Environmental category: 9736 books
The Lakes of Pontchartrain
Their History and Environments
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
A vital and volatile part of the New Orleans landscape and lifestyle, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin actually contains three major bodies of water--Lakes Borgne, Pontchartrain, and Maurepas. These make up the Pontchartrain estuary. Robert W. Hastings provides a thorough examination of the historical...
Polyurethane Immobilization of Cells and Biomolecules
Medical and Environmental Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive review of the chemistry and research illustrating the benefits of polyurethane for immobilizing cells, with dozens of case studies in medical devices and environmental engineering.
• Offers an essential resource for medical and environmental scientists
•...
The Big Picture
Reflections on Science, Humanity, and a Quickly Changing Planet
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
"We've got lots of nuts-and-bolts accounts of our environmental predicament -- leave it to David Suzuki and Dave Robert Taylor to back up and give us the big view that puts things in perspective. A necessary book!" -- Bill McKibben
"Suzuki asks us to think beyond just swapping...
The Price of Permanence
Nature and Business in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Using the lens of environmental history, William D. Bryan provides a sweeping reinterpretation of the post–Civil War South by framing the New South as a struggle over environmental stewardship. For more than six decades, scholars have caricatured southerners as so desperate for economic growth that...
Technology Options for Electricity Generation
Economic and Environmental Factors
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Environmental constraints and market uncertainties create new challenges for electricity generation. In this title, originally published in 1991, the authors present a simulation model with a capability for highly detailed activity to identify cost-minimising investment options under different assumptions...
Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Technology, Incentives, Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
The complexity of carbon reduction and economic sustainability is significantly complicated by competing aspects of socioeconomic practices as well as legislative, regulatory, and scientific requirements and protocols. An easy to read and understand guide, Sioshansi, along with an international group...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
This volume’s focus on the environmental accounting of supply chain processes is of particular relevance because these processes supply data about the environmental impact of relationships between business organisations, an area where the boundary separating internal and external accounting is ill-defined....
Ghostworkers and Greens
The Cooperative Campaigns of Farmworkers and Environmentalists for Pesticide Reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Throughout the twentieth century, despite compelling evidence that some pesticides posed a threat to human and environmental health, growers and the USDA continued to favor agricultural chemicals over cultural and biological forms of pest control. In Ghostworkers and Greens, Adam Tompkins reveals...
by Bill Tomlinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
How the tools of information technology can support environmental sustainability by tackling problems that span broad scales of time, space, and complexity.
Building to Last
The challenge for business leaders
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The major challenge for companies is to create a business that will last. This means they have to take seriously the issue of sustainable development, rather than simply having an environmental policy, conducting social or environmental audits or consulting the stakeholder. It requires more radical...
by Toby Clark BSc CFIOSH AIEMA Cert Ed
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
A primer suitable for environmental foundation courses such as IOSH 'Managing Environmental Responsibilities', NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management and IEMA Foundation Certificate. It is also intended as a general reader in environmental management matters
The Housing Bomb
Why Our Addiction to Houses Is Destroying the Environment and Threatening Our Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Have we built our way to ruin? Is your desire for that beach house or cabin in the woods part of the environmental crisis? Do you really need a bigger home? Why don’t multiple generations still live under one roof? In The Housing Bomb, leading environmental researchers M. Nils Peterson, Tarla Rai...
Recycling Reconsidered
The Present Failure and Future Promise of Environmental Action in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
How the success and popularity of recycling has diverted attention from the steep environmental costs of manufacturing the goods we consume and discard.
Recycling is widely celebrated as an environmental success story. The accomplishments of the recycling movement can be seen in municipal practice,...
The Economics of Sustainable Development
The Case of India
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
This book highlights methodological approaches for the economics of sustainable development and brings together recent empirical work done in India, especially by Dr. Surender Kumar and Dr. Shunsuke Managi. Various chapters in this book use Indian data to show the very wide applicability of methodologies...