Environmental Science category: 9368 books
The Big Picture
Reflections on Science, Humanity, and a Quickly Changing Planet
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
"We've got lots of nuts-and-bolts accounts of our environmental predicament -- leave it to David Suzuki and Dave Robert Taylor to back up and give us the big view that puts things in perspective. A necessary book!" -- Bill McKibben
"Suzuki asks us to think beyond just swapping...
Earth Repair
A Grassroots Guide to Healing Toxic and Damaged Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Hundreds of thousands of acres of land have been contaminated by pesticides, improperly handled chemicals, dirty energy projects, toxic waste, and other pollutants in the United States alone. This toxic legacy impacts the environment, our health, our watersheds, and land that could otherwise be used...
Ducktown Smoke
The Fight over One of the South's Greatest Environmental Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
It is hard to make a desert in a place that receives sixty inches of rain each year. But after decades of copper mining, all that remained of the old hardwood forests in the Ducktown Mining District of the Southern Appalachian Mountains was a fifty-square mile barren expanse of heavily gullied red...
Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Technology, Incentives, Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
The complexity of carbon reduction and economic sustainability is significantly complicated by competing aspects of socioeconomic practices as well as legislative, regulatory, and scientific requirements and protocols. An easy to read and understand guide, Sioshansi, along with an international group...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
One of the most important issues in developing sustainable management strategies and incorporating ecodesigns in production, manufacturing and operations management is the assessment of the sustainability of business operations and organizations’ overall environmental performance. The book presents...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
This volume’s focus on the environmental accounting of supply chain processes is of particular relevance because these processes supply data about the environmental impact of relationships between business organisations, an area where the boundary separating internal and external accounting is ill-defined....
International Environmental Management Benchmarks
Best Practice Experiences from America, Japan and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book shows what sustainable development means for the business community and presents best practice approaches in environmental management from Japan, the USA, Brazil and seven European countries. It stresses that international competitiveness depends on the effective use of innovative management...
Towards Global Sustainability
Issues, New Indicators and Economic Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
This study develops a new indicator for national and global sustainability. The main components of the EIIW-vita indicator are: the share of renewable energy, the genuine savings rate and the relative "green export" position of the respective countries; it is in line with OECD requirements...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
This volume provides a comprehensive perspective on geomorphic approaches to management of lowland alluvial rivers in North America and Europe. Many lowland rivers have been heavily managed for flood control and navigation for decades or centuries, resulting in engineered channels and embanked floodplains...
Environmental Resource Management and the Nexus Approach
Managing Water, Soil, and Waste in the Context of Global Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This book elaborates how water, soil, and waste may be managed in a nexus and how this approach may help combat global change. In addition to providing a brief account on nexus thinking and how it may help us tackle issues important to the world community such as food security, the book presents the...
Transnational Environmental Policy
Reconstructing Ozone
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Transnational Environmental Policy analyses a surprising success story in the field of international environmental policy making: the threat to the ozone layer posed by industrial chemicals, and how it has been averted. The book also raises the more general question about the problem-solving capacities...
Useless Arithmetic
Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Noted coastal geologist Orrin Pilkey and environmental scientist Linda Pilkey-Jarvis show that the quantitative mathematical models policy makers and government administrators use to form environmental policies are seriously flawed. Based on unrealistic and sometimes false assumptions, these models...
by Paul E. Rosenfeld, Nicholas P Cheremisinoff, Consulting Engineer
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This new Handbook provides a series of reference guides to cleaner production methods, technologies, and practices for key industry sectors.
Each volume covers, for each industry sector: * the manufacturing technologies * waste management * pollution * methods for estimating and reporting emissions...
Global Cities
Urban Environments in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
How Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China deal with such urban environmental issues as ports, goods movement, air pollution, water quality, transportation, and public space.
Over the past four decades, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and key urban regions of China have emerged as global cities—in financial,...