Environment category: 6530 books
Mercury from Gold and Silver Mining
A Chemical Time Bomb?
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Due to its inherent characteristics, mercury contamination from gold mining is a major environmental problem compared to past mercury contamination from industrial point sources. The worsening of social-economical conditions and increasing gold prices in the late 1970s resulted in a new rush for gold...
Russia and the West
Environmental Co-operation and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Hønneland assesses current environmental discourses and applies this analysis to look at the relations between Russia and the West with regards to environment problems. It includes three in-depth case-studies on environmental problems, living marine resources, nuclear safety and air pollution.
Spatial Database for GPS Wildlife Tracking Data
A Practical Guide to Creating a Data Management System with PostgreSQL/PostGIS and R
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
This book guides animal ecologists, biologists and wildlife and data managers through a step-by-step procedure to build their own advanced software platforms to manage and process wildlife tracking data. This unique, problem-solving-oriented guide focuses on how to extract the most from GPS animal...
by Alex Sandro Campos Maia, Roberto Gomes da Silva
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
The book begins by describing in detail the mechanisms of energy exchange – radiative, convective, conductive and evaporative – together with techniques for their determination. The discussion extends to the importance of CO2, ozone and methane, together with that of aerosol pollutants and the...
Disaster Resilience of Education Systems
Experiences from Japan
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Education is regarded as a cross-cutting issue for disaster risk reduction (DRR) through reviewing the Sendai Framework for DRR (SFDRR) 2015–2030. Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the education sector is one of the important efforts to enhance resilience in a community. DRR in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Sustainable management of soils is an important global issue of the 21st century. Feeding roughly 8 billion people with an environmentally sustainable production system is a major challenge, especially considering the fact that 10% of the world’s population at risk of hunger and 25% at risk of...
Illite
Origins, Evolution and Metamorphism
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This monograph examines the mineralogy of illite, the most common clay mineral, as a unifying theme for understanding problems of the surface environment and environmental change. The volume begins with a careful analysis of the structure and transformation of illite. Using illite as the frame, the...
Advances in Remote Sensing and Geo Informatics Applications
Proceedings of the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2018
This edited volume is based on the best papers accepted for presentation during the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018. The book compiles a wide range of topics addressing various issues by experienced researchers mainly from research institutes in...
Bestial Oblivion
War, Humanism, and Ecology in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Although war is a heterogeneous assemblage of the human and nonhuman, it nevertheless builds the illusion of human autonomy and singularity. Focusing on war and ecology, a neglected topic in early modern ecocriticism, Bestial Oblivion: War, Humanism, and Ecology in Early Modern England shows how warfare...
American Environmental Policy
The Failures of Compliance, Abatement and Mitigation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
More than 40 years after the United States launched bold efforts to curb pollution and waste, American environmental management has stalled. Drawing extensively on recent environmental science, engineering, regulatory agency data and trade information, American Environmental Policy explores how environmental...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
What is Green Living? We hear a lot about green living on an almost daily basis, yet many people aren't aware of what those very important words are really all about.
Green living, or living green as men refer to it as, is living your life in an environmentally responsible and eco friendly...
Celebrating Soil
Discovering Soils and Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
This richly illustrated book celebrates the diversity, importance, and intrinsic beauty of soils around the world and helps the reader to understand the ways that soils are related to the landscapes in which they form. The book unravels the complex bond between humans and soils and the importance...
Shasta and Her Cubs
The Struggle for Survival
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
One morning in early spring, high in the unforgiving Canadian Rocky Mountains, a young bear gives birth to her first cubs. There are three of them, each hairless, blind, and helpless. Shasta and Her Cubs is the story of that mother’s struggles to keep herself and her three cubs alive until they reach...
by Grey Owl
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2019
Pilgrims of the Wild is Grey Owl’s autobiographical account of his transition from successful trapper to preservationist. With his Iroquois wife, Anahereo, Grey Owl set out to protect the environment and the endangered beaver. Powerful in its simplicity, Pilgrims of the Wild tells the story of Grey...