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Solutions to climate change challenges in the built environment

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: List of ContributorsChapter 1 Introductory Insights to Climate Change ChallengesChapter 2 Climate Change: Nature and Emerging TrendsChapter 3 Regional ImplicationsChapter 4 Urbanization and Climate ChangeChapter 5 Global Political Initiatives and OvertonesChapter 6 Green Economics Dialogue and the Built EnvironmentChapter 7 Strategic Environmental Impact AssessmentChapter 8 Methods for Valuing Preferences for Environmental and Natural Resources: An OverviewChapter 9 Ecological value of Urban EnvironmentsChapter 10 The Pedological Value of Urban LandscapesChapter 11 Insights and Perceptions of Sustainable Design and ConstructionChapter 12 Progress in Eco-and Resilient-Construction Materials DevelopmentChapter 13 Energy Efficiency: Alternative Routes to MitigationChapter 14 The Benefits of Green Infrastructure in Towns and CitiesChapter 15 Particulate Induced Soiling on Historic Limestone Buildings: Insights and the Effects of Climate ChangeChapter 16 Sustainable TransportationChapter 17 Linkages of Waste Management Strategies and Climate Change IssuesChapter 18 Climate Change and the Geotechnical Stability of 'Engineered'Landfill SitesChapter 19 Water Resources Issues and Solutions for the Built Environment: too little versus too muchChapter 20 Organisational Culture and Climate Change Driven ConstructionChapter 21 Preparing for Extreme weather events: A Risk Assessment ApproachChapter 22 The Socio-environmental Vulnerability Assessment Approach to Mapping Vulnerability to ClimateChapter 23 Mitigation via RenewablesChapter 24 Complexities and Approaches to Managing the Adaptation of Climate Change by Coastal CommunitiesChapter 25 Lessons for the FutureIndex.…”
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Surviving sudden environmental change answers from archaeology / by Abbott, David A.

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Surviving Sudden Environmental Change : Answers From Archaeology /

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Global commons, domestic decisions the comparative politics of climate change /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : global commons, domestic decisions / Kathryn Harrison and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom -- European Union leadership in climate change : mitigation through multilevel reinforcement / Miranda A. …”
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The bad science and bad policy of Obama's global warming agenda by Spencer, Roy W.

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Designing greenhouse gas reduction and regulatory systems

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Global warming looking beyond Kyoto /

Table of Contents: “…Stone -- India and climate change : mitigation, adaptation, and a way forward / Jvoti Parikh -- Correct choices for China : energy conservation, a cyclic economy, and a conservation-minded society / Shen Longhai.…”
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Climate governance and development

Table of Contents: “…Financing adaptation and mitigation in an unequal world -- pt. 6. Changing climate, changing institutions of governance.…”
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Policy option issues for CO2 emissions

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Global warming gridlock creating more effective strategies for protecting the planet / by Victor, David G.

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The global carbon crisis emerging carbon constraints and strategic management options / by Busch, Timo

Table of Contents: “…The two sides of the carbon coin -- Emerging carbon constraints -- Strategic benefits of carbon and climate strategies -- Evolution of carbon utilization -- Climate change challenges ahead -- Carbonomics and beyond -- The intra- vs. inter-generational equity dimension -- Lessons from the financial crisis -- Macro level : industrial policies for climate change -- Meso level : inter-firm breakthrough steps in a low-carbon future -- Micro level : proactive carbon management strategies -- Synthesis : the mitigation-adaptation nexus.…”
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Decarbonizing development : three steps to a zero-carbon future / by Fay, Marianne

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Carbon tax and cap-and-trade tools market-based approaches for controlling greenhouse gases / by Burney, Nelson E.

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COVID-19 and World Order : The Future of Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation /

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Sustainable low-carbon city development in China

Table of Contents: “…Sectoral action for low-carbon cities : additional approaches -- pt. 6. Beyond mitigation : cities' adaptation to climate change -- pt. 7. …”
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Geoenvironmental Disasters

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Urban sustainability and river restoration : green and blue infrastructure / by Perini, Katia, Sabbion, Paola

Table of Contents: “…Green and blue infrastructure in cities -- Climate change : mitigation and adaptation strategies -- Environmental and ecological imbalances in dense urban areas -- Water in urban areas : ecological and environmental issues and strategies -- Ecosystem services in urban areas : social, environmental, and economic benefits -- Green and blue infrastructure : vegetated systems -- Green and blue infrastructure : unvegetated systems -- Urban river restoration -- Strategies and techniques : case studies -- Green and blue infrastructure top-down policies -- Bottom-up initiatives for green and blue infrastructure -- Selection of management practices and guidelines -- Opportunities and policies : case studies.…”
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The Sustainability of Agro-Food and Natural Resource Systems in the Mediterranean Basin

Table of Contents: “…Part I : Agro-Food Systems -- Food Security in the Southern Mediterranean/North Africa -- Sustainability in cereal crop production in Mediterranean environments -- Innovative crop productions for healthy foods: the case of Chia -- The hidden costs of livestock environmental sustainability: the case of Podolian cattle -- Feeding, nutrition and sustainability in dairy enterprises: the case of Mediterranean buffaloes (bubalus bubalis) -- Sustainability of sheep and goat production systems -- The role of local sheep and goat breeds and their products as a tool for sustainability and safeguard of the Mediterranean environment -- Innovative use of jenny milk from sustainable rearing -- Sustainable agricultural practices in disease defence of traditional crops in Southern Italy: the case study of tomato cherry protected by Trichoderma harzianum T-22 against Cucumber mosaic virus -- Development of integrated disease control measures for the valorisation of traditional crops in Southern Italy: the case study of "Fagiolo di Sarconi" -- Fostering sustainable climate change adaptations: a case study of the Turkish Cypriot Community’s adoption of pomegranate farming -- The role of women in the sustainability of the wine industry through the analysis of case studies -- Part II : Natural Resource Systems and Environment -- The effects of climate change on the multifunctional role of Basilicata’s forests: the effects induced on yield and CO2 absorption -- Wildlife agriculture interactions, spatial analysis and trade-off between environmental sustainability and risk of economic damage -- The sustainability of non-renewable resources use at regional level: a case study on allocation of oil royalties -- Land use sector involvement in mitigation policies across carbon markets -- Evaluating the role of soil variability on potential groundwater pollution and recharge in a Mediterranean agricultural watershed -- Grazing and biodiversity conservation: highlights on a Nature 2000 network site -- Evaluation of native grasses for sustainable turfgrass in the bioclimatic Mediterranean Region.…”
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Advances in Wheat Genetics: From Genome to Field Proceedings of the 12th International Wheat Genetics Symposium /

Table of Contents: “…Kihara’s genome concept and advancements in wheat cytogenetics in his school -- 2 How a gene from Japan revolutionized the world of wheat: CIMMYT’s quest for combining genes to mitigate threats to global food security -- Part II Germplasm and Genetic Diversity -- 3 Genetic resources of Triticum -- 4 Development of core set of wheat (Triticum spp.) germplasm conserved in the National Genebank in India -- 5 Transfer to wheat of potentially new stem rust resistance genes from Aegilops speltoides -- 6 Genetic variation and its geographical distribution in Aegilops caudata L.: morphology, hybrid sterility and gametocidal genes -- Part III Cytogenetics and Allopolyploid Evolution -- 7 Wheat chromosome analysis -- 8 New aneuploids of common wheat -- 9 Chromosomal changes over the course of polyploid wheat evolution and domestication -- Part IV Toward Whole Genome Sequencing -- 10 Comprehensive functional analyses of expressed sequence tags in common wheat -- 11 Development of the BAC physical maps of wheat chromosome 6B for its genomic sequencing -- Part V Structural and Functional Genomics -- 12 Sequencing of wheat chromosome 6B: toward functional genomics -- 13 Genetic mechanisms of vernalization requirement duration in winter wheat cultivars -- 14 Building ultra-dense genetic maps in the presence of genotyping errors and missing data -- Part VI Functional Gene Analysis and Molecular Tools -- 15 Exploiting comparative biology and genomics to understand a trait in wheat, Ph1 -- 16 The specific features of anthocyanin biosynthesis regulation in wheat -- 17 Association of wheat miRNAs with hybrid incompatibility in interspecific crosses of Triticum and Aegilops -- 18 High efficiency wheat transformation mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens -- 19 extra early-flowering (exe) mutants in einkorn wheat generated by heavy-ion beam irradiation -- Part VII Biotic Stress Response -- 20 Stem rust resistance - two approaches -- 21 Germplasm enhancement for resistance to Pyrenophora tritici-repentis in wheat -- 22 Next Generation Sequencing enabled genetics in hexaploid wheat -- Part VIII Abiotic Stress Response -- 23 Genomics approaches to dissect the genetic basis of drought resistance in durum wheat -- 24 Hybrid breeding in wheat -- 25 Broadening the genetic diversity of common and durum wheat for abiotic stress tolerance breeding -- 26 Early maturity in wheat for adaptation to high temperature stress -- 27 Gene expression profiles involved in development of freezing tolerance in common wheat -- Part IX Improvement of Grain Quality -- 28 Coping with wheat quality in a changing environment - Proteomics evidence for stress caused by environmental changes -- 29 Starch modification: a model for wheat MAS breeding -- 30 Quality characteristics of soft kernel durum - a new cereal crop -- 31 Proposal of international gluten research group -- 32 Enlargement of the genetic diversity for grain quality in bread wheat through alien introgression -- 33 Complex G x E interactions and QTL clusters govern end-use quality traits in hexaploid wheat -- 34 A consistent QTL for flour yield on chromosome 3B in the soft winter wheat variety, Kitahonami -- Part X Marker-Assisted Breeding -- 35 Recent improvements in Japanese wheat varieties -- 36 Determining the order of resistance genes Qsng-3BS, Fhb1 and Sr2 and combining them in coupling on wheat chromosome 3BS -- 37 Meta-analysis of resistance to Fusarium head blight in tetraploid wheat – implications for durum wheat breeding -- 38 Interest of a multiparental and outcrossing wheat population for fine mapping -- 39 The effect of Earliness per se (Eps) genes on flowering time in bread wheat -- Part XI Toward Sustainable Wheat Production -- 40 Recapitulating the OECD-CRP session (sponsored by the OECD’s Co-operative Research Program on Biological Resource Management for Sustainable Agricultural Systems -- 41 Exploring genetic resources to increase adaptation of wheat to climate change -- 42 Genomic approaches towards durable fungal disease resistance in wheat -- 43 Review and new progress in wheat wide hybridization for improving the resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses -- 44 Global crop improvement networks to bridge technology gaps -- 45 Genomic selection in plants: empirical results and implications for wheat breeding -- 46 Dietary fibre: wheat genes for enhanced human health -- BM Appendix I: Program -- Appendix II: Poster Presentation List -- Appendix III: Committees.…”
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Sustainable Living with Environmental Risks

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