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Mapping Urban Spaces: Designing the European CityBuilt Environment, Environment and Sustainability, Geography, Social Sciences, Urban StudiesMapping Urban Spaces focuses on medium-sized European cities and more specifically on their open spaces from psychological, sociological, and aesthetic points of view. The chapters illustrate how the characteristics that make life in medium-sized European cities pleasant and sustainable – accessibility, ease of travel, urban sustainability, social inclusiveness – can be traced back to the nature of that space.CC BY-NC2021
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Extractivisms, Existences, and ExtinctionsEnvironment and Sustainability, Global Development, Politics & International RelationsThis book explores the existential redistributions that extractivist frontiers create, going beyond existing studies by bringing into the English-language discussion much of the wisdom from Latin American rural and forest communities’ understandings of extractivist phenomena, and the destruction and changes in lives and lived environments they create.CC BY-NC-ND2021
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Environmental Evaluation and Global Development InstitutionsEconomics, Finance, Business & Industry, Environment and Sustainability, Global DevelopmentThis book explores why the Global Environment Facility (GEF) invests in evaluation for accountability and learning to inform its decision-making on programming priorities, and how this leads to wiser funding decisions and better program performance on the ground. The book is based on real-life experiences of how to make evaluation count for international environmental action.CC BY-NC-ND2021
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Urban Blue SpacesBuilt Environment, Environment and SustainabilityThis book presents an evidence-based approach to landscape planning and design for urban blue spaces that maximises the benefits to human health and well-being while minimising the risks. Based on applied research and evidence from primary and secondary data sources stemming from the EU-funded BlueHealth project, the book presents nature-based solutions to promote sustainable and resilient cities.CC BY-NC-ND2021
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Sustainable Development and Resource ProductivityBuilt Environment, Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Environment and Sustainability, Global DevelopmentThe fourth Factor X publication from the German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt, UBA), Sustainable Development and Resource Productivity: The Nexus Approaches explores the interdependencies of sustainable development paths and associated resource requirements, describing and analysing the necessities for a more resource efficient world.CC BY2020
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Engendering Climate ChangeArea Studies, Environment and Sustainability, Geography, Global Development, Humanities, Social SciencesThis book focuses on the gendered experiences of environmental change across different geographies and social contexts in South Asia and on diverse strategies of adapting to climate variability.CC BY2021
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Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management
Environment & Agriculture, Environment and SustainabilityThis new textbook attempts to address various fundamental components of AW-IPM, e.g. the importance of relevant problem-solving research, the need for planning and essential baseline data collection, the significance of integrating adequate tools for appropriate control strategies, and the value of pilot trials, etc. With chapters authored by 184 experts from more than 31 countries, the book includes many technical advances in the areas of genetics, molecular biology, microbiology, resistance management, and social sciences that facilitate the planning and implementing of area-wide strategies.CC BY-NC-ND2020
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