Environmental category: 9736 books
Environmental Pollution
Select Proceedings of ICWEES-2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Water, Environment, Energy and Society. The book is divided into five parts. The first part deals with some aspects of environmental pollution such as socio-economic environment assessment for sustainable development, environmental...
by McBeath, G.A., McBeath
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
China’s environmental issues have been the subject of global criticism long before authors Gerald McBeath and Jenifer Huang McBeath began their study, yet often overlooked are the sizable efforts of the Chinese people and government to change attitudes and behavior in order to improve environmental...
World Seas: An Environmental Evaluation
Volume II: The Indian Ocean to the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
World Seas: An Environmental Evaluation, Second Edition, Volume Two: The Indian Ocean to the Pacific provides a comprehensive review of the environmental condition of the seas from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific. Each chapter is written by experts in the field who provide historical overviews in...
World Seas: An Environmental Evaluation
Volume I: Europe, The Americas and West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
World Seas: An Environmental Evaluation, Second Edition, Volume One: Europe, The Americas and West Africa provides a comprehensive review of the environmental condition of the seas of Europe, the Americas and West Africa. Each chapter is written by experts in the field who provide historical overviews...
Excel 2016 for Environmental Sciences Statistics
A Guide to Solving Practical Problems
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2016
This book shows the capabilities of Microsoft Excel in teaching environmental science statistics effectively. Similar to the previously published Excel 2013 for Environmental Sciences Statistics, this book is a step-by-step exercise-driven guide for students and practitioners who need to master Excel...
by Amy Cutter-Mackenzie, Deborah Moore, Wendy Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
In an era in which environmental education has been described as one of the most pressing educational concerns of our time, further insights are needed to understand how best to approach the learning and teaching of environmental education in early childhood education. In this book we address this...
Environmental Changes
The Futures of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
This book addresses environmental changes and how they reconfigure society’s relationship to the future. It argues that Man does not build “his future alone: instead, environmental changes are also proof of the future-making capacity of non-human beings.
The author elaborates on the notion...
by Danny Reible
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
The field of environmental engineering is rapidly emerging into a mainstream engineering discipline. For a long time, environmental engineering has suffered from the lack of a well-defined identity. At times, the problems faced by environmental engineers require knowledge in many engineering fields,...
by Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson, Angela Brammer, Christopher Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
This publication characterizes the environmental burden of disease in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), measured by the excess number of deaths and illnesses in the population due to exposure to environmental hazards. The robust methods used in this risk analysis can be applied to any country or region....
Environmental Expertise
Connecting Science, Policy and Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
An important goal of environmental research is to inform policy and decision making. However, environmental experts working at the interface between science, policy and society face complex challenges, including how to identify sources of disagreement over environmental issues, communicate uncertainties...
Assessments of Regional and Global Environmental Risks
Designing Processes for the Effective Use of Science in Decisionmaking
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
As environmental challenges grow larger in scale and implications, it is increasingly important to apply the best scientific knowledge in the decisionmaking process. Editors Farrell and Jäger present environmental assessments as the bridge between the expert knowledge of scientists and engineers...
Managing the Environmental Crisis
Incorporating Competing Values in Natural Resource Administration
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Second edition
With a new foreword by Lynton Keith Caldwell
In Managing the Environmental Crisis William R. Mangun and Daniel H. Henning provide a balanced and comprehensive guide to the management of complex environmental and natural resource policy issues. Taking into account new developments,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) publishes several series of documents that provide up-to-date information about environmental site assessment and remediation. The EPA Environmental Engineering Sourcebook includes papers and bulletins that focus on remediation of soil and groundwater,...
The 'Ecosystem Approach' in International Environmental Law
Genealogy and Biopolitics
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
The ecosystem approach, broadly understood as a legal and governance strategy for integrated environmental and biodiversity management, has been adopted within a wide variety of international environmental legal regimes and provides a narrative, a policy approach and in some cases legally binding...