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A Companion to Environmental Geography

In recent years the number of physical and human geographers with interests in the tangled relationships between environment and society has grown considerably. Fuelled by resurgent public and...More

Remote Sensing and Geospatial Technologies for Coastal Ecosystem Assessment and Management

In this landmark publication, leading experts detail how remote sensing and related geospatial technologies can be used for coastal ecosystem assessment and management. This book is divided into...More

Real World Ecology: Large-Scale and Long-Term Case Studies and Methods

Ecological and environmental research has increased in scope and complexity in the last few decades, from simple systems with a few managed variables to complex ecosystems with many uncontrolled...More

Natural Hazards Analysis: Reducing the Impact of Disasters

With an emphasis on hazard analysis, this volume assesses critical preparedness issues that emergency personnel must face in the event of a disaster of any kind. The author discusses the nature...More

Creating Sustainability Within Our Midst

Eighteen cutting-edge papers from the 4th biennial conference of the US Society for Ecological Economics held in 2007. Topics include the ecological economics of climate change; energy,...More

Natural Experiments: Ecosystem-Based Management and the Environment

Scholars, scientists, and policymakers have hailed ecosystem-based management (EBM) as a remedy for the perceived shortcomings of the centralized, top-down, expert-driven environmental...More

Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global

Sense of Place and Sense of Planet analyzes the relationship between the imagination of the global and the ethical commitment to the local in environmentalist thought and writing from the 1960s...More

Green IT: Reduce Your Information System’s Environmental Impact While Adding to the Bottom Line

This groundbreaking work offers a complete roadmap for integrating environmentally sound techniques and technologies into your Information Systems architecture. Green IT explains how to adopt a...More

Urban Regions: Ecology and Planning Beyond the City

With land planning, socioeconomics and natural systems as foundations, this book combines urban planning and ecological science in examining urban regions. Writing for graduate students,...More

Landscape Analysis and Visualisation: Spatial Models for Natural Resource Management and Planning

This book showcases a wide range of innovative landscape analysis and visualization techniques as used in a number of applied natural resource management and central planning problems. It...More