Environmental category: 9736 books
Environmental Ecology
The Ecological Effects of Pollution, Disturbance, and Other Stresses
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1995
Thoroughly revised and significantly expanded, the Second Edition of Environmental Ecology provides new case studies and in-depth treatment of the effects of pollution and other disturbances on our oceans, lakes, forests, and air. New chapters on biological resources and ecological applications have...
ENVIRONMENTAL OIL DRILLING IN WATERWAYS
BUILD THE OIL DEREKS WITH RESPONSIBLE PRACTICES AND SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT AND MONEY
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
I HAD SENT INFORMATION REGARDING THE ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGES DONE IN THE GULF OF MEXICO IN 2010. I DID NOT GET ANY RESPONSE FROM ANY OF THE GOVERNMENTS AND BUSINESSES THAT I HAD SENT TO. I HAD THOUGHT THAT THEY MAY EVENTUALLY RESPOND WHEN THEY DEVELOPED NEW SITES, I ALSO HAD...
by Robert S. Dorney
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This series is dedicated to serving the growing community of scholars and practitioners concerned with the principles and applications of environ mental management. Each volume is a thorough treatment of a specific topic of importance for proper management practices. A fundamental ob jective of...
Dhaka Megacity
Geospatial Perspectives on Urbanisation, Environment and Health
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
The book Dhaka Megacity: Geospatial Perspectives on Urbanisation, Environment and Health presents the use of geospatial techniques to address a number of environmental issues, including land use change, climatic variability, urban sprawl, population density modelling, flooding, environmental health,...
Environmental Engineering Studies
Polish Research on the Way to the EU
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING IN THE mSTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Lucjan Pawlowski Information bombarding the nowdays Man may suggest that the world is on the way to an ecological catastrophe. I do not disregard the dangers we are facing now, but I would like to remind that since the beginning ofexistence Man...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Increased awareness surrounding environmental protection has prompted the development of more ecofriendly technologies. This book provides useful information on technologies based upon the use of biological agents for environmental clean-up, including bacteria, yeast, fungi, algae, and plants. Some...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
This book outlines the current status of water resources management in Central Asia countries, and provides a review of the history, policies and transboundary cooperation regarding water resources in the region. Particular attention is given to the water-energy-food-environmental nexus, and to the...
Russian Nature
Exploring the Environmental Consequences of Societal Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Jonathan D Oldfield provides a detailed assessment of the changing relationship between Russian society and the wider environment since the fall of the Soviet Union. Through this, he highlights the need to critically evaluate assumptions regarding the post-Soviet environment, in order to move beyond...
by W. Scott Keys
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Borehole geophysics is frequently applied in hydrogeological environmental investigations where, for example, sites must be evaluated to determine the distribution of contaminants. It is a cost-effective method for obtaining information during several phases of such investigations. Written by one...
Environmental Radionuclides
Tracers and Timers of Terrestrial Processes
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Environmental Radionuclides presents a state-of-the-art summary of knowledge on the use of radionuclides to study processes and systems in the continental part of the Earth’s environment. It is conceived as a companion to the two volumes of this series, which deal with isotopes as tracers in the...
by E. Atlas, L. Fishbein, C.S. Giam
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science. Interest in this subject, however, is growing very rapidly and, although no agreement has been reached as yet about the exact content and limits of this interdisciplinary discipline, there appears to be increasing interest in seeing environmental...
Úrsula Oswald Spring: Pioneer on Gender, Peace, Development, Environment, Food and Water
With a Foreword by Birgit Dechmann
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
This book aims to initiate among students and other readers critical and interdisciplinary reflections on key problems concerning development, gender relations, peace and environment, with a special emphasis on North-South relations. This volume offers a selection of the author's research in different...
Environmental Modelling
An Uncertain Future?
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Uncertainty in the predictions of science when applied to the environment is an issue of great current relevance in relation to the impacts of climate change, protecting against natural and man-made disasters, pollutant transport and sustainable resource management. However, it is often ignored both...
The Case for Grassroots Collaboration
Social Capital and Ecosystem Restoration at the Local Level
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
The nation’s approach to managing environmental policy and protecting natural resources has shifted from the national government’s top down, command and control, regulatory approach, used almost exclusively in the 1970s, to collaborative, multi-sector approaches used in recent decades to manage...