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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Of all the books written about the problems of sustainable development and environmental protection, Sustainable Development: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy is one of the first to examine the role of science, economics and law, and ethics as generally applied to decision making on sustainable...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
In this handbook social science researchers who focus on sustainability present and discuss their findings, including empirical work, case studies, teaching and learning innovations, and applied projects. As such, the book offers a basis for the dissemination of information, ideas and experiences...
by J Readman, S Pollard, Steve Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Understanding pollution, its behaviour and impact is becoming increasingly important, as new technologies and legislation continually lower the tolerable levels of pollutants released into the environment. Introduction to Pollution Science draws upon sections of the authors' previous text (Understanding...
Mad Science
The Nuclear Power Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
"Joe Mangano is the constant, tireless voice that has helped keep me linked to reports from the front lines of the battle to expose the staggering risks to public health posed by nuclear power . . . Joe has been one of the most dedicated, intelligent and even-handed public activists I have ever known....
Restoring Lands - Coordinating Science, Politics and Action
Complexities of Climate and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Environmental issues, vast and varied in their details, unfold at the confluence of people and place. They present complexities in their biophysical details, their scope and scale, and the dynamic character of human action and natural systems. Addressing environmental issues often invokes tensions...
Sustainability Science
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
This textbook provides a comprehensive compilation of conceptual perspectives, methodological approaches and empirical insights of inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability science. Written by an international team of authors from leading sustainability institutions, the textbook covers key perspectives...
Science Communication in the World
Practices, Theories and Trends
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
This volume is aimed at all those who wonder about the mechanisms and effects of the disclosure of knowledge. Whether they have a professional interest in understanding these processes generally, or they wish to conduct targeted investigations in the PCST field, it will be useful to anyone involved...
Integrating Ecology and Poverty Reduction
The Application of Ecology in Development Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
The second volume of this series, Integrating Ecology into Global Poverty Reduction Efforts: Opportunities and solutions, builds upon the first volume, Integrating Ecology into Global Poverty Reduction Efforts: The ecological dimensions to poverty, by exploring the way in which ecological science...
Challenges of a Changing Earth
Proceedings of the Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 10–13 July 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
This volume is based on plenary presentations from Challenges of a Changing Earth, a Global Change Open Science Conference held in Amsterdam, The Neth- lands, in July 2001. The meeting brought together about 1400 scientists from 105 co- tries around the world to describe, discuss and debate the latest...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
This book provides the fundamental aspects of the diverse ranges of nanostructured materials (0D, 1D, 2D and 3D) for energy and environmental applications in a comprehensive manner written by specialists who are at the forefront of research in the field of energy and environmental science. Experimental...
The Water Will Come
Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
"An immersive, mildly gonzo and depressingly well-timed book about the drenching effects of global warming, and a powerful reminder that we can bury our heads in the sand about climate change for only so long before the sand itself disappears." (Jennifer Senior, New York Times)
A New York Times...
Jumping Fire
A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting Wildfire
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
This “terrifying, grimly funny” memoir about fighting forest fires in Alaska offers “an affectionate portrait of a fraternity of daredevils” (The New Yorker).
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year
Fighting fires since 1965, legendary smokejumper Murry A. Taylor finally hung...
Living Downstream
An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
The first edition of Living Downstream-an exquisite blend of precise science and engaging narrative-set a new standard for scientific writing. Poet, biologist, and cancer survivor, Steingraber uses all three kinds of experience to investigate the links between cancer and environmental toxins.
The...