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Record Nr.

UNINA9910346828103321

Autore

Wilson W. Johnny

Titolo

Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar], : Open Book Publishers, 2019

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (694 p.)

Soggetti

Applied ecology

Conservation of the environment

Conservation of wildlife and habitats

Sub-Saharan Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa comprehensively explores the challenges and potential solutions to key conservation issues in Sub-Saharan Africa.    Easy to read, this lucid and accessible textbook includes fifteen chapters that cover a full range of conservation topics, including threats to biodiversity, environmental laws, and protected areas management, as well as related topics such as sustainability, poverty, and human-wildlife conflict. This rich resource also includes a background discussion of what conservation biology is, a wide range of theoretical approaches to the subject, and concrete examples of conservation practice in specific African contexts. Strategies are outlined to protect biodiversity whilst promoting economic development in the region.    Boxes covering specific themes written by scientists who live and work throughout the region are included in each chapter, together with recommended readings and suggested discussion topics. Each chapter also includes an extensive bibliography.  Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa provides the most up-to-date study in the field. It is an essential resource, available on-line without charge, for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a handy guide for professionals working to stop the rapid loss of biodiversity in Sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere.  "



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910338249803321

Titolo

Moduli of K-stable Varieties / / edited by Giulio Codogni, Ruadhaí Dervan, Filippo Viviani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 181 p. 18 illus.)

Collana

Springer INdAM Series, , 2281-518X ; ; 31

Disciplina

516.35

Soggetti

Geometry, Algebraic

Geometry

Functions of complex variables

Algebraic Geometry

Several Complex Variables and Analytic Spaces

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This volume contains a collection of papers related to research presented at the INdAM Workshop "Moduli of K-stable vaieties", which was held in Rome, from 10 to 14 July 2017, at Sapienza Universita di Roma."

Nota di contenuto

1 F. Ambro and J. Kollár, Minimal Models of semi-log-canonical pairs -- 2 G. Codogni and J. Stoppa, Torus Equivariant K-stability -- 3 K. Fujita, Notes on K-semistability of topic polarized surfaces -- 4 E. Legendre, A note on extremal toric almost Kähler metrics -- 5 Y. Odaka, Tropical geometric compactification of moduli, I - M_g case -- 6 Z. Sjöström Dyrefelt, A partial comparison of stability notions in Kähler geometry -- 7 C. Spotti, Kähler-Einstein metrics via moduli continuity -- 8 X. Wang, GIT stability, K-stability and moduli space of Fano varieties.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume is an outcome of the workshop "Moduli of K-stable Varieties", which was held in Rome, Italy in 2017. The content focuses on the existence problem for canonical Kähler metrics and links to the algebro-geometric notion of K-stability. The book includes both surveys on this problem, notably in the case of Fano varieties, and original contributions addressing this and related problems. The papers in the latter group develop the theory of K-stability; explore canonical



metrics in the Kähler and almost-Kähler settings; offer new insights into the geometric significance of K-stability; and develop tropical aspects of the moduli space of curves, the singularity theory necessary for higher dimensional moduli theory, and the existence of minimal models. Reflecting the advances made in the area in recent years, the survey articles provide an essential overview of many of the most important findings. The book is intended for all advanced graduate students and researchers who want to learn about recent developments in the theory of moduli space, K-stability and Kähler-Einstein metrics.