Ciências da terra, geografia, ambiente, planeamento (500)

editor: Springer
ano: 2016
descrição:This richly illustrated book celebrates the diversity, importance, and intrinsic beauty of soils around the world and helps the reader to understand the ways that soils are related to the landscapes in which they form. The book unravels the complex b...

editor: Springer
ano: 2018
descrição:This book summarizes recent progress in cellulose chemistry. The last 10 years have witnessed important developments, because sustainability is a major concern. Biodegradable cellulose derivatives, in particular esters and ethers, are employed on a l...

editor: Springer
ano: 2017
descrição:This is an updated edition of the book by the same author: 'Plio-Quaternary volcanism in Italy - Petrology, geochemistry, geodynamics,' published in 2005 by Springer. This edition has the same structure as the previous publication, with a general int...

editor: Springer
ano: 2016
descrição:This edited volume addresses how the state system, the organizing political institution in world politics, copes with challenges of rapid change, unanticipated crises, and general turmoil in the twenty-first century. These disruptions are occurring a...

editor: Springer
ano: 2017
descrição:This book analyzes the status quo concerning waste generation and management systems in Thailand and other developing countries with similar problems. It addresses municipal, electronic, industrial and hazardous wastes, as well as management instrume...

editor: Springer
ano: 2016
descrição:This book is a systematized overview of wild edible plants eaten in the territory of present Estonia, with a focus on the systematic changes within the field. Starting in the end of 18th century, when the first data was published, the text is an exte...

editor: Springer
ano: 2017
descrição:This book tells the story of the catastrophic impact of the giant 10 Km asteroid Chicxulub into the ancient Gulf of Mexico 65.5 million years ago. The book begins with a discussion of the nature of asteroids and the likelihood of future Earth-impacts...

editor: Springer
ano: 2018
descrição:This book elaborates the need, in a rapidly urbanizing world, for recognition of the ecological communities we inhabit in cities and for the development of an ethics for all entities (human and non-human) in this context. Children and their entangled...

editor: Springer
ano: 2012
descrição:The story of one village, Yantian, and its remarkable economic and social transformation, this book shows how outcomes are shaped by a number of factors such as path dependence, social structures, economic resources and local entrepreneurship.

editor: Springer
ano: 2017
descrição:This book promotes the exploitation of novel and emerging approaches for mapping environmental and urban informatics empowered by citizens. Chapters are grouped in three sections representing the main subjects. The first section describes data acquis...

editor: Springer
ano: 2017
descrição:This book investigates the success story of the fast fashion industry—mainly owned by Chinese migrants—in Prato, Italy. It outlines how Prato has become the center of a value chain stretching from suppliers in China and Turkey all the way to buyers i...

editor: Springer
ano: 2018
descrição:The book embodies the groundwater issues and challenges in India focusing its sustainable use. It is a compilation of papers presented by the eminent experts from Government departments, academia, research institutes, NGOs and stakeholders who assemb...