Environmental Science category: 9368 books

Cover of Thinking Through the Environment
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005

This reader brings together material from ecological thought, environmental policy, environmental philosophy, social and political thought, historical sociology and cultural studies. The extracts tell the story of the way the natural environment has been understood in the modern world and how this...
Cover of The Natural Environment and the Biogeochemical Cycles
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 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...
Cover of Water and Power

Water and Power

Environmental Governance and Strategies for Sustainability in the Lower Mekong Basin

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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018

This book brings together a talented international group of scholars, policy practitioners, and NGO professionals that explores a range of issues relating to environmental, developmental, and governing challenges on the Mekong, one of the world’s  greatest rivers and, alas, one of the most endangered.  The...
Cover of Advanced Modelling Techniques Studying Global Changes in Environmental Sciences
by Young-Seuk Park, Sovan Lek, Christophe Baehr
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015

Advanced Modelling Techniques Studying Global Changes in Environmental Sciences discusses the need for immediate and effective action, guided by a scientific understanding of ecosystem function, to alleviate current pressures on the environment. Research, especially in Ecological Modeling,...
Cover of Remote Sensing Techniques and GIS Applications in Earth and Environmental Studies
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016

Emerging technologies have enhanced the various uses of geographic information systems. This allows for more effective analysis of available data to optimize resources and promote sustainability. Remote Sensing Techniques and GIS Applications in Earth and Environmental Studies is a critical reference...
Cover of Contentious Geographies

Contentious Geographies

Environmental Knowledge, Meaning, Scale

by Maxwell T. Boykoff
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016

The human-environment relationship - intimately intertwined and often contentious - is one of the most pressing concerns of the 21st century. Explored through an array of critical approaches, this book brings together case studies from across the globe to present significant cutting-edge research...
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Environmental Biotechnology

Biodegradation, Bioremediation, and Bioconversion of Xenobiotics for Sustainable Development

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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016

With focus on the practical use of modern biotechnology for environmental sustainability, this book provides a thoughtful overview of molecular aspects of environmental studies to create a new awareness of fundamental biological processes and sustainable ecological concerns. It covers the latest research...
Cover of Emerging and Eco-Friendly Approaches for Waste Management
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Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018

Rapid industrialization is a serious concern in the context of a healthy environment. With the growth in the number of industries, the waste generated is also growing exponentially. The various chemical processes operating in the manufacturing industry generate a large number of by-products, which...
Cover of Ecosystem Response Modelling in the Murray-Darling Basin
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010

Ecosystem Response Modelling in the Murray-Darling Basin provides an overview of the status of science in support of water management in Australia’s largest and most economically important river catchment, and brings together the leading ecologists working in the rivers and wetlands of the Basin. It...
Cover of Introduction to Environmental Engineering
by Bernd Markert, Stefan Fränzle, Simone Wünschmann
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012

Building on the first principles of environmental chemistry, engineering, and ecology, this volume fills the need for an advanced textbook introducing the modern, integrated environmental management approach, with a view towards long-term sustainability and within the framework of international regulations. As...
Cover of Environmental Compartments

Environmental Compartments

Equilibria and Assessment of Processes Between Air, Water, Sediments and Biota

by Egbert K. Duursma, JoLynn Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Any concentration of a substance measured in a living or non-living system results from its distribution among all of the environmental compartments: air, water, sediments, and biota. The transfer of a substance from one compartment to another is regulated by physical forces and the chemical properties...
Cover of Fracking
by Peter Hardy, Wallace Tyner, Iain Scotchman
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014

Fracking has the potential to extract hydrocarbons from previously inaccessible sources of gas and oil, but is regularly in the news because of environmental concerns surrounding the process. First used commercially in the mid-20th Century, only recently has fracking been deployed on a large scale,...
Cover of Specimen Banking

Specimen Banking

Environmental Monitoring and Modern Analytical Approaches

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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

M.J. Schwuger The Environmental Specimen Bank is a repository of representative environ­ mental specimens for safe long-term storage over decades and centuries without any chemical change in the constituents. It represents the modern form of a systematically designed collection which will permit...
Cover of Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
by US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Drinking WaterHealth Advisories
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Global attention in scientific, industrial, and governmental commUnItIes to traces of toxic chemicals in foodstuffs and in both abiotic and biotic environ­ ments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published progress reports,...
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