The Blue Compendium From Knowledge to Action for a Sustainable Ocean Economy /

Table of Contents: “…A Sustainable & Equitable Blue Recovery to the COVID-19 Crisis -- Chapter 20. …”
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Blue Planet Law The Ecology of our Economic and Technological World /

Table of Contents: “…Part I Foundations of Global Ecological Sustainability -- Blue Planet Law and Ecological Sustainability in the 21st Century -- Environmental Law in the EU: A Pathway to the Green Transition -- Our Blue Planet at the crossroads. …”
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Decolonising Blue Spaces in the Anthropocene Freshwater management in Aotearoa New Zealand / by Parsons, Meg, Fisher, Karen, Crease, Roa Petra

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Environmental Justice and Indigenous Environmental Justice -- Chapter 3: 'The past is always in front of us': locating historical Māori waterscapes at the centre of discussions of current and future freshwater management -- Chapter 4: Remaking muddy blue spaces: histories of human-wetlands interactions in the Waipā River and the creation of environmental injustices -- Chapter 5: A history of the settler-colonial freshwater impure-ment: water pollution and the creation of multiple environmental injustices along the Waipā River -- Chapter 6: Legal and ontological pluralism: Recognising rivers as more-than-human entities -- Chapter 7: Transforming river governance: the co-governance arrangements in the Waikato and Waipā Rivers -- Chapter 8 Co-management in theory and practice: co-managing the Waipā River.…”
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A City in Blue and Green The Singapore Story / by Rowe, Peter G., Hee, Limin

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Higher Degree by Research Factors for Indigenous Student Success / by Anderson, Peter, Blue, Levon, Pham, Thu, Saward, Melanie

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Migration and Identity through Creative Writing StOries: Strangers to Ourselves /

Table of Contents: “…How I Became an Alevi Muslim Woman (Esra Ari) -- 4. Kingston Blues (Ozlem Atar) -- 5. On Immigration, Religion and Home (Bibi Baksh) -- Part 3. …”
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Quantitative Sustainability Interdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Development Goals /

Table of Contents: “…-Laboratory structure -- The blue planet and the ocean sustainable economy -- Food security and the health of the planet and its inhabitants -- Climate and environmental changes -- The new data science for sustainability and huiman ecology -- Energy transition and indiustrial product chains -- Sustainability frames and social equity and the right to sustainability -- Protection of the Earth habitats with Space tools.…”
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The Future of the Law of the Sea Bridging Gaps Between National, Individual and Common Interests /

Table of Contents: “…Martin Perez, The environmental legal framework for the development of blue energy in Europe -- Monserrat Abad Castellos, The Black Sea and Blue Energy: challenges, opportunities and the role of the European Union -- Part II - The national and international response to maritime crimes: Giorgia Bevilacqua, Exploring the Ambiguity of Operation Sophia between Military and Search and Rescue Activities -- Jasenko Marin, Miso Mudric and Robert Mikac, Private Maritime Security Contractors and Use of Lethal Force in Maritime Domain -- Magne Frostad, United Nations authorized Embargoes and Maritime Interdiction: a Special Focus on Somalia -- Pirjo Kleemola-Juntunen, The Right of Innocent Passage: The Challenge of the Proliferation Security Initiative and the Implications for the Territorial Waters of the Åland Islands.…”
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Moving Toward Net-Zero Carbon Society Challenges and Opportunities /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Preface -- Moving Toward Net zero Emission Society in the Asia Pacific: With Special Reference to the Recent Law and Policy Development in Japan, Korea and Taiwan -- Assessing the Impact of Carbon Prices and Timber Fluctuation on the Expansion of Afforestation: A Case of Taiwan -- Turning on the Lights with Green Energy- A more Sustainable Future- The Case of Taiwan ICDF Project: Solar PV Mini Grid System for Lightning in Myanmar -- The Importance of Capability Development for Innovation Intermediaries in Sustainable Agricultural: Cases of Rice and Mango Industry Organizations in the Philippines -- The Kelp Industry an its Effectiveness in Blue Carbon: A Case of Hakodate, Japan -- The Climate Impacts of Black Carbon and Methane Emissions in Arctic and Current Frameworks for Prevention.…”
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Struggles for Reproductive Justice in the Era of Anti-Genderism and Religious Fundamentalism

Table of Contents: “…-- 5: Changing and competing discourses on abortion in Taiwan, 1990-2020 -- 6: In green and blue: Feminist struggle for abortion rights in Argentina -- 7: Narratives on the history of abortion in socialist Poland in today's struggles around abortion in Poland -- 8: Everyday bordering and the struggle for reproductive justice in Ireland -- 9: ¡Aborto Ya! …”
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Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land Disciplinary Perspectives on a Multidisciplinary Challenge /

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Introduction -- Nature-based solutions in flood risk management -- Nature-based solutions & issues of scale -- Part II: small scale property solutions -- Small retention programme in the Polish forests -- Privately funded natural water retention measures in the Czech Republic -- Experimenting with re-parcelling by means of land swop -- Part III: Medium sized infrastructure solutions -- Rivers and their floodplains in city of Plzeň (CZ): System of urban wetlands as nature based flood protection measures -- The "Blue Zone Rhine Valley": a regional planning instrument for future-oriented flood management in a dynamic risk environment -- Part VI: Large scale catchment solutions -- Adaptation of climate impacts via relocation of dykes: Governmental challenges in the biosphere reserve "River Landscape ELBE-Brandenburg" -- West European Climate Corridor / Green Rhine Corridor -- Part V: Conclusion. …”
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The Economics of Big Science Essays by Leading Scientists and Policymakers /

Table of Contents: “…A Philosopher's Perspective -- Investing in Fundamental Research: Evaluation of the Benefits that the UK Has Derived from CERN -- Fundamental Science Drives Innovation -- Epilogue: Productive Collisions-Blue-Sky Science and Today's Innovations.…”
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Ocean Governance Knowledge Systems, Policy Foundations and Thematic Analyses /

Table of Contents: “…Towards Just and Sustainable Blue Futures: Small‐Scale Fisher Movements and Food Sovereignty (Ertör et al.) -- Chapter 19. …”
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Post Un-Lock From Territorial Vulnerabilities to Local Resilience /

Table of Contents: “…Evidence from Piedmont Region, Italy -- The role of the minor hydrographic system in increasing the ecological network -- Ecosystem services and territorial resilience: The role of green and blue infrastructure -- Indicators and scenarios for sustainable development at the local level -- Towards neighborhoods as minimum units of resilience?…”
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Wadi Flash Floods Challenges and Advanced Approaches for Disaster Risk Reduction /

Table of Contents: “…The ISFF Project -- Facts and Challenges -- Flood Analysis and Mitigation Strategies in Algeria -- Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Temperature and Precipitation Over India -- Analysis of The Hydrological Behavior of Watersheds in The Context of Climate Change -- Impact of Infiltration and Small-Scale Topographical Features -- An Early Warning System for Arid and Semi-Arid Regions -- Hydrologic Assessment of The Uncertainty of Six Remote Sensing Precipitation Estimates Driven by A Distributed Hydrologic Model in The Blue Nile Basin -- Innovative Monitoring Techniques for Wadi Flash Flood by Using Image-Based Analysis -- A Temporally Varied Rainfall Simulator for Flash flood studies -- The Role of Urban Planning and Landscape Tools Concerning Flash Flood Risk Reduction within Arid and Semi-Arid Regions -- Measuring Vulnerability to Flash Flood Of Urban Dwellers -- Case studies from Oman and Brazil -- A Case Study of The Jeddah City Neighborhood Abruq Ar Rughamah, Saudi Arabia -- International Collaboration Project -- Sediment Transport in Shallow Waters: As A Multiphysics Approach -- Case Of Hodna Basin In Algeria -- Reservoir Sediment Management Practices in Sudan: A Case Study of Khashm El-Girba Dam -- Determining the Precipitation Intensity Threshold of Debris Flood Occurrence -- Assessment of Groundwater Resources in Water Spring Areas Using Geophysical Methods, Northern UAE -- Evaluation of the Effect of the Wadi Bih Dam on Groundwater Recharge, UAE -- Assess the impacts of groundwater over-drafting on water quality and environment degradation at Fares area, Aswan, Egypt.…”
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Chronotropics Caribbean Women Writing Spacetime /

Table of Contents: “…1: Introduction: Chronotropics -- Part I: Defiances/Divergences/Digressions -- 2: Of Slave Ships as Chronotopes: Fabienne Kanor's Humus and Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro's Las Negras -- 3: Wreckognition: Archival Ruins in Dionne Brand's The Blue Clerk -- 4: Past Histories and Present Realities: Reading Desire and Difference in Mayra Santos Febres' Fe en disfraz -- 5: Haunting Genealogies: Indo-Caribbean Feminist Literary Reimaginings of the Monstrous Past -- Part II: Traumas/Restructures/Retracings -- 6: Connecting Diasporas: Reading Erna Brodber's Work through African Fractal Theory -- 7: When the Tout-Monde is not one: Maryse Condé's Problematic 'World-in-Motion' in Les belles ténébreuses (2008) and Le fabuleux et triste destin d'Ivan et Ivana (2017) -- 8: Writing "In Transit": Literary Constructions of Sovereignty in Julia Alvarez's Afterlife -- Part III: Destruction/Desires/Disruptions -- 9: Beyond the Crossroad: Caribbean Environments, Gender and Race in Pauline Melville's The Ventriloquist's Tale and Elizabeth Nunez's Prospero's Daughter -- 10: Creolized Ecology in Mayra Montero's Palm of Darkness -- 11: Canadian Re-mapping of Caribbean Desire in Nalo Hopkinson's Sister Mine and Shani Mootoo's He Drown She in the Sea -- Part IV: Bilocation/Inhabitations/(G)hostings -- 12: Spiritual Crossings: Olokún and Caribbean Futures Past in La mucama de Omicunlé by Rita Indiana Hernández -- 13: A Site of Memory: Revisiting (in) Gisèle Pineau's Mes quatre femmes -- 14: At the Crossroads of History: The Cohabitation of Past and Present in Kettly Mars's L'Ange du patriarche -- 15: Fiction as a Spider's Web? …”
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Human-Nature Interactions Exploring Nature's Values Across Landscapes /

Table of Contents: “…Values of mountain landscapes: Insights about the Blue Mountains National Park, Australia from Twitter -- Chapter 8. …”
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Green Infrastructure and Climate Change Adaptation Function, Implementation and Governance /

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part 1: Concept and synthesis -- Chapter 2: Concept and application of hybrid infrastructure -- Chapter 3: An Economic Analysis of Optimal Hybrid Infrastructure: A Theoretical Approach in a Hydro-Economic Model -- Chapter 4: Flood Management Policy in Shiga Prefecture, Japan: Implementation Approach of a Risk-Based Flood Management System at Catchment Scale -- Chapter 5: Toward social infrastructure: typological idea for evaluating implementation potential of green infrastructure -- Part 2 : Forest ecosystem -- Chapter 6: Riparian Forests and Climate Change: Interactive Zone of Green and Blue Infrastructure -- Chapter 7: Improvement of the flood-reduction function of forests based on their interception evaporation and surface storage capacities -- Chapter 8: Forests for water: A step-by-step guide for payment schemes -- Part 3: River and floodplain ecosystem (including paddy field and other farmlands) -- Chapter 9: Wetland Paddy Fields as Green Infrastructure against Flood -- Chapter 10: Change in Floodwater Retention Function of a Paddy Field due to Cultivation Abandonment in a Depopulating Rural Region in Japan -- Chapter 11: Paddy field as a green inflastructure: their ecosystem services and threatening drivers -- Part 4: Wetland ecosystem (including flood-control pond) -- Chapter 12: Flood-control basins as green infrastructures: flood-risk reduction, biodiversity conservation and sustainable management in Japan -- Chapter 13: Natural Succession of Wetland Vegetation in a Flood-control Pond Constructed on Abandoned Farmland -- Chapter 14: Biodiversity Conservation through Various Citizen Activities in a Flood Control Basin -- Part 5: Urban and city ecosystem -- Chapter 15: Toward holistic Urban Green Infrastructure Implementation -- Chapter 16: Changes in the Use of Green Spaces by Citizens before and during the First COVID-19 Pandemic: A Big data analysis usingmobile-tracking GPS data in Kanazawa, Japan -- Chapter 17: Land Use Planning as a Green Infrastructure in a Rural Japanese Depopulated Town -- Chapter 16: Towards an Equitable Distribution of Urban Green Spaces for People and Landscapes; An opportunity for Portland's Green Grid -- Part 6: Coast and estuary ecosystem -- Chapter 19: "Effectiveness and Sustainability of Coastal Hybrid Infrastructures for Low-Frequency Large-Scale Disasters -- A Case Study of Coastal Disaster Assessment for a Complex Disaster" -- Chapter 20: Challenging a Hybrid between Green and Gray Infrastructure - Coastal Sand-covered Embankments -- Chapter 21: Green Infrastructures in Megacity Jakarta: Current Status and Possibilities of Mangroves for Flood Damage Mitigation -- Chapter 22: Implementation of Japanese Blue Carbon Offset Crediting Projects -- Part 7: Economic evaluation -- Chapter 23: Understanding Preference Differences among Individuals for the Reduction in Flood Risk by Green Infrastructure -- Chapter 24: Assessing Public Preference for Construction of Giant Seawalls Using the Best-Worst Scaling Approach -- Chapter 25: "Coastal communities' preferences of grey, green and hybrid infrastructure against unexpected catastrophes: A case study of Japan" -- Chapter 26: Carbon storage and substitution benefits of harvested wood products -- Part 8: Governance -- Chapter 27: Social System in Collaborative Activities for Conserving Coastal Pine Forest in Karatsu City, Kyusyu, Japan -- Chapter 28: Governance for realizing multifunctional floodplain; flood control, agriculture, and biodiversity in Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area, California, USA -- Chapter 29: Analysis of the description of the multifunctionality of farmland in the administrative plans of local municipalities.…”
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Agricultural Development in Asia and Africa Essays in Honor of Keijiro Otsuka /

Table of Contents: “…-Mobile Revolution and Rural Development Tomoya Matsumoto and Ggombe Kasim Munyegera Transformation of Rice-Growing Villages in the Philippines -- Structural Transformation and Development Experience from Asian Countries -- Mechanization and the Intersectoral Migration of Agricultural Labor -- Blue Revolution in Asia: The Rise of the Shrimp Sector in Vietnam and the Challenges of Disease Control -- IntegratingAgricultural and Industrial Development -- Cluster-based Agricultural Development: A Comparison Between China and Africa -- Solar Power to Transform Food Systems and Rural -- Livelihoods: Evidence from a Solar-Powered Cold Storage Intervention in Nigeria -- Measuring Women's Empowerment and Gender Equality through the Lens of Induced Innovation -- Competition, Antitrust, and Agricultural Development in Asia -- Summary and Conclusions.…”
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Maritime Spatial Planning past, present, future /

Table of Contents: “…Marine spatial planning the EU's Blue Growth Policy: Past, present and future perspectives -- Angela Schultz-Zehden, Barbara Weig, Ivana Lukic -- Chapter 7. …”
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