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Free Download Satellite-based Applications on Climate Change By Alfred M. Powell Jr., John J. Qu (auth.), John Qu, Alfred Powell, M.V.K. Sivakumar (eds.)
2013 | 371 Pages | ISBN: 9400758715 | PDF | 12 MB
Climate and other environmental changes are drawing unprecedented concern and attention from national governments, international organizations and local communities. Global warming has left noticeable impacts on the environment and the ecosystems it supports (including humans), and has important implications for sustainable economic and social development in the future. Satellite observations of climate and environmental change have become an increasingly important tool in recent years in helping to shape the response of international communities to this critical global challenge. The book presents the latest advances in satellite-based remote sensing of the Earth’s environment – ranging from applications in climate and atmospheric science to hydrology, oceanography, hydrology, geomorphology, ecology and fire studies. Introductory chapters also cover key technical aspects such as instrumentation, calibration, data analysis, and GIS tools for decision-making.

Free Download Resilient Cities 2: Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change – Proceedings of the Global Forum 2011 By Konrad Otto-Zimmermann, Alice Balbo (auth.), Konrad Otto-Zimmermann (eds.)
2012 | 438 Pages | ISBN: 9400742223 | PDF | 9 MB
Assembling papers originally presented at the Resilient Cities 2011 Congress in Bonn, Germany (June 2011), the second global forum on cities and adaptation to climate change, this volume is the second in a series resulting from this annual event. These cutting-edge papers represent the latest research on the topic and reflect the intensification of the debate on the meaning of and interaction between climate adaptation, risk reduction and broader resilience. Thus, contributors offer more material related to resilience, such as water, energy and food security; green infrastructure; the role of renewables and ecosystem services; vulnerable communities and urban poor; and responsive financing for adaptation and multi-level governance. Overall, the book brings a number of different perspectives to bear on the most pressing issues and controversies surrounding climate change adaptation in cities. These papers will prove invaluable to anyone interested in deepening their understanding of urban resilience and contributing to tackling climate change at the local level.

Free Download Regional Assessment of Climate Change in the Mediterranean: Volume 3: Case Studies By Maureen D. Agnew, Clare M. Goodess, Debbie Hemming, Christos Giannakopoulos (auth.), Antonio Navarra, Laurence Tubiana (eds.)
2013 | 225 Pages | ISBN: 9400757689 | PDF | 5 MB
This is the third volume of a three-volume final report, which thoroughly describes, synthesizes and analyzes the results of the four-year Integrated Research Project CIRCE – Climate Change and Impact Research: Mediterranean Environment, funded by the EU 6th Framework Programme. Conducted under the auspices of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Rome, Italy, the study was designed to predict and to quantify the physical impacts of climate change in the Mediterranean, and to assess the most influential consequences for the population of the region.

Free Download Regional Assessment of Climate Change in the Mediterranean: Volume 2: Agriculture, Forests and Ecosystem Services and People By Monia Santini, Riccardo Valentini (auth.), Antonio Navarra, Laurence Tubiana (eds.)
2013 | 404 Pages | ISBN: 9400757719 | PDF | 7 MB
Volume 2 of a three-volume final report thoroughly describes, synthesizes and analyzes the results of the four-year Integrated Research Project CIRCE – Climate Change and Impact Research: Mediterranean Environment, funded by the EU 6th Framework Programme. Conducted under the auspices of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Rome, Italy, CIRCE was designed to predict and to quantify the physical impacts of climate change in the Mediterranean, and to assess the most influential consequences for the region’s population. This volume incorporates Parts 3 and 4 of the report, reviewing current knowledge of observed climate variability and trends in the Mediterranean, and including descriptions of available temperature and precipitation station and gridded data sets.

Free Download Regional Assessment of Climate Change in the Mediterranean: Volume 1: Air, Sea and Precipitation and Water By Antonio Navarra (auth.), Antonio Navarra, Laurence Tubiana (eds.)
2013 | 338 Pages | ISBN: 9400757808 | PDF | 12 MB
Volume 1 of a three-volume final report describes, synthesizes and analyzes the results of the four-year Integrated Research Project CIRCE – Climate Change and Impact Research: Mediterranean Environment, funded by the EU 6th Framework Programme. Conducted under the auspices of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Rome, Italy, CIRCE was designed to predict and to quantify the physical impacts of climate change in the Mediterranean, and to assess the most influential consequences for the region’s population. This volume incorporates the first two parts of the report, reviewing current knowledge of observed climate variability and trends in the Mediterranean, and including descriptions of available temperature and precipitation station and gridded data sets.

Free Download Practice, Learning and Change: Practice-Theory Perspectives on Professional Learning By Paul Hager, Alison Lee, Ann Reich (auth.), Paul Hager, Alison Lee, Ann Reich (eds.)
2012 | 292 Pages | ISBN: 940074773X | PDF | 2 MB
The three concepts central to this volume-practice, learning and change-have received very different treatments in the educational literature, an oversight directly confronted here. While learning and change have been extensively theorised, their various contexts articulated and analysed, practice is notably underrepresented. Where much of the literature on learning and change takes the notion of ‘practice’ as an unexamined given, its co-location as a term with various classifiers, as in ‘legal practice’ and ‘teaching practice’, render it curiously devoid of semantic force.In this book, ‘practice’ is the super-ordinate organising idea. Drawing on what has been termed the ‘practice turn in contemporary theory’, the work develops a conceptual framework for researching learning in, and on, practice. It challenges received notions of practice, questioning the assumptions, elisions, conflations and silences on the subject. In so doing, it offers fresh insights into learning and change, and how they relate to practice. In tandem with this conceptual work, the book details site-ontological studies of practice and learning in diverse professional and workplace contexts, examining the work of occupations as various as doctors, chefs and orchestral musicians. It demonstrates the value of theorising practice, learning and change, as well as exploring the connections between them amid our evolving social and institutional structures.

Free Download Measuring Climate Change to Inform Energy Transitions: Carbon Footprint Calculations by Sunny E. Iyuke
English | March 26, 2024 | ISBN: 139420731X | 368 pages | MOBI | 34 Mb
Measuring Climate Change to Inform Energy Transitions

Free Download Labour Markets and Demographic Change By Golo Henseke, Pascal Hetze, Thusnelda Tivig (auth.), Michael Kuhn, Carsten Ochsen (eds.)
2009 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 353116628X | PDF | 4 MB
This collection of research papers explores some of the salient issues relating to the impact of demographic change on the workings and outcomes of labour markets. A first chapter studies the direct impact of ageing on employment and unemployment. However, the age structure of the workforce also shapes productivity and the scope for innovation, issues which are taken up in turn. Furthermore, it is often argued that a decline in the size of the workforce may be offset by an increase in the workers’ skills and knowledge. The impact of demographic developments such as ageing and migration on the accumulation and transfer of human capital is, therefore, studied by a further set of contributions. The volume is rounded off with analyses relating to the supply of labour by women and by older workers. The authors ask, for instance, whether (female) labour migration as well as changes in retirement patterns and policies may counterbalance the expected workforce shrinking.

Free Download How AI Will Change Your Life: A Futurist’s Guide to a Super-Smart World by Patrick Dixon
English | November 19th, 2024 | ISBN: 1805222570 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 0.46 MB
Artificial Intelligence will create gigantic benefits for humankind but will become more powerful than many governments, with purposes and plans of its own, and the ability to alter the very basis of life on earth. Many believe that AI poses a threat to human dominance.

Free Download Jason E. Lane, "Higher Education Reconsidered: Executing Change to Drive Collective Impact "
English | ISBN: 1438459521 | 2015 | 240 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Focuses on the opportunities and challenges of using the science of change to improve the academic enterprise.