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Electronic books.
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No detailed description available for "Big Earth Data in Support of the Sustainable Development Goals (2020)".
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (420 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9782759826445
Series Statement:
Hors Collection
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=30800136
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Big Earth Datain Support of the Sustainable Development Goals (2020) -- Editorial Board -- Foreword -- Preface -- Executive Summary -- List of Cases on Big Earth Data for SDGs -- Contents -- Chapter 1 - Introduction -- Challenges to implementing the SDGs -- Big Earth Data -- Big Earth Data in Support of SDGs -- Chapter 2 - SDG 2 Zero Hunger -- Background -- Main Contributions -- Case Study -- Spatial distribution of classes of farmland size and agriculturalproductivity in Zambia -- Monitoring desert locusts in Asia and Africa -- Spatiotemporal patterns of rice paddy dynamics on the Indochina Peninsula -- Cultivated Land productivity dataset and its application in Northeast Eurasia -- Ethiopian wheat production potential -- Capacity building contributing to food security governancein Mozambique -- Summary -- Chapter 3 - SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation -- Background -- Main Contributions -- Case Study -- Spatial and temporal patterns of surface water clarity in the countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative -- Crop water productivity assessment of a representative irrigation district in Morocco -- Water-use eff iciency in Central Asia -- Water-use eff iciency in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin -- Changes in water bodies in Ramsar sites -- Summary -- Chapter 4 - SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities -- Background -- Main Contributions -- Case Study -- Road network changes and road connectivity assessment in the 65 countries in Asia, Europe and Africa -- Analyzing rural accessibility along the China-Pakistan Railway -- High-resolution urban impervious surface mapping for globalurbanization assessment -- Urban land use eff iciency and sustainability analysis for cities in Asia, Europe and Africa -- Assessment of land use changes in global large cities.
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Study on spatial and temporal distribution and protection countermeasures of cultural heritage in Asia, Europe and Africa -- Human disturbance monitoring and integrated pressure analysisin World Natural Heritage sites in Asia, Europe and Africa -- Summary -- Chapter 5 - SDG 13 Climate Action -- Background -- Main Contributions -- Case Study -- Natural disaster impact evaluation in Asia, Africa, Europe and Oceania, 2015-2019 -- Global burned area distribution and changes -- Factors and temporal variation of emissions from dust sources in Central Asia over the past 40 years -- Global forest carbon budget and climate change -- Risk assessment of freeze-thaw disasters in High Mountain Asia -- Contributing factors and growth trend analysis for the desert locust upsurge in early 2020 -- Evaluation of navigation capacity in the Northeast Passage -- Meteorological drought monitoring over arid Central Asia -- Summary -- Chapter 6 - SDG 14 Life Below Water -- Background -- Main Contributions -- Case Study -- Eutrophication assessment of the South China Sea andsurrounding waters -- Spatiotemporal patterns of coastal aquaculture ponds on the Indochina Peninsula and their impact on offshore chlorophyll-a concentration -- Monitoring changes in water environments in the ocean around the Port of Colombo -- Monitoring the extent and dynamic change in mangrove forests of some coastal countries -- Conservation and utilization of the coastline -- Summary -- Chapter 7 - SDG 15 Life on Land -- Background -- Main Contributions -- Case Study -- Global/regional forest cover (2019) -- Assessment of vulnerability in protected areas of the "Three Seasand One Lake" international basins, 2001-2015 -- Spatiotemporal dynamics of forest cover in Southeast Asia -- Global Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) progress report.
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Monitoring and assessing land degradation in fiveCentral Asian countries -- Assessment of grassland degradation in Mediterranean Africa -- Dynamic monitoring and control measures of land degradationand restoration in Mongolia -- Time-series monitoring and decision support of theMountain Green Cover Index in the Belt andRoad Economic Corridors -- Assessment of forest changes in Asian elephant habitats -- Monitoring forest type of Amur tiger habitat -- Global land cover changes in the past 20 years -- Potential productivity and water use efficiency for globalterrestrial ecosystems -- Global assessment of the impact of population and climatechange on the ecosystem material supply capacity of drylands -- Summary -- Chapter 8 - Summary and Prospects -- References -- Acronyms.
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