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Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data With Ade4


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English | EPUB | 2018 | 334 Pages | ISBN : 1493988484 | 95.5 MB
This book introduces the ade4 package for R which provides multivariate methods for the analysis of ecological data. It is implemented around the mathematical concept of the duality diagram, and provides a unified framework for multivariate analysis. The authors offer a detailed presentation of the theoretical framework of the duality diagram and also of its application to real-world ecological problems.

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Dryland Social-Ecological Systems in Changing Environments


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English | EPUB (True) | 2024 | 423 Pages | ISBN : 9819993741 | 121.7 MB
This book prepared by a joint working group committed to critical research on dryland social-ecological systems (SESs) presents a timely synthesis of up-to-date knowledge in various thematic fields relevant to dryland SESs. It aims to organize key salient concepts and establish a conceptual framework relevant to the interdisciplinary and cross-cultural understanding of dryland SESs, which have specific contexts and a geographically representative structure. Through synthesizing research across the world and analyzing scientific evidence for good practices, it has the potential to promote collaboration among global researchers as well as communication with policy makers, managers, and practitioners for dryland ecosystem management to promote sustainability. It calls for synergies between different sectors and countries to achieve Sustainable Development Goals in drylands.

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The Ecological Native Indigenous Peoples’ Movements and Eco-Governmentality in Columbia


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English | 2005 | ISBN: 0415972884, 0415884055 | EPUB | pages: 314 | 0.3 mb
This text analyzes indigenous peoples’ processes of identity construction as ecological natives. It opens space for reconstructing all the different networks, conditions of emergence, and implications (political, cultural, social and economic) of one specific event: the consolidation of the relationship between indigenous peoples and environmentalism. This text is based on ethnographic information and focused on the historical process of the emergence of indigenous peoples’ movements in Latin America, in general, and indigenous peoples of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta do Columbia (SNSM), in particular. It demonstrates the process of the construction of indigenous peoples’ environmental identities as an interplay of local, national and transnational dynamics among indigenous peoples and environmental movements and discourses in relation to global environmental policies.

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The Ecological Modernization Capacity of Japan and Germany


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English | 2019 | pages: 212 | ISBN: 3658274042 | PDF | 4,6 mb
Cognitive-strategic capabilities of a country are decisive for overcoming the strong path dependence in climate-related policies and to achieve ecological and economic modernization. This is the result of a unique comparison approach focusing on four highly intertwined policy areas (Automobiles, Nuclear Energy, Renewables and Rare Earth) in Japan and Germany. Both countries have in principle sufficient economic, technological and institutional capacities for an ecological transformation, but they are lacking an integrated policy strategy to mobilize and organize the existing capacities in favor of structural changes. The focused four policy areas are analyzed in depth and compared by experts from political science.

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Ecological Psychology in Context James Gibson, Roger Barker, and the Legacy of William James’s Radical Empiricism


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2001 | 476 Pages | ISBN: 0805823506 | EPUB | 4 MB
In this book Harry Heft examines the historical and theoretical foundations of James J. Gibson’s ecological psychology in 20th century thought, and in turn, integrates ecological psychology and analyses of sociocultural processes. A thesis of the book is that knowing is rooted in the direct experience of meaningful environmental objects and events present in individual-environment processes and at the level of collective, social settings. Ecological Psychology in Context: *traces the primary lineage of Gibson’s ecological approach to William James’s philosophy of radical empiricism; *illuminates how the work of James’s student and Gibson’s mentor, E.B. Holt, served as a catalyst for the development of Gibson’s framework and as a bridge to James’s work; *reveals how ecological psychology reciprocally can advance Jamesian studies by resolving some of the theoretical difficulties that kept James from fully realizing a realist philosophy; *broadens the scope of Gibson’s framework by proposing a synthesis between it and the ecological program of Roger Barker, who discovered complex systems operating at the level of collective, social processes; *demonstrates ways in which the psychological domain can be extended to properties of the environment rendering its features meaningful, publicly accessible, and distributed across person-environment processes; and *shows how Gibson’s work points the way toward overcoming the gap between experimental psychology and the humanities. Intended for scholars and students in the areas of ecological and environmental psychology, theoretical and historical psychology, cognitive science, developmental psychology, anthropology, and philosophy.

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Ecological Aspects of Polymer Flame Retardancy


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1999 | 162 Pages | ISBN: 9067642983 | PDF | 6 MB
The negative environmental impact of some industrial flame retardants containing halogens, heavy metals, etc. has kindled the investigation into new opportunities of polymer flame retardation with a view to ecological protection. This new title deals with the ecological aspects of polymer flame retardation. The book opens with an introduction, describing the ecological concern of flame retardation applications. This is followed by some general concepts of polymer combustion. Subsequent chapters deal with the most important methods for estimating polymer flammability, the mode of action of modern flame retardants, ecological concerns of the most used halogenated flame retardants. The final chapter contains suggestions for and studies of new, ecologically friendly types of flame retardants, such as low melting glass systems, polymer nanocomposites, polymer blends, organic char formers, and silicon-inorganic systems. Content: Front Matter • Preface • Table of Contents • Introduction • 1. Some Concepts of Polymer Combustion 2. General Methods for Testing of Polymer Materials Flammability 3. Polymer Flame Retardants 4. Dioxins 5. New Types of Ecologically Friendly Flame Retardants • Conclusion • References • Subject Index

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Ecological Forest Management Handbook (2nd Edition)


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English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032555173 | 584 Pages | PDF (True) | 66 MB
The second edition of Ecological Forest Management Handbook continues to provide forestry professionals and students with basic principles of ecological forest management and their applications at regional and site-specific levels. Thoroughly updated and revised, the handbook addresses numerous topics and explains that ecological forest management is a complex process that requires broad ecological knowledge. It discusses how to develop adaptive management scenarios to harvest resources in a sustainable way and provide ecosystem services and social functions. It includes new studies on ecological indicators, the carbon cycle, and ecosystem simulation models for various forest types: boreal, temperate, and tropical forests.

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Urban Biodiversity and Ecological Design for Sustainable Cities


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English | EPUB | 2021 | 373 Pages | ISBN : 4431568549 | 250 MB
This book highlights various designs for urban green spaces and their functions. It provides an interesting meeting point between Asian, European and North America specialists (researchers, planners, landscape architects) studying urban biodiversity; urban biodiversity and green space; relations between people and biodiversity. The most important feature of this book is the unique point of view from each contributor towards "the relationship between nature and people in urban areas", in the context of the ecosystem and biodiversity in urban areas and how to manage them.

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Urban Biodiversity and Ecological Design for Sustainable Cities (2024)


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English | EPUB | 2021 | 373 Pages | ISBN : 4431568549 | 250 MB
This book highlights various designs for urban green spaces and their functions. It provides an interesting meeting point between Asian, European and North America specialists (researchers, planners, landscape architects) studying urban biodiversity; urban biodiversity and green space; relations between people and biodiversity. The most important feature of this book is the unique point of view from each contributor towards "the relationship between nature and people in urban areas", in the context of the ecosystem and biodiversity in urban areas and how to manage them.

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