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Future Propulsion Systems and Energy Sources in Sustainable Aviation (Aerospace Series)
Future Propulsion Systems and Energy Sources in Sustainable Aviation (Aerospace Series)

A comprehensive review of the science and engineering behind future propulsion systems and energy sources in sustainable aviation

Future Propulsion Systems and Energy Sources in Sustainable Aviation is a comprehensive reference that offers a review of the science and engineering principles that underpin the...

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Resilience (Routledge International Handbooks)
The Routledge Handbook of Urban Resilience (Routledge International Handbooks)

This volume provides a comprehensive discussion and overview of urban resilience, including socio-ecological and economic hazard and disaster resilience. It provides a summary of state of the art thinking on resilience, the different approaches, tools and methodologies for understanding the subject in urban contexts, and brings...

Universities and Sustainable Communities: Meeting the Goals of the Agenda 2030 (World Sustainability Series)
Universities and Sustainable Communities: Meeting the Goals of the Agenda 2030 (World Sustainability Series)

The book showcases examples of university engagement in community initiatives and reports on the results from research and from a variety of institutional projects and programmes. As a whole, the book illustrates how actors at the community (microlevel) and other levels (meso and macro) can make valuable and concrete contributions to...

The Renewable Energy Transition: Realities for Canada and the World (Lecture Notes in Energy)
The Renewable Energy Transition: Realities for Canada and the World (Lecture Notes in Energy)

Canada is a well-endowed country that serves as an ideal model to lead the reader through the development of energy, resources, and society historically and into a post-carbon future. The book provides an historical perspective and describes the physical resource limitations, energy budgets, and climate realities that will...

Air Power and Freight: The View from the European Union and China (SpringerBriefs in Energy)
Air Power and Freight: The View from the European Union and China (SpringerBriefs in Energy)

This book addresses the challenges of planning sustainable freight transport systems (road and air) in a time when the industry faces increasing pressure from environmental limits, climate change, carbon emission targets, bottlenecks in oil supply, infrastructure shortages and urban congestion.  The author examines sustainable...

Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions: Practices of legitimation and accountable governance
Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions: Practices of legitimation and accountable governance
This open access book reframes sustainable energy transitions as being a matter of resolving accountability crises. It demonstrates how the empirical study of several practices of legitimation can analytically deconstruct energy transitions, and presents a typology of these practices to help determine whether energy...
Remote Sensing Monitoring and Evaluation of Degraded Grassland in China: Accounting of Grassland Carbon Source and Carbon Sink (Springer Geography)
Remote Sensing Monitoring and Evaluation of Degraded Grassland in China: Accounting of Grassland Carbon Source and Carbon Sink (Springer Geography)
This book focuses on grassland ecosystem evaluation including vegetation coverage, net primary productivity, carbon sink accounting, and grassland degradation evaluation based on mutual data resource, ecosystem model simulation, remote sensing monitoring and driving mechanism exploration. It aims to provide a guide seeking to understand the...
Internet of Things and Analytics for Agriculture, Volume 2 (Studies in Big Data)
Internet of Things and Analytics for Agriculture, Volume 2 (Studies in Big Data)

This book addresses major challenges faced by farmers and the technological solutions based on Internet of Things (IoT). A major challenge in agriculture is cultivating and supplying high-quality produce at the best. Currently, around 50% of global farm produce never reaches the end consumer due to wastage and suboptimal prices. The...

Life Changing: How Humans are Altering Life on Earth
Life Changing: How Humans are Altering Life on Earth

In this post-natural history guide, Helen Pilcher invites us to meet key species that have been sculpted by humanity.

We are now living through the post-natural phase, where the fate of all living things is irrevocably intertwined with our own. We domesticated animals to suit our needs, and altered their...

Future-proofing?Valuing Adaptability, Flexibility, Convertibility and Options: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach (Management in the Built Environment)
Future-proofing?Valuing Adaptability, Flexibility, Convertibility and Options: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach (Management in the Built Environment)
This book presents a unifying approach to the valuation of incorporated flexibility. Flexibility, in general terms, recognizes future uncertainty and refers to being proactive now so as to secure the future possibility of being able to adapt, convert, or generally introduce a change, if it is worthwhile to do so at the time. That is,...
An Interdisciplinary Approach for Disaster Resilience and Sustainability (Disaster Risk Reduction)
An Interdisciplinary Approach for Disaster Resilience and Sustainability (Disaster Risk Reduction)
This book includes selected papers presented at the international expert forum on “Mainstreaming Resilience and Disaster Risk Reduction in Education,” held at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand on 1–2 December 2017. The journey towards disaster risk reduction and resilience requires the participation of a wide...
21st Century Maritime Silk Road: Wave Energy Resource Evaluation (Springer Oceanography)
21st Century Maritime Silk Road: Wave Energy Resource Evaluation (Springer Oceanography)

This book focuses on the evaluation of wave energy in the Maritime Silk Road. Firstly, it compares wave energy and other main energy sources, and then discusses the various disadvantages. It also presents the current research and the difficulties of wave energy evaluation, and systematically analyzes the climatic characteristics of...

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