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Free Download Specialty Crops for Climate Change Adaptation: Strategies for Enhanced Food Security by Using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence by Chandrasekar Vuppalapati
English | EPUB (True) | 2023 | 836 Pages | ISBN : 3031383982 | 181 MB
Specialty crops are defined as fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, horticulture, and nursery crops including floriculture. The value of specialty crop production in the United States accounted for 18.44 % of the $433.569 billion in agriculture cash receipts collected in 2021. In 2020, that ratio was 21.47% of the $363.464 billion. Specialty crops are gaining increasing attention across nation as demonstrated in the 2018 farm bill (Agricultural Act of the 2018 Farm Bill (P.L. 115-334)) with the increased number of provisions addressing specialty crop issues, reflecting their growing role in the global economy.

Free Download Daniel Recasens, "Phonetic Causes of Sound Change: The Palatalization and Assibilation of Obstruents "
English | ISBN: 0198845014 | 2020 | 240 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book provides an integrated account of the phonetic causes of the diachronic processes of palatalization and assibilation of velar and labial stops and labiodental fricatives, as well as the palatalization and affrication of dentoalveolar stops. While previous studies have been concerned with the typology of sound inventories and of the processes of palatalization and assibilation, this volume not only deals with the typological patterns but also outlines the articulatory and acoustic causes of these sound changes.

Free Download Andre Zampaulo, "Palatal Sound Change in the Romance Languages: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives "
English | ISBN: 0198807384 | 2019 | 256 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book presents a thorough investigation of the main diachronic changes that have taken place in the palatal sounds of the Romance languages, as well as their current patterns of synchronic variation. Andre Zampaulo draws on extensive data not only from diachronic sources, but also from a range of current phonetic, phonological, and dialectal studies to motivate a formal, constraint-based account of palatal sound change. The analysis takes into account the role of phonetic information in the shaping of phonological patterns, approaching sound change from its inception during the speaker-listener interaction and formalizing it as the difference in constraint ranking between the grammar of the speaker and that of the listener-turned-speaker. The volume offers insights into how and why similar types of change may take place in different varieties and/or the same language at different times, and will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in historical linguistics, phonetics and phonology, Romance linguistics, and dialectology more broadly.

Free Download Lorraine Code, "Manufactured Uncertainty: Implications for Climate Change Skepticism"
English | ISBN: 1438480539 | 2020 | 242 pages | PDF | 116 MB
In this provocative work, Lorraine Code returns to the idea of "epistemic responsibility," as developed in her influential 1987 book of the same name, to confront the telling new challenges we now face to know the world with some sense of responsibility to other "knowers" and to the sustaining, nonhuman world. Manufactured Uncertainty focuses centrally on the environmental and cultural crises arising from postindustrial, man-made climate change, which have spawned new forms of passionately partisan social media that directly challenge all efforts to know with a sense of collective responsibility. How can we agree to act together, Code asks, even in the face of inevitable uncertainty, given the truly life-threatening stakes of today’s social and political challenges? How can we engage responsibly with those who take every argument for an environmentally grounded epistemology as an unacceptable challenge to their assumed freedoms, comforts, and "rights?" Through searching critical dialogue with leading epistemologists, cultural theorists, and feminist scholars, this book poses a timely challenge to all thoughtful knowers who seek to articulate an expanded and deepened sense of epistemic responsibility-to a human society and a natural world embraced, together, in the most inclusive spirit.

Free Download Judicial Responses to Climate Change in the Global South: A Jurisdictional and Thematic Review by Shuma Talukdar, Valéria Emília de Aquino
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 203 Pages | ISBN : 303146141X | 8.9 MB
This book explores how judiciaries in different parts of the world are responding to climate change and how climate change intersects with the law. It offers feminist approaches to the judicial responses to climate change in the Global South, providing both jurisdictional and thematic reviews. Climate change is one of the most pressing global issues facing humankind, and is currently reshaping geopolitics, governance, law, and international relations around the world.

Free Download India II: Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation in Developing Countries by Md. Nazrul Islam
English | EPUB | 2022 | 448 Pages | ISBN : 3030943941 | 119.8 MB
This book presents a variety of climate change impact and mitigation strategies for different environments in India. These include fractional snow cover change in the Himalayan region, and the impact of frequent cyclonic storms on land use and land cover changes along coastal areas. The book explores watershed, surface water, and hydrologic conditions for urban storm water drainage, as well as trend analysis of precipitation, and a statistical approach to detect rainfall trends.

Free Download Impact of Climate Change, Land Use and Land Cover, and Socio-economic Dynamics on Landslides by Raju Sarkar
English | EPUB | 2022 | 493 Pages | ISBN : 9811673136 | 185.2 MB
This book discusses the impact of climate change, land use and land cover, and socio-economic dynamics on landslides in Asian countries. Scholars recently have brought about a shift in their focus regarding triggering factors for landslides, from rainfall or earthquake to claiming rapid urbanization, extreme population pressure, improper land use planning, illegal hill cutting for settlements and indiscriminate deforestation.

Free Download Impact of Climate Change on Health in: Africa A Focus on Liver and Gastrointestinal Tract by Amal Saad-Hussein, Reda Elwakil, Kenza Khomsi
English | PDF EPUB( True) | 2023 | 261 Pages | ISBN : 3031394658 | 19.4 MB
This book provides detailed information on the impact of climate change on gastrointestinal and liver health and disease patterns on the African continent. It also discusses the adaptation measures required to mitigate these impacts and highlights the complex interplay between climate change and various forms of gut diseases, ranging from the spread of infectious diseases to emerging parasites. This volume is intended for both public health researchers, climate epidemiologists, gastroenterologists, hapatologists, and tropical medicine physicians seeking to develop a comprehensive understanding of the links between climate change and disease patterns in Africa. The ideas and findings covered in this book contribute to UN Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being and SDG 13: Climate Action.

Free Download Ingerid S. Straume, "How Does a Society Change?: Reflexivity in Politics and Education "
English | ISBN: 178661152X | 2023 | 158 pages | EPUB, PDF | 789 KB + 2 MB
One of the most challenging questions of today concerns how human activities threaten the conditions for our very own existence. With one crisis leading into the next, the need for socio-political change is necessary and desirable, yet so hard to imagine in practice. At the heart of the matter is a deeper crisis of the socio-political imagination.

Free Download Alfredo Saad-Filho, "Growth and Change in Neoliberal Capitalism Essays on the Political Economy of Late Development "
English | ISBN: 9004349812 | 2020 | 500 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Growth and Change in Neoliberal Capitalism brings together essays written by Alfredo Saad-Filho. They take stock of long-term economic development and the progressive alternatives to neoliberalism. They also examine the political economy of Brazil, to explain the catastrophes unfolding there.