Environmental category: 9736 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
The application of nanotechnology in different consumer products has delivered new products with highly desirable properties, but at same time has opened a new window for a wide group of emerging contaminants and a new type of human exposure which needs to be assessed.
Most of the current human...
An Everglades Providence
Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
No one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to transform the Everglades from the country's most maligned swamp into its most beloved wetland. By the late twentieth century, her name and her classic The Everglades: River of Grass had become synonymous with Everglades protection. The crusading resolve...
Economic and Environmental Regulation of International Aviation
From Inter-national to Global Governance
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The core structure of the regulatory regime for international civil aviation (the ‘Chicago System’) is inter–national. The features of the Chicago System were designed in an era when the world’s airlines were State–owned, and the most pressing international concerns were for navigation and...
Water and Power
Environmental Governance and Strategies for Sustainability in the Lower Mekong Basin
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
This book brings together a talented international group of scholars, policy practitioners, and NGO professionals that explores a range of issues relating to environmental, developmental, and governing challenges on the Mekong, one of the world’s greatest rivers and, alas, one of the most endangered.
The...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Common topics and commonplaces help develop arguments and shape understanding. When used in argumentation, they may help interested parties more effectively communicate valuable information. The purpose of this edited collection on topics of environmental rhetoric is to fill gaps in scholarship related...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
When the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty entered into force on 14 January 1998, a new phase commenced for the Antarctic Treaty System. The parties to the Protocol are today confronting issues related to the implementation of a complex international environmental protection...
by Andrew Holden
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
The global demand for tourism continues to increase as economic growth creates opportunities for its consumption as a lifestyle option across cultures. The spatial reach of recreational tourism into remoter environments reflects a desire to reconnect to nature that is partially created by the global...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Emerging technologies have enhanced the various uses of geographic information systems. This allows for more effective analysis of available data to optimize resources and promote sustainability. Remote Sensing Techniques and GIS Applications in Earth and Environmental Studies is a critical reference...
Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development
Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development takes stock of cultural and environmental contexts in many different regions of the world by exploring literature and film. Artists and scholars working in the social ecology, environmental justice, and postcolonial arenas have long recognized that as soon...
Contentious Geographies
Environmental Knowledge, Meaning, Scale
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The human-environment relationship - intimately intertwined and often contentious - is one of the most pressing concerns of the 21st century. Explored through an array of critical approaches, this book brings together case studies from across the globe to present significant cutting-edge research...
The Ecological Other
Environmental Exclusion in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
With roots in eugenics and other social-control programs, modern American environmentalism is not always as progressive as we would like to think. In The Ecological Other, Sarah Jaquette Ray examines the ways in which environmentalism can create social injustice through discourses of the body.
Ray...
Environmental Biotechnology
Biodegradation, Bioremediation, and Bioconversion of Xenobiotics for Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
With focus on the practical use of modern biotechnology for environmental sustainability, this book provides a thoughtful overview of molecular aspects of environmental studies to create a new awareness of fundamental biological processes and sustainable ecological concerns. It covers the latest research...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Rapid industrialization is a serious concern in the context of a healthy environment. With the growth in the number of industries, the waste generated is also growing exponentially. The various chemical processes operating in the manufacturing industry generate a large number of by-products, which...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
The civil engineering sector accounts for a significant percentage of global material and energy consumption and is a major contributor of waste material. The ability to recycle and reuse concrete and demolition waste is critical to reducing environmental impacts in meeting national, regional and...