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Knowledge, Space, Economy
by John R. Bryson Peter W. Daniels Nick Henry Jane PollardFirst published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Knowledge Systems and Change in Climate Governance: Comparing India and South Africa (Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research)
by Babette NeverThe success of international efforts to manage climate change depends on the participation of emerging economies. This book uses a comparative study of two of the most important, India and South Africa, to reveal new insights into managing climate change on a global scale. The book provides a unique in-depth analysis of how these two countries are dealing with climate change at both national and province levels, from India’s advances in solar and wind energy development to South Africa’s efforts to introduce a carbon tax. Using the innovative theoretical framework of climate knowledge systems, it explores how people in India and South Africa engage with one other, learn and act by forming communities of practice. The book identifies the drivers and barriers of climate governance, showing how different forms of scientific, technological, normative and pragmatic knowledge can aid climate governance and analysing how the underlying mind-set that guides climate action in these countries is changing. This book is a valuable resource for students and scholars of environmental policy, politics and governance, as well as comparative politics, climate change and sustainable development.
Knowledge Systems of Societies for Adaptation and Mitigation of Impacts of Climate Change
by Harald Kaechele K. S. Rao K. V. Raju Ruediger Schaldach Sunil NautiyalClimate change is broadly recognized as a key environmental issue affecting social and ecological systems worldwide. At the Cancun summit of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change's 16th Conference, the parties jointly agreed that the vulnerable groups particularly in developing countries and whose livelihood is based on land use practices are the most common victims as in most cases their activities are shaped by the climate. Therefore, solving the climate dilemma through mitigation processes and scientific research is an ethical concern. Thus combining the knowledge systems of the societies and scientific evidences can greatly assist in the creation of coping mechanisms for sustainable development in a situation of changing climate. International Humboldt Kolleg focusing on "knowledge systems of societies and Climate Change" was organized at ISEC. This event was of unique importance, as the year 2011-12 was celebrated as the 60th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between India and Germany with the motto "Germany and India - Infinite Opportunities." This volume is the outcome of the papers presented during the IHK 2011 at ISEC, India.
Knowledge Transfer in the Sustainable Rehabilitation and Risk Management of the Built Environment: KNOW-RE-BUILT. Proceedings of the Online International Multiplier Event/Conference, December 15-16, 2021 (Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering)
by Ancuța RotaruThis book showcases the valuable contributions made during the online event entitled The International Conference on Knowledge Transfer in the Sustainable Rehabilitation and Risk Management of the Built Environment. The conference was held on December 15–16, 2021, and was organized as a multiplier event of the European project Rehabilitation of the Built Environment in the Context of Smart City and Sustainable Development Concepts for Knowledge Transfer and Lifelong Learning (RE-BUILT). This book specifically retains the same main themes explored in the book titled Critical Thinking in the Sustainable Rehabilitation and Risk Management of the Built Environment – CRIT-RE-BUILT. The papers included in this book are mostly authored by partners in the project’s consortium and cover various aspects of civil engineering knowledge transfer in crucial areas, to address different perspectives and significant challenges related to the sustainable built environment. The book seeks to provoke ideas and discussions, particularly in the areas where risk management and sustainable rehabilitation of the built environment intersect, ranging from reducing hazard risks to enhancing sustainable rehabilitation efforts in the field
Knox Farm State Park
by Renee M. Oubre Gerald L. HalliganA stone wall along Seneca Street in East Aurora, New York, welcomes visitors to Knox Farm State Park with its charming buildings, woodlands, and open fields. The farmland was purchased by Seymour H. Knox, an entrepreneur from Russell, New York. Successful in the five-and-dime store industry with his cousin F.W. Woolworth, Knox expanded his business interests to include raising horses and developing a self-sustaining farm. Following his death in 1915, his family maintained and expanded the property, gracing it with architectural features reflecting their interests. In the 1990s, with the passing of Seymour Knox II and sons, the family's desire to preserve the beloved property was fulfilled with the establishment of Knox Farm State Park.
Koala: A Natural History And An Uncertain Future
by Danielle ClodeA New Scientist Best Popular Science Book of the Year "This is the book I’ve been waiting for." —Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus An Australian biologist delves into the extraordinary world of koalas, from their ancient ancestors to the current threats to their survival. Koalas regularly appeared in Australian biologist Danielle Clode’s backyard, but it was only when a bushfire threatened that she truly paid them attention. She soon realized how much she had to learn about these complex and mysterious animals. In vivid, descriptive prose, Clode embarks on a delightful and surprising journey through evolutionary biology, natural history, and ecology to understand where these enigmatic animals came from and what their future may hold. She begins her search with the fossils of ancient giant koalas, delving into why the modern koala has become the lone survivor of a once-diverse family of uniquely Australian marsupials. Koala investigates the remarkable physiology of these charismatic creatures. Born the size of tiny “jellybeans,” joeys face an uphill battle, from crawling into their mother’s pouch to being weaned onto a toxic diet of gum-tree leaves, the koalas’ single source of food. Clode explores the complex relationship and unexpected connections between this endearing species and humans. She explains how koalas are simultaneously threatened with extinction in some areas due to disease, climate change, and increasing wildfires, while overpopulating forests in other parts of the country. Deeply researched and filled with wonder, Koala is both a tender and inquisitive paean to a species unlike any other and a call to ensure its survival.
The Koala of Death: A Gunn Zoo Mystery (Gunn Zoo Series #2)
by Betty WebbWhen zookeeper Theodora "Teddy" Bentley fishes the body of Koala Kate out of Gunn Landing Harbor, she discovers that her fellow zookeeper didn't drown; she was strangled. The clues to Kate's killer implicate other animal keepers at Gunn Zoo, including Outback Bill, marsupial keeper and Kate's Aussie ex-boyfriend; and Robin Chase, the big cat keeper who's got it in for Teddy. Also displaying suspicious behavior are several "liveaboarders" at the harbor; Speaks-To-Souls, a shady "animal psychic;" and even Caro, Teddy's much-married, ex-beauty queen mother.But murderers aren't all Teddy has to worry about. Her embezzling father is still on the run from the Feds, and the motor on her houseboat is failing. To pay for the repairs, Teddy agrees to appear on a weekly live television broadcast featuring misbehaving animals that range from a cuddly koala to a panicky wallaby - and all hell breaks loose in the TV studio. All the while, the killer is narrowing in on Teddy....
Kolmogorov-Zakharov Spectra of Turbulence: Wave Turbulence (Graduate Texts in Physics)
by Vladimir Zakharov Victor Lvov Gregory FalkovichStarting at the level of graduate students, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to a rapidly developing field of turbulence. It also presents the state of the art of the theory of wave turbulence in diverse media for researchers looking for a formalism to solve existing problems or for new research subjects and ideas. The book provides a general theory of developed wave turbulence in different media: plasmas, solids, atmosphere, oceans and space. The presentation starts with a simple and intuitive dimensional analysis and proceeds to a rigorous analytic theory with exact solutions for the stationary spectra of turbulence, stability theory of such spectra, description of nonstationary regimes and matching spectra with pumping and dissipation regions. The reader is provided with the necessary tools to study nonlinear waves and turbulence: Hamiltonian formalism, statistical description, derivation of kinetics equations and methods of finding their steady and non-steady solutions. In this second edition the book is brought up to date both in theoretical and experimental/observational aspects. In particular, the authors have updated and revised the description of nonstationary turbulence, turbulent entropy production, etc, and added discussions of master equation and several cases of strong turbulence and nonlocal cascades. The book now includes excercises, some with solutions.
Kontinuumsmechanik fester Körper: Mit mathematischen Grundlagen und Anwendungen in der Strukturmechanik
by Frank IhlenburgDas Lehr- und Übungsbuch ist im Stil der Standardliteratur zur Technischen/Höheren Mechanik geschrieben und schließt inhaltlich an diese an. Theoretische Zusammenhänge werden mit Beispielen und Grafiken illustriert, dazu Übungsaufgaben mit durchgerechneten Lösungen im Anhang. Zielgruppe sind Studierende des Ingenieurwesens und praktisch tätige Ingenieure werden bei nichtlinearen Finite-Elemente-Simulationen unterstützt. In der Verknüpfung FEM-CAD setzt sich die kontinuumsmechanische Modellierung mit Volumenelementen durch, zudem wird Stahl oft durch nichtmetallische Werkstoffe ersetzt. Die Kapitel zur Materialtheorie tragen diesen Trends Rechnung. Weitere Themen sind Kinematik und Kinetik großer Deformationen sowie mathematische und thermodynamische Grundlagen. Für Elastizität und Plastizität wird jeweils auch das viskose Verhalten diskutiert. Das Materialverhalten bei großen Deformationen wird im Kontext mit der linearen Theorie und einfachen FE-Simulationen erläutert.
Korteweg–de Vries Flows with General Initial Conditions (Mathematical Physics Studies)
by Shinichi KotaniLarge numbers of studies of the KdV equation have appeared since the pioneering paper by Gardner, Greene, Kruskal, and Miura in 1967. Most of those works have employed the inverse spectral method for 1D Schrödinger operators or an advanced Fourier analysis. Although algebraic approaches have been discovered by Hirota–Sato and Marchenko independently, those have not been fully investigated and analyzed. The present book offers a new approach to the study of the KdV equation, which treats decaying initial data and oscillating data in a unified manner. The author’s method is to represent the tau functions introduced by Hirota–Sato and developed by Segal–Wilson later in terms of the Weyl–Titchmarsh functions (WT functions, in short) for the underlying Schrödinger operators. The main result is stated by a class of WT functions satisfying some of the asymptotic behavior along a curve approaching the spectrum of the Schrödinger operators at +∞ in an order of -(n-1/2)for the nth KdV equation. This class contains many oscillating potentials (initial data) as well as decaying ones. Especially bounded smooth ergodic potentials are included, and under certain conditions on the potentials, the associated Schrödinger operators have dense point spectrum. This provides a mathematical foundation for the study of the soliton turbulence problem initiated by Zakharov, which was the author’s motivation for extending the class of initial data in this book. A large class of almost periodic potentials is also included in these ergodic potentials. P. Deift has conjectured that any solutions to the KdV equation starting from nearly periodic initial data are almost periodic in time. Therefore, our result yields a foundation for this conjecture. For the reader’s benefit, the author has included here (1) a basic knowledge of direct and inverse spectral problem for 1D Schrödinger operators, including the notion of the WT functions; (2)Sato’s Grassmann manifold method revised by Segal–Wilson; and (3) basic results of ergodic Schrödinger operators.
Kouchibouguac: Removal, Resistance, and Remembrance at a Canadian National Park
by Ronald RudinIn 1969, the federal and New Brunswick governments created Kouchibouguac National Park on the province's east coast. The park's creation required the relocation of more than 1200 people who lived within its boundaries. Government officials claimed the mass eviction was necessary both to allow visitors to view "nature" without the intrusion of a human presence and to improve the lives of the former inhabitants. But unprecedented resistance by the mostly Acadian residents, many of whom described their expulsion from the park as a "second deportation," led Parks Canada to end its practice of forcible removal. One resister, Jackie Vautour, remains a squatter on his land to this day.In Kouchibouguac, Ronald Rudin draws on extensive archival research, interviews with more than thirty of the displaced families, and a wide range of Acadian cultural creations to tell the story of the park's establishment, the resistance of its residents, and the memory of that experience.
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by Simon WinchesterThe bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa.The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa -- the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic disaster -- was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. Beyond the purely physical horrors of an event that has only very recently been properly understood, the eruption changed the world in more ways than could possibly be imagined. Dust swirled round die planet for years, causing temperatures to plummet and sunsets to turn vivid with lurid and unsettling displays of light. The effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as France. Barometers in Bogotá and Washington, D.C., went haywire. Bodies were washed up in Zanzibar. The sound of the island's destruction was heard in Australia and India and on islands thousands of miles away. Most significant of all -- in view of today's new political climate -- the eruption helped to trigger in Java a wave of murderous anti-Western militancy among fundamentalist Muslims: one of the first outbreaks of Islamic-inspired killings anywhere.Simon Winchester's long experience in the world wandering as well as his knowledge of history and geology give us an entirely new perspective on this fascinating and iconic event as he brings it telling back to life.
Kreislaufwirtschaft in der Textilindustrie: Multi-Stakeholder-Analyse und ordnungspolitische Empfehlungen (BestMasters)
by Thekla WilkeningIn diesem Buch werden im Rahmen einer interviewbasierten Multistakeholder-Analyse die Perspektiven unterschiedlicher Stakeholder der textilen Kreislaufwirtschaft untersucht. Dabei wird analysiert, wie die Wertschöpfung aus dem Rohstoff Alttextil ökonomisch, sozial und ökologisch maximiert werden kann, um einen Beitrag zur Agenda 2030 zu leisten. Die derzeitige Erarbeitung einer nationalen Kreislaufstrategie zur Umsetzung der EU-Textilstrategie in nationales Recht ist ebenso relevant wie die verpflichtende, europaweite Getrenntsammlung von Textilien. In diesem Zusammenhang werden die Herausforderungen und Chancen einer kreislaufbasierten Textilindustrie bewertet und ordnungspolitische Maßnahmen wie eine Recyclingquote sowie ein digitaler Produktpass empfohlen. Kooperationen und Anreize, wie Steuervorteile oder freiwillige Kodizes für kreislauforientiertes Design, bieten zusätzliche Ansätze, um die Textilwirtschaft nachhaltiger zu gestalten. Resale und Recycling werden als zentrale Geschäftsmodelle hervorgehoben, deren Erfolg durch Zusammenarbeit, Digitalisierung und verbesserte Recyclingstrukturen gesichert werden kann. Ein gemeinsames Engagement von Bürger:innen, Unternehmen und der Politik ist der Schlüssel, um die Transformation zu einer nachhaltigen Textilindustrie voranzutreiben und eine umweltfreundlichere Zukunft zu gestalten.
Kriging in Slope Reliability Analysis
by Lei-Lei Liu Jing-Ze Li Lei HuangKriging can be used to determine optimal unbiased predictions for regionalized variables and has been shown to be a powerful tool in slope reliability analysis for reliability-based design. This is the first book to systematically cover the basic theory and applications of the method in slope reliability assessment. The book gives an extensive and detailed presentation of principles and applications, introducing geostatistics and the basic theory of Kriging before addressing the challenges in the application of Kriging in slope reliability analysis. The latest advancements in Kriging application methods are introduced, which enhance computational accuracy and reduce model errors. These include optimization algorithms for spatial parameters in Kriging, adaptive modeling of spatial correlation structures, efficient sampling methods based on Monte Carlo simulation, quantitative analysis of slope failure risks, and reliability analysis methods for unreinforced and reinforced slopes based on conditional random fields. Several case studies are presented to illustrate the practical application and implementation procedures, bridging theory, and practical engineering.Kriging in Slope Reliability Analysis particularly suits consulting engineers, researchers, and postgraduate students.
Kristallographie: Eine Einführung Für Naturwissenschaftler (Springer-Lehrbuch #180)
by Walter Borchardt-Ott Heidrun SowaDieses eingeführte Lehrbuch basiert auf Vorlesungen an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster, an der TU Berlin und an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Der Schwerpunkt des Buches liegt bei der geometrischen Kristallographie. Vom Raumgitter ausgehend werden Symmetrieoperationen, Bravaisgitter, Raum- und Punktgruppen abgehandelt. Auch auf die Beziehungen zwischen Symmetriegruppen und deren Anwendung wird kurz eingegangen. Es folgen Kapitel über Kristallchemie und röntgenographische Untersuchungen. Die einzelnen Kapitel schließen mit zahlreichen Übungsaufgaben, deren Lösungen angegeben sind.
Kristallographie: Eine Einführung für Naturwissenschaftler
by Heidrun Sowa Walter Borchardt-OttDieses eingeführte Lehrbuch basiert auf Vorlesungen an der Westfälischen Wilhelms- Universität Münster, an der TU Berlin und an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Der Schwerpunkt des Buches liegt bei der geometrischen Kristallographie. Vom Raumgitter ausgehend werden Symmetrieoperationen, Bravais-Gitter, Raum- und Punktgruppen abgehandelt. Die Betrachtung der Raumgruppen ist in dieser 8. Auflage um eine kurze Einführung in die Beziehungen zwischen Symmetriegruppen und deren Anwendung erweitert worden. Es folgen Kapitel über Kristallchemie und röntgenographische Untersuchungen. Die einzelnen Kapitel schließen mit zahlreichen Übungsaufgaben, deren Lösungen angegeben sind.
The Kruger Experience: Ecology And Management Of Savanna Heterogeneity
by Brian Walker Anthony R.E. Sinclair Kevin H. Rogers Johan T. du Toit Harry C. BiggsThe Kruger Experience is an invaluable new resource for scientists and managers involved with large, conserved ecosystems as well as for conservation practitioners and others with interests in adaptive management, the societal context of conservation, links between research and management in parks, and parks/academic partnerships.
Krushi Bhugol First Semester FYBA, B.COM, B.SC New NEP Syllabus - SPPU: कृषी भूगोल प्रथम सत्र एफ.वाय.बी.ए., बी.कॉम, बी.एस्सी नवीन एन.इ.पी. अभ्यासक्रम - सावित्रीबाई फुले पुणे यूनिवर्सिटी
by Prof. Ashok Maruti Thorat Prof. Dr. Sanjay Dagu Pagar Prof. Nikhil Uttam Agleसावित्रीबाई फुले पुणे विद्यापीठाच्या (SPPU) नवीन राष्ट्रीय शैक्षणिक धोरण (NEP) 2020 अंतर्गत प्रथम वर्ष बी.ए. (FYBA) अभ्यासक्रमात कृषी भूगोल हा अभ्यासक्रम समाविष्ट करण्यात आला आहे. कृषी भूगोल हा आर्थिक भूगोलाची एक महत्त्वाची उपशाखा असून, शेतीचे प्रादेशिक वितरण, शेती प्रकार, उत्पादन पद्धती, तसेच तांत्रिक, सामाजिक व पर्यावरणीय घटकांचा सखोल अभ्यास करतो. या विषयात शेती विकासाचे टप्पे, शेतीत होणारे बदल, तसेच शेती पद्धतींचे स्वरूप स्पष्ट केले जाते. शेतीच्या विविध प्रकारांचे विश्लेषण करताना त्यावर प्रभाव टाकणाऱ्या भौतिक घटकांबरोबरच आर्थिक, सामाजिक, सांस्कृतिक आणि तांत्रिक घटकांचा सखोल अभ्यास केला जातो. शेतीविकासासाठी हरित, निळी आणि धवल क्रांतींची माहिती दिली जाते, तसेच जलसिंचनाच्या पद्धती, तंत्रज्ञानाचा वापर, आणि शाश्वत शेतीच्या दिशेने होणारे बदल समजावले जातात. कृषी भूगोलाचा अभ्यास शेतकऱ्यांना उत्पादन वाढवण्यासाठी, संशोधकांना नवनवीन पद्धती विकसित करण्यासाठी, तसेच उद्योगांना कृषीपूरक व्यवसायांचे नियोजन करण्यासाठी उपयोगी पडतो. याशिवाय, हवामान बदल, मृदा संरक्षण, जल व्यवस्थापन, आणि शेतीपूरक व्यवसायांचा अभ्यासही या विषयाचा अविभाज्य भाग आहे. शेती व कृषीमालाच्या बाजारपेठांचे नियोजन, तसेच सामाजिक-आर्थिक योजनांचा आराखडा तयार करताना कृषी भूगोल महत्त्वाची भूमिका बजावतो.
Krushi Vyavsay Second Semester FYBA New NEP Syllabus - SPPU: कृषी व्यवसाय दुसरे सत्र एफ.वाय.बी.ए. नवीन एन.इ.पी. अभ्यासक्रम - सावित्रीबाई फुले पुणे यूनिवर्सिटी
by Dr Sunil Ugale Dr Amol Gaikwad Dr Deepak Kareकृषी व्यवसाय हा भारतातील आर्थिक आणि सामाजिकदृष्ट्या अत्यंत महत्त्वाचा घटक आहे. यामध्ये कृषी विपणन, शेतकरी उत्पादक संघटना (FPOs), प्रक्रिया उद्योग, आणि शाश्वत शेतीविषयक धोरणांचा समावेश होतो. भारतातील कृषी विपणनाचे स्वरूप पारंपरिक आणि आधुनिक प्रणालींच्या मिश्रणाने ओळखले जाते. पारंपरिक मंडई, बाजार समित्या, आणि एपीएमसी यंत्रणेसोबतच ई-नामसारख्या डिजिटल प्लॅटफॉर्ममुळे कृषी विपणनात क्रांतिकारक बदल झाले आहेत. कृषी व्यवसायामध्ये प्रक्रिया उद्योगांचा विकास, उत्पादकांना थेट ग्राहकांपर्यंत पोहोचविणारे डिजिटल प्लॅटफॉर्म, आणि शेतकऱ्यांसाठी वित्तीय सहाय्य महत्त्वपूर्ण ठरले आहे. यामुळे शेतकऱ्यांचे उत्पन्न वाढण्यासोबतच भारतीय कृषी उत्पादनांना जागतिक स्तरावर ओळख मिळत आहे. कृषी व्यवसायाच्या प्रभावी धोरणांमुळे ग्रामीण भागातील अर्थव्यवस्था सशक्त होऊन शेतकऱ्यांचे जीवनमान उंचावले आहे. शाश्वत शेती, पर्यावरणीय तंत्रज्ञान, आणि जागतिक स्पर्धेत टिकण्यासाठी नवोन्मेषी उपाययोजना या क्षेत्राच्या यशस्वी प्रगतीसाठी अत्यावश्यक ठरतात.
Kulturlandschaft - Äcker, Wiesen, Wälder und ihre Produkte: Ein Lesebuch für Städter
by Ulrich HampickeDieses Buch gibt einen detaillierten Überblick über die Kulturlandschaften Mitteleuropas einschließlich des Waldes und wie diese durch den Menschen und seine Wirtschaft entstanden und geprägt wurden. Der Leser erfährt, wie die moderne Produktion in der Landwirtschaft aussieht und welche Probleme durch diese Produktion und unseren Konsum entstehen. In diesem Zusammenhang wird auf die Agrarpolitik und den Außenhandel eingegangen. Neben ökonomisch-politischen Themen erklärt der Autor auch die biologischen Zusammenhänge und Auswirkungen unserer Landwirtschaft. So geht er neben anderen Themen besonders auf dem Verlust der Biodiversität und die Desorganisation der Stoffkreisläufe in der Agrarlandschaft ein. Im zweiten Teil des Buches werden Lösungen zu den Problemen und Perspektiven aufgezeigt. Dabei werden zuerst die Ansätze auf politischer Ebene beleuchtet und danach auf Initiativen auf anderen Ebenen eingegangen. Dieses Buch wendet sich an alle, die sich über die moderne Landwirtschaft informieren und die Hintergründe aktueller Debatten verstehen möchten.
KULUNDA: South Siberian Agro-steppe as Pioneering Region for Sustainable Land Use (Innovations in Landscape Research)
by Manfred Frühauf Georg Guggenberger Tobias Meinel Insa Theesfeld Sebastian LentzThis book focuses on a representative example and one of the world’s largest steppe conversions, and provides a detailed overview of the results of the BMBF-funded research project KULUNDA. As part of the Siberian virgin land policy, the Kulunda steppe was transformed into agricultural land from 1954 to 1965. In the course of the project, a multidisciplinary research team conducted a natural, social-economic and agro-scientific cause-and-effect analysis of (agro-)ecosystem destabilisation, as well as various field trials covering tillage and crop rotation options in their socio-economic context. The ecologically and economically sound findings offer strategies for combining climate smart land utilization, ecosystem restoration and sustainable regional development, and can readily be applied to other virgin land conversion efforts. In addition, the findings on the Eurasian steppes will expand the current conversion literature, which mainly consists of the ‘Dust Bowl’ literature of the North American plains. Given its scope, the book will appeal to scientists, professionals, and students in the environmental, geo- and climate sciences.
Kuroshio Current: Physical, Biogeochemical, and Ecosystem Dynamics (Geophysical Monograph Series #242)
by Takeyoshi Nagai Hiroaki Saito Koji Suzuki Motomitsu TakahashiAn interdisciplinary study of the Kuroshio nutrient stream The surface water of the Kuroshio, a western boundary current in the North Pacific Ocean, is nutrient-depleted and has relatively low primary productivity, yet abundant fish populations are supported in the region. This is called the “Kuroshio Paradox”. Kuroshio Current: Physical, Biogeochemical and Ecosystem Dynamics presents research from a multidisciplinary team that conducted observational and modeling studies to investigate this contradiction. This timely and important contribution to the ocean sciences literature provides a comprehensive analysis of the Kuroshio. Volume highlights include: New insights into the role of the Kuroshio as a nutrient stream The first interdisciplinary examination of the Kuroshio Paradox Reflections on the influence of the Kuroshio on Japanese culture Research results on both the lower and higher trophic levels in the Kuroshio ecosystem Comparisons of nutrient dynamics in the Kuroshio and Gulf Stream Predictions of ecosystem responses to future climate variability
Kuwait Soil Taxonomy
by Shabbir A. Shahid Samira A. OmarThis book provides guidelines to key soil taxa in the deserts of Kuwait and guidance to associated procedures for laboratory analyses of soils, leading to land use planning on informed decisions. Soils are essential to provide food, feed, and fiber in addition to multiple ecosystem services that sustain life on earth. To achieve the above services sustainably, it is essential to use soils rationally based on their potential for specific uses. This requires establishing national soil classification systems to assess soils locally and to provide guidance to other countries where similar soils may be occurring. Once soil classification is established, it becomes easier to adopt technologies established on similar soils and environmental conditions without conducting long-term and expensive experimental trial. The taxa are established based on soil’s morphological, physical, chemical, and mineralogical properties and climatic factors. It offers opportunities to maintain future soil surveys and their correlation to the soils of Kuwait. The book is useful in other arid region countries where similar soil and environmental conditions are existing, such as Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. The book also has international relevance, as it was prepared by extracting definitions from USDA-NRCS keys to soil taxonomy, and sections related to soils of Kuwait are added in the book. The book is a unique and excellent addition to the international soil literature.
The Kyoto Protocol in the EU
by Leonardo MassaiThe participation of the European Community and the Member States in the international climate change regimes is a complex issue. In the case of the Kyoto Protocol, this is rendered more complicated by the fact that, for the purposes of Article 4 of the Kyoto Protocol, the membership of the European Community and Member States is frozen at a particular point in time. The result of this is that, under international law, the European Community and a part of the Member States (EU15) have agreed to jointly fulfil some of those obligations, whereas under community law all Member States share a certain degree of responsibility to meet the obligations created by the Kyoto Protocol. This book analyses in great detail the Kyoto Protocol and the obligations established, such as monitoring and reporting obligations, eligibility criteria and reduction commitments.
La Faim et la Sante: Collection: La Faim dans le Monde (2007)
by World Food ProgrammeFirst published in 2008, La Faim et la Sant is a valuable contribution to the field of Environment and Sustainability.