The Gulf of Mexico is an open and dynamic marine ecosystem rich in natural resources but heavily impacted by human activities, including agricultural, industrial, commercial and coastal development. Nutrients and pollutants from coastal communities and dozens of rivers flow into the Gulf, including material from the Mississippi River watershed, which drains over one third of continental United …
This book provides a unique overview of the impacts of railways on biodiversity, integrating the existing knowledge on the ecological effects of railways on wildlife, identifying major knowledge gaps and research directions and presenting the emerging field of railway ecology. The book is divided into two major parts: Part one offers a general review of the major conceptual and theoretical p…
This book offers an up-to-date review of our current understanding of climate change in the North Sea and adjacent areas, as well as its impact on ecosystems and socio-economic sectors. It provides a detailed assessment of climate change based on published scientific work compiled by independent international experts from climate-related disciplines such as oceanography, atmospheric sciences, m…
These Proceedings offer a selection of peer-reviewed research and survey papers by some of the foremost international researchers in the fields of finance, energy, stochastics and risk, who present their latest findings on topical problems. The papers cover the areas of stochastic modeling in energy and financial markets; risk management with environmental factors from a stochastic control pers…
This open access book summarises the latest developments on data management in the EU H2020 ENVRIplus project, which brought together more than 20 environmental and Earth science research infrastructures into a single community. It provides readers with a systematic overview of the common challenges faced by research infrastructures and how a ‘reference model guided’ engineering approach ca…
This open access book not only describes the challenges of climate disruption, but also presents solutions. The challenges described include air pollution, climate change, extreme weather, and related health impacts that range from heat stress, vector-borne diseases, food and water insecurity and chronic diseases to malnutrition and mental well-being. The influence of humans on climate chang…
Our planet is undergoing radical environmental and social changes. Sustainability has now been put into question by, for example, our consumption patterns, loss of biodiversity, depletion of resources, and exploitative power relations. With apparent ecological and social limits to globalization and development, current levels of consumption are unsustainable, inequitable, and inaccessible to th…
Socially desirable responding (SDR) is an often-reported source of bias in survey interviews. It describes the tendency of a respondent to answer in a way that is socially desirable rather than to answer truthfully. This response bias also threatens the reliability and validity of survey-based environmental valuation techniques such as the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM). Therefore, the study…
This open access book focuses on the development of methods, interoperable and integrated ICT tools, and survey techniques for optimal management of the building process. The construction sector is facing an increasing demand for major innovations in terms of digital dematerialization and technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data, advanced manufacturing, robotics, 3D printing, block…
Survey based valuation techniques like the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) rely particularly on the premise of respondents’ rationality when answering willingness to pay (WTP) questions. Results of CVM surveys have repeatedly put this fundamental assumption into question. This study adopts a more realistic view of rationality accounting for respondents’ limited capacities to process infor…
This open access book offers up-to-date advice and practical guidance on how to undertake a discrete choice experiment as a tool for environmental valuation. It discusses crucial issues in designing, implementing and analysing choice experiments. Compiled by leading experts in the field, the book promotes discrete choice analysis in environmental valuation through a more solid scientific basis …
Sebagaimana diketahui, kondisi perairan di Indonesia bagian tengah dan timur dinilai lebih baik daripada kondisi perairan di Indonesia bagian barat. Tak mengherankan apabila kawasan ini kemudian dikenal sebagai kawasan potensial pengembangan budi daya biota taut seperti abalon, ikan kerapu, udang lobster, dan kerang mutiara yang merupakan salah satu komoditas unggulan Indonesia. Terkait hal ini…
Ketahanan air (water resilience) merupakan salah satu masalah utama bagi sebagian besar negara di dunia saat ini. Ketahanan air adalah keterpenuhan kebutuhan air yang layak dan berkelanjut-an untuk kehidupan dan pertumbuhan/pembangunan serta ter-kelolanya risiko yang berkaitan dengan air 1.Ketahanan air juga berarti kondisi ketersediaan air, baik secara kuantitas maupun kualitas, yang sesuai de…
Sudah banyak hasil riset yang membuktikan bahwa tanaman hiperakumulator dapat menjadi solusi untuk mem- bersihkan lingkungan tercemar dengan tingkat kontaminasi yang parah sekalipun dan lebih ekonomis dibandingkan cara konvensional. Pemanfaatan tanaman akumulator yang sudah berhasil ialah pembersihan Pb menggunakan tanaman Brassica juncea sehingga menurunkan kadar Pb tanah dari 2.300 mg…
Danau Toba merupa kan satu dari 15 danau prioritas program pemerintah untuk menyelamatkan ekosistem danau di Indonesia dari kepunahan akibat kerusakan. Peran Danau Toba sebagai danau terluas di Indonesia tidak dimung kiri lagi sangat pen ting untuk menunjang kehidupan manusia, baik masyarakat lokal maupun mancanegara. Hal ini sesuai dengan visi danau dunia bahwa permasalahan danau di suatu nega…
This open access book examines global plastic pollution, an issue that has become a critical societal challenge with implications for environmental and public health. This volume provides a comprehensive, holistic analysis on the plastic cycle and its subsequent effects on biota, food security, and human exposure. Importantly, global environmental change and its associated, systems-level proces…
The air is an important but largely unrecognized source of contaminant fate in the environment, including transport of pesticides and contaminants to nontarget areas and exposures for people and wildlife. This book summarizes and places in perspective the potential transport, transformation, and health implications of pesticides and contaminants in air, including the air we breathe. It delves i…
Demands on the construction industry are changing, and it is now virtually essential for environmental management to be considered at all stages of a project. Many construction managers are finding a quantitative approach useful, and this book outlines four quantitative methods which can be applied at different construction stages, and which fit within a comprehensive framework of dynamic Envir…
In the continuous search for sustainability, the exchange of diverse perspectives, assumptions, and values is indispensable to environmental protection. Through anthropological and ethnographic analyses, this collection addresses how interests, values, and ideologies affect dialogue and sustainability work. Drawing on studies from three continents – Europe, North America, and South America …
Naskah orasi ilmiah berjudul “Iptek Penginderaan Jauh untuk Meningkatkan Kualitas Deteksi Permasalahan Lingkungan dalam Mendukung Mitigasi Bencana Indonesia. Riset-riset yang disampaikan diharapkan bermanfaat untuk science-based policy mitigasi bencana yang sering terjadi di Indonesia. Naskah ini berkontribusi dalam pembangunan model simulasi perubahan lahan yang dapat memperkirakan potensi …