Environmental Science category: 9368 books
by Chongrak Polprasert, Thammarat Koottatep
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
This fourth edition of Organic Waste Recycling is fully updated with new material to create a comprehensive and accessible textbook: - New chapter on constructed wetlands for wastewater and faecal sludge stabilization. - New sections on: waste recycling vs. climate change and water; faecal sludge...
Exploring Environmental Issues
An Integrated Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Global warming, ozone depletion, drought, acid rain - their causes are viewed as extraordinarily complex; their effects are assumed catastrophic. Exploring Environmental Issues provides a key to understanding our potential crisis. The concise, introductory text presents a review of current environmental...
Environmental Management Systems Handbook for Refineries
Polution Prevention Through ISO 14001
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
This book offers refineries a practical guide for implementing environmental management systems (EMS).The
author, who has implemented hundreds of successful EMS programs throughout North America, Europe, Russia
and the Middle East, provides a detailed explanation of what an EMS is and how it can benefit...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
This volume is the result of years of commitment with world-wide sanitation challenges from various research networks linking the editors and authors of this volume to many other sanitation scholars and professionals. Major contributions to this volume are derived from the work done in the PROVIDE...
Environmental Change, Adaptation and Migration
Bringing in the Region
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
The contributors present empirical and theoretical insights on current debates on environmental change, adaptation and migration. While focusing on countries subject to environmental degradation, it calls for a regional perspective that recognises local actors and a systematic link between development studies and migration research.
Environmental Challenges in the Mediterranean 2000–2050
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Environmental Challenges in the Mediterranean 2000–2050 Madrid, Spain 2–5 October 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book addresses six key factors that will affect environmental policies in the Mediterranean region during the next fifty years: population growth, climate change, soil erosion and desertification, water scarcity, food production, and urbanization and pollution. The authors assess these as potential...
The Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Human-Environmental Security in the Asia-Pacific Ring of Fire
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
This book highlights the water-energy-food nexus as one of the most important and fundamental global environmental issues facing the world. Climate and social changes are putting increased pressure on water, energy and food resources. As water is the central aspect within this cluster, the book focuses...
ICGSCE 2014
Proceedings of the International Conference on Global Sustainability and Chemical Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
This book includes selected papers from the ICGSCE 2014 with focus on the current trends of global resources used to meet the growing demands to improve life style coupled with environmental and social problems related to the resource consumption with emphasize to move towards sustainable development. It...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This book is a compilation of detailed and latest knowledge on the various types of environmental pollutants released from various natural as well as anthropogenic sources, their toxicological effects in environments, humans, animals and plants as well as various bioremediation approaches for their...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 1998
New Instruments for Environmental Policy in the EU provides a comprehensive analysis of the debate over new forms of environmental regulation in the European Union.The conclusions draw attention to critical aspects of instrument design, as well as the difficulty of accommodating national policy diversity without contravening EU and international tr
by Chongrak Polprasert, Thammarat Koottatep
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
This fourth edition of Organic Waste Recycling is fully updated with new material to create a comprehensive and accessible textbook: - New chapter on constructed wetlands for wastewater and faecal sludge stabilization. - New sections on: waste recycling vs. climate change and water; faecal sludge...
Urbanization and Sustainability
Linking Urban Ecology, Environmental Justice and Global Environmental Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
Case studies explore the Million Trees initiative in Los Angeles; the relationship of cap-and-trade policy, public health, greenhouse gas emissions and environmental justice in Southern California; Urbanization, vulnerability and environmental justice in the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The existence of the human race has created inevitable effects on our surrounding environment. To prevent further harm to the world’s ecosystems, it becomes imperative to assess mankind’s impact on and create sustainability initiatives to maintain the world’s ecosystems. Environmental Sustainability...
Environments at Risk
Case Histories of Impact Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Environments at Risk is designed as an introductory text and uses case histories of environmental impact assessment to raise issues important in controlling environmental problems. This approach is novel as is the concentration on assessment procedures. In his twenty years of involvement with such...