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Global Risk-Based Management of Chemical Additives I
Production, Usage and Environmental Occurrence
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Chemical additives are used to enhance the properties of many industrial products. Since their release into the environment is a potential risk for man and nature, their fate and behavior were investigated in the framework of the European Union-funded project RISKCYCLE. The results are presented in...
by Michel Ochi
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2003
Hurricanes are one of the most adverse aspects of the ocean environment, with the potential to cause a disastrous event for marine systems in the ocean. Hurricane Generated Seas is an invaluable reference for all involved in the field of naval, ocean and coastal engineering. The work clarifies hurricane...
Caring for Glaciers
Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Regional geopolitical processes have turned the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, into a strategic border area with an increasing military presence that has decentered the traditional agropastoralist economy. This in turn has led to social fragmentation, the growing isolation of elders,...
Framing Discourse on the Environment
A Critical Discourse Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
In this study, Richard Alexander presents a series of original and empirically based case studies of the language and discourse involved in the discussion of environmental and ecological issues. Relying upon a variety of different text types and genres – including company websites, advertisements,...
by Lothar Brock, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Renat Perelet
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Nils Petter Gleditsch International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) & Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trond heim This book could hardly have happened but for the end of the Cold War. The decline of the East-West conflict has...
Trace Elements in Terrestrial Environments
Biogeochemistry, Bioavailability, and Risks of Metals
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
A comprehensive reference handbook on the important aspects of trace elements in the land environment. Each chapter addresses a particular element and gives a general introduction to their role in the environment, where they come from, and their biogeochemical cycles. In addition to a complete updating...
Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countries
Environment, Economic Growth, and Income Distribution
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Drawing on case studies developed over a two-year period, 1987–1989, by Fellows in the Program in International Development Policy at Duke University, including experienced representatives from developing countries, the World Bank, and scholars, the authors integrate the growing interest in environmental...
The Volta River Basin
Water for Food, Economic Growth and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
The Volta River Basin (VRB) is an important transboundary basin in West Africa that covers approximately 410,000 square kilometres across six countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali and Togo. Its natural resources sustain the livelihoods of its population and contribute to economic...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
With the rapid growth of global industrialization, there has been substantial consumption of fossil fuels such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas along with growing carbon dioxide emissions. Unprecedented environmental and ecological crisis clouded the world. Fortunately, the Climate Conference in...
Environmental Humanities and Theologies
Ecoculture, Literature and the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Many ways of thinking about and living with ‘the environment’ have their roots in the Bible and the Christian cultural tradition. Environmental Humanities and Theologies shows that some of these ways are problematic. It also provides alternative ways that value both materiality and spirituality.
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Environmental Humanities and the Uncanny
Ecoculture, Literature and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
Sigmund Freud’s essay 'The Uncanny' is celebrating a century since publication. It is arguably his greatest and most fruitful contribution to the study of culture and the environment. Environmental Humanities and the Uncanny brings into the open neglected aspects of the uncanny in this famous essay...
Insect Ecology
An Ecosystem Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2006
Dr. Timothy Schowalter has succeeded in creating a unique, updated treatment of insect ecology. This revised and expanded text looks at how insects adapt to environmental conditions while maintaining the ability to substantially alter their environment. It covers a range of topics- from individual...
Ireland's Burning
How Climate Change Affect You
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
How Will Climate Change Affect You? Climate change is the biggest threat to the world today. Rising temperatures and shifting weather patterns are already creating havoc in parts of the world. The issue has been hotly debated by experts and policy-makers; it is now widely accepted that human...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
The Culture of Nature in the History of Design confronts the dilemma caused by design’s pertinent yet precarious position in environmental discourse through interdisciplinary conversations about the design of nature and the nature of design. Demonstrating that the deep entanglements of design and...