Environmental category: 9736 books
by Tom Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Environmental protection is a global issue. But most of the action is happening at the local level. How can communities keep their air clean, their water pure, and their people and property safe from climate and environmental hazards? Newly updated, The Environmental Planning Handbook gives local...
Only One Chance
How Environmental Pollution Impairs Brain Development -- and How to Protect the Brains of the Next Generation
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Today, one out of every six children suffers from some form of neurodevelopmental abnormality. The causes are mostly unknown. Some environmental chemicals are known to cause brain damage and many more are suspected of it, but few have been tested for such effects. Philippe Grandjean provides an authoritative...
Earth Repair
A Grassroots Guide to Healing Toxic and Damaged Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Hundreds of thousands of acres of land have been contaminated by pesticides, improperly handled chemicals, dirty energy projects, toxic waste, and other pollutants in the United States alone. This toxic legacy impacts the environment, our health, our watersheds, and land that could otherwise be used...
Ducktown Smoke
The Fight over One of the South's Greatest Environmental Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
It is hard to make a desert in a place that receives sixty inches of rain each year. But after decades of copper mining, all that remained of the old hardwood forests in the Ducktown Mining District of the Southern Appalachian Mountains was a fifty-square mile barren expanse of heavily gullied red...
River of Lost Souls
The Science, Politics, and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Awardwinning investigative environmental journalist Jonathan P. Thompson digs into the science, politics, and greed behind the 2015 Gold King Mine disaster, and unearths a litany of impacts wrought by a century and a half of mining, energy development, and fracking in southwestern Colorado. Amid...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
One of the most important issues in developing sustainable management strategies and incorporating ecodesigns in production, manufacturing and operations management is the assessment of the sustainability of business operations and organizations’ overall environmental performance. The book presents...
Regulating from the Inside
Can Environmental Management Systems Achieve Policy Goals
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Environmental Management Systems (EMSs) offer an approach to regulatory policy that lies somewhere between free-market and traditional command-and-control methods. Worldwide, hundreds of thousands of private firms have adopted or are considering adopting these internally managed systems for improving...
An Interactive History of the Clean Air Act
Scientific and Policy Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The Clean Air Act of 1970 set out for the United States a basic, yet ambitious, objective to reduce pollution to levels that protect health and welfare. The Act set out state and federal regulations to limit emissions and the Environmental Protection Agency was established to help enforce the regulations....
International Environmental Management Benchmarks
Best Practice Experiences from America, Japan and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book shows what sustainable development means for the business community and presents best practice approaches in environmental management from Japan, the USA, Brazil and seven European countries. It stresses that international competitiveness depends on the effective use of innovative management...
by Steve Vanderheiden
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This collection of scholarly articles takes as its subject matter discourses on environmental justice. The concept emerged in recent decades as an important framing concept for a wide variety of environmental movements and objectives, and has gained considerable currency due to the scope and normative...
Reshaping Environments
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability in a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Reshaping Environments: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability in a Complex World draws together a team of specialist authors from disciplines including urban planning, social sciences, engineering and environmental science to examine the diverse influences humans have upon the natural environment....
Worlds Apart
Globalization And The Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2003
Worlds Apart presents a cohesive set of essays by leading thinkers on the subject of globalization, offering a thoughtful overview of the major environmental issues related to globalization in a clear, reasoned style. Framed by Gus Speth’s introduction and conclusion, essays range from Jane Lubchenco’s...
Environmental Science and Technology
Concepts and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2006
This newly updated reference uses scientific laws, principles, models, and concepts to provide a basic foundation for understanding and evaluating the impact that chemicals and technology have on the environment. Designed for both professional and student use, the new Second Edition includes recent...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Solid Wastes Management begins with a focus on processing municipal and similar commercial, as well as industrial wastes; assessing and minimising the environmental impacts of processing and disposal. The second section reviews the treatment technologies available (physical, biological and thermal),...