Environmental category: 9736 books
Water for the Environment
From Policy and Science to Implementation and Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Water for the Environment: From Policy and Science to Implementation and Management provides a holistic view of environmental water management, offering clear links across disciplines that allow water managers to face mounting challenges.
The book highlights current challenges and potential...
Sacred Mountains
A Christian Ethical Approach to Mountaintop Removal
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
On a misty morning in eastern Kentucky, cross-bearing Christians gather for a service on a surface-mined mountain. They pray for the health and renewal of the land and for their communities, lamenting the corporate greed of the mining companies. On another day, in southern West Virginia, Andrew Jordon...
by Liam Downey
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Winner, American Sociological Association Section on Environment and Technology Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award
The world currently faces several severe social and environmental crises, including economic under-development, widespread poverty and hunger, lack of safe drinking...
The Greening of Canada
Federal Institutions and Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
Environmental matters have become increasingly important in Canadian and world policy agendas. In this study, G. Bruce Doern and Thomas Conway trace the development of Canadian environment policy, giving an in-depth account of twenty years of environmental politics, politicians, institutions, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A comprehensive tour d'horizon of the debate on the environment and security, focusing on the various policy options for building peace and preventing environmental conflict. Experts from the areas survey the key environmental challenges in Eastern and Central European states and those of the former...
Corrosion Control and Surface Finishing
Environmentally Friendly Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
This book deals with the surface finishing for corrosion prevention from the viewpoint of environmental friendliness. Surface finishing for metallic materials or by metallic materials has excellent corrosion resistance, wear resistance and good color tones, which have been useful for practical applications...
Ecologists and Environmental Politics
A History of Contemporary Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Ecologists, like other scientists, have for decades debated their role in society. While some have argued that ecologists should participate in environmental politics, others have focused their attention strictly on scientific issues. In Ecologists and Environmental Politics, now updated with a new...
NAFTA and Sustainable Development
History, Experience, and Prospects for Reform
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its companion agreement, the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), provide important and often underappreciated protection for the environmental laws of the Party states: Canada, Mexico, and the United States. On the twentieth...
by Theda Braddock
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Written for a general audience that includes attorneys, land developers, businesses, and government officials, this Fourth Edition provides a general overview of Washington's state and federal statutory and regulatory framework. The author, an experienced environmental attorney, addresses recent environmental...
Comparing Environmental Risks
Tools for Setting Government Priorities
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The budgetary squeeze of the 1990s has made it obvious that the government cannot address every possible environmental problem. Comparative risk assessment (CRA) is increasingly advanced as the means for setting realistic priorities. RFF's Center for Risk Management commissioned background papers...
Environmental Assessment in Developing and Transitional Countries
Principles, Methods and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Since the 1980s, and especially since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, there has been a substantial extension in the adoption and use of Environmental Assessment (EA) procedures in developing countries and countries in transition (low and middle income countries). However, few existing texts in environmental...
by R. Janssen
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Multiple criteria decision making is a major and rapidly growing field of research. Methods resulting from this field of research are used in this book to develop a Multiobjective Decision Support Systems (MODSS) for environmental management. The primary focus of the book is therefore on the issues...
Environmental Change in Lesotho
An Analysis of the Causes and Consequences of Land-Use Change in the Lowland Region
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2011
Environmental Change in Lesotho identifies and analyzes the drivers of land-use change and the consequences of these changes on the livelihoods of rural land-users/managers. To accomplish this, a combination of tools from the social sciences and environmental fields were developed to identify causes...
Environmental Systems Studies
A Macroscope for Understanding and Operating Spaceship Earth
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
The environmental field is deep and wide. In the flood of information, how can people understand the underlying causes of what they hear about the environment from newspapers and television? This book was originally published in Japanese, with the aim of providing basic information about the ideas...