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  • 2020-2024  (7)
  • Mikkola, Heimo  (7)
  • [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : IntechOpen  (7)
  • Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
  • Wiesbaden : VS, Verl. für Sozialwiss.
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    Birds : Conservation, Research and Ecology (2023)
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    ISBN: 9781837696185 , 9781837696208 , 9781837696192
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (194 p.)
    Keywords: Zoology & animal sciences ; Anthropogenic Noise ; Traffic ; Urbanization ; Forests ; Wetlands ; Uninhabited Islands ; Insects ; Plants ; Birding by Habitat ; Birding and Weather ; Satellite Telemetry ; Birds As Bioindicators
    Abstract: Birds are among the best-known and most popular animals. With the help of modern technology like mobile identification, even non-academic birders can fully participate in scientific data collection. Unfortunately, birds suffer badly from agricultural changes, forest fires, logging, plastic waste, urban noise, and large windows. They may also carry viral diseases that will eventually affect humans. This book includes nine chapters from all over the world that discuss these problems and propose possible solutions for better conservation of birds
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    Owls : Clever Survivors (2023)
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    ISBN: 9781803553917 , 9781803553900 , 9781803553924
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (174 p.)
    Keywords: Animal behaviour
    Abstract: Owls are one of the most fascinating bird families. They have inspired much folklore and superstition worldwide. This book discusses this nocturnal species and their unique physiology and anatomy. It includes owl studies from countries including Bulgaria, Ecuador, Iraq, Slovakia, Syria, and Africa
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    Bats : Disease-Prone but Beneficial (2022)
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    ISBN: 9781803550138 , 9781803550121 , 9781803550145
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (150 p.)
    Keywords: Zoology & animal sciences
    Abstract: Bats are widely distributed and vary enormously in their ecology, sociality, and behavior. They offer diverse cultural and economic contributions to human populations, such as ecotourism, guano, medicinal products, religious significance, and vector control, to name a few. Insectivorous bats consume massive quantities of insects and other arthropods, controlling important agricultural pests and potential disease vectors. Bats feeding on nectar help to maintain diversity in forests through the dispersal of seeds and pollen, essential to many plant species with high economic, biological, and cultural value. At the same time, bats are often associated with zoonotic disease risks, a trend that has been magnified by the global COVID-19 pandemic, although no direct infection from bat to human has been demonstrated. Rapid deforestation is also a major contributing factor to new viral emergences. This book suggests that education is a suitable tool to minimize prejudice against bats and a key step to creating a harmonious coexistence between humans and bats. Chapters address such topics as bats in folklore and culture, bat dispersal patterns, bats in ecosystem management, pesticide exposure risks, roost-tier preference, diversity and conservation, and ecology of white-nose syndrome
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    Birds : Challenges and Opportunities for Business, Conservation and Research (2021)
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    ISBN: 9781839689987 , 9781839689970 , 9781839689994
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (168 p.)
    Keywords: Zoology & animal sciences
    Abstract: For many humans, birds are the most fascinating group of animals and they are definitely among the best-known and studied organisms. Thanks to global citizen science data, we know that there are some 50 billion individual birds in the world at present, which is about six birds for every human on the planet. Birds have an important role as indicators of the state of the environment, giving them high public value. Human-related global impacts such as climate changes and accelerating urbanization force extant species to continuous adaptations, population modifications, or even outright extinction. This book includes nine chapters covering such topics as bird genetics, the colour of avian plumage, conservation problems, sustainable hunting, habitat disturbance, range expansion and introductions, and long-term bird population changes and challenges. A key chapter explains the genetic rules and reasons why we have continuously more bird species in the world and why we may end up having 7,000 species more than the present 11,000 species
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    Education, Human Rights and Peace in Sustainable Development (2020)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : IntechOpen | The Hague : OAPEN FOUNDATION
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    ISBN: 9781839690426 , 9781839690419 , 9781839690433
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 p.)
    DDC: 304.2
    Keywords: Business ethics & social responsibility ; Business ethics & social responsibility
    Abstract: The aim of sustainable development is to balance our economic, environmental and social needs, allowing prosperity for current and future generations. Countries must be allowed to meet their basic needs of employment, food, energy, water and sanitation. There is a clear relationship between the three topics of the book: right to education has been recognized as a human right - education has a role in peace-building. Additionally, education, human rights and peace have a significant role in sustainable development. The United Nations have defined a broad range of internationally accepted rights, including civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights. However, this book demonstrates that there are still people and nations not respecting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Chapters from Brazil, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Israel, Peru, Russia and South-Africa cover topics like civil war, human abuses, the vulnerability of indigenous people, abortion, epilepsy, food security, lack of health equities in maternal and child health, and democracy or lack of it. We sincerely hope that this book will contribute to the joint pursuit of humanity to make the world better after we all get over the coronavirus pandemic.
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    Edible Insects (2020)
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    ISBN: 9781789856361 , 9781789856354 , 9781839684517
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (98 p.)
    Keywords: Food & beverage technology
    Abstract: Insect protein production through ‘mini-livestock farming’ has enormous potential to reduce the level of malnutrition in critical areas across the world. It has been estimated that insect eating is practised regularly by over two billion people, mostly in China and in most tropical countries in Africa, South America, and Asia. However, eating insects has been taboo in many western nations. Reasons for this are discussed in this book with examples from Finland and the UK. The enormous boom of insect farming in Finland started in September 2017 when the business type was legalized. However, a large part of the population found the insect food too expensive and exotic. UK research outlines a multitude of promising strategies to overcome ‘western’ resistance to eating insects. This book also includes a chapter on the potential of insect farming to increase global food security. It shows that Africa is a hotspot of edible insect biodiversity and there more than 500 species consumed daily. We have several examples of viable insect farming businesses that can fight poverty and malnutrition in developing countries and provide profit and wealth to rural farmers. The chapters of the book cover countries such as Cameroon, Ecuador, Finland, Ghana, India, Mexico, the UK, and the US
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    Owls (2020)
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    ISBN: 9781789840544 , 9781789840537 , 9781838804619
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (112 p.)
    Keywords: Insects (entomology)
    Abstract: Owls are soft-plumaged, short-tailed, big-headed birds that have the most frontally situated eyes of all birds and they can blink the upper eyelids. This, together with a broad facial disc, gives owls all the right characteristics to make them attractive in our eyes. At the same time, some people fear their presence and even their calls, and there are more myths and beliefs about owls than there are about any other bird.Bats are often similarly feared as owls, partly because both of them inhabit the night; a place that is unknown and alien to us. Owls and bats symbolise all that is mysterious about the night and their complete mastery of the darkness only highlights our own deficiencies. In this book, we will get to know the relationships between bats and owls. This book describes the biological control of rats by owls in Malaysia, the prey-predator interactions in a tropical forest in Mexico, and provides an overview of the breeding biology of owls. From numerous owl belief and myth studies, described in this book are those of the lesser known Central Asian countries where owls are often worshipped for their supernatural powers
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