Environmental Science category: 9368 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The contribution of economic thought and method to environmental management needs practical illustration. Too few books on the subject achieve such an outcome. This book is among the notable exceptions. That economics can provide a powerful vehicle for communicating an integrated understanding of...
Humanity's Footprint
Momentum, Impact, and Our Global Environment
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2008
For the first time in history, humans have exceeded the sustaining capacity of Earth's global ecosystems. Our expanding footprint has tremendous momentum, and the insidious explosion of human impact creates a shockwave that threatens ecosystems worldwide for decades-possibly centuries.
Walter...
Equivalency Methods for Environmental Liability
Assessing Damage and Compensation Under the European Environmental Liability Directive
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
The book is the only technical volume that explains how equivalency analysis methods mentioned in Annex II of the European Environmental Liability Directive should be implemented. It uses case studies to illustrate real-world application of the methods, which are based on the experience in the USA...
Smart Markets for Water Resources
A Manual for Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Why is trade in wholesale water so rare, when markets can actively trade bread, tractors, and electricity? This book shows that water markets fail because of high transaction costs, resulting in inefficient allocations and unpredictable environmental effects. To overcome these obstacles, this book...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
An integrated approach to environmental data management is necessitated by the complexity of the environmental problems that need to be addresses, coupled with the interdisciplinary approach that needs to be adopted to solve them. Agenda 21 of the Rio Environmental Conference mandated international...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Clay’s Handbook of Environmental Health, since its first publication in 1933, has provided a definitive guide for the environmental health practitioner, or reference for the consultant or student. This 21th edition continues as a first point of reference, reviewing the core principles, techniques...
Environmental Change in South-East Asia
People, Politics and Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2005
Environmental Change in South-East Asia brings together scholars, journalists, consultants and NGO activists to explore the interaction of people, politics and ecology. Ostensibly "green" activities - plantation forestry, eco-tourism, hydro-electricity - are revealed as guises used by elites...
An Environmental History of the Middle Ages
The Crucible of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
The Middle Ages was a critical and formative time for Western approaches to our natural surroundings. An Environmental History of the Middle Ages is a unique and unprecedented cultural survey of attitudes towards the environment during this period. Humankind’s relationship with the environment...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
This authoritative dictionary provides over 9,000 entries on scientific and social aspects of the environment-its key thinkers, treaties, movements, organizations, concepts, and theories. It covers subjects such as sustainable development, biodiversity, and environmental ethics, it is at the cutting...
by Stephen Depoe
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Voice and Environmental Communication explores how people give voice to, and listen to the voices of, the environment. This foundational book introduces the relationship between these two fundamental aspects of human existence and extends our knowledge of the role of voice in the study of environmental communication.
Environmental Design
An Introduction for Architects and Engineers
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
Written and edited by a team of specialists at Max Fordham LLP, one of the UK’s leading environmental and building services engineering consultancies, Environmental Design is the result of their extensive experience in designing environmentally-friendly buildings. The principles of their approach,...
Discerning Experts
The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Discerning Experts assesses the assessments that many governments rely on to help guide environmental policy and action. Through their close look at environmental assessments involving acid rain, ozone depletion, and sea level rise, the authors explore how experts deliberate and decide on the scientific...
Nation-States and the Global Environment
New Approaches to International Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Hardly a day passes without journalists, policymakers, academics, or scientists calling attention to the worldwide scale of the environmental crisis confronting humankind. While climate change has generated the greatest alarm in recent years, other global problems-desertification, toxic pollution,...
by Tristan Kimbrell
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Environmental law has an unquestionable effect on the species, ecosystems, and landscapes that biologists study—and vice-versa, as the research of these biologists frequently informs policy. But because many scientists receive little or no legal training, we know relatively little about the precise...