Environmental Science category: 9368 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The diverse nature of environmental problems mankind has encountered within the last decade has developed a new understanding of the nature of environmental processes. Currently, the environment is considered as a continuum of air, soil and water as the vital components for sustaining life on earth....
by Chris Barrow
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Environmental management is a wide, expanding, and rapidly evolving field, affecting everyone from individual citizens to businesses; governments to international agencies. Indisputably, it plays a crucial role in the quest for sustainable development.
This comprehensively updated second edition...
Wicked Environmental Problems
Managing Uncertainty and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
"Wicked" problems are large-scale, long-term policy dilemmas in which multiple and compounding risks and uncertainties combine with sharply divergpublic values to generate contentious political stalemates; wicked problems in the environmental arena typically emerge from entrenched conflicts over natural...
by Kate Davies
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
This book, named one of Booklist's Top 10 books on sustainability in 2014, is the first to offer a comprehensive examination of the environmental health movement, which unlike many parts of the environmental movement, focuses on ways toxic chemicals and other hazardous agents in the environment effect...
From Red to Green?
How the Financial Credit Crunch Could Bankrupt the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Written by an economist and an investment professional, this book addresses the twin crises that the world is facing in the form of a simultaneous financial and environmental credit crunch. Financially, consumers are less able to consume now, and pay later. Environmentally, we may have already reached...
by Dr. J. P. Shrama
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
This book is designed to meet the compulsory course on Environmental Studies for undergraduate and graduate students of all disciplines and gives a balanced presentation of the major issues and concerns related to the environment. The volume examines the major environmental problems we face todayGlobal...
British Environmental Policy and Europe
Politics and Policy in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2005
This book explores the effectiveness of the response of environmental groups and organisations in Britain in to the challenges of European integration. Examining the relative European orientation of British environmental policy, and the impact of British concerns on European environmental policy,...
by DRS. SUSHMITHA, R. BASKAR
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2010
This book on Environmental Science is strictly designed on the basis of the model curriculum prescribed by the AICTE for engineering undergraduate courses. It has been divided into six units. The first unit covers environment, its components and an overview of the environmental problems today. Second...
Global Environment
Water, Air, and Geochemical Cycles - Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2012
This newly revised edition of Global Environment discusses the major elements of the geochemical cycles and global fluxes found in the atmosphere, land, lakes, rivers, biota, and oceans, as well as the human effects on these fluxes. Retaining the strengths of the original edition while incorporating...
Green Grades
Can Information Save the Earth?
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
A comprehensive assessment and analysis of the validity, trustworthiness, and effectiveness, of such environmental ratings as ENERGY STAR, LEED, and USDA Organic.
Consumers are confronted with a confusing array of environmental ratings on products that range from refrigerators to shampoos....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Applications of radioactive and stable isotopes have revolutionized our understanding of the Earth and near-earth surface processes. The utility of the isotopes are ever-increasing and our sole focus is to bring out the applications of these isotopes as tracers and chronometers to a wider audience...
by Michael Allaby
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
The new edition of this popular student text offers an engaging introduction to environmental study. It covers the entire breadth of the environmental sciences, providing concise, non-technical explanations of physical processes and systems and the effects of human activities. In this second edition...
Survival and Sustainability
Environmental concerns in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
The International Conference on Environment: Survival and Sustainability, held at the Near East University, Nicosia, Northern Cyprus 19-24 February 2007, dealt with environmental threats and proposed solutions at all scales. The 21 themes addressed by the conference fell into four broad categories;...
Environment and Development
Basic Principles, Human Activities, and Environmental Implications
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Environment and Development: Basic Principles, Human Activities, and Environmental Implications focuses on the adverse impact that human activities, developments, and economic growth have on both natural and inhabited environments. The book presents the associated problems, along with solutions that...