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This open access book is a consolidation of lessons learnt and experiences gathered from our efforts to utilise Earth observation (EO) science and applications to address environmental challenges in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region. It includes a complete package of knowledge on service life cycles including multi-disciplinary topics and practically tested applications for the HKH. It comprises 19 chapters drawing from a decade’s worth of experience gleaned over the course of our implementation of SERVIR-HKH – a joint initiative of NASA, USAID, and ICIMOD – to build capacity on using EO and geospatial technology for effective decision making in the region. The book highlights SERVIR’s approaches to the design and delivery of information services – in agriculture and food security; land cover and land use change, and ecosystems; water resources and hydro-climatic disasters; and weather and climate services. It also touches upon multidisciplinary topics such as service planning; gender integration; user engagement; capacity building; communication; and monitoring, evaluation, and learning. We hope that this book will be a good reference document for professionals and practitioners working in remote sensing, geographic information systems, regional and spatial sciences, climate change, ecosystems, and environmental analysis. Furthermore, we are hopeful that policymakers, academics, and other informed audiences working in sustainable development and evaluation – beyond the wider SERVIR network and well as within it – will greatly benefit from what we share here on our applications, case studies, and documentation across cross-cutting topics.

Geographical information systems (GIS) & remote sensing --- Ecological science, the Biosphere --- Environmental monitoring --- Climate change --- Political economy --- Earth observation --- Geoinformation technology --- Agriculture and food security --- Land use land cover --- Flooding and extreme weather --- Climate services --- Service area planning --- User engagement --- Capacity building --- Disaster risk reduction --- Open Access

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The penetration of distributed generation, energy storages and smart loads has resulted in the emergence of prosumers: entities capable of adjusting their electricity production and consumption in order to meet environmental goals and to participate profitably in the available electricity markets. Significant untapped potential remains in the exploitation and coordination of small and medium-sized distributed energy resources. However, such resources usually have a primary purpose, which imposes constraints on the exploitation of the resource; for example, the primary purpose of an electric vehicle battery is for driving, so the battery could be used as temporary storage for excess photovoltaic energy only if the vehicle is available for driving when the owner expects it to be. The aggregation of several distributed energy resources is a solution for coping with the unavailability of one resource. Solutions are needed for managing the electricity production and consumption characteristics of diverse distributed energy resources in order to obtain prosumers with more generic capabilities and services for electricity production, storage, and consumption. This collection of articles studies such prosumers and the emergence of prosumer communities. Demand response-capable smart loads, battery storages and photovoltaic generation resources are forecasted and optimized to ensure energy-efficient and, in some cases, profitable operation of the resources.

power-to-heat --- sector coupling --- thermal storage --- district heat --- deep well heat pump --- hierarchical agglomerative clustering --- chronology --- demand response --- two-capacity building model --- residential users --- flexible loads shifting scenarios --- community of prosumers --- new consumption peak --- shared PV plant --- storage batteries --- load factor --- real-time pricing --- prosumers --- electricity price forecasting --- particle swarm optimization --- renewable energy --- peer-to-peer --- electricity market --- economic dispatch --- consensus + innovations --- distributed energy resources --- battery --- reinforcement learning --- simulation --- frequency reserve --- frequency containment reserve --- timescale --- artificial intelligence --- real-time

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This book, entitled “Gamification and Advanced Technology to Enhance Motivation in Education”, contains an editorial and a collection of ten research articles that highlight the use of gamification and other advanced technologies as powerful tools for motivation during learning. Motivation is the driving force behind many human activities, especially learning. Motivated students are ready to make a significant mental effort and use deeper and more effective learning strategies. Numerous studies indicate that playing promotes learning, since when fun pervades the learning process, motivation increases and tension is reduced. Therefore, games can be very powerful tools in the improvement of learning processes from three different and complementary perspectives: as tools for teaching content or skills, as an object of the learning project itself and as a philosophy to be taken into account when designing the training process. Each contributions presented in this book falls into one of these categories; that is to say, they all deal with the use of games or related technologies, and they all study how playing enhances motivation in education.

gamification --- active methodologies --- secondary education --- evaluation rubric --- evaluation criteria --- Thomas W. Malone --- game --- design --- Sebastian Deterding --- Nick Pelling --- learning by doing --- serious games --- game design --- human computer-interaction --- HCI education --- entrepreneurship education --- FLIGBY --- Flow --- positive psychology --- higher education --- MOOC --- fun --- social networks --- virtual learning communities --- video games --- collaborative learning --- education --- teacher --- attitudes --- primary education --- technology --- ICT --- Likert scale --- game elements --- online learning --- MOOCs --- empirical studies --- systematic literature review --- university --- serious video games --- game-based learning --- professors --- video games design --- knowledge --- skills training --- digital technologies --- automated learning --- serious game --- usability --- game engagement --- virtual reality --- rubric --- capability approach --- capacity building --- enabling tools --- mental images --- motivation

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This book is a collection of the articles published the Special Issue of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information on “Citizen Science and Geospatial Capacity Building”. The articles cover a wide range of topics regarding the applications of citizen science from a geospatial technology perspective. Several applications show the importance of Citizen Science (CitSci) and volunteered geographic information (VGI) in various stages of geodata collection, processing, analysis and visualization; and for demonstrating the capabilities, which are covered in the book. Particular emphasis is given to various problems encountered in the CitSci and VGI projects with a geospatial aspect, such as platform, tool and interface design, ontology development, spatial analysis and data quality assessment. The book also points out the needs and future research directions in these subjects, such as; (a) data quality issues especially in the light of big data; (b) ontology studies for geospatial data suited for diverse user backgrounds, data integration, and sharing; (c) development of machine learning and artificial intelligence based online tools for pattern recognition and object identification using existing repositories of CitSci and VGI projects; and (d) open science and open data practices for increasing the efficiency, decreasing the redundancy, and acknowledgement of all stakeholders.

participatory toponyms --- knowledge sharing --- public participation --- citizen science --- geospatial capacity building --- volunteered geographic information --- social media --- spatiotemporal bias --- CitSci --- earthquake --- intensity mapping --- disaster mitigation --- spatial kriging --- volunteered geographic information (VGI) --- data contribution activities --- spatial and temporal patterns --- biases --- eBird --- community-based geoportal --- crowdsourced earth observation product --- remote sensing --- spatial data infrastructure (SDI) --- crowdsourced data quality --- GeoWeb --- outdoor air pollution --- symptom mapping --- data quality --- web application --- water quality --- community-based monitoring --- machine learning --- Indian monsoon --- Jacobin cuckoo --- Maxent --- species distribution model --- habitat suitability --- range expansion --- WorldClim --- CMIP --- crowdsourcing --- participatory GIS

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The sustainable governance of water resources relies on processes of multi-stakeholder collaborations and interactions that facilitate knowledge co-creation and social learning. Governance systems are often fragmented, forming a barrier to adequately addressing the myriad of challenges affecting water resources, including climate change, increased urbanized populations, and pollution. Transitions towards sustainable water governance will likely require innovative learning partnerships between public, private, and civil society stakeholders. It is essential that such partnerships involve vertical and horizontal communication of ideas and knowledge, and an enabling and democratic environment characterized by informal and open discourse. There is increasing interest in learning-based transitions. Thus far, much scholarly thinking and, to a lesser degree, empirical research has gone into understanding the potential impact of social learning on multi-stakeholder settings. The question of whether such learning can be supported by forms of serious gaming has hardly been asked. This Special Issue critically explores the potential of serious games to support multi-stakeholder social learning and collaborations in the context of water governance. Serious games may involve simulations of real-world events and processes and are challenge players to solve contemporary societal problems; they, therefore, have a purpose beyond entertainment. They offer a largely untapped potential to support social learning and collaboration by facilitating access to and the exchange of knowledge and information, enhancing stakeholder interactions, empowering a wider audience to participate in decision making, and providing opportunities to test and analyze the outcomes of policies and management solutions. Little is known about how game-based approaches can be used in the context of collaborative water governance to maximize their potential for social learning. While several studies have reported examples of serious games, there is comparably less research about how to assess the impacts of serious games on social learning and transformative change.

psychosocial perspectives --- integrated water resources management --- maritime spatial planning --- decision-making processes --- simulation --- rural --- water-food-land-energy-climate --- Good Environmental Status --- assessment --- active learning --- ecology education --- social simulation --- educational videogames --- gaming-simulation --- serious games --- transformative change --- Q-method --- serious games (SGs) --- social equity --- learning-based intervention --- sustainability --- water --- flood --- institutions --- planning support systems --- system dynamics --- Blue Growth --- stakeholder participation --- serious game --- decision making --- social learning --- serious gaming --- nexus --- Water Safety Plan --- game-based learning --- stakeholders --- mangrove --- participatory modelling --- integrated water resource management (IWRM) --- experimental social research --- river basin management --- online games --- drinking water management --- drinking water --- multi-party collaboration --- water management --- Schwartz’s Value Survey (SVS) --- water supply --- groundwater --- role-play --- simulations --- stakeholder collaboration --- relational practices --- Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) --- gamification --- aquaculture --- transcendental values --- peri-urban --- urban --- Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) --- infrastructure --- knowledge co-creation --- policy analysis --- role-playing games --- water governance --- value change --- Mekong Delta --- natural resource management --- capacity building