Overview
- Explores in depth sustainable development issues from a locally-driven and practical perspective
- Integrates relevant research findings and practical implementation based on the author's extensive international experience
- Provides numerous case studies form diverse climates to demonstrate new technologies and proactive approaches
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Environmental Science and Engineering (ESE)
Part of the book sub series: Environmental Science (ENVSCIENCE)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides sound conceptual understanding of the current approach to management and decision making regarding geo-based challenges in developing countries that tend to suffer from information poverty and subjectivity and are reactive. The book also provides the necessary technical tools to energize research thinking and develop locally driven practical and sustainable solutions, ultimately moving management and decision making from being reactive to being proactive. This book fills a void as there are no published books to show the way forward or to present real case studies for this purpose.
Case studies that utilize new technologies and scientific thinking are presented for developing sustainable management options based either on producing local applied research or on utilising relevant international research. These case studies are based on the author's first-hand experiences in arid/semi-arid (Iraq, Tunisia, Morocco and Jordan), temperate (UK) and tropical environments (Malaysia, the Caribbean region, Indonesia and Australia).
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Managing Geo-Based Challenges
Book Subtitle: World-Wide Case Studies and Sustainable Local Solutions
Authors: Serwan M. J. Baban
Series Title: Environmental Science and Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07380-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-07379-8Published: 21 July 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36039-3Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-07380-4Published: 03 July 2014
Series ISSN: 1863-5520
Series E-ISSN: 1863-5539
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 228
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 95 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis