Description / Table of Contents: A comprehensive review on the development of zero waste management -- Crop residue management practices for sustaining soil health -- Biostimulation of microbes for enhanced oil removal from petroleum hydrocarbon contaminated soils: A zero waste remediation approach.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: General issues and interdisciplinary approach to deep-sea mining -- Chapter 1: Deep-sea mining and the water column – an Introduction -- Chapter 2: Interdisciplinary approach to Deep Sea Mining - with an emphasis on the water column -- Part 2: Engineering concepts for deep-sea mining, ore handling and processing -- Chapter 3: Contemporary Technological Progress in Deep Sea Mining -- Chapter 4: Handling of bulk solids in a marine environment, from seabed to shore -- Chapter 5: Considerations for using Polymetallic Nodules as alternative metal extraction resource: focus on energy related applications -- Part 3: Approaches to sea surface and water column monitoring -- Chapter 6: Understanding deep-sea turbulence for environmental impact assessments -- Chapter 7: Turbidity at the source: aiming for minimized sediment dispersion during deep-sea mining -- Chapter 8: Applicability of satellite data in the selection of protected areas within REMP- Chapter 9: Assessment of possible environmental impacts using flow-cytometric analysis of metal toxicity in marine phytoplankton -- Part 4: Regional assessment of water column characteristics and management -- Chapter 10: Atmospheric and oceanographic characteristics of the BGR exploration area in the CCZ and model simulations of suspended sediment transport -- Chapter 11: Ocean current observations throughout the water column in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone, tropical North Pacific -- Chapter 12: Biogeochemistry of the South Indian Ocean – Water Masses, Nutrient Distribution, and Sinking Particulate Matter -- Chapter 13: Multilevel assessment and options for the management of cumulative impacts on pelagic ecosystems in the north-eastern tropical Pacific Ocean -- Chapter 14: Marine mammal communities and human activities in the north-eastern tropical Pacific: Conservation and management strategies -- Part 5: Legal, policy and economic issues of deep-sea mining -- Chapter 15: The water column and seabed mining in the Area – selected environmental legal issues -- Chapter 16: Economic policy considerations for deep-sea mining -- Chapter 17: A Comparative Economic Scenario of Nodules Mining in Pacific and Indian Oceans, Associated Challenges and Their Prospects -- Chapter 18: Economic potential of polymetallic nodules mining.

Description / Table of Contents: This book presents short papers of participants of the 9th International Scientific Conference-School for Young Scientists «Physical and Mathematical Modeling of Earth and Environment Processes. A special focus is given to the extraction of hydrocarbon resources, including from unconventional sources. An alternative to the use of hydrocarbons as a main source of energy on the Planet in the coming decades is unlikely to be found. At the same time, the resource base of hydrocarbons is quickly depleted, in particularly, large and accessible oil and gas fields. The shale oil and gas, Arctic hydrocarbon stocks, gas hydrates, coal bed methane, oil and gas from deep horizons can become new sources. "Deep oil" may be the most promising source of expanding the resource base of hydrocarbons according to many experts. New technologies are required to their development. Efficient low-cost technologies can be created on the basis of geomechanical approach, i.e., through the use of a huge elastic energy stored in the rock massif due to rock pressure. The creation of new breakthrough approaches to the development of hydrocarbon fields is very important in today's geopolitical conditions and requires the involvement of young minds and strength. International activities, including the youth scientific schools, can become an effective tool for exchange of information and the organizing of interdisciplinary research of processes in geo-environment. The book presents the new results of the experimental and theoretical modeling of deformation, fracture, and filtration processes in the rocks in connection to issues of creating scientific fundamentals for new hydrocarbon production technologies. The investigations of the dependence of well stability and permeability of rocks on the stress-strain state in conditions of deep horizons and high rock pressure are also represented.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Urban Green Infrastructure and Climate Mitigation -- Part 2: Human Experience and Well-being in Urban Environments -- Part 3: Adaptation, Livelihood, and Social Dynamics.

Description / Table of Contents: Environmental Science -- Exploration of Resources and Environmental Protection -- Energy Economics and Management.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Geology and Tectonic Setting of the Cordillera Blanca (Hall, S.) -- Chapter 2. Geomorphological setting of the Cordillera Blanca (Vilímek, V.) -- Chapter 3. Climate of the Cordillera Blanca (Yarleque, C.) -- Chapter 4. Hydrology and hydrogeology in the Cordillera Blanca (Baraër, M.) -- Chapter 5. Lakes of the Cordillera Blanca: typology, inventory, bathymetry and evolution (Emmer, A.) -- Chapter 6. Glaciation and the environments of the Cordillera Blanca (Mark, B.G.) -- Chapter 7. Climate-morphogenetic and morphodynamic zones of the Western Cordillera in Peru (Vilímek, V.) -- Chapter 8. Landslides in the Cordillera Blanca (Klimeš, J.) -- Chapter 9. Stability of moraine and rock slopes at glacial lakes - two case studies in the Cordillera Blanca (Novotný, J.) -- Chapter 10. Glacial lake outburst floods in the Cordillera Blanca (Emmer, A.) -- Chapter 11. Current Perspectives on Community, Land, and Water in the Cordillera Blanca (Moulton, H.) -- Chapter 12. Human interaction with glacier-related hazards in the Cordillera Blanca (Wegner, S.A.) -- Chapter 13. How people feel endangered by natural hazards: interpretation of questionnaires in the Callejón de Huaylas (Vilímek, V.) -- Chapter 14. Novel proglacial landscapes and ecosystems in the Cordillera Blanca (Zimmer, A.) -- Chapter 15. Anne Smith Peck, Social Systems, and Landscape Change in the Cordillera Blanca from 1908 to the present (Polk, M.H.).

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Tools for Building Spatial Dependence Structure of Extreme Wave Heights at Regionally Neighboring Ports -- Chapter 2: Study on the Waves in Coastal zone at China-Maldives Friendship Bridge and the Protection Pan for Approach Bridge in Hulhumale -- Chapter 3: Research on multifractal scale characteristics of significant wave height time series -- Chapter 4: Wave condition measured at an offshore tower and wave prediction by using XGBboost -- Chapter 5: A Study on the Characteristics of Wave Variation in Ports under the Condition of Breakwater Expansion -- Chapter 6: Detection of Groundwater Flow Velocity Field in the Swash zone of the Coral Gravel Beach using Particle Tracking Velocimetry -- Chapter 7: Characteristics of wave-induced groundwater dynamics using harmonic analysis -- Chapter 8: Quantification of Wave-induced Liquefaction in Small-scale Surf Zone Sandbar -- Chapter 9: Analytical modeling of hydraulic jumps induced by river plume’slateral-boundary constriction.

Description / Table of Contents: - A review of balanced scorecard application in public hospital setting -- Critical Success Factors in Implementing Sustainable Business Models: The ITAL case -- Earnings Conference Calls’ Tone in Just Meet-Beat Firms: Evidence from the UK -- Economic Sustainability through IPSAS: A Global Perspective -- ESG Reporting: Impacts, Benefits and Challenges -- Green Marketing Strategies: Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumer Behavior and Corporate Responsibility -- Size as a Motive for Bank Window Dressing: Evidence from an Emerging Economy -- Strengths and Weaknesses of Integrated Reporting: A Comprehensive Literature Review -- The impact of Jordanian tourism website performance on online purchase intention: Review -- Sustainability in Education -- Outstanding Support for Students Becoming a Social Entrepreneurship Course -- Environmental orientation and sustainable innovation performance: The role of dynamic capabilities -- Mapping the Landscape of Sustainable Finance: A Scopus Based Bibliometric Analysis -- Shedding Light on the Link: Salient Stakeholder Theory and Sustainability Connections -- Accounting in the Digital Era: Does Big Data add value? -- Driving Sustainability Forward: Do Fintech and Digital Transformation Matter? -- Factors affecting big data analytics in Jordanian commercial banks -- Investigating Firm-Generated Content's Influence on Digital Marketing Effectiveness in Private Hospitals – A Jordanian Perspective -- Sustainability Practices within Fin-Tech Firms: A Literature Review -- The Impact of Information and Communications Technology (ICTs) on Food Security in Jordan -- The moderating role of accountant’s capability on the relationship AIS and the quality of financial reporting: A literature review.

Description / Table of Contents: Quantifying species responses to the effects of changing environmental conditions is critical for a better understanding of how climate change affects invasion, expansion, and contraction of marine coastal species. Climate change is leading to modifications in the marine coastal environment, to conditions not experienced before; climate change results in that marine organisms experience simultaneous changes in several environmental variables (=drivers: e.g. temperature, salinity, food). How simultaneous changes in multiple drivers are experienced depend on species-specific traits (e.g. physiological tolerance, developmental time); for instance, co-occurring native and non-native species may experience and respond to climate change in different ways. In addition, within species, responses to multiple drivers may vary across populations and environmental gradients. The general objective of this thesis was to quantify the effects of environmental drivers (temperature, salinity and food limitation) on performance of native and non-native species with focus on larval stages and using crabs as model systems. There were two main objectives, first to compare native and non-native species in the responses to multiple environmental drivers and to quantify larval responses to temperature across their distribution range. I focused on larvae because they play a critical role in population dynamics: larvae are important for the dispersion and connectivity of populations, and are more sensitive to changes in environmental conditions than adults. I used three ecologically relevant species of coastal areas of the North Sea and North Atlantic Ocean as models: Hemigrapsus sanguineus, Carcinus maenas and Hemigrapsus takanoi. C. maenas is native to Europe; Hemigrapsus spp. are both non-native species in the European coast, where they coexist with C. maenas as juveniles and adults in the benthos. I used factorial experiments rearing larvae from hatching to megalopae at different combinations of temperature and other environmental drivers (salinity, food limitation). Larval performance was quantified as survival, duration of development, and growth. The first series of result show that both non-native (Hemigrapsus spp) species had higher performance (high survival, shorter duration of development and high growth rates) than the native C. maenas at higher temperatures and at moderately low salinities (18 – 24 °C, 20 – 25 ‰). These results are comparable to another non-native species in Europe, the Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis. In H. sanguineus, larvae show moderate level of tolerance to limited access to food at high temperature, which contrasted to the low tolerance shown in native C. maenas. Experiments and modelling show that the nature of the multiple driver response depends strongly on the metric used to measure time, where my emphasis is on biological time (time to metamorphosis). The results from the populations comparisons showed species and gradient-specific responses. For H. takanoi, distributed over a salinity gradient (North Sea -Baltic Sea), larvae from the North Sea populations always showed higher survival and faster development compared with those from the Baltic Sea. The population near the limit of the distribution showed very low survival, suggesting that subsidies or complex ontogenetic migration patterns are needed for population persistence. Results did not show genetic differentiation among the studied populations in the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit one gene (COI) suggesting that there is high connectivity among populations. For C. maenas distributed across a latitudinal gradient (South: Vigo, Spain; North: Bergen and Trondheim, Norway) and reared under different temperatures (range 6 to 27 °C in steps of 3 °C), there was little variation in survival and growth among populations. However, larvae from the Norwegian populations had a slightly shorter duration of development at low temperatures than those from Vigo, this response has an adaptive value in that it could sustain survival in scenarios of reduced temperature, by shortening the larval phase, when mortality rates are high. Besides, results from this experiment (as well as for the mentioned above) showed high intrapopulation variability in larval performance which has a potential to affect range expansion of the above-mentioned species. Variation in the responses of larval stages to the effects of different environmental drivers highlights the importance of using physiological descriptors to quantify the performance of marine invertebrates to changing environments. Larval responses vary in rates of survival but also in the duration of time to achieve metamorphosis, as well as the rate at which the organisms grow, with concomitant effects on post-metamorphic success, which in seasonal habitats may strongly depend on temperature. The results from the thesis highlight the importance of quantifying the responses of marine invertebrates to changing environmental conditions, considering different species and species distributed across different gradients as well as variations among and within species.