Environmental category: 9736 books
Environmental Management
Problems and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
There is a growing need to support undergraduate educators in the development of environmental management educational materials. Recognizing this need, the National Science Foundation funded a College Faculty Workshop on Environmental Management, that was conducted at Utah State University in July...
by Ravi S. Singh
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
This book innovatively brings together analyses of the ancient environmental traditions and thoughts with contemporary issues from multidisciplinary perspectives. It provides desirable insights into environmental concerns; their developmental interfaces, agriculture, climate change, gender, health...
by Nicholas A. Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2019
Environmental Regulation of Real Property enables you to anticipate and solve a wide range of environmental law problems. It not only offers indepth analysis of federal environmental statutes having a bearing on land use, but also looks closely at rules imposed by state and local governments. The...
Energy, Environmental & Sustainable Ecosystem Development
International Conference on Energy, Environmental & Sustainable Ecosystem Development (EESED 2015)
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
In the rapid development of global economics, energy, environmental & ecosystem are recognized as important factors for sustainable development in human society. The application of measurement and control technology also play a very important role in the utilization and protection of energy and...
Environmental Health for All
Risk Assessment and Risk Communication for National Environmental Health Action Plans
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Accurate assessment of environmental hazards and related risks is a primary prerequisite for effective environmental health protection, at both the individual and collective level. National and regional policies on environmental health need to be guided by knowledge about the risks to the populations...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
The ever-increasing awareness and growing focus on environmental issues such as climate change and energy use is bringing about an urgency in expanding research to provide possible solutions to these problems. Through current engineering research and emerging technologies, scientists work to combat...
Environmental Software Systems
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Due to increasing practical needs, software support of environmental protection and research tasks is growing in importance and scope. Software systems help to monitor basic data, to maintain and process relevant environmental information, to analyze gathered information and to carry out decision...
by Mark L. Brusseau, Ian L. Pepper, Charles Gerba
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
Environmental and Pollution Science, Third Edition, continues its tradition on providing readers with the scientific basis to understand, manage, mitigate, and prevent pollution across the environment, be it air, land, or water. Pollution originates from a wide variety of sources, both natural and...
by Matthias Okoro
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: A, University of Nigeria (CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL), course: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL, language: English, abstract: The complexity of the paper issue means that firm conclusions are hard...
Eco-facts and Eco-fiction
Understanding the Environmental Debate
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Ozone-friendly, recyclable, zero-waste, elimination of toxic chemicals - such environmental ideals are believed to offer solutions to the environmental crisis. Where do these ideals come from? Is the environmental debate communicating the right problems?
Eco-Facts and Eco-Fiction examines serious...
The Politics of Contaminated Sites Management
Institutional Regime Change and Actors' Mode of Participation in the Environmental Management of the Bonfol Chemical Waste Landfill in Switzerland
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
By the end of the 1970s, contaminated sites had emerged as one of the most complex and urgent environmental issues affecting industrialized countries. The authors show that small and prosperous Switzerland is no exception to the pervasive problem of sites contamination, the legacy of past practices...
Speaking for Ourselves
Environmental Justice in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Environmental justice as a concept has evolved over the past two decades to offer new, challenging directions for social movements, public policy, and public planning. Researchers worldwide now position social equity as a building block for sustainability. Yet the relationship between social equity...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
Environmental conflict resolution (ECR) is a process of negotiation that allows stakeholders in a dispute to reach a mutually satisfactory agreement on their own terms. The tools of ECR, such as facilitation, mediation, and conflict assessment, suggest that it fits well with other ideas for reforming...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The diverse nature of environmental problems mankind has encountered within the last decade has developed a new understanding of the nature of environmental processes. Currently, the environment is considered as a continuum of air, soil and water as the vital components for sustaining life on earth....