With bold designs for everyday life, this notebook system offers owners a collection of colour, size and format combinations to engage any personality. Featuring vibrant colours - clementine, grape, kiwi, lagoon, onyx and watermelon - the ecosystem collection is designed to empower and motivate peop[...]
With bold designs for everyday life, this notebook system offers owners a collection of colour, size and format combinations to engage any personality. Featuring vibrant colours - clementine, grape, kiwi, lagoon, onyx and watermelon - the ecosystem collection is designed to empower and motivate peop[...]
With bold designs for everyday life, this notebook system offers owners a collection of colour, size and format combinations to engage any personality. Featuring vibrant colours - clementine, grape, kiwi,lagoon, onyx and watermelon - the ecosystem collection is designed to empower and motivate peopl[...]
An ecosystem model was developed and applied to Atsumi Bay, Japan, to evaluate the effects of reclaiming seagrass beds and creating artificial shallows with seagrass beds to mitigate the effects of the reclamation. The model can demonstrate the ecological mechanisms in the pelagic and benthic ecosys[...]
AI is cutting labor costs and workers are struggling to be valuable. The People Centered Economy (PCE) is a 'Copernican Revolution' placing people, not tasks, at the center of the economy. PCE has a handy definition of the economy: people create and exchange value, served by organization. In PCE, in[...]
Taking inspiration and insight from the world's most innovative organisations, The Innovation Ecosystem identifies the four elements they all share, providing you with a step-by-step guide to doing it in your business. When you read this book you will understand how organisations such as Google and [...]
The stock of the world's biological diversity and the state of its ecosystems are major determinants of the availability of commodities, both essential and desirable, for human life. This leading-edge study provides an overarching and balanced approach to the economics of biological conservation; co[...]
This Handbook presents state-of-the-art methodological guidance and discussion of international practice related to the integration of biodiversity and ecosystem services in impact assessment, featuring contributions from leading researchers and practitioners the world over. Its multidisciplinary ap[...]
In Health Ecosystem Value Design: Value Sensing, Exploration, Strategy and Co-Creation Framework, Christopher Lawer explores how a commonly used metaphor for health systems - ecosystems - can be applied more deeply and appropriately to better understand complex health problems, conceive of novel sys[...]
By bringing together elements of a radical new approach to the firm based on the biological metaphor of the ecosystem, this book breaches the limits of existing theories. It attempts to show precisely how modern businesses compete and cooperate within their market and technological environment. Equa[...]
Modeling is now one of the most efficient methodologies in life sciences. From practice to theory, this book develops this approach illustrated by many examples; general concepts and the current state of the art are also presented and discussed.[...]
Agricultural systems are no longer evaluated solely on the basis of the food they provide, but also on their capacity to limit impacts on the environment, such as soil conservation, water quality and biodiversity conservation, as well as their contribution to mitigating and adapting to climate chang[...]
This book comprehensively addresses the economic, social and institutional difficulties in conserving biodiversity and the ecosystem services that it provides. It covers a wide range of issues such as biodiversity, ecosystem services and valuation in the context of diverse ecosystems such as tropica[...]
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Insecurity provides an authoritative and comprehensive assessment of the threats presented to human security and well-being by the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity recently confirmed as one of the critical 'planetary boundaries' that has already been exceeded. Contribut[...]
Ecosystem services can be broadly defined as the aspects of ecosystems that provide benefits to people. This title provides guidance on the valuation of ecosystem services, using the case of multifunctional wetlands to illustrate and make recommendations regarding the methods and techniques that can[...]
Ocean and coastal management regimes are increasingly subject to competing demands from stakeholders. Regulations must not only address fishing, recreation, and shipping, but also sand and gravel mining, gas pipelines, harbor/port development, offshore wind and tidal energy facilities, liquefied nat[...]
The Arctic ocean is a major component of the world's atmospheric ocean system and within this ocean, sea ice is the key dominant environmental feature. This three to five metre thick perenial sea ice cover affects the magnitude of both heat and matter fluxes from the atmosphere and supports a tightl[...]
This book applies the 'ecosystem services' framework to coastal environments, showing how it could facilitate an adaptive management strategy. The contributors describe a decision support system (DSS) based on the 3 Ps - pluralism, pragmatism and precaution - that leads to a more flexible, 'learn by[...]
The book presents an analysis of the ecological, economic and social threats posed by the introduction and spread of non-native species. It provides a comprehensive description of impacts of non-native species from all five kingdoms of life across all ecosystems of the World. New insights into the i[...]
This descriptive, practical guide explains how to build a commercially impactful, operationally effective and technically robust IoT ecosystem that takes advantage of the IoT revolution and drives business growth in the consumer IoT as well as industrial internet spaces.With this book, executives, b[...]