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Assessing the impacts of catastrophic 2020 wildfires in the Brazilian Pantanal using MODIS data and Google Earth Engine: A case study in the world’s largest sanctuary for Jaguars
The Encontro das Águas State Park (EASP), renowned as the world’s largest refuge for Jaguars ( Panthera onca ), is located within the Brazilian portion...
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Issues in Disaster Affected Area
DisastersDisaster are inevitable. People pay less attention to disaster wasteDisaster Waste (DW) before a disaster occurs. Once a disaster breaks...
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Sustainable Plant Diversity for the Present and Future Generations
The plants are holdfast of many life-forms especially the human being as they provide food, fodder, fuel, shelter, fiber, medicines, etc. The...
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Fire Effects on Plants, Soils, and Animals
How do plants survive fires? Fires can affect plant crowns, stems, roots, and seeds. Fire effects depend on fire behavior, plant characteristics, and...
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Impact of a recent wildfire on tortoises at Cape Point, South Africa, and implications for the interpretation of heated bones in the archaeological record
Heat-altered bones are a common occurrence in the archaeological record, and their analysis can provide detailed insights into past fire use...
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Fuel Dynamics and Management
Fuels influence fire ignition, spread, intensity, and severity. Thus, fuels link fire behavior and fire effects. Fuels are central to our book, Fire...
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Integrated Fire Management
Many people have called for Integrated Fire Management that effectively harnesses the power of fire to achieve land management goals. Often this...
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Oil and Gas
OilOil is a generic term that can cover a very wide range of natural hydrocarbon-based substances and also refined petrochemical products. Crude...
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Valuing non-market economic impacts from natural hazards
Prioritising investments to minimise or mitigate natural hazards such as wildfires and storms is of increasing importance to hazard managers....
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Environment as a Weapon: History, and the Hazards of War
This chapter will discuss how environmental landscapes, and resources, have been historically weaponized and deployed as human induced hazards in the...
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Minerals, Natural Environment, and Medical Geology
The increasing concern of modern societies with the interactions between the environment and human health, in particular through the geological...
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River Pollution and Perturbation: Perspectives and Processes
Most precious resource of the world is the freshwater (3% of the total water on this planet). Most of the inland water bodies of the world with their...
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Arctic Aerosols
Aerosols play an important role in the climatic system through their direct and indirect effects on radiation. Beside this, they are also part of the...
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Disaster Monitoring and Management
Since time immemorial, natural disasters have continued to plague the history of mankind. They have varied in type, frequency, coverage and severity...
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Northern Eurasia Future Initiative (NEFI): facing the challenges and pathways of global change in the twenty-first century
During the past several decades, the Earth system has changed significantly, especially across Northern Eurasia. Changes in the socio-economic...
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Environment and Sustainability
This chapter draws attention to all topics related to environment and sustainable development in the mining world. In this sense, financial aspects...
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The impact of the informal area expansion on the urban natural ventilation of Alexandria
The city plan of 1921 conducted by the British Sir MacLean was the first scheme of Alexandria in the modern age (Egypt). Applying the network...
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Air Pollution and Disasters
Many disasters lead to air pollution and vice versa. This chapter elaborates major air pollution issues due to earthquake, tsunami, volcanic...
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Environmental Issues in Southeast Asia
This region has continued to experience economic growth since the 1980s, driven by the expansion of direct investment from other countries. However,...
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Ecoinformatics and Soil-Plant Formations
As mentioned above, the field of ecoinformaticsEcoinformatics provides concepts, methods and standards in order to guide...