Various issues related to the diverse challenges faced for sustainable change have been dealt in this elucidative book. Across the globe, climate, ecology and environment are facing rapid changes brought about by human interference. This has been further accelerated by growing population, industrialization and a globally expanding economy. Also, increasing consumer demands have only served to aggravate the challenges. Sustainability is a term used to describe policy principals that attempt to even the odds of economic development and environmental issues that arise from it. This book is a...

Environmental transformation is increasingly considered a crucial subject for scientists across various disciplines, as well as policy makers around the globe. Mounting evidence reveals that environments around the globe are undergoing some drastic changes. Increasing population, urbanization and development of the global economy are putting more pressure on ecosystems. To comprehend the roots and consequences of environmental modification, the writers of this book employ spatial and non-spatial data, different theoretical visions, and cutting edge research tools such as GIS, remote sensing...

Mounting evidence reveals that environments around the globe are undergoing some drastic changes. Environmental transformation is increasingly considered a crucial subject for scientists across various disciplines, as well as policy makers around the globe. Increasing population, urbanization and development of the global economy are putting more pressure on ecosystems. To comprehend the roots and consequences of environmental modification, the writers of this book employ spatial and non-spatial data, different theoretical visions, and cutting edge research tools such as GIS, remote sensing...

Important information regarding the structures of organisms has emerged recently due to a change in the environment. Alterations in ecological and social systems because of environmental changes will hopefully result in a bend towards sustainability; with legislative and government entities reacting to varied policy and management issues concerning the building, management and restoration of social-ecological systems on a regional and global scale. Unraveling is required at the regional level, where physical features of the landscape, biological systems and human institutions connect. This...

This book demonstrates the range of information and viewpoints that critically acknowledges the gaps and weaknesses in local, regional and hemispheric ecologies, as well as helps in understanding the limitations and barriers to accomplishing critical nature conservation projects. The book, through original research, enunciates the linkages between the geographical foci of conservation projects and the biological substances that we theorize as "nature." The reader will come across perspectives of diminishing spatial scales, from smaller to larger landscapes or larger proportions of the Earth,...

There has been an enormous rise in the researches focusing upon the various challenges and concerns emerging in relation to earth's environment in the last few decades. Some of the major issues are rapid deterioration of the ecosystems and natural resources, pollution, effect of human interference, etc. The important topics covered in this extensive book deal with the key factors in sustaining environment such as management of natural resources, climate variability, agriculture and soil management, efficient use of energy, etc. This book will serve as a reference to a broad spectrum of...