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Climate Change and Food Security
Adapting Agriculture to a Warmer World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Roughly a billion people around the world continue to live in state of chronic hunger and food insecurity. Unfortunately, efforts to improve their livelihoods must now unfold in the context of a rapidly changing climate, in which warming temperatures and changing rainfall regimes could threaten the...
Environmental Sustainability from the Himalayas to the Oceans
Struggles and Innovations in China and India
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
The book is written in the backdrop of the environmental impacts of and future requirements from the natural environment for rapid economic growth that has characterized recent economic history of China and India, especially over the past few decades. The environmental impacts of such rapid economic...
Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations
Questions of Accountability and Autonomy
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
This book examines and analyzes issues related to public finance in subnational governments, along with a discussion of case studies on decentralization. Most of the analysis applies to all public goods and services provided by subnational governments, with some placed on the role of subnational governments...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Contributions by prominent scholars examining the intersections of environmental philosophy and philosophy of technology.
Environmental philosophy and philosophy of technology have taken divergent paths despite their common interest in examining human modification of the natural world. Yet...
Why Does the World Stay Green?
Nutrition and Survival of Plant-eaters
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2005
Nearly every form of life has the capacity to multiply and increase at a really astonishing rate. Think of plagues of locusts or mice. Clearly, for the vast majority of animals this does not happen, otherwise they would swamp the world and destroy all the plants. So why doesn’t it happen, and why does...
Legal Aspects of Sustainable Development
Horizontal and Sectorial Policy Issues
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
This book addresses legal aspects of sustainable development and offers the latest thinking on a wide range of current themes. By taking a cross-cutting approach, it adds considerably to the exploration of this emerging scientific field.
Twenty-nine original contributions present innovative...
Cultural Severance and the Environment
The Ending of Traditional and Customary Practice on Commons and Landscapes Managed in Common
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
This major book explores commons, lands and rights of usage in common, traditional and customary practices, and the cultural nature of ‘landscapes’. Importantly, it addresses now critical matters of ‘cultural severance’ and largely unrecognized impacts on biodiversity and human societies,...
Global Risk-Based Management of Chemical Additives I
Production, Usage and Environmental Occurrence
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Chemical additives are used to enhance the properties of many industrial products. Since their release into the environment is a potential risk for man and nature, their fate and behavior were investigated in the framework of the European Union-funded project RISKCYCLE. The results are presented in...
by Pranas Baltrėnas, Edita Baltrėnaitė
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This volume discusses how small bioreactors can produce useful biogas and compost from biodegradable waste. The authors identify which biodegradable wastes are optimal for small bioreactors, and how these choices can be used to increase bioreactor productivity. Additionally, readers will learn about...
Global Warming
The Potential Impact on Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Global warming poses a serious threat to the quality of life in the 21st century. Taking Japan as an example, this book explains the anticipated impact of global warming on modern society-natural ecosystems; agriculture, forestry, and fisheries; water resources and environments; the infrastructure...
Fate of Pesticides in the Atmosphere: Implications for Environmental Risk Assessment
Proceedings of a workshop organised by The Health Council of the Netherlands, held in Driebergen, The Netherlands, April 22–24, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Global pesticide use is currently estimated at approximately 2. 5 billion kg per year (Pimentel eta/. , 1998). To be effective, pesticides need to persist for a certain period of time. However, the longer their persistence, the greater the potential for transport of a fraction of the amount applied...
A Good That Transcends
How US Culture Undermines Environmental Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Since the birth of the modern environmental movement in the 1970s, the United States has witnessed dramatic shifts in social equality, ecological viewpoints, and environmental policy. With these changes has also come an increased popular resistance to environmental reform, but, as Eric T. Freyfogle...
by Chee Yang Teh, Jacqueline Xiao Wen Hay, Ningqun Guo
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Over the past ten years, innovative technologies have shown that advanced oxidation processes are highly promising when applied to the remediation of polluted water or wastewater as they don’t generate any sludge or solid material of hazardous nature.
Advances in Ultrasound Technology for...
Elsevier's Dictionary of Soil Science
Definitions in English with French, German, and Spanish word translations
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
This dictionary includes some 9200 terms, each with a definition and often and additional descriptive text in English, the terms being translated in French, German and Spanish. It is more complete than similar previously published dictionaries or glossaries, and contains all fields of soil science...