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Environmental sciences --- Environmental sciences. --- Environmental science --- Science

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Every step of the Earth's 940 million kilometre, one-year journey around the sun is essential to maintaining life as we know it, giving us the ever-changing weather and seasons that transform our planet. In terms of maintaining life on our planet, 23° is truly the magic number. Without this unique tilt, our world would never experience climatic change – the equatorial regions would eternally roast, while the poles would be frozen solid. For the first time ever, this astonishing film charts the entire progress of Earth as it undertakes it's incredible annual journey. From stunning space imagery to in-your-face storm chasing, this series will showcase the incredible power of our seasons and weather, and what drives them to both incredible creation and devastating destruction.

Environmental Science --- Scientific research --- Natural phenomena --- Earth sciences

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Citizen science enlists members of the public to make and record useful observations, such as counting birds in their backyards, watching for the first budding leaf in spring, or measuring local snowfall. The large numbers of volunteers who participate in projects such as Project FeederWatch or Project BudBurst collect valuable research data, which, when pooled together, create an enormous body of scientific data on a vast geographic scale. In return, such projects aim to increase participants' connections to science, place, and nature, while supporting science literacy and environmental stewardship. In Citizen Science, experts from a variety of disciplines-including scientists and education specialists working at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, where many large citizen science programs use birds as proxies for biodiversity-share their experiences of creating and implementing successful citizen science projects, primarily those that use massive data sets gathered by citizen scientists to better understand the impact of environmental change.This first and foundational book for this developing field of inquiry addresses basic aspects of how to conduct citizen science projects, including goal-setting, program design, and evaluation, as well as the nuances of creating a robust digital infrastructure and recruiting a large participant base through communications and marketing. An overview of the types of research approaches and techniques demonstrates how to make use of large data sets arising from citizen science projects. A final section focuses on citizen science's impacts and its broad connections to understanding the human dimensions and educational aspects of participation. Citizen Science teaches teams of program developers and researchers how to cross the bridge from success at public engagement to using citizen science data to understand patterns and trends or to test hypotheses about how ecological processes respond to change at large geographic scales. Intended as a resource for a broad audience of experts and practitioners in natural sciences, information science, and social sciences, this book can be used to better understand how to improve existing programs, develop new ones, and make better use of the data resources that have accumulated from citizen science efforts. Its focus on harnessing the impact of "crowdsourcing" for scientific and educational endeavors is applicable to a wide range of fields, especially those that touch on the importance of massive collaboration aimed at understanding and conserving what we can of the natural world.

Environmental sciences --- Environmental science --- Science --- Research --- Citizen participation. --- Environmental management. --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Management

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Dieses Buch ist eine umfassende Bestandsaufnahme für eine bereits angelaufene dezentrale Energiewende. Es wird anhand vorhandener Strukturen, Techniken und wissenschaftlich fundierten Erkenntnissen die Potentiale einer wirkungsvollen Energiewende beschrieben. Ziel dieses Buches ist Darstellung neuer Techniken und effektiver Konzepte, damit dezentrale Strukturen die zentrale Energieversorgung ablösen. Hauptantrieb für den Einsatz der dezentralen Energieformen sind Kostenreduzierung, energieautarke Systeme bis zur Null-Tarif-Heizung. Der Inhalt ·     Energiekrise ·     Bremsklötze für eine dezentrale Energiewende ·     Alte ineffiziente Energiestrukturen ·     Techniken für eine dezentrale Energiewende ·     Energiespartipps und Checklisten ·     Konzepte ·     Das Potential der dezentralen Energiewende ·     Gesellschaftliche Neuausrichtung im Umgang mit Energie . Die Zielgruppen Architekten, Bauingenieure, zuständige Mitarbeiter in der kommunalen Verwaltung, Politiker mit Schwerpunkt Klimaschutz/Energie, Umweltbeauftragte in Unternehmen und interessierte Laien Der Autor Jürgen Eiselt ist Energiereferent  für energetische Sanierung / Effektivitätssteigerung im Immobilienbestand sowie Fachberater mit den Schwerpunkten regenerative Energie-, Photovoltaik-, Solarthermie- und Kleinwindkraftanlagen.

Civil engineering. --- Environmental sciences. --- Construction. --- Civil Engineering. --- Environmental Science and Engineering. --- Basics of Construction. --- Energy policy.

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"The Princeton Guide to Ecology is a concise, authoritative one-volume reference to the field's major subjects and key concepts. Edited by eminent ecologist Simon Levin, with contributions from an international team of leading ecologists, the book contains more than ninety clear, accurate, and up-to-date articles on the most important topics within seven major areas: autecology, population ecology, communities and ecosystems, landscapes and the biosphere, conservation biology, ecosystem services, and biosphere management. Complete with a glossary of key terms and suggestions for further reading on each topic, this is an essential volume for undergraduate and graduate students, research ecologists, scientists in related fields, policymakers, and anyone else with a serious interest in ecology"--Publisher description.

Ecology --- Ecologie --- Economic aspects --- Aspect économique --- 504 --- Environment. Environmental science --- 504 Environment. Environmental science --- Aspect économique --- Ecological economics --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology