Environmental category: 9736 books
Environmental Forensics
Contaminant Specific Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Environmental forensics is the application of scientific techniques for the purpose of identifying the source and age of a contaminant. Over the past several years, this study has been expanding as a course of study in academia, government and commercial markets. The US Environmental Protection Agency...
by Grady Hanrahan I
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Key Concepts in Environmental Chemistry provides a modern and concise introduction to environmental chemistry principles and the dynamic nature of environmental systems. It offers an intense, one-semester examination of selected concepts encountered in this field of study and provides integrated tools...
by Brian L. Murphy, Robert D. Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Introduction to Environmental Forensics helps readers unravel the complexities of environmental pollution cases. It outlines techniques for identifying the source of a contaminant release, when the release occurred, and the extent of human exposure. Written by leading experts in environmental investigations,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
This report connects the missions and functions of our nation's nuclear weapons facilities with the inventories of waste and materials remaining at the plants, and the extent and characteristics of contamination in and around the sites. It aims to provide Congress, DOE program managers, nongovernmental...
Beyond Borders
Environmental Movements and Transnational Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Globalisation is about transnational politics. While nation-state governments increasingly struggle with this new politics, which moves beneath, between and beyond national borders, others entities like transnational corporations have flourished. But it is not just business which increasingly bypasses...
Greening Society
The Paradigm Shift in Dutch Environmental Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This book can be regarded as a monograph on the debates and developments in Dutch environmental policy. It has been written with a specific perspective in mind. First and foremost, the line of approach we have taken was from a multidisciplinary social science point of view. The trend in environmental...
Enforcement of European Union Environmental Law
Legal Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Offering a detailed account of the various legal arrangements at European Union level, this book is an ideal reference tool for practitioners and legal scholars. As well as examining the principal sources of EU environmental law enforcement, it also contributes to the legal and political debates that...
by Jocelyn Stacey
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This book argues for a reframing of environmental law. It starts from the premise that all environmental issues confront lawmakers as emergencies. Environmental issues pose a fundamental challenge to law because it is impossible to reliably predict which issues contain the possibility of an emergency...
Indigenous Peoples and Tropical Biodiversity
Analytical Considerations for Conservation and Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Achieving environmental conservation and socioeconomic development is a challenging endeavor, particularly when we do not have the necessary tools to develop a clear understanding of the dynamic relationship between indigenous communities and biodiversity in tropical forests. Theories and models oftentimes...
Best Practices for Environmental Health
Environmental Pollution, Protection, Quality and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
In a present where there are countless opportunities for the spread of exotic diseases, the expansion and creation of far more illness in our global population through globalization and rapid transportation, and the contamination of water, air and land, we find ourselves accountable. In this day and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
This seminal book results from a NATO Advanced Research Workshop at the University of Cambridge with Russian co-directorship, enabling the first formal dialogue between NATO and Russia about security issues in the Arctic Ocean. Involving interdisciplinary participation with experts from 17 nations,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Social work has been late to engage with the environmental movement. Often working with an exclusively social understanding of environment, much of the social work profession has overlooked the importance of environmental issues. However, recently, the impact of and worldwide attention to climate...
Arthur H. Westing
Pioneer on the Environmental Impact of War
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Since the 1960s the environment has become an issue of increasing public concern in North America and elsewhere. Triggered by the Second Indochina War (Vietnam Conflict) of 1961-1975, and further encouraged by the International Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm in 1972, the...
Environmental Information Systems
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Environmental information and systems play a major role in environmental decision making. As such, it is vital to understand the impact that they have on different aspects of sustainable environmental management, as well as to understand the opportunism they might present for further improvement....