Buku ini menyoroti pentingnya pengelolaan lingkungan yang efektif dalam industri konstruksi dan memberikan panduan praktis tentang bagaimana menerapkan pendekatan kuantitatif dalam pengelolaan lingkungan. Dalam buku ini, Zhen Chen menguraikan berbagai metode kuantitatif yang dapat digunakan untuk mengukur dampak lingkungan dari proyek konstruksi. Ia juga membahas tentang pentingnya pengelolaan …
This open access book is based on work from the COST Action “RESTORE - REthinking Sustainability TOwards a Regenerative Economy'', and highlights how sustainability in buildings, facilities and urban governance is crucial for a future that is socially just, ecologically restorative, and economically viable, for Europe and the whole planet. In light of the search for fair solutions to the clim…
This Open Access publication focuses on China’s goal of achieving peak carbon emissions in 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. The book is the first to systematically build a framework combining a top-down and bottom-up analysis of this acute topic. What does carbon neutrality mean for economics in China? Might it imply stagflation or is it an opportunity to maximize the potential of green…
In this handbook, the authors present current research in the study of the biological activity, classification and health, and environmental implications of herbicides. Topics discussed include productive degradation of dichlorprop by transconjugant strains; weeds and their mechanisms of resistance to herbicides; application of 31P-NMR spectroscopy to glyphosate studies in plants; lethal and su…
Precision farming, site infrastructure assessment, hydrologic monitoring, and environmental investigations — these are just a few current and potential uses of near-surface geophysical methods in agriculture. Responding to the growing demand for this technology, the Handbook of Agricultural Geophysics supplies a clear, concise overview of near-surface geophysical methods that can be used in a…
This book comprehensively discusses the major factors that contribute to the development of cancer. It emphasizes the role of interactions between genetic, lifestyle, and environmental factors in triggering and modulating cancer risk in individuals. The discussion begins with an in-depth exploration of genetic mutations, hereditary predispositions, and molecular changes that underlie tumor deve…
This open access book includes a selection of contributions from the Life Cycle Management 2019 Conference (LCM) held in Poznań, Poland, and presents different examples of scientific and practical contributions, showing an incorporation of life cycle approach into the decision processes on strategic and operational level. Special attention is drawn to applications of LCM to target, organize, a…
Laws of the Sea mengumpulkan sarjana dari hukum, geografi, antropologi, dan humaniora lingkungan untuk mempertimbangkan kemungkinan pendekatan laut kritis dalam studi hukum. Berbeda dengan Konvensi PBB tentang Hukum Laut yang monumental, yang membayangkan satu kerangka konstitusional yang komprehensif untuk mengatur lautan, Hukum Laut mendekati hukum kelautan dengan cara yang jamak dan dinamis.…
Gathering an interdisciplinary range of cutting-edge scholars, this book addresses legal constitutions of value. Global value production and transnational value practices that rely on exploitation and extraction have left us with toxic commons and a damaged planet. Against this situation, the book examines law’s fundamental role in institutions of value production and valuation. Utilising pat…