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  • 1
    Keywords: Evolution (Biology). ; Environment. ; History. ; Conservation biology. ; Ecology . ; Ethics. ; Environmental sciences Social aspects. ; Evolutionary Biology. ; Environmental Sciences. ; History. ; Conservation Biology. ; Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics. ; Environmental Social Sciences.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Biology and Culture -- Chapter 1. Speciesism in Biology and Culture: How Human Exceptionalism is Pushing Planetary Boundaries -- Chapter 2. Race and Human Genomic Variation -- Chapter 3. Science Without Species: Doing Science With Tree-Thinking -- Part II. Culture and History -- Chapter 4. The Colonization of Islands as Microcosms for Human Impacts on an Interplanetary Scale -- Chapter 5. Species, God, and Dominion -- Chapter 6. Symbols and How We Came to be Human -- Part III. Conservation and Law -- Chapter 7. Law and Nature: Human, Nonhuman, and Ecosystem Rights -- Chapter 8. A Phylogenetic Approach to Conservation: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning for a Changing Globe -- Part IV. Sustainability and the Future -- Chapter 9. Energy and Society: Toward a Sustainable Future.
    Abstract: This open access book explores a wide-ranging discussion about the sociopolitical, cultural, and scientific ramifications of speciesism and world views that derive from it. In this light, it integrates subjects across the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. The 21st-century western world is anthropocentric to an extreme; we adopt unreasonably self-centered and self-serving ideas and lifestyles. Americans consume more energy resources per person than most other nations on Earth and have little concept of how human ecology and population biology interface with global sustainability. We draw upon religion, popular culture, politics, and technology to justify our views and actions, yet remain self-centered because our considerations rarely extend beyond our immediate interests. Stepping upward on the hierarchy from “racism,” “speciesism” likewise refers to the view that unique natural kinds (species) exist and are an important structural element of biodiversity. This ideology manifests in the cultural idea that humans are distinct from and intrinsically superior to other forms of life. It further carries a plurality of implications for how we perceive ourselves in relation to nature, how we view Judeo-Christian religions and their tenets, how we respond to scientific data about social problems such as climate change, and how willing we are to change our actions in the face of evidence. .
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XVI, 203 p. 28 illus., 20 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030990312
    DDC: 576.8
    Language: English
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  • 2
    Keywords: Freshwater ecology. ; Marine ecology. ; Conservation biology. ; Ecology . ; Geography. ; Environment. ; Power resources. ; Freshwater and Marine Ecology. ; Conservation Biology. ; Regional Geography. ; Environmental Sciences. ; Natural Resource and Energy Economics.
    Description / Table of Contents: Intro: Navigating Patagonian freshwaters- and this book -- 1: Are freshwaters wetlands? -- 2: Patagonian Andean lakes and climate change -- 3: Current state and recent changes of glaciers in the Patagonian Andes (35 °S to 55°S) -- 4: Biogeographical patterns of Patagonian freshwater microbiota -- 5: Extreme freshwater ecosystems from Patagonia: The Copahue-Agrio system -- 6: Mercury in aquatic systems of North Patagonia: sources, processes and trophic transfer -- 7: Diversity patterns across aquatic communities from peat bogs -- 8: Hydrologic Systems, water uses and emerging conflicts around freshwater availability in Patagonia -- 9: Land-use effects on aquatic ecosystems: An overview of environmental impacts and tools for ecological assessment -- 10: Patagonian wetlands: vertientes, vegas, mallines,turberas and lagunas -- 11: Fish and fisheries of the Patagonian steppe -- 12: Invasive species: The case of Didymosphenia geminata in Neuquén Province -- 13: Influence of the fish introduction in lakes of the arid Patagonia -- 14: Patagonian cultural limnology: knowledge and water management in Mapuche rural communities -- 15: Political Ecology, water valoration and Water Law deliberation in the Province of Tierra del Nacional de Tierra del Fuego -- 16: Freshwater systems in protected areas in Patagonia -- 17: Amphibians and waterbirds as bridges to conserve aquatic and terrestrial habitat in Patagonia -- 18: Integrated long term conservation strategies to recover the critically endangered Hooded Grebe (Podiceps gallardoi),an endemic waterbird of Austral Patagonia -- Conclusion: Reaching out for the UNDP Sustainable Development Goals in Patagonia.
    Abstract: The Freshwaters of Patagonia adopts a socioecological approach, in which experts from across Patagonia review recent, scientifically rigorous literature and data of their own, thus synthesizing the current knowledge directly relevant to understand the present state and future trends of icefields, freshwater and wetland ecosystems in this region. The book’s organization into three parts provides a studied and comprehensive view on the patterns and processes of the various ecosystems in Patagonia, and describes the sociological aspects of freshwater ecosystems, as well as characterizes the conservation of the freshwater and wetland ecosystems, in Patagonia. The chapters offer a broad, state-of-the-art overview of the current status of glaciers, freshwater and wetland ecosystems of this region, as well as studies of both local and large scale biodiversity patterns, and study cases of extreme and naturally polluted environments.The volume concludes with the current status of Patagonian freshwaters, and discusses the scientific, legal and administrative tools aimed at their sustainable management within the framework of the UNEP Sustainable Development Goals 2030 Agenda. A broad audience of students, scientists, engineers, environmental managers, and policy makers will be interested in this volume.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XI, 541 p. 104 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031100277
    Series Statement: Natural and Social Sciences of Patagonia,
    DDC: 577.6
    Language: English
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  • 3
    Keywords: Environment. ; Environmental management. ; Environmental monitoring. ; Environmental chemistry. ; Environmental Sciences. ; Environmental Management. ; Environmental Monitoring. ; Environmental Chemistry. ; Environmental Monitoring.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Climate resilience and Environmental Sustainability Approaches - An Introduction -- Part 1 -- Climate Change, Mitigation, and Sustainable -- 2 Progress in Climate Change Downscaling Simulations in Southeast Asia -- 3 Climate Change Signatures over Schirmacher Oasis, Antarctica -- 4 REDD+ in Indian context: Planning and Implementation Scenario -- 5 Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability and Mitigation in the Indian Ocean Region: Policy Suggestions -- 6 Climate change, Agriculture adaptation and Sustainability -- 7 Enhancing climate service delivery mechanisms in agriculture sector to cope with climate change -- 8 Agrometeorological Services for Climate Resilient Agriculture -- 9 Microbial diversity and Multifunctional microbial biostimulants for Agricultural Sustainability -- 10 Adoption of Vertical Farming Technique for Sustainable Agriculture -- Part 2 -- Environmental Sustainability -- (Alternate Energy, Ecofriendly Waste Management and Sustainable Approaches) -- 11 Sustainability of Biofuels: The dynamic nexus between CO2 emissions and bioenergy consumption in OECD Countries -- 12 Challenges and Solution for Renewable Energy (RE) Development in Uttarkahand, India -- 13 Integrated Wastewater Treatment and Energy Production using Microbial Fuel Cell Technology: A Sustainable Environment Management Approach -- 14 Carbon Footprinting: A Study of Plywood Industry in District Yamunanagar (India) -- 15 Ecofriendly Bioremediation Approach for Dye Removal from Wastewaters: Challenges and Prospects -- 16 Degradation and biotransformation of pentachlorophenol by microorganisms -- 17 Sustainable Solid Waste Management in India – Practices, Challenges and the Way Forward -- 18 Social Enterprises as an Emerging Platform in Waste Management -- 19 Understanding linkages between Sustainability and Traditional Ethnoecological Knowledge (TEK): A case study of Paudi Bhuyans in Northern Odisha, India -- 20 Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Challenges and Preparation in Bangladesh -- 21 Sustainable Health care under Ayushman Bharat Initiative in India: Role of Institutional CSR. .
    Abstract: The book is about climate resilience and environmental sustainability approaches, discussing knowledge at global level and the local challenges, presented by authors from various countries. Environmental sustainability is at stake and implications of climate change are clearly visible in most parts of the world. In the times of the prevailing global environmental crisis, this book discusses key issues of climate change and sustainable energy alternatives, waste management and development. It discusses climate change scenario using simulation models in various Asian countries, signatures of climate change in Antarctica, implications in the Indian Ocean and the Indian scenario of REDD+. A special focus has been given on building climate resilience in our agricultural ecosystems and sustainable agriculture. It discusses the prospects and challenges of renewable energy options including biofuels and energy from wastewaters, explores the technical aspects of eco-friendly bioremediation of pollutants, sustainable solid waste management practices and challenges, carbon footprints of industry, and emphasizes on the significance of combining traditional knowledge with modern technology with novel approaches including involvement of social enterprises and corporate social responsibility to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. This is an important document for researchers and policy makers working in multidisciplinary fields of sustainability sciences.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XVI, 415 p. 69 illus., 51 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9789811609022
    DDC: 333.7
    Language: English
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  • 4
    Keywords: Environment. ; Environmental Sciences.
    Description / Table of Contents: Looking back to the future: the clash of religion and secularism -- The roots of spirituality and religion in the Pacific islands region -- Religion as culture, religion for wellbeing -- Weaving worldviews: science and spirituality together -- Belief and action: a way forward -- Faith for survival.
    Abstract: This interdisciplinary book explores the science and spirituality nexus in the Pacific Islands Region and as such makes a critical contribution to sustainable climate change adaptation in Oceania. In addition to presenting case studies, literary analyses, field projects, and empirical research, the book describes faith-engaged approaches through the prism of: • Context: past, present, and future prospects • Theory: concepts, narratives, and theoretical frameworks • Practice: empirical research and praxis-informed case examples • Doctrine: scriptural contributions and perspectives • Engagement: enlisting religious stakeholders and constituencies Comprising peer-reviewed works by scholars, professionals, and practitioners from across Oceania, the book closes a critical gap in the literature and represents a groundbreaking contribution to holistic climate change adaptation in the Pacific Islands Region that is scientifically sound, spiritually attuned, locally meaningful, and contextually compelling.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XIV, 391 p. 31 illus., 24 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030676025
    Series Statement: Climate Change Management,
    DDC: 333.7
    Language: English
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  • 5
    Keywords: Environmental management. ; Sustainability. ; Environment. ; Freshwater ecology. ; Marine ecology. ; Pollution. ; Environmental Management. ; Sustainability. ; Environmental Sciences. ; Freshwater and Marine Ecology. ; Pollution.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Restoration, construction and conservation of degrading wetlands: A step towards sustainable management practices -- 2. Phytoremediation and sustainable developmental policies and practices -- 3. Wetland as a sustainable reservoir of ecosystem services: Prospects of threat and conservation -- 4. Carbon sequestration by wetlands in the climate change scenario -- 5. Wetlands: A major natural source responsible for methane emissions -- 6. Wetland conservation and restoration of ecosystem services and halt biodiversity loss: An India Prospectives -- 7. Microbes biology: Microbes in wetland and bioprospection of microbes -- 8. Contribution of Microbes in the renovation of wetland -- 9. Phytoremediation: Role of Mycorrhiza in plant responses to Stress -- 10. Integrated approach for bioremediation and biofuel production using algae -- 11. Dual role of Microalgae: Phycoremediation coupled with biomass generation for biofuel production -- 12. Microalgae and microorganisms- important regulators of Carbon dynamics in wetland ecosystem -- 13. Bioremediation of heavy metals: A new approach to sustainable agriculture -- 14. Waste water treatment through Nannotechnology: Role and Perspects.
    Abstract: The risks and consequences of environmental change are increasing, leading to massive losses in terms of ecosystems and having a huge impact on human populations. As such, global thinkers, environmentalists, scientists and policy makers are focusing on finding solutions and ways to sustain life on Earth. Anthropogenic impacts on the climate system can only be mitigated by the restoration of existing natural resources and the sustainable development of the environment and society. This book discusses the potential of green technology in waste management, wetland restoration, presenting the latest developments in the field of bioenergy, green ecology, bioremediation and microbial management. Wetlands are one of Earth’s most important ecosystems, and they provide valuable services to human societies, such as minimizing the impacts of floods, acting as a carbon sink, and offering water purification as well as recreational opportunities. Wetlands may be natural or constructed, and the effectiveness of wetland services largely depends on the diversity of macrophytes affecting the algal production, plant biomass and nutrient status of the system. In addition, they are one of the richest microbial ecosystems on earth: the rhizosphere, soil and water interface enhances wetland services with implications ranging from phytoremediation to microbial bioprospection. However, in order to function properly, they need to be effectively redesigned, reengineered, protected and maintained. The book addresses the dynamic relation between three global concerns: environmental pollution, resource exploitation and sustainability. It describes the utilization of resources like wastes (municipal, industrial, agricultural, mine drainage, tannery, solid, and e waste), plants, algae and microbes for production of renewable biofuel, biofertilizers and other value added products to achieve the goal of sustainable development. The book also discusses the current and future trends in employing wetlands in improving water quality. In addition it presents the latest international research in the fields of wetland science, waste management, carbon sequestration and bioremediation. Highlighting a broad spectrum of topics and strategies for achieving a sustainable environment, the book offers researchers, students and academics insights into utilizing resources in a sustainable way.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XV, 247 p. 32 illus. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9789811376658
    DDC: 333.7
    Language: English
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  • 6
    Keywords: Environment. ; Climatology. ; Medical physics. ; Industrial management Environmental aspects. ; Environmental Sciences. ; Climate Sciences. ; Medical Physics. ; Corporate Environmental Management.
    Description / Table of Contents: Efficiency of hybrid process of coagulation/flocculation followed by membrane filtration for the treatment of synthetic vegetable oil refinery wastewater -- Fe/clay composite as catalysts for textile wastewater treatment -- Iron removal from groundwater by adsorption process onto activated carbon obtained from Pinus halepensis cone wastes -- Synthesis and characterization of activated carbon from Pinus halepensis cone wastes; Adsorption Prediction as a function of some physicochemical characteristics of activated carbons -- ADSORPTION OF INDUSTRIAL DYE BzR FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTION USING LOCAL MODIFIED CLAY -- Adsorption-desorption of Methylene blue by bentonite from aqueous solution -- Removal of dispersedye from aqueous solution by bottom ash -- Experimental study of the removal of Rhodamine B from aqueous solution by adsorption onto coffee waste -- Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and adsorption study of carbon steel in 1M HCl solution containing 2-(2-Methoxybenzylidene) Hydrazine-1-Carbothioamide -- Adsorption efficiency of graphene oxide towards cyanine dyes with different alkyl chain lengths -- Cu(II) ions removal on functionalized cellulose beads from Tunisian almond (Prunus dulcis) shell -- Optimization of Cr(III) removal from a synthetic solution and a real tanning effluent by powdered marble using 3-level Box-Behnken design: thermodynamic, toxicity and regeneration studies -- Dynamics Modelling of Multicomponent Metal Ions Removal onto Low Cost Buckwheat Hulls -- Local Materials and Solid Waste (Sawdust) Valorization in The Treatment of Industrial synthetic water field -- Cationic dye removal using alginate-organobentonite composite beads.
    Abstract: This book includes over three hundred and seventy-five short papers presented during the second EMCEI, which was held in Sousse, Tunisia in October 2019. After the success of the first EMCEI in 2017, the second installment tackled emerging environmental issues together with new challenges, e.g. by focusing on innovative approaches that contribute to achieving a sustainable environment in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions and by highlighting to decision makers from related sectors the environmental considerations that should be integrated into their respective activities. Presenting a wide range of environmental topics and new findings relevant to a variety of problems in these regions, this volume will appeal to anyone working in the subject area and particularly to students interested in learning more about new advances in environmental research initiatives in view of the worsening environmental degradation of the Mediterranean and surrounding regions, which has made environmental and resource protection into an increasingly important issue hampering sustainable development and social welfare.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: LXXXIII, 2417 p. 786 illus., 620 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030512101
    Series Statement: Environmental Science,
    DDC: 333.7
    Language: English
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