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In diesem Open Access-Buch werden fünf zentrale Themenbereiche des Umwelt- und Bioressourcenmanagement (UBRM) vorgestellt. Umwelt- und Bioressourcenmanagerinnen und -manager kennen die Herausforderungen des 21. Jahrhunderts, wie sie zum Beispiel in der Agenda 2030 der Vereinten Nationen – den sogenannten nachhaltigen Entwicklungszielen (Sustainable Development Goals - SDGs) – formuliert wurden. Sie denken vernetzt und verfügen über fachliche, methodische und soziale Kompetenzen, die für eine inter- und transdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit erforderlich sind. Sie sind in der Lage, mit sich verändernden Anforderungen umzugehen und können sich in eine breite Palette von Fachbereichen vertiefen. Ihre Qualifikation wird in vielen Wirtschaftsbereichen, in nationalen und internationalen Organisationen sowie in privaten und öffentlichen Einrichtungen nachgefragt. Die Leserinnen und Leser bekommen in jedem der hier vorgestellten Themenbereich Einblicke in verschiedene UBRM-Fachbereiche sowie darüber, welche Kompetenzen und Fertigkeiten erworben werden können. Dies wird anhand konkreter Fallbeispiele verdeutlicht. Abschließend veranschaulichen Porträts von Absolventinnen und Absolventen die Studien- und Berufspraxis und zeigen, wie nachhaltige Zukunftsgestaltung im Sinne der Agenda 2030 aussehen kann. Die Herausgeber Erwin Schmid ist Professor für Nachhaltige Landnutzung und Globalen Wandel, Tobias Pröll ist Professor für Energietechnik und Energiemanagement, beide an der Universität für Bodenkultur Wien (BOKU). Ebenso sind alle Beitragsautorinnen und -autoren an der BOKU Wien tätig. Dieses Buch ist eine Open-Access-Publikation unter einer CC BY-NC 4.0-Lizenz.
Environment --- Environmental management --- Environmental education --- Environmental sciences
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The Anthropocene is the human-dominated modern era that has accelerated social, environmental and climate change across the world in the last few decades. This open access book examines the challenges the Anthropocene presents to the sustainable management of deltas, both the many threats as well as the opportunities. In the world’s deltas the Anthropocene is manifest in major land use change, the damming of rivers, the engineering of coasts and the growth of some of the world’s largest megacities; deltas are home to one in twelve of all people in the world. The book explores bio-physical and social dynamics and makes clear adaptation choices and trade-offs that underpin policy and governance processes, including visionary delta management plans. It details new analysis to illustrate these challenges, based on three significant and contrasting deltas: the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna, Mahanadi and Volta. This multi-disciplinary, policy-orientated volume is strongly aligned to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals as delta populations often experience extremes of poverty, gender and structural inequality, variable levels of health and well-being, while being vulnerable to extreme and systematic climate change.
Geography --- Environmental geography --- Environment --- Economic development—Environmental aspects --- Environmental management
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This open access book reports on a pilot project aiming at collecting information on the socio-ecological risks that could arise in the event of an uncontrolled spread of genetically engineered organisms into the environment. The researchers will, for instance, be taking a closer look at genetically engineered oilseed rape, genetically engineered olive flies as well as plants and animals with so-called gene drives. The book mainly adresses researchers.
Ecotoxicology --- Environmental Health --- Environmental Management --- Genetically modified organisms --- Socio-ecological risk --- Olive flies --- Environmental spread --- Open Access book --- Environmental science, engineering & technology --- Biochemistry --- Environmental medicine --- Environmental management,
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This open access book on straw management aims to provide a wide array of options for rice straw management that are potentially more sustainable, environmental, and profitable compared to current practice. The book is authored by expert researchers, engineers and innovators working on a range of straw management options with case studies from Vietnam, the Philippines and Cambodia. The book is written for engineers and researchers in order to provide them information on current good practice and the gaps and constraints that require further research and innovation. The book is also aimed at extension workers and farmers to help them decide on the best alternative straw management options in their area by presenting both the technological options as well as the value chains and business models required to make them work. The book will also be useful for policy makers, required by public opinion to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, looking for research-based evidence to guide the policies they develop and implement.
Environment --- Sustainable development --- Environmental management --- Climate change --- Agriculture --- Environmental engineering --- Biotechnology
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This Open Access book, building on research initiated by scholars from the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development (CHGD) and ICOMOS Netherlands, presents multidisciplinary research that connects water to heritage. Through twenty-one chapters it explores landscapes, cities, engineering structures and buildings from around the world. It describes how people have actively shaped the course, form and function of water for human settlement and the development of civilizations, establishing socio-economic structures, policies and cultures; a rich world of narratives, laws and practices; and an extensive network of infrastructure, buildings and urban form. The book is organized in five thematic sections that link practices of the past to the design of the present and visions of the future: part I discusses drinking water management; part II addresses water use in agriculture; part III explores water management for land reclamation and defense; part IV examines river and coastal planning; and part V focuses on port cities and waterfront regeneration. Today, the many complex systems of the past are necessarily the basis for new systems that both preserve the past and manage water today: policy makers and designers can work together to recognize and build on the traditional knowledge and skills that old structure embody. This book argues that there is a need for a common agenda and an integrated policy that addresses the preservation, transformation and adaptive reuse of historic water-related structures. Throughout, it imagines how such efforts will help us develop sustainable futures for cities, landscapes and bodies of water. ; Crosses regional and national boundaries to meet global challenges Proposes an integrated policy on preservation, transformation and adaptive reuse of water-related structures Offers tools to facilitate collaboration among stakeholders Open Access book
Geography --- Regional planning --- Urban planning --- Environmental management --- Cultural heritage --- Engineering design
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Earth sciences; Natural disasters; Climate change; Coasts; Environmental management; Environmental law; Environmental policy; Social justice; Human rights
Earth sciences --- Natural disasters --- Climate change --- Coasts --- Environmental management --- Environmental law --- Environmental policy --- Social justice --- Human rights
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This open access book presents up-to-date analyses of community-based approaches to sustainable resource management of SEPLS (socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes) in areas where a harmonious relationship between the natural environment and the people who inhabit it is essential to ensure community and environmental well-being as well as to build resilience in the ecosystems that support this well-being. Understanding SEPLS and the forces of change that can weaken their resilience requires the integration of knowledge across a wide range of academic disciplines as well as from indigenous knowledge and experience. Moreover, given the wide variation in the socio-ecological makeup of SEPLS around the globe, as well as in their political and economic contexts, individual communities will be at the forefront of developing the measures appropriate for their unique circumstances. This in turn requires robust communication systems and broad participatory approaches. Sustainability science (SuS) research is highly integrated, participatory and solutions driven, and as such is well suited to the study of SEPLS. Through case studies, literature reviews and SuS analyses, the book explores various approaches to stakeholder participation, policy development and appropriate action for the future of SEPLS. It provides communities, researchers and decision-makers at various levels with new tools and strategies for exploring scenarios and creating future visions for sustainable societies.
Environmental Management --- Landscape Ecology --- Development and Sustainability --- Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning --- Environmental Sociology --- Sustainable Development --- Development Studies --- Geography --- Biotechnology --- Environmental Social Sciences --- Indigenous and local knowledge --- Science-policy interface --- Ecosystem services --- Future scenarios --- Stakeholder analysis --- Visualization --- Satoyama --- Satoumi --- SEPLS --- Social-ecological system --- Open Access --- Environmental management, --- Botany & plant sciences --- Sustainability --- Regional & area planning --- Sociology --- The environment
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Organic waste composting is another excellent example to demonstrate the power and the benefits of nexus thinking. Even though organic waste composting itself is not a new topic, those who want to start a new project or align an ongoing project with nexus thinking, find it difficult to gather the necessary information. With nine case studies from four continents, this book aims to fill above gap in literature. While current literature on composting is often found to be limited to either soil/agriculture sector or waste management sector, this book presents a combined point of view. This open access book starts with an introductory chapter that describes the need to bring the waste management aspects and soil nutrient management aspects of compost production into one integrated theme. The relevance of nexus thinking and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are also presented in this introduction. The first three chapters after the introduction covers composting from the solid waste management and its policy aspects, taking examples from three developing countries. The next three examples are mostly about the benefits composting can provide to the soil and agriculture. These examples are also from three developing countries, but with a mixture of urban as well as rural settings. Last three chapters present more insight into the latest developments taking examples from Europe, as well as new methods adapted from the traditional styles from Africa.
Agriculture --- Waste Management/Waste Technology --- Environmental Management --- Environmental Policy --- Sociology, general --- Soil Science --- Environmental Social Sciences --- Sustainable Waste Management --- Soil Water Retention --- Nutrients --- Health risks --- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) --- Open Access --- Agricultural science --- Waste management --- Waste treatment & disposal --- Environmental management, --- Central / national / federal government policies --- Sociology
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This open access book is a result of the Dalhousie-led research project Safe Navigation and Environment Protection, supported by a grant from the Ocean Frontier Institute’s the Canada First Research Excellent Fund (CFREF). The book focuses on Arctic shipping and investigates how ocean change and anthropogenic impacts affect our understanding of risk, policy, management and regulation for safe navigation, environment protection, conflict management between ocean uses, and protection of Indigenous peoples’ interests. A rapidly changing Arctic as a result of climate change and ice loss is rendering the North more accessible, providing new opportunities while producing impacts on the Arctic. The book explores ideas for enhanced governance of Arctic shipping through risk-based planning, marine spatial planning and scaling up shipping standards for safety, environment protection and public health.
Polar Geography --- Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts --- Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management --- Environmental Management --- Freshwater & Marine Ecology --- Physical Geography --- Earth System Sciences --- Water --- Freshwater and Marine Ecology --- Arctic cruise shipping --- Arctic fisher safety --- Climate change impacts in the Arctic region --- Governance of the Arctic and Northwest Atlantic --- Marine spatial planning --- Northwest Atlantic and Canadian Eastern Arctic Gateway --- Safe navigation and environment protection --- Sea ice in the Arctic --- Search and Rescue (SAR) --- Open Access --- Physical geography & topography --- Climate change --- Environmental management, --- Ecological science, the Biosphere --- Hydrobiology
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Engineering mathematics is a branch of applied mathematics where mathematical methods and techniques are implemented for solving problems related to the engineering and industry. It also represents a multidisciplinary approach where theoretical and practical aspects are deeply merged with the aim at obtaining optimized solutions. In line with that, the present Special Issue, 'Engineering Mathematics in Ship Design', is focused, in particular, with the use of this sort of engineering science in the design of ships and vessels. Articles are welcome when applied science or computation science in ship design represent the core of the discussion.
roll motion --- roll damping --- CFD --- harmonic excitation --- single-stepped planing hulls --- symmetric 2D + T theory --- hydrodynamic forces --- towing tank tests --- piezoelectric sensor --- damaged sensor --- impact traction --- Lead-Zirconium-Titanium (PZT) --- fracture mechanics --- marine industry --- water entry --- hydroelasticity --- cavitation --- FSI --- SPH --- slamming --- plate --- stiffeners --- constructal design --- finite element method --- deflection --- numerical simulation --- stiffened plate --- constitutive model --- finite element --- fluid-structure interaction --- ship design --- state-of-the-art --- fixed pitch propeller --- controllable pitch propeller --- low-speed Diesel engine --- selection --- optimisation --- modelling --- coanda effect --- turbulence model --- computational fluid dynamic --- finite volume method --- H.O.M.E.R. nozzle --- numerical model --- SHIPMOVE --- MMG Model --- external forces --- marine transport --- environmental management system --- balanced scorecard --- ISO 14001 --- ISO 9126 --- ISO 14598 --- AHP method --- MCDM method --- n/a
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