This is the first book to focus on agroecology as a transdisciplinary, participatory, and action-oriented process. Using a combined theoretical & practical approach, this collection of work from pioneering researchers and practitioners engages social actors on different geo-political scales to transform the global agrifood system.

This new edition covers a wide range of equipment and provides an overview of related principles and applications. Easy to understand, it includes the advanced technology developed since the publication of the previous edition and adds two new chapters on special applications of evaporators and optimization.

ir Transport and Regional Development Methodologies promotes a better understanding of how the air transport related problems of core regions and remote regions should be addressed to enhance both economic competitiveness and social cohesion in Europe.

Air Transport and Regional Development Policies is one of three inter-connected books related to a four-year European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action established in 2015. This book focuses on policy implications related to air transport and regional development.

How do Airbnb and short-term rentals affect housing and communities? Locating the origins and success of Airbnb in the conditions wrought by the 2008 financial crisis, the authors bring together a diverse body of literature and construct case studies of cities in US, Australia and Germany.

Through original contributions and case studies, this volume shows that socially engaged architecture is both a theoretical construct and a professional practice navigating the global politics of poverty, charity, health, technology, neoliberal urbanism, and the discipline's exclusionary basis.

The book covers the characteristics of alpine plant life, alpine climate and soils, life under snow, stress tolerance, treeline ecology, plant water, carbon, and nutrient relations, plant growth and productivity, developmental processes, and two largely novel chapters on alpine plant reproduction and global change biology.

Examined here are global fuel strategy, ethanol fuels in Brazil, alternative fuels as a solution to the air quality problem, Chevron's view of the future of oil, and the role of government in promoting alternative transportation fuels.

This book exposes dialogue between history, theory, design, construction, technology, and sensory experience by means of digital simulations that enhance the assessment and values of our material choices, looking to Alvar Aalto as the primary protagonist for channeling discussions related to these topics.