Download or read book Landscape Ecology A Widening Foundation written by Vittorio Ingegnoli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The urgent need for a sustainable environment has resulted in the increased recognition of the field of landscape ecology amongst policy makers working in the area of nature conservation, restoration and territorial planning. Nonetheless, the question of what is precisely meant by the term landscape ecology'is still unresolved. No doubt, a proper foundation of the discipline must first be cemented. This book develops such a foundation. In doing so it provides all the diverse applications of the discipline with a solid framework and proposes an effective diagnostic methodology to investigate the ecological state and the pathologies of the landscape.

Download or read book Biocultural Diversity in Europe written by Mauro Agnoletti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book collects a selection of the papers presented at the meeting held in the context of the Joint Programme on the Links between Biological and Cultural Diversity (JP-BiCuD). Recognizing the inextricable link between biological and cultural diversity, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD) joined forces, and in 2010 launched the Joint Programme on the Links between Biological and Cultural Diversity (JP-BiCuD). The first meeting for the implementation of the JP-BiCuD was held in Florence (Italy) in April 2014 and produced the UNESCO-sCBD Florence Declaration, which highlights the concept of biocultural diversity. The European rural territory is predominantly a biocultural, multi-functional landscape, providing a crucial and effective space for integration of biological and cultural diversity, suggesting the need to revise some of the current strategies for the assessment and management of biodiversity.

Download or read book Nature Policies and Landscape Policies written by Roberto Gambino and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on the relationship between nature conservation policies and landscape policies. This is a relevant subject due to the current need of reviving nature conservation policies, which are today affected by a general effectiveness deficiency. To this end, landscape policies can play a crucial role, bridging nature and culture, fostering more integrated approaches to nature conservation and stimulating the active participation of local communities. The book gathers reflections, researches and experiences developed on an international level on this subject by experts coming from different international contexts (Europe, U.S.A.), various disciplinary backgrounds (geographers, planners, biologists, historians, jurists, economists, etc.) and several institutional bodies (Universities, administrative bodies, international organizations such as IUCN, EUROPARC Federation, UNESCO, etc.). The overall reflections gathered in the book - which is divided in three main sections: regulations and institutional frameworks, policies, actions and tools - combine to suggest innovative visions about the relationships between nature policies and landscape policies.

Download or read book Advances in Terrestrial Isopod Biology written by Jasna ?trus and published by PenSoft Publishers LTD. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrestrial isopods (woodlice) are the only group of crustaceans fully adapted to life on land and with about 3,700 species known at present represent the largest suborder of Isopoda. They occur in almost any kind of terrestrial habitat, from littoral to high mountains, from forests to deserts, with some species adapted to live in subterranean environments and others secondarily having returned to water. Woodlice are particularly important from a biogeographical and an ecological point of view, since they have limited dispersal ability, are often endemic to small geographic areas, and are extremely diverse ecologically.ÿThey also represent en excellent model group of animals to study the physiological adaptations related to the transition from an aquatic to a terrestrial way of life. This special issue of ZooKeys includes a collection of 20 papers presented during the 8th International Symposium on Terrestrial Isopod Biology, which was held at Bled, Slovenia from 19th to 23rd June 2011. Contributions address a wide range of topics related to terrestrial isopods, such as systematics, biogeography, morphology, physiology, molecular biology, microbiology, and ecology. Two contributions are related to the state of the art and future perspectives on biomineralizations in crustaceans and ecotoxicology in soil fauna. This special issue will be of great value for anyone interested in the biology of crustaceans in general and of terrestrial isopods in particular, stimulating future research on this unique group of animals.

Download or read book Thermodynamics written by Juan Carlos Moreno Piraján and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thermodynamics is one of the most exciting branches of physical chemistry which has greatly contributed to the modern science. Being concentrated on a wide range of applications of thermodynamics, this book gathers a series of contributions by the finest scientists in the world, gathered in an orderly manner. It can be used in post-graduate courses for students and as a reference book, as it is written in a language pleasing to the reader. It can also serve as a reference material for researchers to whom the thermodynamics is one of the area of interest.

Download or read book Landscape Bionomics Biological Integrated Landscape Ecology written by Vittorio Ingegnoli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Landscape Bionomics,” or “Bio-integrated Landscape Ecology,” radically transforms the main principles of traditional Landscape Ecology by recognizing the landscape as a living entity rather than merely the spatial distribution of species and communities on the territory, often analysed in separate themes (water, species, pollution, etc.). To be more exact, the landscape is identified as the "life organization integrating a set of plants, animals and human communities and its system of natural, semi-natural, and human cultural ecosystems in a certain spatial configuration." This new perspective inevitably leads to significant changes in how to assess and manage the environment. This book represents the culmination of an endeavor begun by the author, with the support of Richard Forman and Zev Naveh, more than a dozen years ago. It builds on the author’s previous successful publication, Landscape Ecology, A Widening Foundation, by addressing a range of additional topics and discussing the new theoretical and methodological concepts that have emerged during the past decade of research. Particular attention is paid to the fact that interventions in the landscape can be made with the best intentions yet cause serious damage! Against this background, the author explains the need to study "landscape units" by applying methods comparable to those used in clinical diagnosis – hence ecologists can be viewed as the “physicians” of ecological systems.

Download or read book Global Biodiversity written by T. Pullaiah and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 1836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new four-volume set, Global Biodiversity, provides a wealth of insightful information on the biodiversity of selected nations around the world. The volumes provide informative summaries of the available data on both wild and cultivated plants, wild and domesticated animals, and microbes of the different nations selected.

Download or read book Aspects of Biodiversity in Selected Forest Ecosystems in Italy written by C.R.A.-Istituto Sperimentale per la Selvicoltura Arezzo and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Permanent and Temporary Grassland written by European Grassland Federation. International Symposium and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Atti della Societ italiana di scienze naturali e del Museo civico di storia naturale in Milano written by Società italiana di scienze naturali and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book La biodiversit percorsi naturalistici e didattici written by Adriano Sofo and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Per secoli l'umanità è stata afflitta da una visione antropocentrica di se stessa che l'ha condotta a considerarsi signora e padrona assoluta del mondo e della natura. In virtù di questa opinione tutto il creato, la terra, i fiumi, i monti, lo sterminato universo della flora e della fauna, nonché quello dei paesaggi e degli ambienti, quella che con termine scientifico all'interno di questo studio viene definita biodiversità, sono stati considerati al servizio esclusivo dell'uomo, del suo benessere e del suo progresso, quasi fossero dei servitori nati con l'unico scopo di obbedire ai desideri umani.

Download or read book Il Museo di storia naturale dell Universit degli studi di Firenze written by Giulio Barsanti and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Web che funziona Guida ai fondamenti del marketing digitale written by Paolo Maffei and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Web che funziona. Guida ai fondamenti del marketing digitale", di Paolo Maffei a cura di Roberto Lo Jacono. Internet ha da tempo introdotto nuove regole nel mondo della comunicazione, del marketing e, più in generale, del "fare impresa". Le aziende, di fronte alle possibilità comunicative offerte dai nuovi media, si trovano spesso in difficoltà non solo nel capire come utilizzarle, come valutare gli investimenti, nel comprendere i principi del monitoraggio, i key performance indicators e nel definire le eventuali azioni correttive. Per evitare spese inutili, rischi eccessivi o approcci riduttivi, occorre cogliere gli elementi alla base di queste nuove regole in modo da poter effettuare scelte più autonome e consapevoli. Questo libro vi fornisce gli elementi necessari per comprendere le dinamiche alla base del marketing digitale, che sia esso rivolto alle aziende o che sia utile alla promozione di noi stessi;-)

Download or read book Urban Services to Ecosystems written by Chiara Catalano and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to bring together multidisciplinary research in the field of green infrastructure design, construction and ecology. The main core of the volume is constituted by contributions dealing with green infrastructure, vegetation science, nature-based solutions and sustainable urban development. The green infrastructure and its ecosystem services, indeed, are gaining space in both political agendas and academic research. However, the attention is focused on the services that nature is giving for free to and for human health and survival. What if we start to see things from another perspective? Our actions shall converge for instance to turn man-made environment like cities from heterotrophic to autotrophic ecosystems. From landscape ecology to urban and building design, like bricks of a wall, from the small scale to the bigger landscape scale via ecological networks and corridors, we should start answering these questions: what are the services that are we offering to Nature? What are we improving? How to implement our actions? This book contains three Open Access chapters, which are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Download or read book Checklist and Distribution of the Italian Fauna written by Sandro Ruffo and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Guidelines and case studies for the management of Natura 2000 sites in transitional environments written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book La tutela delle risorse idriche metodologie didattiche nella scuola primaria written by Adriano Sofo and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Per questo, oggi l'acqua viene sempre di più considerata alla stregua di un bene di consumo, che possiede un suo valore economico, e che per questo è diventato sempre di più un oggetto di dispute legali, sociali e politiche. Con la crescita della popolazione del pianeta, poi, e con l'aumento delle attività umane, i fabbisogni di acqua tendono ad aumentare e con essa anche l'alterazione delle sue qualità chimiche, fisiche e biologiche.Il presente lavoro, facendo riferimento ad un percorso di ricerca basato su un'ampia trattazione della problematica dell'inquinamento idrico, mira perciò ad acquisire una serie di elementi che possano non solo costituire le basi di una efficace attività educativa, ma che possano anche generare nuove e diverse sensibilità, sia verso l'uso delle risorse idriche, sia soprattutto nei confronti di tutte le problematiche dell'ecologia in generale.