Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
by John Sheail
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Environmental history - the history of the relationship between people and the natural world - is a dynamic and increasingly important field. In An Environmental History of Twentieth-Century Britain, John Sheail breaks new ground in illustrating how some of the most pressing concerns came to be recognised,...
by Teri J. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Today's Environmental Issues: Democrats and Republicans presents a unique perspective on party politics—one that impartially identifies similarities and differences regarding an array of topics ranging from fracking, sustainability, and pesticides to logging and noise pollution. Essays provide both...
by Taylor and Francis
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Academic and general interest in environmental crimes, harms, and threats, as well as in environmental legislation and regulation, has grown sharply in recent years. The Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology is the most in-depth and comprehensive volume on these issues to date.
With...
Occupy the Earth
Global Environmental Movements
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
The onset of global concerns about environmental risks, climate change and threats to the planet from industry have focused the minds of a generation. Throughout the world, new movements are emerging in an attempt to challenge those who would put profits before the planet. This volume brings together...
Image Politics
The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This exceptional volume examines “image events” as a rhetorical tactic utilized by environmental activists. Author Kevin Michael DeLuca analyzes widely televised environmentalist actions in depth to illustrate how the image event fulfills fundamental rhetorical functions in constructing and transforming...
Enhancing Cleanup of Environmental Pollutants
Volume 1: Biological Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
This two-volume work is an effort to provide a common platform to environmental engineers, microbiologists, chemical scientists, plant physiologists and molecular biologists working with a common aim of sustainable solutions to varied environmental contamination issues. Chapters explore biological...
by Frank R. Spellman
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This new edition of The Science of Environmental Pollution presents common-sense approaches and practical examples based on scientific principles, models, and observations, but keeps the text lively and understandable for scientists and non-scientists alike. It addresses the important questions regarding...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
The Arctic, the Antarctic, and the Hindu Kush-Himalayas form a trio of terrains sometimes called “the three poles”. Mainly composed of rock, snow, and ice, these precious regions, which are home to many unique species such as the polar bear, the emperor penguin, and the snow leopard, contain the...
GNSS Environmental Sensing
Revolutionizing Environmental Monitoring
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
This book is the second edition of Environmental Monitoring using GNSS and highlights the latest developments in global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). It features a completely new title and additional chapters that present emerging challenges to environmental monitoring—“climate variability/change...
In Defence of Home Places
Environmental Activism in Nova Scotia
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
As environmental deterioration became a major political issue near the end of the twentieth century, activists in Nova Scotia stood together to defend the places they called home. They cooperated to protect local environments and economies, but they disagreed about the causes of environmental problems,...
Asian Judges Symposium on Environmental Decision Making, the Rule of Law, and Environmental Justice
The Proceedings of the Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
The symposium held on 28-29 July 2010 at the Asian Development Bank---whose proceedings are documented in this publication---brought together senior members of the judiciary and environmental ministry officials from Asian jurisdictions, academe, civil society, international organizations, and distinguished...
Environmental Management:
Revision Guide for the IEMA Associate Membership Exam and NEBOSH Diploma in Environmental Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Written by Adrian Belcham, author of Manual of Environmental Management, this is the essential guide to prepare you for the IEMA Associate Membership Exam and NEBOSH Diploma in Environmental Management.
Through the inclusion of revision tips, exam guidance and self-test questions, this guide...
Environmental Principles and Policies
An Interdisciplinary Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Environmental Principles and Policies uses environmental and social principles to analyse the latest wave of economic-based and market-orientated environmental policies currently being adopted around the world. This book provides an in-depth examination of six key principles that have been incorporated...
Sustainability Matters
(In 2 Volumes)Volume 1: Asia's Green ChallengesVolume 2: Asia's Energy Concerns, Green Policies and Environmental Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Sustainability Mattersis a compilation of some of the best research papers by students from the National University of Singapore's inter-disciplinary graduate programme in environmental studies, the MSc in Environmental Management [MEM]. This collection is for the period 2009/10 to 2011/12.
As...