Preparing a Workforce for the New Blue Economy: Chapter 1 - Exploration and technology—key building blocks for the new blue economy

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Preparing a Workforce for the New Blue Economy, People, Products and Policies, 2021, Pages 3-16
This book chapter advances SDGs 9, 13, and 15 by explaining how the blue economy of the future will be heavily dependent on national investments in ocean sciences, ocean-related technologies, and intelligent national policy creation about the national interest in the world ocean.
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Environmental Systems Science: Chapter 11 - Economics and feasibility assessments

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Environmental Systems Science, Theory and Practical Applications, 2021, Pages 509-542
This book chapter advances SDGs 9, 13, and 15 by introducing techniques for assessing economics and feasibility to complement the technical and scientific rigor in environmental systems science. This includes attention to project planning and communicating decisions and working with stakeholders and emission reduction and prevention strategies, including fuel-related and air toxics strategies.
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Environmental Systems Science - Chapter 4: Predicting risks in an increasingly complex world

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Environmental Systems Science, Theory and Practical Applications, 2021, Pages 89-133
This book chapter addresses SDG 13 and 15 by explaining an approach to environmental and human health risk from a systems perspective. It introduces exposure assessment methodologies, identifying failures of conventional methods. The chapter explains possible ways to augment them to address the large uncertainties in assessing and managing the risks to humans and ecosystems from chemicals and microbes.
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Data Science Applied to Sustainability Analysis: Chapter 2 - Applying AI to conservation challenges

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Data Science Applied to Sustainability Analysis, 2021, Pages 17-28
This book chapter advances SDGs 13 and 15 by presenting the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and approaches in conservation-related challenges.
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Landscape Evolution: 10 - Landscape evolution and environmental change

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Landscape Evolution, Landforms, Ecosystems, and Soils, 2021, Pages 301-338
This book chapter advances SDGs 13 and 15 by reviewing case studies of how landscapes respond to contemporary and future environmental change.
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Climate Change, Third Edition: Chapter 4 - Numerical modeling of the global climate and carbon cycle system

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Chris D. Jones, Chapter 4 - Numerical modeling of the global climate and carbon cycle system, Editor(s): Trevor M. Letcher, Climate Change (Third Edition), Elsevier, 2021, Pages 67-91
This chapter advances SDGs 13 and 15 by applying numerical modeling techniques to better understand the global climate and utilize observations to identify impacts of climate change on Earth.
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Climate Change, Third Edition: Chapter 1 - Global warming - a complex situation

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Trevor M. Letcher, 1 - Global warming—a complex situation, Editor(s): Trevor M. Letcher, Climate Change (Third Edition), Elsevier, 2021, Pages 3-17
This book chapter advances SDGs 13 and 15 by examining how pollution and greenhouse gases contribute to global warming, as well as addressing the social and ethical impacts of climate change.
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Water Conservation in the Era of Global Climate Change - Chapter 5: An overview of the potential impacts of global climate change on water resources

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Water Conservation in the Era of Global Climate Change, 2021.
This book chapter advances SDGs 13, 12 and 15 by discussing climate change and its causes and effects on water resources and implications for adaptation.
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GPS and GNSS Technology in Geosciences - Chapter 10: Environmental sensing: a review of approaches using GPS/GNSS

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Antigoni Faka, Konstantinos Tserpes, Christos Chalkias, Chapter 10 - Environmental sensing: a review of approaches using GPS/GNSS, Editor(s): George p. Petropoulos, Prashant K. Srivastava, GPS and GNSS Technology in Geosciences, Elsevier, 2021, Pages 199-220, ISBN 9780128186176, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818617-6.00013-5.
This chapter advances UN SDG goal 12 by enabling environmental assessment through remote sensing technologies
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Introduction to Forestry and Natural Resources, Second Edition - Preface

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Introduction to Forestry and Natural Resources, Second Edition, 2022.
This preface advances SDG 15 by providing an overview of the breadth and depth of this second edition, and the key insights it contains.
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