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Sustainable Land Management in a European Context A Co-Design Approach /

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Overview of Chapters -- Sustainable land management and the co-creation of knowledge -- Part 1 (State and drivers) -- Land use change in Europe (Overview) -- Energy demand and land use change -- New economic drivers for land use change -- Demographic change and land use change -- Urbanisation and land use change -- Urban-rural interrelations -- Part 2 (Co-Design and Co-Production) -- Transdisciplinarity in land use sciences -- Tipping Points of Innovations for Sustainable Land Management -- Experimental games in sustainable land management -- Part 3 (Co-evolution: New system solutions and Governance) -- System solutions in sustainable land management - from small scale technical solutions to overarching solutions for society -- Regional Material Flow Management as a tool to develop resilient villages -- Supply chains and land management -- The re-invention of urban agriculture - innovation and acceptance of a new trend -- Approaches of Sustainable Landmanagement: International practices and innovative solutions -- Ecosystem services and development of green infrastructure -- Part 4 (Co-dissemination) -- New ways of implementation and transfer for sustainability -- Knowledge management for governance -- Part 5 -- Upcoming challenges in land use science - an international perspective -- Conclusions and research perspectives.…”
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International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy 2022

Table of Contents: “…-- The example of carbon sequestration" -- Part 2: Recent international developments -- UNFCCC CoP26: Key Outcomes for Soil Management -- The mainstreaming agenda of the CBD and its value to protect and to enhance soil ecosystem services -- Part 3: Regional/national reports -- Soil protection law in Japan -- Soil-related laws in Thailand -- Effective governance for sustainable soil management at national level: Selected recommendations based on African and German soil law studies -- Part 4: Cross-cutting issues -- PFASs in soil and groundwater- comprehensive challenges and progress in regulation and management in Germany -- An African Legal, Cultural and Religious Perspective of Sustainable Soil Governance.…”
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Society - Water - Technology A Critical Appraisal of Major Water Engineering Projects /

Table of Contents: “….- Major Water Engineering Projects: Definitions, Framework Conditions, Systemic Effects -- A Global View on Future Major Water Engineering Projects -- Neglected Values of Major Water Engineering Projects: Ecosystem Services, Social Impacts and Economic Valuation -- Water Governance: A Systemic Approach -- Research in two Case Studies: Irrigation and Land Use in the Fergana Valley and Water Management in the Lower Jordan Valley -- Part III: The Fergana Valley - Uzbekistan's Hydro-Agricultural System between Inertia and Change -- Between Multiple Transformations and Systemic Path Dependencies -- From Upscaling to Rescaling - Transforming the Fergana from Tsarist Irrigation to Water Management for an Independent Uzbekistan -- Irrigation Infrastructure in Fergana Today: Ecological Implications -Economic Necessities -- Where Water Meets Agriculture: The Ambivalent Role of the Water Users Associations -- Theory, the Market and the State: Agricultural Reforms in Post Socialist Uzbekistan between Economic Incentives and Institutional Obstacles -- Part IV: The Lower Jordan Valley - The Red Sea-Dead Sea Conveyance Project and its Complex History -- Water Resources, Cooperation and Power Asymmetries in the Water Management of the Lower Jordan Valley - The Situation Today and the Path that has led there -- Reclaiming the Dead Sea: Alternatives for Action -- Jordan's Shadow State and Water Management: Prospects for Water Security will depend on Politics and Regional Cooperation -- Technologies, Incentives and Cost Recovery: Is there an Israeli Role Model? …”
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Loss and Damage from Climate Change Concepts, Methods and Policy Options /

Table of Contents: “…Loss & Damage to ecosystem services -- Chapter 10. Technology Justice and Loss and damage -- Chapter 11. …”
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Riverine Ecosystem Management Science for Governing Towards a Sustainable Future /

Table of Contents: “…Biodiversity and Freshwater Information Systems -- Chapter 21. Ecosystem Services in River Landscapes -- Chapter 22. Public Participation and Environmental Education -- Chapter 23. …”
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Local Governance of Peatland Restoration in Riau, Indonesia A Transdisciplinary Analysis /

Table of Contents: “…Integrated Spatial Ecosystem Services Valuation Approach with Community Participation in a Social Forestry Scheme -- Chapter 13. …”
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One Health in human-environment systems: Linking health and the sustainable use of natural resources by Jakob Zinsstag, Joanna Maéva Meyer, Bassirou Bonfoh, Günther Fink, Artemiy Dimov

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Environmental sustainability and human well-being indicators from the ecosystem perspective in the Middle Paraíba Region, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil Indicadores de sustentabilid... by Carlos Machado de Freitas, Gabriel Eduardo Schütz, Simone Gomes de Oliveira

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Fostering Transformative Change for Sustainability in the Context of Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)

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Adaptive Catchment Management and Reservoir Operation by Ni, Guangheng

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Earth Observation Science and Applications for Risk Reduction and Enhanced Resilience in Hindu Kush Himalaya Region A Decade of Experience from SERVIR /

Table of Contents: “…UNDERSTANDING LAND COVER DYNAMICS AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES -- Chapter 9. Regional land cover monitoring system -- Chapter 10. …”
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Conservation in Chilean Patagonia Assessing the State of Knowledge, Opportunities, and Challenges /

Table of Contents: “…An integrated conservation vision for Chilean Patagonia -- Global change and acceleration of anthropic pressures on Patagonian ecosystems -- Representativeness assessment and identification of priorities for the protection of terrestrial ecosystems in Chilean Patagonia -- Terrestrial protected areas in Chilean Patagonia: characterization, historical evolution, and management -- Conserving the origin of rivers: intact forested watersheds in western Patagonia -- Peatlands in Chilean Patagonia: distribution, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and conservation -- Steppe ecosystems in Chilean Patagonia: distribution, climate, biodiversity, and threats to their sustainable management -- Coastal-marine protection in Chilean Patagonia: historical progress, current situation, and challenges -- Marine mammals and seabirds of Chilean Patagonia: focal species for the conservation of marine ecosystems -- Hard bottom macrobenthos of Chilean Patagonia: emphasis on conservation of subltitoral invertebrate and algal forests -- Fisheries and marine conservation in Chilean Patagonia -- Aquaculture and its impacts on the conservation of Chilean Patagonia -- Ecological connections across the marine-terrestrial interface in Chilean Patagonia -- A conservation assessment of freshwater ecosystems in southwestern Patagonia -- Chilean Patagonian glaciers and environmental change -- Conservation and indigenous people in Chilean Patagonia -- Drivers of change in ecosystems of Chilean Patagonia: current and projected trends -- Analysis of tourism development linked to protected areas in Chilean Patagonia.…”
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Les forêts de la Tshopo : écologie, histoire et composition

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Balanced Urban Development: Options and Strategies for Liveable Cities

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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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Sustainability of Southern African Ecosystems under Global Change Science for Management and Policy Interventions /

Table of Contents: “…Management Options for Macadamia Orchards with Special Focus on Water Management and Ecosystem Services -- Chapter 23. Potential of Improved Technologies to Enhance Land Management Practices of Small-Scale Farmers in Limpopo Province, South Africa -- Part IV. …”
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Chapter Servizi ecosistemici in chiave progettuale e proattiva by Franchina, Alice

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Chapter Servizi ecosistemici in chiave progettuale e proattiva by Franchina, Alice

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Chapter Un'introduzione ai servizi eco-territoriali by Magnaghi, Alberto

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Chapter Un'introduzione ai servizi eco-territoriali by Magnaghi, Alberto

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