This open access book presents up-to-date analyses of community-based approaches to sustainable resource management of SEPLS (socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes) in areas where a harmonious relationship between the natural environment and the people who inhabit it is essential to ensure community and environmental well-being as well as to build resilience in the ecosystems tha…
This report transfers the Ecological Scarcity Method (ESM) to the EU and its 28 member states. It provides a powerful tool for unbiased environmental assessments in enterprises and surveys the current impacts and the targets published by environmental authorities, specifically the European Environment Agency. ESM assesses environmental impacts of manufacturing sites and production processes. De…
How can we design more sustainable industrial and urban systems that reduce environmental impacts while supporting a high quality of life for everyone? What progress has been made towards reducing resource use and waste, and what are the prospects for more resilient, material-efficient economies? What are the environmental and social impacts of global supply chains and how can they be measured …
Tidak dapat dimungkiri bahwa Gugusan Pulau Pari, Kepulauan Seribu, memiliki ekosistem tropis wilayah pesisir yang lengkap, mulai dari mangrove, padang lamun, hingga terumbu karang dengan keanekaragaman jenis flora dan fauna laut yang tinggi. Ketiga ekosistem ini dapat memberikan barang (goods) dan jasa lingkungan (ecosystem services) penting di sektor perikanan, pariwisata, dan pendidikan yang …
Ekologi vegetasi dapat diartikan sebagai kajian tentang vegetasi (komunitas tumbuhan). Di Eropa daratan kajian tentang vegetasi dikenal dengan berbagai istilah, yang pada dasamya adalah sosiologi tumbuhan (fitososiologi) dengan tujuan akhir mengklasifikasi vegetasi menjadi berbagai satuan. Di Inggris dan Amerika Serikat (Anglo-Amerika), kajian tentang vegetasi terfokus pada hubungan antara vege…
When organisms are deliberately or accidentally introduced into a new ecosystem a biological invasion may take place. These so-called ‘invasive species’ may establish, spread and ecologically alter the invaded community. Biological invasions by animals, plants, pathogens or vectors are one of the greatest environmental and economic threats and, along with habitat destruction, a leading caus…
In Horos, Thea Potter explores the complex relationship between classical philosophy and the 'horos', a stone that Athenians erected to mark the boundaries of their marketplace, their gravestones, their roads and their private property. Potter weaves this history into a meditation on the ancient philosophical concept of horos, the foundational project of determination and definition, arguing th…