Environmental category: 9736 books
Jumping from the Ivory Tower
Weaving Environmental Leadership and Sustainable Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
Jumping from the Ivory Tower demonstrates the positive results that occur when colleges work with communities to develop students with a sense of place. The book examines the role of colleges and communities in addressing today's environmental problems, including climate change and biodiversity loss,...
Environmental Science and International Politics
Acid Rain in Europe, 1979-1989, and Climate Change in Copenhagen, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Environmental Science and International Politics features two reacting games in one volume, immersing students in the complex process of negotiating international treaties to control environmental pollution. The issues are similar in all the modules; environmental justice, national sovereignty, and...
International Organizations and Environmental Protection
Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Pollution, resource depletion, habitat management, and climate change are all issues that necessarily transcend national boundaries. Accordingly, they and other environmental concerns have been a particular focus for international organizations from before the First World War to the present day. This...
by Bernd Markert, Stefan Fränzle, Simone Wünschmann
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Building on the first principles of environmental chemistry, engineering, and ecology, this volume fills the need for an advanced textbook introducing the modern, integrated environmental management approach, with a view towards long-term sustainability and within the framework of international regulations.
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Environmental Compartments
Equilibria and Assessment of Processes Between Air, Water, Sediments and Biota
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Any concentration of a substance measured in a living or non-living system results from its distribution among all of the environmental compartments: air, water, sediments, and biota. The transfer of a substance from one compartment to another is regulated by physical forces and the chemical properties...
by Zhihua Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
This book offers comprehensive information on the theory, models and algorithms involved in state-of-the-art multivariate time series analysis and highlights several of the latest research advances in climate and environmental science. The main topics addressed include Multivariate Time-Frequency...
The EU Environmental Liability Directive
A Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Similar to the United States (US) Natural Resource Damage (NRD) program, defined under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or "Superfund") and the Oil Pollution Act (OPA), the European Union's (EU) Environmental Liability Directive (ELD)imposes...
Specimen Banking
Environmental Monitoring and Modern Analytical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
M.J. Schwuger The Environmental Specimen Bank is a repository of representative environ mental specimens for safe long-term storage over decades and centuries without any chemical change in the constituents. It represents the modern form of a systematically designed collection which will permit...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Social and natural scientists are currently obsessed with globalization, but this has not been matched by an equal interest in the societal consequences of local environmental change. Attention has thus been withdrawn from community and locality and transferred to global processes, with an indifference...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
This volume provides state-of-the-art information on soil-water interactions in wastewater systems, characterization of wastewater, modes of treatment, safety of wastewater use, water conservation technologies involved in recycling of sewage in fish culture, biogeochemical cycling bacteria and nutrient...
Environmental Bioengineering
Volume 11
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
The past 30 years have seen the emergence of a growing desire worldwide that positive actions be taken to restore and protect the environment from the degrading effects of all forms of pollution – air, water, soil, and noise. Since pollution is a direct or indirect consequence of waste production,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
The past 30 years have seen the emergence of a growing desire worldwide that positive actions be taken to restore and protect the environment from the degrading effects of all forms of pollution – air, water, soil, and noise. Since pollution is a direct or indirect consequence of waste production,...
Strategic Environmental Assessment in International and European Law
A Practitioner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is a regulatory requirement for development across Europe, North America, Australasia and elsewhere, yet understanding the legal aspects is challenging. This comprehensive guide provides that understanding in a clear and straightforward way. The introduction...
Making Transparent Environmental Management Decisions
Applications of the Ecosystem Management Decision Support System
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Since 1997, the Ecosystem Management Decision Support (EMDS) system has been used around the world to support environmental analysis and planning in many different application areas, and it has been applied over a wide range of geographic scales, from forest stands to entire countries. An extensive...