Environmental Science category: 9368 books
Chernobyl
A Policy Response Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This series is dedicated to serving the growing community of scholars and practitioners concerned with the principles and applications of environmental management. Each volume is a thorough treatment of a specific topic of importance for proper management practices. A fundamental objective of these...
by Pratima Bajpai
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
The traditional pulp and paper producers are facing new competitors in tropical and subtropical regions who use the latest and largest installed technologies, and also have wood and labor cost advantages. Due to the increasing global competition, the forest products prices will continue to decrease....
Spirit of the Environment
Religion, Value and Environmental Concern
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
Spirit of the Environment brings spiritual and religious concerns to environmental issues. Providing a much needed alternative to exploring human beings' relationship to the natural world through the restrictive lenses of 'science', 'ecology', or even 'morality', this book offers a fresh perspective...
Getting to Grips with Green Plans
National-level Experience in Industrial Countries
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
One of the more significant recommendations to emerge from UNCED in 1992 was the call in Agenda 21 for countries to develop and implement national sustainable development strategies. Most countries have responded to this challenge. However many countries also have a long history of drawing up planning...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
This volume gathers distinguished researchers on travel behavior from a variety of disciplines, to offer state-of-the-art research and analysis encompassing environmental, traffic and transport psychology; transport planning and engineering; transport geography; transport economics; consumer services...
Sustainable Future for Human Security
Environment and Resources
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book focuses on the environmental components of sustainability, including aspects of resourcing and the environmental impacts of human societies. Marine and tropical forest ecosystems, food security and other natural resources, as well as technologies for the environmental control of societal...
Crossroads
Environmental Priorities For The Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
The environmental movemtoday is at a critical crossroads. Crossroads: Environmental Priorities for the Future is an in-depth assessmof the movement's successes and failures, and also offers prescriptions for the future. It includes contributions from some of the country's top environmental leaders...
by G.Allen Burton
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Sediment Toxicity Assessment provides the latest information regarding how to evaluate sediment contamination and its effects on aquatic ecosystems. It presents an integrated ecosystem approach by detailing effective assessment methods, considerations, and effects to each major component of marine...
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
Continuation of Residue Reviews
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology provides detailed review articles concerned with aspects of chemical contaminants, including pesticides, in the total environment with toxicological considerations and consequences. RAJ GROVER, JEFFREY D. WOLT, ALLAN J. CESSNA, AND H. BRUNO SCHIEFER:...
Environmental Management of Solid Waste
Dredged Material and Mine Tailings
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Dredged Material and Mine Tailings are two of the same thing once they are deposited on land: they must be safe-guarded, wash-out must be prevented, and they must be protected by a plantcover. This comprehensive two-volume treatise covers both important aspects of their management: Environmental ...
Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South
Two Centuries of Catastrophe, Risk, and Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Hurricanes, floods, oil spills, disease, and disappearing wetlands are some of the many environmental disasters that impact the Gulf South. The contributors to Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South explore the threat, frequency, and management of this region’s disasters from the mid-nineteenth...
Divergence and Convergence of Automobile Fuel Economy Regulations
A Comparative Analysis of EU, Japan and the US
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
This book reveals the mechanisms underlying the convergence of car fuel economy regulations in Europe, Japan and the US by drawing upon a constructivist theory of International Relations and law that focuses on business competition and environmental regulations. It offers new understanding of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This atlas provides the most comprehensive and accurate overview of environmental risks relating to climate change vulnerability and adaptation in China. It addresses the agricultural, ecosystem and heat wave health risk posed by climate change and presents the projected environmental risks in the...
The Waste and the Backyard
The Creation of Waste Facilities: Success Stories in Six European Countries
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Controversies concerning the siting of facilities for the disposal and treatment of hazardous but also domestic waste are widespread in all of the industrialized countries. The paradoxical situation of projects that are needed for environmental reasons and are opposed on environmental grounds has...