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Climate change and biodiversity loss are among the most pressing challenges of the Anthropocene, affecting all Earth systems and demanding both global and local responses. Local ecosystems, with their unique characteristics, are often best understood through the lived...
This open access volume presents the select proceedings of ATLAS International Design Conference 2025 (AIDC 2025). It centres around the principles of reducing, reusing, recycling, and recovering available resources, as well as focusing on a circular economy.
This open access book explores how the elements of Blumenbach’s epistemology have been variously assembled in different ways and in different historical-cultural and political-social contexts. It looks at the ways in which this epistemology has been enriched with...
This is an open access book that focuses on issues around rivers which feed more than one country at a time, changing their course and flow. It emphasizes the need for more efficient and transparent risk-informed water governance across South Asia with a special...
This open-access proceedings of Coastal Dynamics 2025 compile 231 manuscripts of the communications presented at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, between 7th and 11th April 2025. The works are divided in 15 chapters (2 volumes), in accordance with the topic of the...
This open access book commemorates the 30th anniversary of the discovery of Solitons/like Coherent Structures (SCS) under experimental conditions, presenting a curated collection of contributions on SCS, the most important physical structures in the origin and...
This is an open access book. Agri-food systems and forests significantly impact global climate change, they contribute to over one-third of greenhouse gas emissions, through among others deforestation and food supply chains. They are also vulnerable to climate change...
This open access volume presents the select peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Resilient Innovations for Subsistence Environment (IC-RISE2025).
This open access book focuses on the geological conditions associated with oil and gas exploration and complex in China’s deep marine strata. The petroleum industry is faced with the challenges of limited knowledge of deep petroleum systems, reduced...
This Open Access book offers a philosophical exploration of eco-anxiety. As knowledge about the rapidly degrading living conditions on Earth becomes more accurate, the impacts of environmental problems become more visible, and Anthropocene scenarios proliferate in...
This open access book provides a comprehensive exploration of mobility society through the lens of traffic safety technologies and social systems. It consolidates the collective wisdom of experts from diverse academic disciplines, including natural, social, and cultural...
This open-access volume consists of papers presented at the conference “Thirty Years of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC): Histories, Achievements, Challenges”, held in Berlin, 5–6 October 2023, as well as of additional contributions. The...
Winner of the 2026 Nautilus Gold Award in World Cultures’ Transformational Growth & Development and the Nautilus Special Honors Award:Transformative Systems Vision.Winner of an International Impact Book Award, April 2026. This groundbreaking open access volume...
This open-access book is a practical and accessible guide for students, early-career researchers, and technical staff who need to collect environmental data but lack formal training in meteorology, physics, or instrumentation. Whether you're setting up a rural weather...
This open access book explores the complementarity of hydropower with new energy sources such as solar and wind in the global energy transition. It analyzes the technological advantages, environmental impacts, and economic potential of combining hydropower and new...
This open access monograph presents the results of a study aimed at finding an answer to a perennial, yet notably topical, question in the philosophy of science, namely, “What is life?'' The authors contend that existing approaches to studying living systems...
This is an open access book. Probabilistic tsunami hazard and risk assessment (abbreviated as PTHA and PTRA, respectively) has evolved quickly over the past 10 to 15 years and now forms the basis of many risk mitigation efforts. Methods are largely based on those used...
This open access book examines the historical development of the concept of the virtual particle, from the first prominent appearance of virtual entities in quantum physics in the Bohr-Kramers-Slater (BKS) theory (1924) to the most common representation of virtual...
This is an open access book. This conference encompasses a broad spectrum of topics in fisheries and aquaculture, including aquaculture practices for sustainable production, fish diseases and health management, biodiversity and conservation of aquatic ecosystems,...
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