Environmental category: 9736 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
As population growth accelerates, researchers and professionals face challenges as they attempt to plan for the future. Urban planning is a significant component in addressing the key concerns as the world population moves towards the city and leaves the rural environment behind, yet there are many factors...
by Johannes Fink
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Oil and gas engineers today use three main factors in deciding drilling fluids: cost, performance, and environmental impact, making water-based products a much more attractive option. Water-Based Chemicals and Technology for Drilling, Completion, and Workover Fluids effectively delivers all the background...
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Analysis in Tourism
A Critical Review of Applications and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Tourism is an activity that anyone can take part in, regardless of their age, gender, nationality or level of income. This makes tourism one of the most rapidly developing industries in the world. Despite the number of benefits which tourism produces, it also has significant negative impacts on the...
The Future of Conservation in America
A Chart for Rough Water
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
This is a turbulent time for the conservation of America’s natural and cultural heritage. From the current assaults on environmental protection to the threats of climate change, biodiversity loss, and disparity of environmental justice, the challenges facing the conservation movement are both immediate...
by Margi Prideaux
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
We are failing to protect wildlife and marching towards a tragic future where the world is monetized and wildness is gone. We can design a different future – if we want to hear Birdsong After the Storm.As we face the storm of climate change and political upheaval, we are designing a desolate...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Sustainability is a growing area of research in ecology, economics, environmental science, business, and cultural studies. Specifically, sustainable waste disposal and management is a growing concern as both solid and liquid wastes are rapidly expanding in direct correlation with population growth...
by Alan MacEachern, John Sandlos, Ben Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
"... a diverse and fascinating array of perspectives on the history of Canada's national parks, illuminating many less well-understood aspects of the evolving place of people in and near these parks." - Stephen Bocking, Professor and Chair, Environmental and Resource Studies Program, Trent...
Laurance S. Rockefeller
Catalyst For Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Despite his status as a scion of one of the wealthiest and mfamous families in the United States and an enormously successful businessman in his own right, Laurance S. Rockefeller is unknown to all but a few Americans. Yet while he has been neither Vice Presidnor Governor nor chairman of the world's...
by C. Alexis Lane
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Across North America and around the world, a significant shift from conventional to unconventional energy extraction is occurring like never before. As traditional energy sources dwindle and the insatiable demand for fossil fuels continues to increase, civilization seems to be taking greater and greater...
Carbon Capture, Storage and Use
Technical, Economic, Environmental and Societal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Carbon Capture and Storage technologies (CCS) are moving from experiment toward commercial applications at a rapid pace, driven by urgent demand for carbon mitigation strategies. This book examines the potential role of CCS from four perspectives: technology development, economic competitiveness,...
Topical Themes in Energy and Resources
A Cross-Disciplinary Education and Training Program for Environmental Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
This book combines issues several critical ones in the energy field (low-energy technologies, renewable energies such as the hydrogen economy, and geothermal energy).
Moving towards a more sustainable world requires a complete revolution in the way we manage energy and resources. However, from...
Environmental Carbon Footprints
Industrial Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Environmental Carbon Footprints: Industrial Case Studies provides a wide range of industrial case-studies, beginning with textiles, energy systems and bio-fuels. Each footprint is associated with background information, scientific consensus and the reason behind its invention, methodological framework,...
Desalination Sustainability
A Technical, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Desalination Sustainability: A Technical, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Approach presents a technical, socioeconomical, and environmental approach that guides researchers and technology developers on how to quantify the energy efficiency of a proposed desalination process using thermodynamics-based...
Good Crop / Bad Crop
Seed Politics and the Future of Food in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
IN RECENT YEARS Canadians have become more and more concerned about the origins oftheir food and the environmental impacts of pesticides in agriculture. What is less well knownis that pesticide corporations such as Monsanto and Du Pont have bought their way into the seed industry and are taking control...