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National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Ecological impacts of Climate Change., ed. Ecological impacts of climate change. Washington, D.C: National Academies Press, 2008.

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O, Oguge Nicholas, Omolo Eugene J, Lumosi Caroline, Ecological Society for Eastern Africa, and Pan African Climate Justice Alliance, eds. Proceedings of the 3rd Scientific Conference of the Ecological Society for Eastern Africa, January 2011: Climate change and natural resource use in eastern Africa : impacts, adaptation, and mitigation : Multimedia University College, Nairobi, 19-21 May 2010. Nairobi, Kenya: Ecological Society for Eastern Africa, 2011.

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Morgan, Alexis J. Evaluating and modelling hydro-ecological impacts of urbanization and climate change in a southern Ontario watershed. Ottawa: National Library of Canada, 2002.

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Hodakov, Viktor. Natural environment and human activity. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1194879.

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The monograph describes the influence of the natural environment and its natural and climatic conditions on human life and socio-economic systems, which are considered as regions, territories of Eastern Europe. The natural and climatic factors (PCFs) characterizing the natural environment of Eastern Europe (Russia and Ukraine) and Western (England and France) are considered. Eastern Europe is in the zone of negative PCFs, close to critical. The influence of the PCF on the vital activity of the state and man is systematically described: mentality, systemic thinking, human health, ensuring the safety of life, sustainability of development, agricultural production, housing and communal services, construction, industry, information security, parrying of the PCF, the influence of the PCF on the development of science and education. Climate change trends at the global and regional levels are also described. Estimates of the impact of the PCF on the economy of the state and regions, recommendations on the adaptation of the economy to the PCF, the relationship of information security and information about the PCF, information technologies for assessing the sustainability of development and investment attractiveness of territories, conceptual foundations of state anti-crisis management of socio-economic systems are presented. It is intended for researchers, teachers, postgraduates, students specializing in the field of life safety, computer ecological and economic monitoring. It can be used to educate society in the field of the natural environment and its natural and climatic conditions.
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A, Guisan, and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Working Group II., eds. Potential ecological impacts of climate change in the Alps and Fennoscandian mountains: An annex to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) second assessment report, Working Group II-C (impacts of climate change on mountain regions). Genève: Conservatoire et jardin botaniques de la ville de Genève, 1995.

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Stokoe, Peter. Socio-economic assessment of the physical and ecological impacts of climate change on the marine environment of the Atlantic region of Canada: Phase 1. [Ottawa?]: Environment Canada, 1988.

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Ecological impacts from climate change: An economic analysis of freshwater recreational fishing : a report prepared for the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation, Climate Change Division, Adaptation Branch. [Washington, D.C.?]: The Office, 1995.

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United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Adaptation Branch., ed. Ecological impacts from climate change: An economic analysis of freshwater recreational fishing : a report prepared for the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Climate Change Division, Adaptation Branch. Washington: Environmental Protection Agency, 1995.

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United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation., ed. Ecological impacts from climate change: An economic analysis of freshwater recreational fishing : a report prepared for the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation, Climate Change Division, Adaptation Branch. [Washington, D.C.?]: The Office, 1995.

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Ecological impacts from climate change: An economic analysis of freshwater recreational fishing : a report prepared for the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation, Climate Change Division, Adaptation Branch. [Washington, D.C.?]: The Office, 1995.

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Ecological impacts of climate change. Washington, D.C: National Academies Press, 2008.

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Committee on Ecological Impacts of Climate Change, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council, and Board on Life Sciences. Ecological Impacts of Climate Change. National Academies Press, 2008.

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National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Ecological impacts of Climate Change., ed. Ecological impacts of climate change. Washington, D.C: National Academies Press, 2008.

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Ecological Impacts of Climate Change. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.17226/12491.

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Ecological impacts of climate change. Washington, D.C: National Academies Press, 2008.

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Zaitchik, Benjamin F. Climate and Health across Africa. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.555.

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Humans have understood the importance of climate to human health since ancient times. In some cases, the connections appear to be obvious: a flood can cause drownings, a drought can lead to crop failure and hunger, and temperature extremes pose a risk of exposure. In other cases, the connections are veiled by complex or unobserved processes, such that the influence of climate on a disease epidemic or a conflict can be difficult to diagnose. In reality, however, all climate impacts on health are mediated by some combination of natural and human dynamics that cause individuals or populations to be vulnerable to the effects of a variable or changing climate.Understanding and managing negative health impacts of climate is a global challenge. The challenge is greater in regions with high poverty and weak institutions, however, and Africa is a continent where the health burden of climate is particularly acute. Observed climate variability in the modern era has been associated with widespread food insecurity, significant epidemics of infectious disease, and loss of life and livelihoods to climate extremes. Anthropogenic climate change is a further stress that has the potential to increase malnutrition, alter the distribution of diseases, and bring more frequent hydrological and temperature extremes to many regions across the continent.Skillful early warning systems and informed climate change adaptation strategies have the potential to enhance resilience to short-term climate variability and to buffer against negative impacts of climate change. But effective warnings and projections require both scientific and institutional capacity to address complex processes that are mediated by physical, ecological, and societal systems. Here the state of understanding climate impacts on health in Africa is summarized through a selective review that focuses on food security, infectious disease, and extreme events. The potential to apply scientific understanding to early warning and climate change projection is also considered.
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Harrington, Jerome M. Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Practical Roles in Climate Change Adaptation and Conservation. Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, 2015.

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B, Field Christopher, Union of Concerned Scientists, and Ecological Society of America, eds. Confronting climate change in California: Ecological impacts on the Golden State. Cambridge, MA: Union of Concerned Scientists, 1999.

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Seo, Niggol, Robert Mendelsohn, Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, Ariel Dinar, and Rashid Hassan. Differential Adaptation Strategies To Climate Change In African Cropland By Agro-Ecological Zones. The World Bank, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-4600.

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Ghirardo, Andrea, James D. Blande, Nadine K. Ruehr, Raffaella Balestrini, and Carsten Kulheim, eds. Adaptation of Trees to Climate Change: Mechanisms Behind Physiological and Ecological Resilience and Vulnerability. Frontiers Media SA, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/978-2-88974-487-9.

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Swarming Landscapes The Art Of Designing For Climate Adaptation. Springer, 2012.

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Pritchard, Bill, Sunil Nautiyal, Ruediger Schaldach, K. V. Raju, Harald Kaechele, and Kottapalli Sreenivasa Rao. Climate Change Challenge and Social-Economic-Ecological Interface-Building: Exploring Potential Adaptation Strategies for Bio-resource ... Springer, 2016.

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Pritchard, Bill, Sunil Nautiyal, Ruediger Schaldach, K. V. Raju, Harald Kaechele, and Kottapalli Sreenivasa Rao. Climate Change Challenge and Social-Economic-Ecological Interface-Building: Exploring Potential Adaptation Strategies for Bio-resource ... Springer, 2018.

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Permaculture and Climate Change Adaptation: Inspiring Ecological, Social, Economic and Cultural Responses for Resilience and Transformation. Permanent Publications, 2016.

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Chircop, Aldo. Governance of Arctic Shipping: Rethinking Risk, Human Impacts and Regulation. Springer Nature, 2020.

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Chircop, Aldo, Claudio Aporta, Floris Goerlandt, and Ronald Pelot. Governance of Arctic Shipping: Rethinking Risk, Human Impacts and Regulation. Springer International Publishing AG, 2020.

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Chircop, Aldo, Claudio Aporta, Floris Goerlandt, and Ronald Pelot. Governance of Arctic Shipping: Rethinking Risk, Human Impacts and Regulation. Springer International Publishing AG, 2020.

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Morton, John. Adaptation in the Face of Climate Change : When Resistance Is Futile: Stewarding Ecological Transformation in the Anthropocene. Elsevier, 2019.

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Morton, John. Adaptation in the Face of Climate Change : When Resistance Is Futile: Stewarding Ecological Transformation in the Anthropocene. Elsevier, 2020.

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Seo, S. Niggol, Robert Mendelsohn, Ariel Dinar, Rashid Hassan, and Pradeep Kurukulasuriya. A Ricardian Analysis Of The Distribution Of Climate Change Impacts On Agriculture Across Agro-Ecological Zones In Africa. The World Bank, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-4599.

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Fitzsimons, James, Ian Pulsford, and Geoff Wescott, eds. Linking Australia's Landscapes. CSIRO Publishing, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643107052.

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Networks of land managed for conservation across different tenures have rapidly increased in number (and popularity) in Australia over the past two decades. These include iconic large-scale initiatives such as Gondwana Link, the Great Eastern Ranges Initiative, Habitat 141°, and the South Australian NatureLinks, as well as other, landscape-scale approaches such as Biosphere Reserves and Conservation Management Networks. Their aims have been multiple: to protect the integrity and resilience of many Australian ecosystems by maintaining and restoring large-scale natural landscapes and ecosystem processes; to lessen the impacts of fragmentation; to increase the connectivity of habitats to provide for species movement and adaptation as climate changes; and to build community support and involvement in conservation. This book draws out lessons from a variety of established and new connectivity conservation initiatives from around Australia, and is complemented by international examples. Chapters are written by leaders in the field of establishing and operating connectivity networks, as well as key ecological and social scientists and experts in governance. Linking Australia's Landscapes will be an important reference for policy makers, natural resource managers, scientists, and academics and tertiary students dealing with issues in landscape-scale conservation, ecology, conservation biology, environmental policy, planning and management, social sciences, regional development, governance and ecosystem services.
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A, Guisan, and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Working Group II-C., eds. Potential ecological impacts of climate change in the Alps and Fennoscandian mountains: An annex to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) second assessment report, Working Group II-C (Impacts of Climate Change on Mountain Regions). Genève: Conservatoire et jardin botaniques de Genève, 1995.

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Raju, K. V., Bill Pritchard, Sunil Nautiyal, Ruediger Schaldach, and Harald Kaechele. Climate Change Challenge and Social-Economic-Ecological Interface-Building: Exploring Potential Adaptation Strategies for Bio-Resource Conservation and Livelihood Development. Springer London, Limited, 2016.

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McNeill, J. R. The Ecological Atlantic. Edited by Nicholas Canny and Philip Morgan. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199210879.013.0017.

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In the Atlantic world in the centuries from 1450 to 1850, tumultuous changes in ecology had outsized impacts on human affairs. Historians have already laid useful foundations for an environmental history of the Atlantic world. Atlantic West Africa from Senegambia to the Gulf of Guinea participated in the ecological Atlantic by providing a few cultigens to the Americas, its share of pathogens (notably malaria and yellow fever), and above all by supplying the majority of the workforce — several million slaves and their descendants — who would remake the ecology of the Atlantic. This article examines pan-Atlantic processes such as climate change. It also summarises the important themes which are the most central to the whole subject: the Columbian Exchange, including its often-neglected African components, and the ecology of plantations, slavery, and slave trades. This provides some sampling of the ecological regions of the Atlantic, as well as of the commodities and cultural processes involved.
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Greenland, David, Douglas G. Goodin, and Raymond C. Smith, eds. Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response in Long-Term Ecological Research Sites. Oxford University Press, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195150599.001.0001.

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This volume in the Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series would present the work that has been done and the understanding and database that have been developed by work on climate change done at all the LTER sites. Global climate change is a central issue facing the world, which is being worked on by a very large number of scientists across a wide range of fields. The LTER sites hold some of the best available data measuring long term impacts and changes in the environment, and the research done at these sites has not previously been made widely available to the broader climate change research community. This book should appeal reasonably widely outside the ecological community, and because it pulls together information from all 20 research sites, it should capture the interest of virtually the entire LTER research community.
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Lawler, Joshua J., and Julia Michalak. Planning for climate change without climate projections? Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808978.003.0021.

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This chapter explores the relative uncertainty associated with popular approaches to conservation planning in the face of climate change. Concern about uncertainties inherent in climate-change projections and associated ecological impacts have led many in the conservation community to avoid climate modeling, and instead favor forecast-free approaches that involve increasing connectivity and protecting “nature’s stage” (geophysical settings) to produce climate-smart conservation plans. A comparison of each of these approaches reveals that the uncertainties associated with connectivity modeling and mapping geophysical settings can be as large, if not larger than, the uncertainties associated with climate-change projections. Whereas the uncertainties of climate forecasts are widely appreciated, the same cannot be said for the approaches that avoid climate forecasts. It is not the case that there is one best approach. The answer to uncertainty is to seek robust conservation plans that work regardless of which approach is taken.
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James, Harrison. 9 Addressing the Marine Environmental Impacts of Climate Change and Ocean Acidification. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198707325.003.0009.

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Chapter 9 addresses the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on the marine environment and the extent to which international law has reacted to this emerging threat to the ecological integrity of the oceans. These issues are particularly challenging to regulate because of their wide-ranging causes and effects. This chapter, therefore, takes into account both how the global legal regime relating to climate change, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement, has taken into account the oceans, as well as how sectoral treaties dealing with specific maritime activities have addressed climate change and ocean acidification within their normative framework. In this latter respect, the chapter focuses on the global regulation of carbon emissions from shipping and the way in which the international community has responded to proposed carbon sequestration activities at sea, including sub-seabed storage and geo-engineering.
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Socio-economic assessment of the physical and ecological impacts of climate change on the marine environment of the Atlantic Region of Canada: Phase 2: Implications for small coastal communities. Halifax, N.S: Dalhousie University School for Resource and Environmental Studies, 1988.

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Davidson, Debra J., and Matthias Gross. A Time of Change, a Time for Change. Edited by Debra J. Davidson and Matthias Gross. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190633851.013.32.

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This chapter discusses prospects for energy-society relations in the twenty-first century, with emphasis on the present challenge: to effect a sociotechnical transition to energy-society relations that are free from greenhouse gas emissions while also minimizing other environmental impacts and ensuring equitable access to energy resources. Three important drivers of this transition are explained: new political realities, new material realities, and new epistemological realities. The chapter considers how the reluctant acceptance by members of the international political elite of the inevitability and severity of the impacts of climate change has altered the politics of energy; how various energy resources exert a physical (and ecological) reality that comes into play in markets, politics, and cultures; and how the genre of energy and society research in the social sciences has evolved over the past century. An overview of the organization of this Handbook is also presented.
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Newman, Chris, Christina D. Buesching, and David W. Macdonald. Meline mastery of meteorological mayhem: the effects of climate changeability on European badger population dynamics. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198759805.003.0021.

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Adaptation to climatic conditions is a major ecological and evolutionary driver. Long-term study of European badger population dynamics in Oxfordshire reveals that rainfall and temperature patterns affect food (principally earthworm) availability, energy expended in thermoregulation, and activity patterns, with badgers able to seek refuge in their setts. Cubs prove especially vulnerable to harsh weather conditions, where drought and food shortages exacerbate the severity of pandemic juvenile coccidial parasite infections. Crucially, weather variability, rather than just warming trends, stresses badgers, by destabilising their bioclimatic niche. Summer droughts cause mortality, even driving genetic selection; and while milder winters generally benefit badgers, less time spent in torpor leads to more road casualties. Similar effects also operate over a wide spatial scale in Ireland, impacting regional badger densities and bodyweights. That even an adaptable, generalist musteloid is so variously susceptible to weather conditions highlights how climate change places many species and ecosystems at risk.
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Silvers, Michael B. Voices of Drought. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042089.001.0001.

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Voices of Drought is an ethnomusicological study of relationships between popular music, the environmental and social costs of drought, and the politics of culture and climate vulnerability in the northeast region of Brazil, primarily the state of Ceará. The book traces the articulations of music and sound with drought as a discourse, a matter of politics, and a material reality. It encompasses multiple entwined issues, including ecological exile, poverty, and unequal access to vital resources such as water, along with corruption, prejudice, unbridled capitalism, and rapidly expanding neoliberalism. Each chapter is a case study: the use of carnauba wax, formed by palm trees as a protective climate adaptation, in the production of wax cylinder sound recordings in the late nineteenth century; the political significance of regionalist popular music, especially baião and forró, in the mid-twentieth century; forró music and practices of weather forecasting that involve listening to bird calls; the production and meaning of the soundscape of a small city as it involves musician Raimundo Fagner; social and musical change at the turn of the twenty-first century; and the cancellation of state-sponsored Carnival celebrations due to a costly multi-year drought in the 2010s. Demonstrating how ecological crisis affects musical culture by way of and proportionate to social difference and stratification, the book advocates a focus on environmental justice in ecomusicological scholarship.
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O'Sullivan, Bob, and Charlotte Streck. A Jigsaw Waiting to be Assembled? Edited by Kevin R. Gray, Richard Tarasofsky, and Cinnamon Carlarne. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780199684601.003.0025.

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This chapter describes the current treatment of the land-use sector under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol. It discusses how various financial incentive and accounting frameworks can complement each other under a future climate treaty. Despite recognizing the importance of forestry and agriculture, the climate change regime has failed to formulate incentives to encourage mitigation in the land-use sector while maintaining the ecological and social functions of landscapes. Unfortunately, the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol only formulate a fragmented set of rules, incentives, and obligations. The Protocol considers forest emissions in developed countries, but fails to create incentives for the sector’s highest emissions reduction and carbon storage potential in developing countries. This phenomenon highlights the importance of a new future climate treaty. Its discussion creates an integrated accounting and incentive framework that facilitates the formulation of robust and complementary adaptation and mitigation strategies.
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Esler, Karen J., Anna L. Jacobsen, and R. Brandon Pratt. Planning for the future. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198739135.003.0009.

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Mediterranean-type climate (MTC) regions are highlighted in several global analyses of conservation risk and priorities. These regions have undergone high levels of habitat conversion and yet of all terrestrial biomes they have the second lowest level of land protection. With transformation pressures set to continue (Chapter 8), planning for a sustainable conservation future in MTC regions is therefore essential. Conservation activities are represented by a variety of philosophies and motives, partially driven by the underlying differences in transformation drivers and sociopolitical contexts across MTC regions. These activities include investment in, and best-practice management of, protected areas (land sparing), an interdisciplinary focus on integrated management of production landscapes (land sharing; stewardship), as well as ecological restoration to increase habitat, improve connectivity, and provide a hedge against the impacts of future climate change. These responses need to be applied in a strategic, synergistic manner to minimize future biodiversity loss.
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Love, Alan C., and Richard R. Strathmann, eds. Marine Invertebrate Larvae: Model Life Histories for Development, Ecology, and Evolution. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786962.003.0021.

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We provide a conceptual framework for studies of the developmental and evolutionary ecology of marine invertebrate larvae and illustrate how contributions to this volume demonstrate both past achievements and the future fecundity of this research program. Our conceptual framework is anchored in the idea of model life histories, which is a category of investigation similar to but distinct from model organisms or model clades. Marine invertebrate larvae constitute a coherent, structured research program as model life histories that represent developmental, ecological, and evolutionary processes in different ways. They facilitate interdisciplinary investigation that integrates different approaches to diverse research questions about developmental mechanisms, evolutionary history, and adaptation, as well as providing a window on alterations of the marine environment due to anthropogenic climate change. Success in studies of model life histories provides a strong case for sustained professional, institutional, and financial support to carry these endeavors forward.
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Gardiner, Stephen M., and Allen Thompson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199941339.001.0001.

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Environmental ethics is an academic subfield of philosophy concerned with normative and evaluative propositions about the world of nature and, perhaps more generally, the moral fabric of relations between human beings and the world we occupy. This Handbook contains forty-five newly commissioned essays written by leading experts and emerging voices. The essays range over a broad variety of issues, concepts, and perspectives that are both central to and characteristic of the field, thus providing an authoritative but accessible account of the history, analysis, and prospect of ideas that are essential to contemporary environmental ethics. The Handbook includes sections on the broad social contexts in which we find ourselves (e.g., chapters on history, science, economics, governance, and the Anthropocene), on what ought to count morally and why (e.g., chapters on humanity, animals, living individuals, ecological collectives, and wild nature), on the nature and meaning of environmental values (e.g., truth and goodness, practical reasons, hermeneutics, phenomenology, and aesthetics), on theoretical understandings of how we should act (e.g., on consequentialism, duty and obligation, character, caring relationships, and the sacred), on key concepts (e.g., responsibility, justice, gender, rights, ecological space, risk and precaution, citizenship, future generations, and sustainability), on specific areas of environmental concern (e.g., pollution, population, energy, food, water, mass extinction, technology and ecosystem management), on climate change considered as the defining environmental problem of our time (e.g., chapters on mitigation, adaptation, diplomacy, and geoengineering), and on social change (e.g., pragmatism, conflict, sacrifice, and action).
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Brook, Barry W., Erle C. Ellis, and Jessie C. Buettel. What is the evidence for planetary tipping points? Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808978.003.0008.

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This chapter critically evaluates the likelihood that planet Earth will cross one or more global environmental tipping points, resulting in a degraded state that would be difficult to reverse. Ecological tipping points occur when components of a system change rapidly due an initial forcing that is amplified by positive feedbacks, resulting in a regime shift. The chapter examines the evidence in support of biological and geophysical boundaries that clearly delimit a “safe operating space” for people and biodiversity. For individual ecosystems, abrupt state transitions have been documented. However, apart from the climate system, there is scant evidence (or theoretical justification) to support the view that global aggregates like biodiversity, chemical cycles, or resource extraction have planetary thresholds that define the boundaries of a global safe operating space. Acknowledging the absence of clear evidence for thresholds or boundaries at the global level does not diminish the seriousness of anthropogenic impacts. It does, however, imply that local-scale mitigation actions will be most effective.
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Kirchman, David L. Processes in Microbial Ecology. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789406.001.0001.

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Processes in Microbial Ecology discusses the major processes carried out by viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and other protists—the microbes—in freshwater, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems. The book shows how advances in genomic and other molecular approaches have uncovered the incredible diversity of microbes in natural environments and unraveled complex biogeochemical processes carried out by uncultivated bacteria, archaea, and fungi. The microbes and biogeochemical processes are affected by ecological interactions, including competition for limiting nutrients, viral lysis, and predation by protists in soils and aquatic habitats. The book links up processes occurring at the micron scale to events happening at the global scale, including the carbon cycle and its connection to climate change issues. The book ends with a chapter devoted to symbiosis and other relationships between microbes and large organisms, which have large impacts not only on biogeochemical cycles, but also on the ecology and evolution of large organisms, including Homo sapiens.
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Krieger, Nancy. Ecosocial Theory, Embodied Truths, and the People's Health. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197510728.001.0001.

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This book employs the ecosocial theory of disease distribution to combine critical political and economic analysis with a deep engagement with biology, in societal, ecological, and historical context. It illuminates what embodying (in)justice entails and the embodied truths revealed by population patterns of health. Chapter 1 explains ecosocial theory and its focus on multilevel spatiotemporal processes of embodying (in)justice, across the lifecourse and historical generations, as shaped by the political economy and political ecology of the societies in which people live. The counter is to dominant narratives that attribute primary causal agency to people’s allegedly innate biology and their allegedly individual (and decontextualized) health behaviors. Chapter 2 discusses application of ecosocial theory to analyze: the health impacts of Jim Crow and its legal abolition; racialized and economic breast cancer inequities; the joint health impacts of physical and social hazards at work (including racism, sexism, and heterosexism) and relationship hazards (involving unsafe sex and violence); and measures of structural injustice. Chapter 3 explores embodied truths and health justice, in relation to: police violence; climate change; fossil fuel extraction and sexually transmitted infectious disease: health benefits of organic food—for whom? ; public monuments, symbols, and the people’s health; and light, vision, and the health of people and other species. The objective is to inform critical and practical research, actions, and alliances to advance health equity—and to strengthen the people’s health—in a deeply troubled world on a threatened planet.
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Mbow, Cheikh. The Great Green Wall in the Sahel. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.559.

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For several decades, the Sahelian countries have been facing continuing rainfall shortages, which, coupled with anthropogenic factors, have severely disrupted the great ecological balance, leading the area in an inexorable process of desertification and land degradation. The Sahel faces a persistent problem of climate change with high rainfall variability and frequent droughts, and this is one of the major drivers of population’s vulnerability in the region. Communities struggle against severe land degradation processes and live in an unprecedented loss of productivity that hampers their livelihoods and puts them among the populations in the world that are the most vulnerable to climatic change. In response to severe land degradation, 11 countries of the Sahel agreed to work together to address the policy, investment, and institutional barriers to establishing a land-restoration program that addresses climate change and land degradation. The program is called the Pan-Africa Initiative for the Great Green Wall (GGW). The initiative aims at helping to halt desertification and land degradation in the Sahelian zone, improving the lives and livelihoods of smallholder farmers and pastoralists in the area and helping its populations to develop effective adaptation strategies and responses through the use of tree-based development programs. To make the GGW initiative successful, member countries have established a coordinated and integrated effort from the government level to local scales and engaged with many stakeholders. Planning, decision-making, and actions on the ground is guided by participation and engagement, informed by policy-relevant knowledge to address the set of scalable land-restoration practices, and address drivers of land use change in various human-environmental contexts. In many countries, activities specific to achieving the GGW objectives have been initiated in the last five years.
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Kameri-Mbote, Patricia, Alexander Paterson, Oliver C. Ruppel, Bibobra Bello Orubebe, and Emmanuel D. Kam Yogo, eds. Law | Environment | Africa. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783845294605.

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Law | Environment | Africa compiles the proceedings of the 5th Symposium and the 4th Scientific Conference of the Association of Environmental Law Lecturers from African Universities (ASSELLAU) in cooperation with the Climate Policy and Energy Security Programme for Sub-Saharan Africa run by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The book’s aim is to explore, review and analyse recent developments at the point where the law and the environment in Africa overlap. The collection comprises 32 chapters by legal experts from central, eastern, southern and western Africa. It is divided thematically into four parts: 1.) Climate change and energy 2.) Natural resource governance 3.) Water governance, management and use 4.) The role of the law in regulating social and environmental impacts associated with human activity These subjects are discussed in the context of national, regional and international law frameworks, which are central to Africa’s quest to attain its desired and sustainable development trajectory within the confines of the continent’s valuable yet fragile ecological infrastructure. With contributions by Dr. Oluwatoyin Adejonwo-Osho, Dr. Lanre Aladeitan, Dr. Jean-Claude Ashukem, Dr. Godard Busingye, Prof. Dr. Mark B. Funteh, Dr. Elizabeth Gachenga, Prof. Dr. Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Prof. Dr. Emmanuel D. Kam Yogo, Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Kasimbazi, Prof. Dr. Michael Kidd, Gift Dorothy Makanje, Amanda Mkhonza, Prof. Dr. Ayoade Morakinyo Adedayo, Dr. Kariuki Muigua, Dr. Phiona Muhwezi Mpanga, Andrew Muma, Dr. Joseph Magloire Ngang, Dr. Marie Ngo Nonga, Chidinma Therese Odaghara, Edna Odhiambo, Dr. Collins Odote, Dr. Irekpitan Okukpon, Dr. Erimma Gloria Orie, Prof. Dr. Bibobra Bello Orubebe, Daniel Armel Owona Mbarga, Prof. Dr. Alexander Ross Paterson, Olivia Rumble, Prof. Dr. Oliver C. Ruppel, Dr. Esther Effundem Njieassam, Dr. Pamela Towela Sambo, Prof. Dr. Christopher Funwie Tamasang, Prof. Mekete Bekele Tekle, Robert Alex Wabunoha, Nerima Akinyi Were, Hadijah Yahyah.
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