Environment category: 6530 books
by Urmi Engineer Willoughby
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Through the innovative perspective of environment and culture, Urmi Engineer Willoughby examines yellow fever in New Orleans from 1796 to 1905. Linking local epidemics to the city’s place in the Atlantic world, Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans analyzes how incidences...
Nature Under Siege
Portrait of Environmental Crisis in the Niger Delta
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Expressions such as Environmental terrorism or eco-anarchy may sum up the state of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, in a bid to explain the indiscriminate cutting of pristine forests, terminal scare of wildlife and extinction of biodiversity, loss of soil fertility and fecundity of rivers, acidified...
Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides
Volume 5 Landslides in Different Environments
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Fourth World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL), University of Ljubljana (UL) and Geological Survey of Slovenia in Ljubljana,...
Landslide Science and Practice
Volume 5: Complex Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
This book contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011. The entire material from the conference has been split into seven volumes, this one is the fifth: 1. Landslide Inventory...
Soil
The Skin of the Planet Earth
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
The main focus of this monograph is to explain the important role of soil and the environment to a broad audience. Soil is one of the five essential factors crucial for human life. On the one hand the authors describe a responsible approach and use of soil, established on a basic knowledge of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Nitrogen (N) is potentially one of the most complex elements on the Earth. It is necessary for all biological activity, but creates negative impacts on water and air quality. There is a balancing act between deficiency and surplus and the forms of N available further complicate our understanding of...
Biodiversity in Agriculture
Domestication, Evolution, and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
The introduction of plant and animal agriculture represents one of the most important milestones in human evolution. It contributed to the development of cities, alphabets, new technologies, and ultimately to civilizations, but it has also presented a threat to both human health and the environment....
by
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Whenever environmental damages are caused by natural or human-made events, there are long-term effects for people. This eye-opening and unprecedented book explains the ongoing turmoil in the environment, while presenting ways to alleviate its effect on humankind's physical and mental health. Living...
Sedimentation in the Rupnarayan River
Volume 2: Estuarine Environment of Deposition
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
This book elucidates sedimentation processes at work in the Rupnarayan River, with particular focus on the environment of sediment deposition under a tidal system. It addresses the various complexities arising from the interactions between riverine and marine processes, as well as the seasonal...
GNSS Environmental Sensing
Revolutionizing Environmental Monitoring
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
This book is the second edition of Environmental Monitoring using GNSS and highlights the latest developments in global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). It features a completely new title and additional chapters that present emerging challenges to environmental monitoring—“climate variability/change...
Denzil the Dragonfly's Environmental Journey
Jeff Phillips Eco Series
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Denzil has been created as a colourful and very versatile character, designed to explain the terminology and raise awareness of environmental issues at key stage 1 – 2 primary school level. I see Denzil as a reporter on the environment, taking his reader through the story pointing out and explaining...
by R. J. Berry
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Our attitudes to our environment are widely and often acrimoniously discussed, commonly misunderstood, and will shape our future. We cannot assume that we behave as newly minted beings in a pristine garden nor as pre-programmed automata incapable of rational responsibility. Professor Berry has studied...
The Greening of Canada
Federal Institutions and Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
Environmental matters have become increasingly important in Canadian and world policy agendas. In this study, G. Bruce Doern and Thomas Conway trace the development of Canadian environment policy, giving an in-depth account of twenty years of environmental politics, politicians, institutions, and...
by Zahava Hanan
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2001
Zahava Hanan's struggle to save her ranch in Alberta from the threat of industrial pollution makes Heading for Home a modern tale on an epic scale. For twenty years she fought for her rights in Western Canada. Heading for Home gives a very warm account of her companions throughout those years from...