Environmental category: 9736 books
Ports and the Environment
Maritime Policy and Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Ports are a vital part of the global economy, connecting the world through maritime transport networks, promoting international trade, and supporting global economic growth. However, port communities are increasingly concerned about the local environmental problems associated with air pollution from...
Social and Environmental Policies in EC Procurement Law
New Directives and New Directions
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
In developing public procurement policy, governments are often concerned not only with value for money but also with promoting their social and environmental objectives. However, imposing social and environmental requirements makes it harder for some suppliers to participate in public procurement....
A World Environment Organization
Solution or Threat for Effective International Environmental Governance?
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In recent years, the debate on the establishment of a new international agency on environmental protection - a 'World Environment Organization' - has gained substantial momentum. Several countries, including France and Germany, as well as a number of leading experts and senior international civil...
The Caspian Sea
A Quest for Environmental Security
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume is based on the presentations and deliberations of an Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) "Caspian Sea: A Quest for Environmental Security" that was held on March 15-19, 1999, in Venice (Italy). The Workshop was sponsored by the NATO's Division for Scientific and Environmental Affairs,...
Deficits in EU and US Mandatory Environmental Information Disclosure
Legal, Comparative Legal and Economic Facets of Pollutant Release Inventories
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
It is the publicity about the Pollutant Release Inventory’s data which creates an incentive for firms to achieve emission reductions. Accordingly, public access to environmental information constitutes a core characteristic of the aforementioned inventory. Here, in essence, two facets arise. First,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Climate change is not only one of the greatest threats to modern civilization; it is also a great challenge to economic development in the 21st century. Global warming can lead to periods of both drought and intense rain, causing crops to fail and ruining the livelihoods of many in underdeveloped countries....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Precision agriculture (PA) involves the application of technologies and agronomic principles to manage spatial and temporal variation associated with all aspects of agricultural production in order to improve crop performance and environmental quality. The focus of this book is to introduce a non-specialist...
by E. Beinat
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Environmental decisions must satisfy a multitude of objectives and the matching of a plan, policy or project to such objectives is a matter of both facts and value judgements. Value Functions for Environmental Management provides a systematic approach to the structuring and measurement of value judgements,...
Winning The Environmental Challenge With ISO 14001:2015
Implementation of Environmental Management System
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
This book gives Guidance on the Implementation of ISO 14001: 2015 in a simple form. The book has been published with the aim to give you knowledge and practical advice to prepare for ISO 14001: 2015 implementation without much stress. The book will help auditors, internal and external, regarding what...
Environmental Toxicology
Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Environmental Toxicology provides a detailed, comprehensive introduction to this key area of sustainability and public health research. The broad coverage includes sections on ecological risk assessment, monitoring, mechanisms, fate and transport, prevention, and correctives, as well as treatment...
Environment and Democratic Transition:
Policy and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Recent democratization and the accompanied liberalization of the media in Central and Eastern Europe has brought the devastating environmental impacts of the intensive and careless industrialization of the last 40 years to the surface. Less is known, however, about the social, political and institutional...
European Union Environmental Law
An Introduction to Key Selected Issues
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This comprehensive book provides analysis and discussion on the following key issues in EU environmental law: environmental competence, principles and objectives, implementation and enforcement, nature protection, impact assessment, trade and the environment, waste management, climate change and the EU. An accessible work for all students of the subject both academic or professional.
Property Rights and Climate Change
Land use under changing environmental conditions
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Property Rights and Climate Change explores the multifarious relationships between different types of climate-driven environmental changes and property rights. This original contribution to the literature examines such climate changes through the lens of property rights, rather than through the lens...
by Louis Theodore, Charles Prochaska
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
The material in this book attempts to address mathematical calculations common to both the environmental science and engineering professionals. The book provides the reader with nearly 100 solved illustrative examples. The interrelationship between both theory and applications is emphasized in nearly...