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Coral Reefs of Australia
Australia's coral reefs stretch far and wide, covering 50 000 square kilometres from the Indian Ocean in the West to the Pacific Ocean in the East. They have been viewed as a …
Jevons Paradox and the Myth of Resource Efficiency Improvements
,The Jevons Paradox,, which was first expressed in 1865 by William Stanley Jevons in relation to use of coal, states that an increase in efficiency in using a resource leads to …
Sharing Power
The collaborative orco-management of natural resources - whether between states and local communities or amongst and within communities themselves - is a process of collective …
Hydrological Drought Forecasting in Africa at Different Spatial and Temporal Scales
Africa has been severely affected by droughts in the past, contributing to food insecure conditions in several African countries. In view of the (even more) severe drought …
Analysis of Nanoplastics and Microplastics in Food
The world's ever increasing use of plastics has created large areas of floating plastic waste in the oceans-so-called plastic soup. This floating plastic debris is gradually …
Carbon Capture, Storage and Utilization
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is among the advanced energy technologies suggested to make the conventional fossil fuel sources environmentally sustainable. It is of particular …
Subnational Hydropolitics
The prospect of international conflict over water has long been the subject of academic and popular concern, but subnational political conflict is considerably more common, and …
Conventional Water Resources and Agriculture in Egypt
This unique volume focuses on Egypt’s conventional water resources and the main water consumer: Egypt’s agriculture. It provides an up-to-date overview and the latest research …
Managing Intermediate Size Cities
I am both pleased and honored to introduce this book to readers, and I want to take a few moments to explain why. Michael Romanos and Christopher Auffrey have produced a volume …
Environmental and Natural Resources Economics
Extensively revised and updated, this popular text presents an accessible yet rigorous treatment of environmental and natural resources economics, including climate change and the …
Cumberland Island National Seashore
Located off the coast of Georgia, Cumberland Island was once the retreat of some of America's wealthiest families, most notably the family of Thomas Carnegle, brother of steel …
Water Quality Monitoring Network Design
In recent years, the adequacy of collected water quality data and the performance of existing monitoring networks have been seriously evaluated for two basic reasons. First, an …