Environmental category: 9736 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) is one of the most holistic approaches to protecting marine and coastal ecosystems as it recognizes the need to protect entire marine ecosystems instead of individual species. After decades of pollution, habitat degradation and overfishing, now climate change and ocean...
Petroleum Development and Environmental Conflict in Aotearoa New Zealand
Texas of the South Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Petroleum Development and Environmental Conflict in Aotearoa New Zealand: Texas of the South Pacific examines the dilemmas associated with economic growth through the expansion of resource extraction. States seeking to grow their economies through the expansion of resource extraction are forced to...
by Amit Kumar Pathak
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
This book on 'Environmental Jurisprudence of Courts of India' provides a general overview of the enactments passed by the Indian Parliament for environmental protection such as the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981, the Environment...
Timescapes of Modernity
The Environment and Invisible Hazards
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
Timescapes of Modernity explores the relationship between time and environmental and socio-cultural concerns. Using examples such as the BSE crisis, the Sea Empress oil pollution and the Chernobyl radiation Barbara Adam argues that environmental hazards are inescapably tied to the successes of the...
Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World
Volume 1: Nanotechnology and Health Risk
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Environmental chemistry is a fast developing science aimed at deciphering fundamental mechanisms ruling the behaviour of pollutants in ecosystems. Applying this knowledge to current environmental issues leads to the remediation of environmental media, and to new, low energy, low emission, sustainable...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Risk and Social Theory in Environmental Management marks a timely contribution, given that environmental management is no longer just about protecting pristine ecosystems and endangered species from anthropogenic harm; it is about calculating and managing the risks to human communities of rapid environmental...
Choosing Environmental Policy
Comparing Instruments and Outcomes in the United States and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
The two distinct approaches to environmental policy include direct regulation-sometimes called 'command and control' policies-and regulation by economic, or market-based incentives. This book is the first to compare the costs and outcomes of these approaches by examining realworld applications. In...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The fall of the iron curtain revealed widespread environmental and safety short comings in relation to industrial operations, mining and other human activities. It was the purpose of this Advanced Research Workshop, sponsored by NATO, to bring together a group of eminent experts from East and West...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Nuclear sites become contaminated with radionuclides due to accidents and activities carried out without due consideration for the environment. Naturally-occurring radioactive materials (NORM) released by industrial processes such as coal power production and fertilizer manufacture may also require...
Exploring Environmental Issues
An Integrated Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Global warming, ozone depletion, drought, acid rain - their causes are viewed as extraordinarily complex; their effects are assumed catastrophic. Exploring Environmental Issues provides a key to understanding our potential crisis. The concise, introductory text presents a review of current environmental...
Environmental Protection Against Radioactive Pollution
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Environmental Protection Against Radioactive Pollution Almati, Kazakhstan 16–19 September 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
NATO Advanced Research Workshop "Environmental Protection Against Radioactive Pollution" was held in Almaty on September 16-19, 2002. Experts from Azerbaijan, Denmark, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Norway, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, USA, Uzbekistan and the IAEA have participated...
New Ecoinformatics Tools in Environmental Science
Applications and Decision-making
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
This book provides new insights on the study of global environmental changes using the ecoinformatics tools and the adaptive-evolutionary technology of geoinformation monitoring. The main advantage of this book is that it gathers and presents extensive interdisciplinary expertise in the parameterization...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Anthropogenic transformation of the coastal zone continues at a steady pace, especially in the developing maritime countries, where coastal resources are often crucial to national economies. However, exploitation of these resources is often indiscriminate, ill planned, or carried out without adequate...
The Recurring Dark Ages
Ecological Stress, Climate Changes, and System Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
In this modern era of global environmental crisis, Sing Chew provides a convincing analysis of the recurring human and environmental crises identified as Dark Ages. In this, his second of a three-volume series concerning world ecological degradation, Chew reviews the past 5,000-year history of structural...