Environmental category: 9736 books
The End of Sustainability
Resilience and the Future of Environmental Governance in the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The time has come for us to collectively reexamine—and ultimately move past—the concept of sustainability in environmental and natural resources law and management. The continued invocation of sustainability in policy discussions ignores the emerging reality of the Anthropocene, which is creating...
The Agrarian Vision
Sustainability and Environmental Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
As industry and technology proliferate in modern society, sustainability has jumped to the forefront of contemporary political and environmental discussions. The balance between progress and the earth's ability to provide for its inhabitants grows increasingly precarious as we attempt to achieve sustainable...
by Janick Artiola, Ian L. Pepper, Mark L. Brusseau
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2004
Environmental Monitoring and Characterization is an integrated, hands-on resource for monitoring all aspects of the environment. Sample collection methods and relevant physical, chemical and biological processes necessary to characterize the environment are brought together in twenty chapters which...
by Steve Ellis, Tony Mellor
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Soils represent the result of a complex set of interacting processes and are an integral component of the environment. Yet soils remain the most undervalued and misused of the Earth's resources. This work examines the fundamental importance of soils. Combining practical analysis and interpretation...
Love Canal
A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
In the summer of 1978, residents of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting against the leaking toxic waste dump in their midst-a sixteen-acre site containing 100,000 barrels of chemical waste that anchored their neighborhood. Initially seeking evacuation, area activists...
An Environmental History of the Middle Ages
The Crucible of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
The Middle Ages was a critical and formative time for Western approaches to our natural surroundings. An Environmental History of the Middle Ages is a unique and unprecedented cultural survey of attitudes towards the environment during this period. Humankind’s relationship with the environment...
Harnessing Foreign Investment to Promote Environmental Protection
Incentives and Safeguards
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Harnessing Foreign Investment to Promote Environmental Protection investigates the main challenges facing the implementation of environmental protection and the synergies between foreign investment and environmental protection. Adopting legal, economic and political perspectives, the contributing...
Environmental Science
An In-Depth Look at Earth’s Ecosystems and Diverse Inhabitants
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Environmental science is an integrated, interdisciplinary field that combines the study of ecology, physics, chemistry, biology, soil science, geology, atmospheric science, and geography. It is among the top 10 most popular Advanced Placement examinations taken by high school seniors in an effort...
by DRS. SUSHMITHA, R. BASKAR
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2010
This book on Environmental Science is strictly designed on the basis of the model curriculum prescribed by the AICTE for engineering undergraduate courses. It has been divided into six units. The first unit covers environment, its components and an overview of the environmental problems today. Second...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
This authoritative dictionary provides over 9,000 entries on scientific and social aspects of the environment-its key thinkers, treaties, movements, organizations, concepts, and theories. It covers subjects such as sustainable development, biodiversity, and environmental ethics, it is at the cutting...
Environmental Modeling with Stakeholders
Theory, Methods, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
This volume brings together, in a central text, chapters written by leading scholars working at the intersection of modeling, the natural and social sciences, and public participation. This book presents the current state of knowledge regarding the theory and practice of engaging stakeholders in environmental...
Environmental Design
An Introduction for Architects and Engineers
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
Written and edited by a team of specialists at Max Fordham LLP, one of the UK’s leading environmental and building services engineering consultancies, Environmental Design is the result of their extensive experience in designing environmentally-friendly buildings. The principles of their approach,...
Nation-States and the Global Environment
New Approaches to International Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Hardly a day passes without journalists, policymakers, academics, or scientists calling attention to the worldwide scale of the environmental crisis confronting humankind. While climate change has generated the greatest alarm in recent years, other global problems-desertification, toxic pollution,...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
In the prospect of the COP21 held in Paris in December 2015, the French Centre for Ethiopian Studies (CFEE) organised a scientific conference on environmental and climatic changes in the horn of Africa, with a decisive financial support of the Institut français (Fonds d’Alembert), Paris. The conference...