Social Movements and Public Policies in Southern European Cities

The book analyzes the impact of urban movements on government and public policies in a context of rapid urban transformations, public policy crises and increasing social inequalities. The essays show how the impact of the movements is increasing and has effects both in the orientation of the policies, as in their form of management and its effects. The authors are leading scholars from universi…

Land Issues for Urban Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa faces many development challenges, such as its size and diversity, rapid urban population growth, history of colonial exploitation, fragile states and conflicts over land and natural resources. This collection, contributed from different academic disciplines and professions, seeks to support the UN Habitat New Urban Agenda passed at Habitat III in Quito, Ecuador, in 2016. It …

Advanced Antimicrobial Materials and Applications

Surface bio-contamination has become a severe problem that contributes to outbreaks of community acquired and nosocomial infections through contiguous fomite transmission of diseases. Every year, thousands of patients die due to nosocomial infections by pathogens. It is therefore essential to develop novel strategies to prevent or improve the treatment of biomaterial concomitant infections. T…

Habitat, Ecology and Ekistics

This volume uses an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to assess various issues resulting from human-environment interactions in relation to sustainable development. The book encompasses theoretical and applied aspects, using both thematic and regional case studies from India, to highlight the impact of human-environment interactions at various spatio-temporal scales, with each study foc…

Ecosystem Services and Green Infrastructure

The book analyses the relationship between ecosystem services, green and blue infrastructures (GBI) and spatial planning in Italy. It provides insights on the opportunities and challenges in the adoption of an ecosystem services (ES)-based approach for Spatial Planning exploring methods and techniques for the design of GBI strategies. Nowadays, there is an advance in ES knowledge and a recog…

The Event Horizon: Homo Prometheus and the Climate Catastrophe

With the advent of global warming and the nuclear arms race, humans are rapidly approaching a moment of truth. Technologically supreme, they manifest their dreams and nightmares in the real world through science, art, adventures and brutal wars, a paradox symbolized by a candle lighting the dark yet burning away to extinction, as discussed in this book. As these lines are being written, fires a…

Environmental Biotechnology Vol. 3

This volume is a collection of informative chapters on various subjects. It provides information on the effects of pesticides on avian fauna, the impact of microbial ecosystems to solve environmental problems, a detailed review on issues in membrane distillations process, microbial sensor for detection of pollutants, microbial biosurfactants, biotechnological applications of immobilised microal…

Resilience in the English Small-Scale Fishery

This book is a contribution to our understanding of the worrying situation of small-scale fisheries (SSF) which face marginalisation in most coastal countries. The authors explain why SSF are so pressured; how there has been a powerful backlash against this marginalisation during the last 30 years; what are the main ideational currents supporting this backlash; and what is the enduring value of…

Reclaiming and Rewilding River Cities for Outdoor Recreation

The introduction of sports and recreational facilities into natural environments calls for reflection on their impact on fragile ecosystems. This book is unique in providing an interdisciplinary approach to the ecological restoration of urban and industrial degraded habitats and their use by nearby city-dwellers. For the first time ecologists, sociologists and anthropologists have worked togeth…

Applications of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry; A Practical Guide, Third Ed…

Professionals and students who come from disciplines other than chemistry need a concise yet reliable guide that explains key concepts in environmental chemistry, from the fundamental science to the necessary calculations for applying them. Updated and reorganized, Applications of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry: A Practical Guide, Third Edition pr

Algae: Anatomy, Biochemistry, and Biotechnology, Second Edition

A single-source reference on the biology of algae, Algae: Anatomy, Biochemistry, and Biotechnology, Second Edition examines the most important taxa and structures for freshwater, marine, and terrestrial forms of algae. Its comprehensive coverage goes from algae's historical role through its taxonomy and ecology to its natural product possibilities.

Mechanism of Plant Hormone Signaling Under Stress, VOLUME I I

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-111-8888-9-26

Collation

xxvii, 571p.; ill.; 25cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

581.7 Mec m

Diseases of Forest Trees and their Management

The book is intended to provide comprehensive introduction to the important aspects of the field of forest pathology and tree diseases. The book is arranged in two major parts. The fundamental chapters, present forest diseases, pathogens, epidemics, and management that is applicable to all forest trees. The applied chapters on the individual crops that are grouped alphabetically present informa…

Protocols for High-Risk Pregnancies, Fifth Edition

Edition

5

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-4051-9650-5

Collation

xviii, 661p.;ill.; 25cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

618.3 Pro p

Williams GYNECOLOGY, SECOND EDITION

Edition

2

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-07-175091-2

Collation

ix, 267p.; ill.; 28cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

618 Wer w

IoT-based Intelligent Modelling for Environmental and Ecological Engineering

This book brings to readers thirteen chapters with contributions to the benefits of using IoT and Cloud Computing to agro-ecosystems from a multi-disciplinary perspective. IoT and Cloud systems have prompted the development of a Cloud digital ecosystem referred to as Cloud-to-thing continuum computing. The key success of IoT computing and the Cloud digital ecosystem is that IoT can be integrate…

Physiological Ecology of Tropical Plants, Second Edition

Edition

2

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-540-71792-8

Collation

vii, 458 p, ; 24 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

581.522 Lut p

Plant Ecology

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

-

Collation

ix, 701 p. ; 28 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

591.7 Sch p

Measurement Techniques in Plant Science

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-12-330585-3

Collation

xi, 380 p. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

581.31 Has m

Plant Physiological Ecology, Second Edition

Edition

2nd

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-387-78340-6

Collation

xvii, 605 p.; 24 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

571.2 Lam p

Ecology and Control of Introduced Plants

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-521-35516-8 2003

Collation

xiii, 328 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Series Title

ECOLOGY, BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Call Number

639.9 Mye e

THE ECOLOGY OF PLANTS, SECOND EDITION

Edition

2nd

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-87893-294-8

Collation

xiv, 574 p. : il ; 28 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

581.7 Gur e

THE ECOLOGY OF PLANTS, SECOND EDITION

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-87893-294-8

Collation

xiv, 574 p. ; 28 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

581.7 Gur e

Alpine Plant Life : Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosystems, Sec…

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

3-540-00347-9

Collation

xi, 349 p.; 25 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

581.7 Kor a

Manual of ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGI

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

1-55581-087-X

Collation

xiii, 234 p. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

576.15 Man m

Biological Approaches to Sustainable Soil Systems

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-5744-583-1

Collation

v, 163 p. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

621.4 Bio b

PLANT DISTURBANCE ECOLOGY: The Process and the Response

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-12-088778-1

Collation

xxi, 720 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

581.7 Joh p

Nutrient Cycling in Tropical Forest Ecosystems

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-471-90449-X

Collation

ix, 181 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

574.5 Jor n

Ecology for Environmental Science: Biosphere, Ecosystems and Man

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-7131-2814-3

Collation

v, 208 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

574.5 And e

Physiological Plant Ecology, 4th Edition

Edition

4th

ISBN/ISSN

3-540-43516-6

Collation

534 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

581.5 Lar p