Environmental category: 9736 books
by Mirilia Bonnes
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Environmental psychology is an increasingly important area of research, focusing on the individual and social factors responsible for many critical human responses to the physical environment. With such rapid and widespread growth, the main theoretical strands have often been left unclear and their...
Environmental Nanotechnology
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This book presents the environmental benefits of nanomaterials in agriculture, water purification and nanomedicine. Nanotechnology will modify the environment both in a positive and negative way. On the one hand, new nanomaterials are promising for reducing greenhouse gases, cleaning toxic wastes...
Slick Policy
Environmental and Science Policy in the Aftermath of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
In January 1969, the blowout on an offshore oil platform off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, and the resulting oil spill proved to be a transformative event in pollution control and the nascent environmental activism movement. It accelerated the advancement of federal government policies and...
by Karzan Baiz Abd
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Environmental Sciences, University of Wolverhampton (University of Wolverhampton), course: Environmental Sciences, language: English, abstract: Five universities in Iraq; University of Technology Iraq, Al-Nahrain University and University of Baghdad,...
by Stephen Massey
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Government agencies tasked with managing environmental site cleanup strive to increase competition and decrease their environmental liabilities. Many utilize contracts that shift cost overrun risk to contractors. Cost-conscious contractors are transitioning more responsibility to project managers,...
Environmental Water Markets and Regulation
A comparative legal approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
River systems around the world are degraded and are being used unsustainably. Meeting this challenge requires the development of flexible regimes that have the potential to meet essential consumptive needs while restoring environmental flows. This book focuses on how water trading frameworks can be...
Risk-Based Environmental Decisions
Methods and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Risk-Based Environmental Decision: Methods and Culture presents the principles of human health risk analysis as they are applied in environmental decisions. It balances the discussion of scientific theory and methods, philosophical analysis, and applications in regulatory decisions. The material is...
by Alvin Lee Young
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
For almost four decades, controversy has surrounded the tactical use of herbicides in Southeast Asia by the United States military. Few environmental or occupational health issues have received the sustained international attention that has been focused on Agent Orange, the major tactical herbicide...
Bioelectrochemistry Stimulated Environmental Remediation
From Bioelectrorespiration to Bioelectrodegradation
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2018
This book reviews the latest advances in the bioelectrochemical degradation of recalcitrant environmental contaminants. The first part introduces readers to the basic principles and methodologies of bioelectrochemical systems, electron-respiring microorganisms, the electron transfer mechanism and...
Managing Environmental Disputes
Network Management as an Alternative
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The concept of sustainable development is a source of inspiration for many, who see it as a call to cooperative action. In practice, however, policies intended to further this goal often generate conflicts of interest. The ensuing disputes occur among governmental organizations, but disputes also...
Gunfight at the Eco-Corral
Western Cinema and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Most film critics point to classic conflicts—good versus evil, right versus wrong, civilization versus savagery—as defining themes of the American Western. In this provocative examination of Westerns from Tumbleweeds (1925) to Rango (2011), Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann argue for a more...
Exploring the Nexus of Geoecology, Geography, Geoarcheology and Geotourism: Advances and Applications for Sustainable Development in Environmental Sciences and Agroforestry Research
Proceedings of the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
This edited volume is based on the best papers accepted for presentation during the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018. The book is of interest to all researchers in the fields of Environmental Sciences, Geoecology, Agroforestry, Geography, Geoarcheology...
Environmental Geoinformatics
Extreme Hydro-Climatic and Food Security Challenges: Exploiting the Big Data
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2018
This second edition includes updated chapters from the first edition as well as five additional new chapters (Light detection and ranging (LiDAR), CORONA historical de-classified products, Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles (UAVs), GNSS-reflectometry and GNSS applications to climate variability), shifting...
by
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Environmental indicators are the first line of warning against hazards caused by humans or nature catastrophes to prevent diseases and death of living organisms. The present book covers a large variety of environmental indicators from physical-chemistry through economical, bioinformatics, electromagnetic...