröhlich
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783039363520

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Migration and Conflict in a Global Warming Era by Silja Klepp,Christiane Fröhlich Pdf

This Special Issue explores underrepresented aspects of the political dimensions of global warming. It includes post- and decolonial perspectives on climate-related migration and conflict, intersectional approaches, and climate change politics as a new tool of governance. Its aim is to shed light on the social phenomena associated with anthropogenic climate change, as well as its multidimensional and far-reaching political effects, including climate-induced migration movements and climate-related conflicts in different parts of the world. In doing so, it critically engages with securitizing discourses and the resulting anti-migration arguments and policies in the Global North in order to identify and give a voice to alternative and hitherto underrepresented research and policy perspectives. In this way, it aims to contribute to a fact-based, critical, and holistic approach to human mobility and conflict in the context of political and environmental crisis.

Author : Ben Ramalingam
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199578023

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Aid on the Edge of Chaos by Ben Ramalingam Pdf

Aid has become a tangle of donors and recipients, so unwieldy that it is in danger of collapse. This ground-breaking book presents fresh thinking that transcends the 'more' verses 'less' arguments. Drawing on complexity theory it shows how aid could be transformed into a truly dynamic form of global cooperation fit for the twenty-first century.

Author : Jörg Niewöhner,Antje Bruns,Patrick Hostert,Tobias Krueger,Jonas Ø. Nielsen,Helmut Haberl,Christian Lauk,Juliana Lutz,Daniel Müller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319336282

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Land Use Competition by Jörg Niewöhner,Antje Bruns,Patrick Hostert,Tobias Krueger,Jonas Ø. Nielsen,Helmut Haberl,Christian Lauk,Juliana Lutz,Daniel Müller Pdf

This book contributes to broadening the interdisciplinary knowledge basis for the description, analysis and assessment of land use practices. It presents conceptual advances grounded in empirical case studies on four main themes: distal drivers, competing demands on different scales, changing food regimes and land-water competition. Competition over land ownership and use is one of the key contexts in which the effects of global change on social-ecological systems unfold. As such, understanding these rapidly changing dynamics is one of the most pressing challenges of global change research in the 21st century. This book contributes to a deeper understanding of the manifold interactions between land systems, the economics of resource production, distribution and use, as well as the logics of local livelihoods and cultural contexts. It addresses a broad readership in the geosciences, land and environmental sciences, offering them an essential reference guide to land use competition.

Author : Thomas Weith,Tim Barkmann,Nadin Gaasch,Sebastian Rogga,Christian Strauß,Jana Zscheischler
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030508418

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Sustainable Land Management in a European Context by Thomas Weith,Tim Barkmann,Nadin Gaasch,Sebastian Rogga,Christian Strauß,Jana Zscheischler Pdf

This open access book presents and discusses current issues and innovative solution approaches for land management in a European context. Manifold sustainability issues are closely interconnected with land use practices. Throughout the world, we face increasing conflict over the use of land as well as competition for land. Drawing on experience in sustainable land management gained from seven years of the FONA programme (Research for Sustainable Development, conducted under the auspices of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research), the book stresses and highlights co-design processes within the “co-creation of knowledge”, involving collaboration in transdisciplinary research processes between academia and other stakeholders. The book begins with an overview of the current state of land use practices and the subsequent need to manage land resources more sustainably. New system solutions and governance approaches in sustainable land management are presented from a European perspective on land use. The volume also addresses how to use new modes of knowledge transfer between science and practice. New perspectives in sustainable land management and methods of combining knowledge and action are presented to a broad readership in land system sciences and environmental sciences, social sciences and geosciences. This book received the Gerd Albers Award. The prize is awarded by the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP).

Author : Jianguo Liu,Vanessa Hull,Wu Yang,Andrés Viña,Xiaodong Chen,Zhiyun Ouyang,Hemin Zhang
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191008597

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Pandas and People by Jianguo Liu,Vanessa Hull,Wu Yang,Andrés Viña,Xiaodong Chen,Zhiyun Ouyang,Hemin Zhang Pdf

Understanding the complex relationships between humans and the natural world is essential for achieving environmental sustainability and improving human well-being, yet many studies are unable to reveal complex interactions and hidden trends. This is the first book to synthesize the findings and approaches of long-term integrated research in a model coupled human and natural system, and to illustrate their applications to regional, national, and global scales. It features a classic long-term interdisciplinary research project in the Wolong Nature Reserve of China, which contains one of the largest wild populations of the world-famous endangered giant pandas. Bringing together a team of contributors from both the natural and social sciences, this book explores how a long-term interdisciplinary and model system approach is essential to uncover the common patterns and mechanisms of coupled systems, to develop ideas and methods for studying and managing other coupled systems, and ultimately to contribute to the development of theories about coupled systems for sustainability. Pandas and People will be essential reading for scholars interested in the interface of the natural and social sciences, including ecologists, conservation biologists, environmental scientists, sustainability scientists, wildlife biologists, forest scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, economists, and political scientists. It will also be a valuable reference for policy makers, natural resource managers, and graduate students.

Author : Lawrence A Herzog,Keith J Hayward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317361824

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International Boundaries in a Global Era by Lawrence A Herzog,Keith J Hayward Pdf

As we move deeper into the twenty-first century, the forces of globalisation continue to transform both the spaces around international borders, and the social processes, cultural practices, economies, and political dynamics within and between these spaces. The geographies of border regions have undergone a dramatic transformation over the last half century; nation-state boundaries growing ever more porous in many (though not all) areas of the planet. Global trade has become an accepted norm in business transactions almost everywhere. Coupled with the revolution in digital technology, the era of globalisation promises to continue to challenge old ideas, with new approaches to understanding international boundaries and the regions they impact. All of the chapters in this book, mainly drawn from the US-Mexico border (with comparisons to Europe), speak to the ways in which border regions have become important places in their own right, spaces where people live, work, and create art, where corporations invest, where crimes occur, and where security remains a concern. They are, therefore, spaces that need to be better understood and managed, especially in light of the cross-national and global forces impinging upon them. This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Society.

Author : Fouad Sabry
Publisher : One Billion Knowledgeable
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PKEY:6610000498208

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Socioeconomics by Fouad Sabry Pdf

What is Socioeconomics Socioeconomics is a branch of the social sciences that investigates the ways in which social processes either influence or are influenced by economic activity. In a broad sense, it examines the ways in which contemporary civilizations go forward, remain stagnant, or go backward as a result of their local or regional economies, as well as the global economy. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Socioeconomics Chapter 2: Political economy Chapter 3: Natural disaster Chapter 4: Ecotourism Chapter 5: Economic geography Chapter 6: Ecological economics Chapter 7: Rural area Chapter 8: Urban geography Chapter 9: Exploitation of natural resources Chapter 10: Economic sociology Chapter 11: Social vulnerability Chapter 12: Spatial inequality Chapter 13: Cultural economics Chapter 14: Ecological resilience Chapter 15: Rural economics Chapter 16: Environmental issues Chapter 17: Climate change and poverty Chapter 18: Social metabolism Chapter 19: Thermoeconomics Chapter 20: Climate resilience Chapter 21: Telecoupling (II) Answering the public top questions about socioeconomics. (III) Real world examples for the usage of socioeconomics in many fields. (IV) Rich glossary featuring over 1200 terms to unlock a comprehensive understanding of socioeconomics. (eBook only). Who will benefit Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of socioeconomics.

Author : Hendrik Wolter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000844115

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Sustainable Apple Breeding and Cultivation in Germany by Hendrik Wolter Pdf

Applying a socio-ecological framework, this book explores how the innovative approach of commons-based organic apple breeding can contribute to sustainability in agricultural and food systems more widely. As fruit breeding and cultivation systems are confronted with a range of sustainability challenges, there are calls for new and innovative breeding approaches beyond mainstream economic solutions that would mitigate these sustainability challenges. Apples, in particular, are facing serious environmental challenges, with the negative environmental impacts of modern conventional breeding and farming, loss of agrobiodiversity, low participation and diminishing diversity of market actors in the wake of privatization and economization trends result in a lack of resilience in current breeding and cultivation systems. Drawing on in-depth case study research on apple production in Germany, this book advances the innovative solution of commons-based apple breeding as a model for developing resilience in fruit breeding and cultivation. It analyzes this approach, comparing it with more conventional practices, and showcases which factors could inhibit the broad implementation of commons-based apple breeding and how they can be overcome to exploit its full potential. Contributing to the great ambition of finding sustainable solutions across all agricultural sectors, this book opens up new and interdisciplinary perspectives on fruit breeding and cultivation, which is a largely neglected issue in contemporary discussions on agriculture and food production. This book will be of great interest for students and scholars from the fields of sustainable food systems, sustainable agriculture, crop science, and resource management and in particular those that seek inspiration for innovative approaches rooted in sustainability research, social-ecological resilience, and the commons.

Author : Pietarinen, N.,Koh, N.S.,Ville, A.,Brockhaus, M.,Wong, G.,
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Can REDD+ finance compete with established and emerging land investments? The case of Mai-Ndombe, Democratic Republic of Congo by Pietarinen, N.,Koh, N.S.,Ville, A.,Brockhaus, M.,Wong, G., Pdf