Environmental category: 9736 books
Environmental Security in South-Eastern Europe
International Agreements and Their Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Authored by international experts from academia, international organizations, governments and NGOs, this book highlights the main environmental security issues in the South-East European (SEE) countries, with a particular focus on climate change and water management. The common goal of the authors...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Water is at the core of all life on Earth and exists as one of the main components of the human body. Because water is essential to life, addressing water pollution and sustainability issues is of great concern to environmentalists and public health specialists alike. Impact of Water Pollution on...
Organizations’ Environmental Performance Indicators
Measuring, Monitoring, and Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
The book provides a collection of individual chapters from the participants in the OEPI project, which represent a mix of academic and practical chapters and contributions. The first part of the book is dedicated to a theoretical introduction to Organisations' Environmental Performance Indicators...
The National Environmental Policy Act
An Agenda for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 1999
The National Environmental Policy Act has grown more, not less, important in the decades since its enactment. No one knows more about NEPA than Lynton Caldwell. And no one has a clearer vision of its relevance to our future. Highly recommended." —David W. Orr, Oberlin College
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Sustainable development and environmental improvement are often regarded as intrinsically valuable a priori. As a result, the policies by which these goals are to be attained is often inadequately scrutinised. In this book, ecological economics addresses the institutional and policymaking aspects...
by Dept. Earth Sys Sci. Tech., Interdis.Grad Sch Engg Sci, Kyushu Univ.
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
This book introduces the basic concepts of environmental fluid dynamics. It is intended for use by students, researchers, engineers, and specialists working not only in general fluid research but also in the atmospheric and oceanic research fields. The Earth is covered by atmosphere and oceans and...
Environmental Life Cycle Assessment
Measuring the environmental performance of products
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Environmental Life Cycle Assessment is an introductory college level textbook on the science of Life Cycle Assessment. It provides materials for a full year of study. Over thirty LCA experts were brought together by the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment, with full redundant editing to provide...
Multilevel Governance of Global Environmental Change
Perspectives from Science, Sociology and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
Originally published in 2006, this collection is the outcome of an interdisciplinary research project involving scholars in the fields of international and comparative environmental law, the sociology and politics of global governance, and the scientific study of global climate change. Earth system...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Population growth and industrial development have put the wide-open spaces and natural resources that define the West under immense stress. Vested interests clash and come to terms over embattled resources such as water, minerals, and even open space. The federal government controls 40 to 80 percent...
Disentangling Migration and Climate Change
Methodologies, Political Discourses and Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
This book addresses environmental and climate change induced migration from the vantage point of migration studies, offering a broad spectrum of approaches for considering the environment/climate/migration nexus. Research on the subject is still frequently narrowed down to climate change vulnerability...
Justice and Natural Resources
Concepts, Strategies, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Just over two decades ago, research findings that environmentally hazardous facilities were more likely to be sited near poor and minority communities gave rise to the environmental justice movement. Yet inequitable distribution of the burdens of industrial facilities and pollution is only half of...
Urban Stormwater
Best-Practice Environmental Management Guidelines
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1999
The intense concentration of human activity in urban areas leads to changes in both the quantity and quality of runoff that eventually reaches our streams, lakes, wetlands, estuaries and coasts. The increasing use of impervious surfaces designed to provide smooth and direct pathways for stormwater run-off,...
Nanotechnologies for Environmental Remediation
Applications and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In this book discussing the principles of green chemistry and green engineering an international team of investigators present significant recent developments in applying nanoscience, nanoengineering, and nanotechnology to the area of environmental remediation. The opening chapters introduce candidate...
by V. Kerry Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Originally published in 1974, Technical Change, Relative Prices, and Environmental Resource Evaluation explores the relationship between natural environmental resources and the differential implications of technological change and relative price appreciation. Smith claims that price is linked to technological...