Environmental Science category: 9368 books
Green Criminology
Crime, Justice, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
This groundbreaking text provides students with an overview and assessment of green criminology as well as a call to action. *Green Criminology *draws attention to the ways in which the political-economic organization of capitalism causes ecological destruction and disorganization. Focusing on real-world...
Clean-up of Former Soviet Military Installations
Identification and Selection of Environmental Technologies for Use in Central and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
A NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) was conducted on June 21-23, 1994 in Visegnid, Hungary related to the clean-up of former Soviet military installation sites. This ARW included a technical site visit to the Komarom Base Site which is a former Soviet military installation in Hungary. During this...
Environmental Management and Governance
Advances in Coastal and Marine Resources
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
This book deals with recent advances in coastal marine environmental management and governance. Various chapters consider new aspects of conservation, assessment of ecosystem health status, environmental survey and protection, frameworks of ocean service and governance, new applications of geo processing...
by Ram Chandra, N.K. Dubey, Vineet Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Phytoremediation aids to augment bioremediation as it uses broad range plants to remediate soil, sediment, surface water and ground water that have been contaminated with toxic metals, organic, pesticides and radionuclides. This book serves to disseminate detailed up to date knowledge regarding the...
by James R. Millette, Samarendra Basu
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Forensic, Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences are identification sciences dealing with criminal and delicate societal problems for which scanning electron microscopy (SEM) with energy dispersive x-rays (EDAX) and analytical transmission electron microscopy (TEM) are providing increasingly...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
This significantly updated edition looks at each stage in the life cycle of petroleum products, from exploration to end use, examining the environmental pressures on the oil industry and its response. Technical developments are progressing in line with environmental concerns and increasing sophistication...
Standard Handbook Oil Spill Environmental Forensics
Fingerprinting and Source Identification
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Standard Handbook Oil Spill Environmental Forensics: Fingerprinting and Source Identification, Second Edition, provides users with the latest information on the tools and methods that have become popular over the past ten years.
The book presents practitioners with the latest environmental...
Environment, Energy and Climate Change I
Environmental Chemistry of Pollutants and Wastes
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
This volume offers a comprehensive overview of advanced research in the field of environmental green chemistry for air, soil and water pollutants, and presents emerging technologies on the chemical treatment of polluted sites and wastes. The 15 chapters, prepared by internationally respected experts,...
by Bhupinder Dhir
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Contamination of the different components of environment through industrial and anthropogenic activities have guided new eras of research. This has lead to development of strategies/methodologies to curtail/minimize environmental contamination. Research studies conducted all over the globe established...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
The book presents a thorough overview of the latest trends and challenges in renewable energy technologies applications for water desalination, with an emphasis on environmental concerns and sustainable development. Emphasis is on the various uses of renewable energy, as well as economics & scale-up,...
Ecotourism and Environmental Sustainability
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book offers conceptual and practical insights into the complex interactions between ecotourism and the natural environment, with consideration given to government policy, marketing by suppliers, consumer behaviour and visitor/environmental management. Illustrated by international case studies...
Antarctic Futures
Human Engagement with the Antarctic Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
At the beginning of the 21st century, Antarctica is poised at the edge of a warmer and busier world. Leading Antarctic researchers examine the needs and challenges of Antarctic environmental management today and tomorrow. Through: (i) investigating the impacts of human activities on specific ecosystems...
The State of the Environment in Asia
2002/2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In December 1977 we published the first in this series of NGO-oriented reports on Asia's environment, Ajia Kankyo Hakusho 1997/98. This was published in English by Springer-Verlag as The State o/the Environment in Asia 1999/2000. Although only a few years have passed since then, Asia has seen tumultuous...
Broken Pumps and Promises
Incentivizing Impact in Environmental Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This volume highlights some of the challenges in delivering effective environmental health interventions, and presents examples of emergent theories and case studies that can help close the gap between intent and impact. These include impact crediting systems, objective evidence gathering tools, and...