Environmental category: 9736 books
The Greening of Asia
The Business Case for Solving Asia's Environmental Emergency
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
One of Asia's best-respected writers on business and economy, Hong Kong-based author Mark L. Clifford provides a behind-the-scenes look at what companies in China, India, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Thailand are doing to build businesses that will lessen the...
The World Food Situation
Resource and Environmental Issues in the Developing Countries and The United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
At the beginning of the 1970’s, global grain reserves were level and food prices were low however as the decade progressed crop production plummeted leading to a food crisis. Originally published in the aftermath in 1977, Crosson and Frederick set out to explore the ability of agricultural output...
Humanity's Footprint
Momentum, Impact, and Our Global Environment
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2008
For the first time in history, humans have exceeded the sustaining capacity of Earth's global ecosystems. Our expanding footprint has tremendous momentum, and the insidious explosion of human impact creates a shockwave that threatens ecosystems worldwide for decades-possibly centuries.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Climate change is one of the major environmental concern of many countries in the world. Negotiations to control potential climate changes have been taking place, from Rio to Kyoto, for the last five years. There is a widespread consciousness that the risk of incurring in relevant economic and environmental...
An Institutional Basis for Environmental Stewardship
The Structure and Quality of Property Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
What is the role of government in environmental politics and policy? The answer to this question used to be relatively clear. Government was to regulate the environmental performance of state and non-state actors, to set standards, impose charges, and establish more or less stringent criteria of acceptable...
by Paul E. Rosenfeld, Nicholas P Cheremisinoff, Consulting Engineer
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
This new Handbook provides a series of reference guides to cleaner production methods, technologies, and practices for key industry sectors.
Each volume covers, for each industry sector: * the manufacturing technologies * waste management * pollution * methods for estimating and reporting emissions...
Clean Electricity Through Advanced Coal Technologies
Handbook of Pollution Prevention and Cleaner Production
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Coal power is a major cause of air pollution and global warming and has resulted in the release of toxic heavy metals and radionuclides, which place communities at risk for long-term health problems. However, coal-fired power plants also currently fuel 41% of global electricity.
Clean Electricity...
The Myth of Silent Spring
Rethinking the Origins of American Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Since its publication in 1962, Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring has often been celebrated as the catalyst that sparked an American environmental movement. Yet environmental consciousness and environmental protest in some regions of the United States date back to the nineteenth century, with the...
by Chetan Jadhav
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Useful for LL.B, LL.M., CS, CA and MBL. This book a question answer type guide on Indian Environmental Law covering UGC prescribed Syllabus for LL.B. Students in India. It covers all important topics and aspects of Environmental Law in India. The book is written in simple language and tidy format making it easy for readers to understand the same.
Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie
Australia, America, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Though separated by thousands of miles, the United States and Australia have much in common. Geographically both countries are expansive—the United States is the fourth largest in land mass and Australia the sixth—and both possess a vast amount of natural biodiversity. At the same time, both nations...
by Jordan Lofthouse, Megan Hansen, Ryan M. Yonk
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Climate change, energy generation and use, and environmental degradation are among the most salient—and controversial—political issues today. Our country's energy future will be determined by the policymakers who enact laws that favor certain kinds of energy production while discouraging others...
A Line in the Tar Sands
Struggles for Environmental Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The fight over the tar sands in North America is among the epic environmental and social justice battles of our time, and one of the first that has managed to marry quite explicitly concern for frontline communities and immediate local hazards with fear for the future of the entire planet. Tar sands...
by Pen-Chi Chiang, Shu-Yuan Pan
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
This book focuses on an important technology for mineralizing and utilizing CO2 instead of releasing it into the atmosphere. CO2 mineralization and utilization demonstrated in the waste-to-resource supply chain can “reduce carbon dependency, promote resource and energy efficiency, and lessen environmental...
Environmental City
People, Place, Politics, and the Meaning of Modern Austin
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
As Austin grew from a college and government town of the 1950s into the sprawling city of 2010, two ideas of Austin as a place came into conflict. Many who promoted the ideology of growth believed Austin would be defined by economic output, money, and wealth. But many others thought Austin was instead...