Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
The effects of legislation on the municipal solid waste management in the European Union in the context of greenhouse gas emissions
Using England, Germany and Bulgaria as representatives
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2008
Master's Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: Pass with Distinction, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 73 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Since the pre-industrial era the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased by...
by Joseph S. Devinny, Marc A. Deshusses, Todd Stephen Webster
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
The number-one environmental threat to public health, air pollution remains a pressing problem-made even more complicated by the massive quantity and diversity of air pollution sources.
Biofiltration technology (using micro-organisms growing on porous media) is being recognized as one of the most...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
This book advances the scientific understanding, development, and application of geospatial technologies related to water resource management. It presents recent developments and applications specifically by utilizing new earth observation datasets such as TRMM/GPM, AMSR E/2, SMOS, SMAP and GCOM in...
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,...
Environment and Citizenship in Latin America
Natures, Subjects and Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Scholarship related to environmental questions in Latin America has only recently begun to coalesce around citizenship as both an empirical site of inquiry and an analytical frame of reference. This has led to a series of new insights and perspectives, but few efforts have been made to bring these...
Acidic Mining Lakes
Acid Mine Drainage, Limnology and Reclamation
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Acidification is a universal problem at all mining sites in which oxygenated water comes in contact with sulfide minerals or other reduced sulfur compounds. An International Workshop was held in September 1995 at the Department for Inland Water Research of the UFZ-Centre for Environmental Research...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Biodiversity is the delicate ecological balance within biological systems such as species and populations. Evidence suggests air pollution disrupts and impoverishes ecosysytems processes, and genetic and population diversity. Based on a symposium conducted by the EPA's Environmental Research Laboratory,...
PHEs, Environment and Human Health
Potentially harmful elements in the environment and the impact on human health
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
This book is dedicated to the occurrence and behaviour of PHEs in the different compartments of the environment, with special reference to soil. Current studies of PHEs in ecosystems have indicated that many industrial areas near urban agglomerates, abandoned or active mines, major road systems and...
The Wisdom of the Spotted Owl
Policy Lessons For A New Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
The controversy over the managemof national forests in the Pacific Northwest vividly demonstrates the shortcomings of existing manageminstitutions and natural resource policies. The Wisdom of the Spotted Owl explores the American policymaking process through the case of the spotted owl -- a case that...
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...
Soil Science Working for a Living
Applications of soil science to present-day problems
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
This book discusses gritty issues that society faces every day: food and water security, environmental services provided by farmers, almost accidentally, and taken for granted by everyone else, the capability of the land to provide our needs today and for the foreseeable future and pollution of soil,...
by Miles O. Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Black tides of spilled oil pollute the world's coasts with depressing regularity, giving scientists ample opportunity to observe their environmental impacts and learn how to clean up and restore the affected shorelines. Miles O. Hayes has been a leader in this work for over twenty years. In this highly...
Dendroecology
Tree-Ring Analyses Applied to Ecological Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Dendroecologists apply the principles and methods of tree-ring science to address ecological questions and resolve problems related to global environmental change. In this fast-growing field, tree rings are used to investigate forest development and succession, disturbance regimes, ecotone and treeline...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2006
The Hudson River Estuary is a comprehensive look at the physical, chemical, biological and environmental management issues that are important to our understanding of the Hudson River. Chapters cover the entire range of fields necessary to understanding the workings of the Hudson River estuary; the...