Natural Resources category: 648 books
by Arjen Y. Hoekstra
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2019
Using the water footprint concept, this impactful book aids our understanding of how we can reduce water consumption and pollution to sustainable levels.
Since the publication of the first edition, the question of how to reduce our water footprint has become even more urgent. Freshwater scarcity...
World Metal Demand
Trends and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
In the early 1970s, the post-World War II boom in world metal consumption came to a halt. As time passed, it became clear that what many first thought to be a cyclical downturn was instead a long-term, substantial decline in world metal demand. In this volume, first published in 1990, editor John...
Water, Energy & Food Sustainability in the Middle East
The Sustainability Triangle
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This book provides a survey of technologies available to tackle the problems associated with climate change in the energy, water and food security nexus with a special focus on the Middle East. It is divided into three main sections. The energy Section consists of six chapters, the water section of...
Waste Management
Europäische Konferenz für Abfallbehandlung / European Conference on Waste Management / Conférence Européenne sur la Gestion des Déchets
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
The EEC's heavy dependence on imported raw materials, combined with insufficient priority given to recuperative technologies, provided twin incentives to convene the European Conference on Waste Management. The conference was also held in answer to a call for a serious interna tional forum to enable...
International Energy Governance
Selected Legal Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In a world that is hungry for energy security, the legal components at the junction of interstate energy cooperation have become increasingly important. International law as it stands today is not equipped to handle international energy governance issues fully, negatively affecting our aim to meet energy...
Water First
Issues and Challenges for Nations and Communities in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
This book outlines the contemporary issues and challenges that confront both the nations and the communities of the South Asian region, particularly India, where control over water has always been a symbol of social and political power. It explores the adequacy of the competing and/or complementary...
The Water-Sustainable City
Science, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
Cities place enormous pressures on freshwater quality and availability because they are often located some distance from the water sources needed by their populations. This fact compels planners to build infrastructure to divert water from increasingly distant outlying rural areas, thus disrupting their...
Handbook of Environment and Waste Management
Volume 2: Land and Groundwater Pollution Control
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
The Handbook of Environment and Waste Management, Volume 2, Land and Groundwater Pollution Control, is a comprehensive compilation of topics that are at the forefront of many of the technical advances and practices in solid waste management and groundwater pollution control. These include biosolids...
by Tracey Clunies-Ross, Nicholas Hildyard
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
In the last forty years, agriculture in the industrialised countries has undergone a revolution. That has dramatically increased yields, but it has also led to extensive rural depopulation; widespread degradation of the environment; contamination of food with agrochemicals and bacteria; more routine...
by A. Glikson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
When Artur Glikson died in July 1966 he was still comparatively unknown; yet paradoxically he had an international reputation that went beyond town planning and architectural circles. As far back as 1955, when he was forty four years old, he was an active participant in the notable Wenner-Gren Conference...
European Energy Law and Policy
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
EU energy law and policy have become more and more complex in recent years. Today these areas feature a multitude of layers concerning not only regulation of the power industry, but also security of energy supply, climate change, consumer needs and technical innovation. This textbook serves as an introduction...
Mixed-Method Evaluation of Watershed Management
Practices from Kushk-Abad Basin, Iran
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
This volume evaluates technical and social aspects of a watershed management program in the Kush-Abad Watershed Basin in Iran. Author Bahram Mohammadi Golrang offers a way forward for a more integrated means to evaluate large scale rural environmental management projects, their effects on the physical...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
Consideration of climate change deals increasingly with impacts and responses, and therefore involves a wide range of technical issues and a diverse community of experts. One of the challenges faced is that of ensuring effective communication between these different areas of expertise. For example, climate...
The Seventh Continent
Antarctica in a Resource Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.