Environmental Science category: 9368 books
by Greg Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The very survival of the planet is at risk: human misuse of natural resources and disturbance of natural environmental systems is pushing the Earth to the limits of its capacity.
The Environment is a lively, comprehensive introduction for environmental study, explaining how the environment functions,...
Everyday Lifestyles and Sustainability
The Environmental Impact Of Doing The Same Things Differently
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
The impact of humanity on the earth overshoots the earth’s bio-capacity to supply humanity’s needs, meaning that people are living off earth’s capital rather than its income. However, not all countries are equal and this book explores why apparently similar patterns of daily living can lead...
Anaerobic Biotechnology
Environmental Protection and Resource Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Environmental protection and resource recovery are two crucial issues facing our society in the 21st century. Anaerobic biotechnology has become widely accepted by the wastewater industry as the better alternative to the more conventional but costly aerobic process and tens of thousands of full-scale...
Environmental Ecology
The Ecological Effects of Pollution, Disturbance, and Other Stresses
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1995
Thoroughly revised and significantly expanded, the Second Edition of Environmental Ecology provides new case studies and in-depth treatment of the effects of pollution and other disturbances on our oceans, lakes, forests, and air. New chapters on biological resources and ecological applications have...
The Price of Nuclear Power
Uranium Communities and Environmental Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Rising fossil fuel prices and concerns about greenhouse gas emissions are fostering a nuclear power renaissance and a revitalized uranium mining industry across the American West. In The Price of Nuclear Power, environmental sociologist Stephanie Malin offers an on-the-ground portrait of several uranium...
Environmental Nanotechnology
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This book presents the environmental benefits of nanomaterials in agriculture, water purification and nanomedicine. Nanotechnology will modify the environment both in a positive and negative way. On the one hand, new nanomaterials are promising for reducing greenhouse gases, cleaning toxic wastes...
Environmental Radionuclides
Tracers and Timers of Terrestrial Processes
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Environmental Radionuclides presents a state-of-the-art summary of knowledge on the use of radionuclides to study processes and systems in the continental part of the Earth’s environment. It is conceived as a companion to the two volumes of this series, which deal with isotopes as tracers in the...
by E. Atlas, L. Fishbein, C.S. Giam
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 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...
Environmental Modelling
An Uncertain Future?
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Uncertainty in the predictions of science when applied to the environment is an issue of great current relevance in relation to the impacts of climate change, protecting against natural and man-made disasters, pollutant transport and sustainable resource management. However, it is often ignored both...
Environmental Choices
Policy Responses to Green Demands
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
Within a federal system, government agencies and regulatory policies can be fractured -- even at odds with each other. National actors share power with their counterparts in states and localities, as do presidents with Congressional leaders, and bureaucrats with judges. Understanding the broad economic...
by Alvin Lee Young
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
For almost four decades, controversy has surrounded the tactical use of herbicides in Southeast Asia by the United States military. Few environmental or occupational health issues have received the sustained international attention that has been focused on Agent Orange, the major tactical herbicide...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
This book is divided into four main sections thoroughly analyzing the use of nanomaterials for water, air and soil solutions, and emphasizing environmental risks. Providing background on nanomaterials' two-decade study, it discusses the characterization and application of unconventional disinfectants,...
Environmental Geoinformatics
Extreme Hydro-Climatic and Food Security Challenges: Exploiting the Big Data
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2018
This second edition includes updated chapters from the first edition as well as five additional new chapters (Light detection and ranging (LiDAR), CORONA historical de-classified products, Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles (UAVs), GNSS-reflectometry and GNSS applications to climate variability), shifting...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Environmental indicators are the first line of warning against hazards caused by humans or nature catastrophes to prevent diseases and death of living organisms. The present book covers a large variety of environmental indicators from physical-chemistry through economical, bioinformatics, electromagnetic...