Autore	De Anil K (Anil Kumar), <1927->
Edizione	[Rev. 2nd ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New Delhi, : New Age International (P) Ltd., Publishers, c2005
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (264 p.)
Disciplina	551.51 551.511
Altri autori (Persone)	Kumar DeArnab
Soggetto topico	Environmental sciences Nature - Effect of human beings on Human ecology Environmental policy - India
ISBN	1-282-07416-4 9786612074165 81-224-2636-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Nature and Natural Processes; Chapter 3 Ecosystems; Chapter 4 Population and Environment; Chapter 5 Land and Water Resources of the Earth; Chapter 6 Air Resources; Chapter 7 Energy and Environment; Chapter 8 Environment and Public Health; Chapter 9 Waste Treatment/ Management and Recycling; Chapter 10 Environmental Policies; Chapter 11 Feedback Exercise (Objective Test); Question Papers; Appendices; References; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910824138103321

Autore	Simpson Steven <1954->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	West Lafayette, Indiana : , : Purdue University Press, , [2022]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource , 1 online resource
Disciplina	820.936
Soggetto topico	Environmentalism Nature - Effect of human beings on
ISBN	1-61249-785-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover -- ESSAYS TO MY DAUGHTER -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Personal Philosophy and Individual Experiences -- Part I: The Pond and the Shack -- 1 The Good Oak Redux -- 2 Drowning Out All Our Muskrats -- 3 Wild Apples -- 4 Still Fishing -- 5 A Person's Leisure Time -- 6 Book Purge -- Part II: Sketches Here and There -- 7 Wisconsin East: A Small Square of Red -- 8 California With a Touch of Maine: Tide Pools East and West -- 9 Minnesota: Night of the Quintze -- 10 Iowa: The Birds of Iowa -- 11 Taiwan: Ascent of Jade Mountain -- 12 A Return to Taiwan: Old and American -- 13 Ontario: Goodbye, Deadbroke Island -- 14 Wisconsin West: Mark Twain on the Mekong -- 15 Wisconsin West: What About the Other Kids? -- 16 Three Outsdoorsmen and a Philosopher -- Part III: Continuums -- 17 The Preservationist and the Conservationist -- 18 The Wanderer and the Adventurer -- 19 The Homecomer and the Sojourner -- 20 The Romantic and the Scientist -- 21 The Restorer -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- About the Author.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910795764403321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	London, England : , : ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , [2023]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (237 pages)
Disciplina	363.7
Soggetto topico	Nature - Effect of human beings on Environmental policy
ISBN	1-394-22594-6 1-394-22591-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. The Water of the Cities and the Water of the Fields -- Chapter 1. The Governance of Socio-Ecological Interdependencies: The Landes du Médoc Water Catchment Area Controversy -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Drinking water supply in Gironde, the history of a transfer from surface water to deep groundwater -- 1.2.1. Under the Roman Empire: the administration of a city's water sources in its estuary -- 1.2.2. The Middle Ages: the era of hydraulic and defensive withdrawal of the city -- 1.2.3. The hydraulic "Renaissance" in the 17th century: towards the golden age of Bordeaux fountains -- 1.2.4. From 1800 to 1850: the dark age of resource availability -- 1.2.5. From 1850 to 1950: towards extractivist geopolitics of water -- 1.2.6. From 1950 to the present day: the socio-technical anticipation of issues through the governance of the drinking water resource -- 1.3. Metropolitan territorial conceptions in the face of forestry references -- 1.4. The refinement of models and the rising criticism -- 1.5. Conclusion -- 1.6. References -- Chapter 2. Ecological Engineering in a Controversial Drinking Water Production Project -- 2.1. The socio-hydrogeological configuration of the Landes du Médoc catchment area (Gironde) -- 2.2. An ecological engineering solution -- 2.3. How much of the extracted water must be reinjected? -- 2.3.1. Percentage efficiency of the water reinjected -- 2.3.2. Efficiency of the reinjection duration -- 2.3.3. Efficiency of the selected method to reinject the water -- 2.4. When and where should the extracted water be reinjected? -- 2.5. Conclusion -- 2.6. References -- Part 2. Protecting Against Risks, by the Estuary, and for the Estuary -- Chapter 3. Living in a City Exposed to Flood Risk: At What Cost(s)?. 3.1. Residential location and risk as economic issues -- 3.2. Empirical strategy of the hedonic price model -- 3.3. Bordeaux Métropole study area and data -- 3.4. A multifaceted city -- 3.4.1. Confirmed metropolitan trends coupled with emerging rurbanization -- 3.4.2. A double effect of flood risk on prices -- 3.5. Conclusion -- 3.6. References -- Chapter 4. The Ecological Restoration of Estuaries: Protection of People and Combating the Erosion of Biodiversity -- 4.1. Habitats, biodiversity and ecosystem services -- 4.2. Causes of the ecological degradation of estuaries -- 4.2.1. Effects of rising sea levels -- 4.2.2. Effects of anthropogenic pressures on biodiversity -- 4.3. Ecological restoration of estuaries for the protection of biodiversity -- 4.3.1. Active and passive restoration -- 4.4. Examples of ecological restoration in estuaries -- 4.4.1. The marshes of Mortagne-sur-Gironde (France) -- 4.4.2. Mondego estuary (Portugal) -- 4.4.3. Scheldt estuary (Belgium) -- 4.5. Conclusion -- 4.6. References -- Chapter 5. Sensemaking in the Face of Estuarine Flood Risk Mitigation -- 5.1. The conceptual framework of narrative analysis -- 5.1.1. Stories of risk governance -- 5.1.2. Sensemaking as a source of narratives about change -- 5.1.3. A corpus of interviews on the risk of flooding in Gironde -- 5.2. Ethical theories invoked and associated meta-narratives -- 5.2.1. Deontology in terms of having respect for shared norms: the meta-narrative of deontological hype -- 5.2.2. Virtue ethics: the meta-narrative of "respect for justice" as a virtue -- 5.2.3. Consequentialism in risk reduction: the meta-narrative of ordinary risk governance -- 5.2.4. Consequentialism in terms of inequity: the meta-narrative of the questionable fairness of choices made -- 5.2.5. Deliberation ethics: the meta-narrative of the process that is to be improved. 5.2.6. Ethics of nature: the meta-narrative of nature holds the keys -- 5.3. For deliberative risk governance -- 5.4. Conclusion -- 5.5. References -- Part 3. When the Estuary Makes the City -- Chapter 6. The Estuarine City as an Allegory for Changes in Solidarity -- 6.1. Cleansing the metropolitan idea of the stench of its emissions and ecological irresponsibility -- 6.2. From the conquest of land to the recognition of territories -- 6.3. From equality to territorial cohesion -- 6.4. Conclusion -- 6.5. References -- Chapter 7. Nantes and the Loire: Construction of an Estuarine City Faced with Port and Environment Challenges -- 7.1. Emergence of the estuarine dimension: from the city of Nantes-Saint-Nazaire to the opening of the "Terre d'Estuaire" museum -- 7.1.1. From an institutional dimension -- 7.1.2. ... to a cultural and tourist vocation -- 7.2. When Nantes and the Loire drifted apart: a progressive denial of the city's estuarine dimension -- 7.2.1. From digging a canal to filling in waterways -- 7.2.2. Departure from shipyards -- 7.3. Building a new relationship between Nantes Métropole and its estuary: the desire for the Loire -- 7.3.1. Integration of the estuarine dimension through heritage and industrial-port memory -- 7.3.2. The Great Debate: a participatory tool for reclaiming the Loire -- 7.3.3. Conférence Permanente Loire and Mission Loire: putting environmental issues related to the Loire on the agenda -- 7.4. Conclusion -- 7.5. References -- Part 4. Anticipating the Future of Estuarine Cities -- Chapter 8. Past and Future Socio-Ecological Pathways of the Seine Estuary -- 8.1. The Seine estuary as a socio-ecological system -- 8.2. The successive phases of port traffic -- 8.3. The energy supply of the Seine basin -- 8.4. The contribution of ports to the agri-food system of the Seine basin. 8.5. The era of globalized trade in manufactured goods -- 8.6. What is the future of the Seine estuary? -- 8.7. Conclusion -- 8.8. References -- Chapter 9. Metropolitan Trajectories for Anticipatory Governance of Urban Biodiversity -- 9.1. The challenges of an attractive city faced with ecological injunctions: contextual elements of emerging governance -- 9.2. The cognitive stakes of a collaborative territorial prospective -- 9.3. Scenarios of metropolitan trajectories: contrasted political-ecological footprints -- 9.3.1. Strategic scenario: "Dense City" or the Return of the Rhine Model (Scenario 1) -- 9.3.2. Dystopian scenarios: "city-nature opposition" (Scenario 2) and "city-nature interweaving" (Scenario 3) -- 9.3.3. Utopian scenarios: "radical ecological restoration" (Scenario 4.1) and "optimal reconciliation" (Scenario 4.2) -- 9.3.4. Transformative scenario: resilient city (Scenario 5) -- 9.4. Conclusion -- 9.5. References -- Conclusion -- List of Authors -- Index -- EULA.
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Pubbl/distr/stampa	Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2004
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (190 p.)
Disciplina	304.2
Altri autori (Persone)	WainwrightAndy <1946->
Soggetto topico	Nature - Effect of human beings on Human ecology Human ecology - Canada Environmental degradation
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-55458-813-8 1-280-28072-7 9786610280728 0-88920-931-6 1-4175-6321-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Table of Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 The World IsYour Body; 3 Growing Roots in Nature; 4 The Marginal World; 5 Reflections of a Zealot; 6 Going Home: Memories of the Natural World; 7 Who Cares about the Meadow?: The Changing Conversation around Religion and Ecology; 8 Toward an Ecofeminist Phenomenology of Nature; 9 Romantic Origins of Environmentalism: Wordsworth and Shelley; 10 Wintergreen: Reflections from Loon Lake-Afterword; 11 Listening to Our Ancestors: Rebuilding Indigenous Nations in the Face of Environmental Destruction 12 Cutting a Deal with Attila: Confrontation, Capitulation, and Resolution in Environmental Conflict13 Romancing Labrador: The Social Construction of Wilderness and the Labrador Frontier; 14 Prey; Contributors
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910449925903321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xvi, 428 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina	333.95/16
Collana	Cambridge studies in adaptive dynamics
Soggetto topico	Conservation biology Adaptation (Biology) Evolutionary genetics Nature - Effect of human beings on
ISBN	1-107-14714-X 1-280-54072-9 9786610540723 0-511-21423-5 0-511-21602-5 0-511-21065-5 0-511-32719-6 0-511-54202-X 0-511-21242-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	From individual interactions to population viability / Wilfried Gabriel and Régis Ferrière -- Age structure, mating system, and population viability / Stéphane Legendre -- Spatial dimensions of population viability / Mats Gyllenberg, Ilkka Hanski and Johan A.J. Metz -- Responses to environmental change : adaptation or extinction / Richard Frankham and Joel Kingsolver -- Empirical evidence for rapid evolution / David Reznick, Helen Rodd and Leonard Nunney -- Genetic variability and life-history evolution / Kimberly A. Hughes and Ryan Sawby -- Environmental stress and quantitative genetic variation / Alexandra G. Imasheva and Volker Loeschcke -- Fixation of new mutations in small populations / Michael C. Whitlock and Reinhard Bürger -- Quantitative-genetic models and changing environments / Reinhard Bürger and Christoph Krall -- Adaptive dynamics and evolving biodiversity / Ulf Dieckmann and Régis Ferrière -- Genetic structure in heterogeneous environments / Oscar E. Gaggiotti and Denis Couvet -- Conservation implications of niche conservatism and evolution in heterogeneous environments / Robert D. Holt and Richard Gomulkiewicz -- Adaptive responses to landscape disturbances : theory / Kalle Parvinen -- Adaptive responses to landscape disturbances : empirical evidence / Bruno Colas, Chris D. Thomas and Ilkka Hanski -- Coevolutionary dynamics and the conservation of mutualisms / Judith L. Bronstein, Ulf Dieckmann and Régis Ferrière -- Ecosystem evolution and conservation / Michel Loreau, Claire de Mazancourt and Robert D. Holt -- The congener as an agent of extermination and rescue of rare species / Donald A. Levin.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457899103321