Nobukazu Nakagoshi

Jhonamie A. Mabuhay

This book focuses on three major means of achieving a low carbon society: conservation of the ecosystem complex, changes of arrangement of landscapes, and creation of biodiversity. There are specific countermeasures to be taken for carbon absorption in the three types of landscapes—urban, cultural, and natural—because their carbon balances differ. Urban landscapes are promising sites because they have the potential for greening and the creation of biodiversity. Cultural landscapes in the tropics had not been actively researched until recently, but this book now presents a collection of several cases focused on those areas. Natural landscapes had existed in abundance in developing countries; later, nature protection areas were designated to coexist with development. Now, however, developmental pressure has penetrated into those nature protection areas, and landscape ecological projects are urgently required to preserve them. As a result of global warming, abnormal weather phenomena including super typhoons have occurred frequently in recent years. The major underlying cause is the higher concentration of greenhouse gases released by human activities. As well, major natural absorbers of CO2 such as forests, wetlands, and coral reefs are shrinking, and the human impact is causing the ecological balance to deteriorate. Controlling CO2 emissions and expanding the CO2 absorbers are keys to reducing total CO2. Low carbon societies can be established by maintaining the original CO2 balance through integration of multiple tools, with contributions from diverse fields such as physics and chemistry, physiology and humanities, and education. On the basis of an international consensus, the environment must be protected no matter what sacrifices are required. As this book demonstrates, achieving a low carbon society is a top priority, and landscape conservation is the first step in ecological research toward that goal.

Designing Low Carbon Societies in Landscapes

Jian Guo Wu

He Xu

Xi Xi Lu

Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2013 2nd International Conference on Energy and Environmental Protection (ICEEP 2013), April 19-21, 2013, Guilin, China. The 677 papers grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Mineral Prospecting and Geological Exploration; Chapter 2: Rock and Mining Engineering, Coal Mining; Chapter 3: Mineral Process Engineering; Chapter 4: Oil and Gas Well Development Projects; Chapter 5: Metallurgical Engineering; Chapter 6: Urban and Regional Planning; Chapter 7: Development and Management of the Energy and Power Industry; Chapter 8: Global Climate Change and International Cooperation on Reducing and Control Carbon Emissions; Chapter 9: Ecological Economy, Circular Economy and Low-Carbon Economy; Chapter 10: Engineering Materials and Processing Technologies; Chapter 11: Equipment Design, Manufacturing, Automation and Control; Chapter 12: Information Technologies, Computer and Data Analysis Applications in Industry and Engineering; Chapter 13: Engineering Management, Logistics and Education.

Resources and Sustainable Development

Jianguo Wu

Sun-Kee Hong

Jae-Eun Kim

Cultural landscapes are a product of the interactions between humans and natural settings. They are landscapes and seascapes that are shaped by human history and land use. Socioeconomic processes especially, but also environmental changes and natural disturbances, are some of the forces that make up landscape dynamics. To understand and manage such complex landscapes, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches are necessary, emphasizing the integration of natural and social sciences and considering multiple landscape functions. The spatial patterns of Asian landscapes are strongly related to human activities and their impacts. Anthropogenic patterns and processes have created numerous traditional cultural landscapes throughout the region, and understanding them requires indigenous knowledge. Cultural landscape ecology from a uniquely Asian perspective is explored in this book, as are the management of landscapes and land-use policies. Human-dominated landscapes with long traditions, such as those described herein, provide useful information for all ecologists, not only in Asia, to better understand the human–environmental relationship and landscape sustainability.

Landscape Ecology in Asian Cultures

Jie Yang

Xi Xi Li

The present volumes contain up-to-date, comprehensive and state-of-the art knowledge in the fields of: Mineral Prospecting and Exploration; Mining Engineering and Coal Mining; Mining Machinery Engineering; Mineral Process Engineering; Oil and Gas Well Development Projects; Petrochemical Engineering and Chemical Engineering; Metallurgical Engineering; Forestry Engineering; Storage and Processing of Agricultural Products; Energy Saving and Low Carbon Ideas; Development and Management of the Energy Industry; Environmental Protection and Circular Economy; Ecological Civilization and Low-Carbon Economy; Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development; Computer-Aided Design/Engineering. The contents will be invaluable to a wide range of environment-conscious responsible process engineers.

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