Book chapters

Elsevier,

Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Third Edition, 2024, pp 52-63

This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 11 and 15 by reviewing the major impacts people have on urban biodiversity at household, neighborhood, city, and global scales.
Elsevier,

Agroforestry for Carbon and Ecosystem Management, 2024, Pages 403-417

This chapter aligns with Goals 2 and 11 by focusing on the potential for improved food production when agroforestry practices are exploited. Further, the use of Agroforestry enhances sustainability within food production systems by providing environmental protections and balances.
Elsevier,

The World of Sea Cucumbers, 2023, pp 109-122

This chapter aligns with SDG Goal 5: Gender equality and Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure by exploring how to impactfully develop industries like sea cucumber aquaculture to empower women's growth within the industry.
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.
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.
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.
Elsevier,

Diagnostic Molecular Pathology (Second Edition): A Guide to Applied Molecular Testing, 2024, Pages 63-77

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health by summarizing the current molecular methods of detection and quantification of hepatitis virus genomes, with special emphasis on the assays commercially available and applicable for clinical use.
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.
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.
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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