Environmental category: 9736 books
Environmental and Technology Policy in Europe
Technological Innovation and Policy Integration
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This book contains six studies on various national environmental policies and environment -oriented technology policy systems in Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom, sandwiched between this introductory and a concluding chapter. These studies were conducted as...
by James G. Speight
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Environmental Organic Chemistry for Engineers clearly defines the principles of environmental organic chemistry and the role they play in forming remediation strategies. In this reference, the author explores parameter estimation methods, the thermodynamics, and kinetics needed to predict the fate,...
Environment and Development
Basic Principles, Human Activities, and Environmental Implications
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Environment and Development: Basic Principles, Human Activities, and Environmental Implications focuses on the adverse impact that human activities, developments, and economic growth have on both natural and inhabited environments. The book presents the associated problems, along with solutions that...
Environmental Geoinformatics
Monitoring and Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
There is no doubt that today, perhaps more than ever before, humanity faces a myriad of complex and demanding challenges. These include natural resource depletion and environmental degradation, food and water insecurity, energy shortages, diminishing biodiversity, increasing losses from natural disasters,...
Basic Studies in Environmental Knowledge, Technology, Evaluation, and Strategy
Introduction to East Asia Environmental Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
This book covers diverse environmental issues such as climate change; biodiversity preservation; prevention of air, water, and soil pollution; and resource recycling. Readers can acquire these four practical interdisciplinary abilities: 1. knowledge; 2. technology; 3. evaluation; and 4. strategy in...
The Environmental Case
Translating Values Into Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Answers to environmental issues are not black and white. Debates around policy are often among those with fundamentally different values, and the way that problems and solutions are defined plays a central role in shaping how those values are translated into policy.** The Environmental Case **captures...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The essays selected for this volume present critical viewpoints from the debate about the need to establish rights on behalf of greater environmental protection. Three main areas for developing environmental rights are surveyed, including: extensionist theories that link existing rights (for example...
by Sarah Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Growing public interest in environmental sustainability is a gift to historic sites and museums. It is an invitation to use our knowledge, collections, and sites to discuss how human practices and interactions with the environment in past were – and were not – environmentally sustainable. Being...
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Civil and environmental engineers work together to develop, build, and maintain the man-made and natural environments that make up the infrastructures and ecosystems in which we live and thrive. Civil and Environmental Engineering: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a comprehensive multi-volume...
Environmental Policy
Implementation and Enforcement
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This title was first published in 2002. Environmental Policy is an astute and far-reaching text which analyzes the intersections between environmental policy formation and its ultimate implementation and enforcement through the law. It sets this theme against the axis of EU law and policy and UK law...
Tax Law and the Environment
A Multidisciplinary and Worldwide Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Tax Law and the Environment: A Multidisciplinary and Worldwide Perspective takes a multidisciplinary approach to explore the ways how tax policy can is used solve environmental problems throughout the world, using a multi-jurisdictional and multidisciplinary approach. Environmental taxation involves...
by George Baird
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
The Architectural Expression of Environmental Control Systems examines the way project teams can approach the design and expression of both active and passive environmental control systems in a more creative way. Using seminal case studies from around the world and interviews with the architects and...
Environmental and Health Impact Assessment of Development Projects
A handbook for practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This handbook for practitioners in environmental and public health, environmental management, toxicology and ecotoxicology has been prepared by an international group of experts from both developing and developed countries and covers a wide range of topics in both environmental impact assessment and environmental health impact assessment.
Effective Risk Communication
The Role and Responsibility of Government and Nongovernment Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
One of the greatest challenges facing those concerned with health and environmental risks is how to carry on a useful public dialogue on these subjects. In a democracy, it is the public that ultimately makes the key decisions on how these risks will be controlled. The stakes are too high for us not...