Environmental category: 9736 books
Survival and Sustainability
Environmental concerns in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
The International Conference on Environment: Survival and Sustainability, held at the Near East University, Nicosia, Northern Cyprus 19-24 February 2007, dealt with environmental threats and proposed solutions at all scales. The 21 themes addressed by the conference fell into four broad categories;...
Environmental Technology
Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Environmental Technology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 22–26, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Five billion people, at present the world population, inevitably affect the quality of the environment. The general public in an increasing number of countries is getting more and more concerned about this deterioration in quality. As a result many people cast doubts upon the desirability of the increase...
Environmental Materials and Waste
Resource Recovery and Pollution Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Environmental Materials and Waste: Resource Recovery and Pollution Prevention contains the latest information on environmental sustainability as a wide variety of natural resources are increasingly being exploited to meet the demands of a worldwide growing population and economy.
These raw...
Urban Environmental Planning
Policies, Instruments and Methods in an International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Originally published in 1997, Urban Environmental Planning provides a groundbreaking overview of innovative methods and techniques for measuring and managing the environmental effects of urban land uses on other urban activities. Fully revised and updated, this second edition brings together a team...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Understanding how rhetoric, and environmental rhetoric in particular, informs and is informed by local and global ecologies contributes to our conversations about sustainability and resilience — the preservation and conservation of the earth and the future of human society. This book explores some...
The Environmental Impact Statement After Two Generations
Managing Environmental Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This book is about a subject that Michael Greenberg has worked on and lived with for almost forty years. He was brought up in the south Bronx at a time when his neighborhood suffered from terrible air and noise pollution, and domestic waste went untreated into the Hudson River. For him, the National...
by Albert I. Telsey
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Simplify the enormous array of U.S. environmental regulations.
This popular handbook simplifies the complex world of environmental law and regulations so you can quickly see which ones impact your job, project, or course of study. This quick guide provides:
Easy to read research on a huge...
Environmental Contaminants
Measurement, Modelling and Control
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
This book addresses the measurement of environmental contaminants in water, air, and soil. It also presents modifications of and improvements to existing control technologies for remediation of environmental contaminants. It covers improved designs of wastewater systems and innovations in designing...
by Taylor and Francis
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
The Handbook of Regulations on Environmental Protection in China details the environmental laws, regulations and standards in China for those enforcing and creating environmental policy as it stood in the early 1990’s. Originally published in English in 1994, this translation aims to illuminate...
by Scott Schang, Leila B. Azari, Nicholas Bianco
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Few if any people think the Clean Air Act is the optimal legislative solution to climate change; but it is a powerful tool that is being used sometimes despite the prevailing political will. To address this reality, this volume calls on the best writing from the most often-cited environmental law journal...
by Matthew Wynn Sivils
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
While Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are often credited with inventing American environmental writing, Matthew Wynn Sivils argues that the works of these Transcendentalists must be placed within a larger literary tradition that has its origins in early Republic natural histories, Indian...
by Joe Ravetz, Clive George, Joe Howe
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2004
For the first time at the beginning of the twenty-first century, urban dwellers outnumber rural residents and this trend is set to continue. Consequently one of the most pressing issues of our time is how to square the social and economic development of cities with their environmental limits and...
by United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
The evaluation builds from the widely recognized assertion that poverty often exacerbates environmental degradation and environmental damage reinforces poverty. UNDPs success at integrating these two aspects of its core mandate is very important for its credibility and the quality of support delivery...
by P. Bajpai, R. Kondo
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Pulp and paper production has increased globally and will continue to increase in the near future. Approximately 155 million tons of wood pulp is produced worldwide and about 260 million is projected for the year 2010. To be able to cope with increasing demand, an increase in productivity and improved...