Environmental factors (16)

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book discusses the science, causes, impacts and risk reduction strategies for climate change and disasters. It focuses on the use of traditional knowledge, new innovation and education to build a culture of safety and resilience at all levels in...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book tackles the issue of using crop rotation to increase food production and secure it for the growing population of the future. Crop rotation can be a solution of food gaps in the developing counties. Crop rotation plays an important role in ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:Die Gebäudetechnik steht vor einem bedeutenden Paradigmenwechsel. Getrieben durch die Integrale Planung und verknüpft mit der Methodik des Building Information Modelings (BIM) sowie den neuen Möglichkeiten der Digitalisierung (Stichwort: Internet of ...

publisher: Editora Universidade Aberta
year: 2014
description:Parte I, intitulada A Geografia no Quadro Ambiental, onde se define o objeto de estudo da Geografia Física, a sua diversidade e os conceitos de base fundamentais, através de exemplos mundiais e de Portugal. Inclui ainda a definição de Ambiente e suas...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:This book focuses on the emerging health issues due to climate change, particularly emphasizing the situation in developing countries. Thanks to recent development in the areas of remote sensing, GIS technology, and downscale modeling of climate, it ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:This book reviews the consequences of improper disposal of greywater into the environment and the most appropriate treatment technologies for developing countries, focusing on the potential to reuse greywater as a production medium for biomass and bi...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book presents major hydrological, physicochemical and biological processes determining the formation of hydro-physical properties and chemical composition of terrestrial surface water. Generalized hydro-physical, hydro-chemical and hydro-biologi...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book provides a concise, yet comprehensive overview of the many facets relating to human health risk assessments in relation to chemical exposure problems. It presents some very important tools and methodologies that can be used to address chem...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:The main thrust of this book is focused on addressing the various interrelated processes, analysis and activities bearing upon sound river management. River basins are complex systems. They are open systems with sometimes ill-defined boundaries. It r...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book presents a systems thinking approach in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals for sustainable national development in vulnerable countries. Systems thinking is a process for understanding the interrelationships among the key compone...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book investigates the need for a more open and interdisciplinary dialogue on the nexus of food, water and energy security in the Arab region. It argues that achieving sustainable economic development is irretrievably tied to the security of the ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book highlights the water-energy-food nexus as one of the most important and fundamental global environmental issues facing the world. Climate and social changes are putting increased pressure on water, energy and food resources. As water is the...