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Earth 2020: An Insider’s Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet
Fifty years have passed since the first Earth Day, on 22 April 1970. This accessible, incisive, and timely collection of essays brings together a diverse set of expert voices to examine how the Earth’s environment has changed over this past half century, and what lies in store for our planet over the coming fifty years.
Circular Water Stories: Revealing the Wisdom of Traditional Water Systems for Today's Challenges
Circular Water Stories brings together the work of alumni and tutors of the Circular Water Stories lab, a graduation studio in the MSc Landscape Architecture programme at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft, the Netherlands. Drawing on several years of academic and design…
Quantitative Problem Solving in Natural Resources
Pete Moore introduces quantitative problem solving through examples from natural resource science and management. The second edition develops numerical, spatial and algebraic reasoning before moving to models of growth and decay, with worked problems and practical exercises.
Development in the Anthropocene: The tough task of working towards planetary well-being with low-income households
Studies of practical development projects undertaken with low-income communities. The book examines collaborative approaches to energy, sanitation, waste and other local needs, considering both the interventions and the processes through which they are developed.
Connecting Water: Environmental Views in Premodern Arabic Writings
A collection examining water and environments in premodern Arabic writing. The studies consider how texts describe aquatic places, practical uses of water and relationships between people and their surroundings.
Records of Disaster: Media Infrastructures and Climate Change
A study of disaster records and the media systems through which they are created and circulated. The authors consider how documentation shapes understandings of climate change, events and their aftermaths.
Complex Coastal Systems: transdisciplinary learning on international case studies
A comparative study of seven coastal inlet and estuary management cases. Researchers bring together physical processes, local experience and policy analysis to examine decisions in complex coastal environments.