Environmental category: 9736 books
Technology and Application of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics
Selected Papers of the 7th International Conference on Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, ICEEG-Beijing 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
This book focuses on essential theories, methods and techniques in the field of environmental and engineering geophysics that can contribute to resource detection and environmental protection. Geophysics has been playing an important role in exploring the earth, locating vital resources and promoting...
Making Law Matter
Environmental Protection and Legal Institutions in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2008
Although many developing countries have environmental statutes, regulations, and resolutions on the books, these laws are rarely enforced and often ignored. Making Law Matter presents the first book-length treatment of an innovative prosecutorial institution, the Brazilian Ministrio Publico, which...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Due to natural factors and human activity, nature has been changing since the beginning of time. As the environment continuously undergoes such transitions, it is necessary for society to understand the complex interdependency between nature and humanity to promote global sustainability. Promoting...
Strategic Environmental Assessment in Europe
Fourth European Workshop on Environmental Impact Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
SEA, in particular, one study which dealt with the I. WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES AND development of an overall research strategy for FINDINGS - INTRODUCTION EIAISEA. 2 On 4th December 1996, the Commission Volker Kleinschmidt & Dieter Wagner, passed a "Proposal for a Council Directive on the PRO...
Environmental Science and Technology
Concepts and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The third edition of Environmental Science and Technology: Concepts and Applications is the first update since 2006. Designed for the student and the professional, this newly updated reference uses scientific laws, principles, models, and concepts to provide a basic foundation for understanding and...
Conservation Directory 2015
The Guide to Worldwide Environmental Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
The authority on natural resource use and management agencies around the world.
Do you want to take action to protect Earth’s environment? Are you interested in learning more about wildlife conservation and environmental groups? The Conservation Directory 2015 is a great resource for budding...
Anaerobic Biotechnology
Environmental Protection and Resource Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Environmental protection and resource recovery are two crucial issues facing our society in the 21st century. Anaerobic biotechnology has become widely accepted by the wastewater industry as the better alternative to the more conventional but costly aerobic process and tens of thousands of full-scale...
Excel 2013 for Environmental Sciences Statistics
A Guide to Solving Practical Problems
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
This is the first book to show the capabilities of Microsoft Excel to teach environmentall sciences statistics effectively. It is a step-by-step exercise-driven guide for students and practitioners who need to master Excel to solve practical environmental science problems. If understanding statistics...
by C. Gries, F. Lipfert, M. Lippmann
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science. Interest in this subject, however, is growing very rapidly and, although no agreement has been reached as yet about the exact content and limits of this interdisciplinary subject, there appears to be increasing interest in seeing environmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Designed to accompany the new Open University course in Environmental Monitoring and Protection, this is one of four new titles which will equip the reader with the tools to undertake Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs). Used in planning, decision-making and management, EIAs review both the theoretical...
Out of the Wasteland
Stories from the Environmental Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
In Out of the Wasteland, founding Executive Director of the Community Environmental Council Paul Relis takes us on a journey of the environmental frontier, from the heady days of the birth of environmentalism in Santa Barbara, into the intricate, obfuscated but all important world of government and...
by C. Richard Cothern
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
What data is needed to complete a quantitative risk assessment for environmental and public health? How accurate does a quantitative risk assessment have to be? How confident does a risk assessor need to be when presenting risk estimates to a decision maker? Find out the answers to these questions...
The Price of Nuclear Power
Uranium Communities and Environmental Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Rising fossil fuel prices and concerns about greenhouse gas emissions are fostering a nuclear power renaissance and a revitalized uranium mining industry across the American West. In The Price of Nuclear Power, environmental sociologist Stephanie Malin offers an on-the-ground portrait of several uranium...
Wastelanding
Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Wastelanding tells the history of the uranium industry on Navajo land in the U.S. Southwest, asking why certain landscapes and the peoples who inhabit them come to be targeted for disproportionate exposure to environmental harm. Uranium mines and mills on the Navajo Nation land have long supplied U.S....