Book chapters

Chapter 18 - Drought mapping, modeling, and remote sensing

Elsevier,

Mafi-Gholami, Jaafari, Drought mapping, modeling, and remote sensing, Editor(s): Salim Lamine, Prashant K. Srivastava, Ahmed Kayad, Francisco Muñoz-Arriola, Prem Chandra Pandey; Remote Sensing of Soil and Land Surface Processes: Monitoring, Mapping, and Modeling, Elsevier, 2023, ISBN 9780323910682, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-15341-9.00005-8

This chapter aligns with SDG 6 by showing applications of mapping various data sources such as rainfall, temperature, soil moisture, and vegetation cover, based on several drought indices. The utilization of these maps can aid in the identification of drought-affected regions and, subsequently, prioritize the allocation of water resources accordingly.
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SDG:

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation

Tags:

Water and sanitation, Global

Future Forests - Chapter 5: Mitigation potential of forests: challenges to carbon accrual in the ecosystem

Elsevier,

Future Forests: Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change, 2024, Pages  75-94

This chapter aligns with Goals 13 and 15 by reviewing the latest literature about plant–microbe and microbe–microbe interactions in coordinating the interlinked carbon, nutrient, and water cycles, and we estimate how these may respond to the key global change factors of CO2, temperature, and precipitation.
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SDG:

Goal 13: Climate action; Goal 15: Life on land

Tags:

Forests; Climate Change, Global

Future Forests - Chapter 3: Forests then and now: managing for ecosystem benefits, services to humans, and healthy forests across scales

Elsevier,

Future Forests: Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change, 2024, Pages 49-64

This chapter aligns with Goals 13 and 15 by providing a reminder of the wide range of essential ecological benefits of forests and of the many products and services humans derive from forests, and then summarize three hallmarks of healthy forests across ecosystems and conclude by leveraging what we know about forests in the past to propose five key principles for future forest management.
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SDG:

Goal 13: Climate action; Goal 15: Life on land

Tags:

Forests; Climate Change, Global

Unraveling Environmental Disasters (Second Edition) - Chapter 16: Biodiversity

Elsevier,

Unraveling Environmental Disasters, Second Edition, 2024, pp 469-509

This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 13 and 14 by reviewing the impact of habitat degradation on local biodiversity and species invasions, particularly in the context of climate change and shifting habitat ranges.
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SDG:

Goal 13: Climate action; Goal 14: Life below water

Tags:

Biodiversity and ecosystems; Climate Change, Global

Snow Leopards (Second Edition) - Chapter 24: Corporate business and the conservation of the snow leopard: Worlds that need not collide

Elsevier,

Snow Leopards, Second Edition, 2024, pp 309-321

This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 9 and 15 by reviewing how industry and infrastructure development can infringe on snow leopard habitat and how sustainable business drivers can encourage companies to engage in biodiversity conservation efforts.
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SDG:

Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure; Goal 15: Life on land

Tags:

Biodiversity and ecosystems; Sustainable consumption and production, Asia

Clinician's Guide to Sexuality and Autism - Chapter 2: How to use this book

Elsevier,

Clinician's Guide to Sexuality and Autism
A Guide to Sex Education for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
2024, Pages 9-16

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by outlining how to use the book to provide effective teaching in sexuality education with an emphasis on individualization for specific learners.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Tags:

Health and wellbeing; Health and population; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Clinician's Guide to Sexuality and Autism - Chapter 1: Why is this book necessary?

Elsevier,

Clinician's Guide to Sexuality and Autism
A Guide to Sex Education for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
2024, Pages 3-8

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by introducing sexuality education curriculum for learners of all ages with autism.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Tags:

Health and wellbeing; Health and population; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Manson's Tropical Diseases, 24e - Chapter 14: HIV Epidemiology in the Tropics

Elsevier,

Manson's Tropical Diseases (Twentyfourth Edition)
2024, Pages 101-109

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing as well as Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing information about access to evidence-based treatment and prevention interventions as well as addressing the underlying social, political and economic issues, such as poverty, lack of access to healthcare, and stigma and discrimination that contribute to the high burden of HIV in the region
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Tags:

Health and population; Health and wellbeing, Global

The Renewable Energy-Water-Environment Nexus - Chapter 5 - Introduction to renewable energy–water–environment nexus

Elsevier,

The Renewable Energy-Water-Environment Nexus, 2024, Pages 133-141

This chapter advances UN SDGs 12, 11, and 7 by explaining the links between renewable energy, water, and the environment, with the explicit goal of meeting sustainable development goals.
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SDG:

Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production; Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

Tags:

Sustainable consumption and production; Water and sanitation; Energy, Global

Manson's Tropical Diseases 24th edition: Ch. 8 - Global Health Governance and Tropical Diseases

Elsevier,

Manson's Tropical Diseases (Twentyfourth Edition), 2024, Pages 57-63

For anybody interested in the relevance of global health governance to tropical diseases, whether they work in vaccine development or emergency outbreak response, it is essential to remember that these debates are indeed ongoing, and that global health interventions and outcomes remain beset with inequalities. The campaign against tropical disease is not just an aetiological one, but also very much a governance and policy challenge supporting SDG 3.
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Tags:

tropical diseases; tropical medicine; global health governance; World Health Organization

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