Environmental Science category: 9368 books
From Workshop to Waste Magnet
Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Like many industrialized regions, the Philadelphia metro area contains pockets of environmental degradation: neighborhoods littered with abandoned waste sites, polluting factories, and smoke-belching incinerators. However, other neighborhoods within and around the city are relatively pristine. This...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
In this cutting-edge volume, leading scholars examine a diverse range of environmental inequalities from around the world.
Shows how far the field has moved beyond its original focus on uneven distributions of pollution in the USA
Considers the influence of critical geographical and social theory...
by L.W. Newland, M. Zander, E. Merian
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science. Interest in this subject, however, is growing very rapidly and, although no agreement has been reached as yet about the exact content and limits of this interdisciplinary discipline, there appears to be increasing interest in seeing environmental...
Ecological Exile
Spatial Injustice and Environmental Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Ecological Exile explores how contemporary literature, film, and media culture confront ecological crises through perspectives of spatial justice – a facet of social justice that looks at unjust circumstances as a phenomenon of space. Growing instances of flooding, population displacement, and pollution...
Wildlife Ecotoxicology
Forensic Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2011
Many books have now been published in the broad field of environmental toxicology. However, to date, none of have presented the often fascinating stories of the wildlife science, and the steps along the way from discovery of problems caused by environmental pollutants to the regulatory and non-regulatory...
by Rudolf Reuther
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
It is not long ago that scientists realized, our study and understanding of most environmental problems call for a cross-sectional, more holistic view. In fact, environmental geochemistry became one of the legs to stand on for such a required interdisciplinary approach. Geochemists do not only describe...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book takes the position that the dynamic of the architectural environment is a key aspect of good design, yet one which is not well anticipated or understood. Environmental variety is a design characteristic closely related to our experience of architecture - an architecture of the senses. Each...
Transactional Environmental Support System Design
Global Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Designing a Transactional Environmental Support System grew from the desire to allow citizens to exchange knowledge on local land and animals for the purpose of learning how to increase their sustainability in regards to biodiversity and livelihood. Transactional Environmental Support System Design:...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
This publication is a practical guidebook on environmental risk assessment, especially for watershed-scale management. It highlights case studies of watershed environmental risk in Malaysia, including the potential health risks as well as screening methods and management in practice. In order to apply...
by Kristin Shrader-Frechette
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Shrader-Frechette offers a rigorous philosophical discussion of environmental justice. Explaining fundamental ethical concepts such as equality, property rights, procedural justice, free informed consent, intergenerational equity, and just compensation--and then bringing them to bear on real-world social...
by Nicholas P. Guehlstorf
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2012
The purpose of this study is to question whether liberal political theories ought to inform the way policymakers and administrators analyze risk in proposed courses of environmental practice. In order to explore the relationship of liberal theory to rational practice in environmental policy, this...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Part of our value-added professional format series, the Environmental Considerations in Military Operations Field Manual (FM 3-100.4) guides the United States (US) Army and the US Marine Corps (USMC) in applying appropriate environmental protection procedures during all types of operations. It also...
Technology and Application of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics
Selected Papers of the 7th International Conference on Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, ICEEG-Beijing 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
This book focuses on essential theories, methods and techniques in the field of environmental and engineering geophysics that can contribute to resource detection and environmental protection. Geophysics has been playing an important role in exploring the earth, locating vital resources and promoting...
Strategic Environmental Assessment in Europe
Fourth European Workshop on Environmental Impact Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
SEA, in particular, one study which dealt with the I. WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES AND development of an overall research strategy for FINDINGS - INTRODUCTION EIAISEA. 2 On 4th December 1996, the Commission Volker Kleinschmidt & Dieter Wagner, passed a "Proposal for a Council Directive on the PRO...