Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
Global Risk-Based Management of Chemical Additives I
Production, Usage and Environmental Occurrence
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Chemical additives are used to enhance the properties of many industrial products. Since their release into the environment is a potential risk for man and nature, their fate and behavior were investigated in the framework of the European Union-funded project RISKCYCLE. The results are presented in...
Restoration and Recovery of an Industrial Region
Progress in Restoring the Smelter-Damaged Landscape Near Sudbury, Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Sudbury, Ontario is one of the world's most polluted areas. A century of industrial activities has resulted in thousands of acidified lakes and vast areas of denuded land. This book describes, in a manner accessible to a wide audience, the damage and the efforts at environmental restoration at Sudbury...
Border Walls Gone Green
Nature and Anti-immigrant Politics in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
How is it that self-identified environmental progressives in America can oppose liberalizing immigration policies? Environmentalism is generally assumed to be a commitment of the political left and restrictionism a commitment of the right. As John Hultgren shows, the reality is significantly more complicated....
Transformations of Social-Ecological Systems
Studies in Co-creating Integrated Knowledge Toward Sustainable Futures
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2018
Through this book, readers will gain a comprehensive overview of transdisciplinary knowledge co-production in local contexts as an issue-driven and solution-oriented process, and will come to understand its relationship to societal transformation processes toward sustainability. In a single volume,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
Held in 1993 in Niterói, Brazil, the first International Conference on Environmental Geochemistry in Tropical Countries established a starting point for this book. The book opens with a discussion of the points that arose during the closing session, summarised by Dr. E.K. Duursma: The Environment...
by John Bruges
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
The Earth is now desperately vulnerable and so are we. This gift-priced-and-sized book contains original, stimulating mini-essays about what is going wrong with our planet and about the greatest challenge of our century: how to save the Earth for us all. It is pithy, yet intellectually credible well-referenced,...
Nuclear Reactions
Documenting American Encounters with Nuclear Energy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Nuclear Reactions explores the nuclear consensus that emerged in post�World War II America, characterized by widespread support for a diplomatic and military strategy based on nuclear weapons and a vision of economic growth that welcomed nuclear energy both for the generation of electricity and...
Sustainable Phosphorus Management
A Global Transdisciplinary Roadmap
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
This book describes a pathway for sustainable phosphorus management via the Global Transdisciplinary Processes for Sustainable Phosphorus Management project (Global TraPs). Global TraPs is a multi-stakeholder forum in which scientists from a variety of disciplines join with key actors in practice...
by Khan Towhid Osman
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Soils are neither good nor bad, but some have inherent or acquired characteristics that may or may not suit our intended use. Unsuitable characteristics are considered to be soil problems, soil constraints or soil limitations.
Only twelve percent of global land is right for agricultural production...
Chesapeake Bay Blues
Science, Politics, and the Struggle to Save the Bay
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2003
The Chesapeake Bay restoration effort has been touted as the nation's premier environmental restoration program. Yet the Bay and the living systems it supports remain in dismally poor condition, with fisheries in decline and drinking water in danger. This book addresses the Chesapeake Bay as a political...
by Dan Frishling
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Climate change...? Global warming...? Important issues for humanity to solve. But, is global warming really the most severe environmental concern facing mankind? How vital is it to ensure that global temperatures do not rise by more than a few degrees, and does the survival of humanity rest on achieving...
Civilizing Nature
National Parks in Global Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon. The development of these ecological and political systems cannot be understood as a simple...
Manufactured Gas Plant Remediation
A Case Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
The assessment, remediation, and redevelopment of manufactured gas plant (MGP) sites pose a significant technical and financial challenge to successor property owners, including municipalities and other public entities undertaking brownfields revitalization, and to their consulting environmental engineers....
Global Ecopolitics
Crisis, Governance, and Justice, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Despite sporadic news coverage of extreme weather events, high-level climate change diplomacy, special UN days of celebration, and popular media references to impending ecological collapse, most students are not exposed to the detailed presentation and analysis of the international relations and diplomacy...