Environmental Science category: 9368 books
by J Readman, S Pollard, Steve Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Understanding pollution, its behaviour and impact is becoming increasingly important, as new technologies and legislation continually lower the tolerable levels of pollutants released into the environment. Introduction to Pollution Science draws upon sections of the authors' previous text (Understanding...
The Mongolian Ecosystem Network
Environmental Issues Under Climate and Social Changes
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
The aim of this book is to describe what is currently occurring in the Mongolian grasslands, to analyze how various factors creating environmental problems interact, and to suggest solutions for sustainable management of the grasslands. The book has three parts. Part I is an introduction, explaining...
Restoring Lands - Coordinating Science, Politics and Action
Complexities of Climate and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Environmental issues, vast and varied in their details, unfold at the confluence of people and place. They present complexities in their biophysical details, their scope and scale, and the dynamic character of human action and natural systems. Addressing environmental issues often invokes tensions...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
This volume provides state-of-the-art information on soil-water interactions in wastewater systems, characterization of wastewater, modes of treatment, safety of wastewater use, water conservation technologies involved in recycling of sewage in fish culture, biogeochemical cycling bacteria and nutrient...
Environmental Systems Studies
A Macroscope for Understanding and Operating Spaceship Earth
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
The environmental field is deep and wide. In the flood of information, how can people understand the underlying causes of what they hear about the environment from newspapers and television? This book was originally published in Japanese, with the aim of providing basic information about the ideas...
Multilevel Governance of Global Environmental Change
Perspectives from Science, Sociology and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
Originally published in 2006, this collection is the outcome of an interdisciplinary research project involving scholars in the fields of international and comparative environmental law, the sociology and politics of global governance, and the scientific study of global climate change. Earth system...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) is one of the most holistic approaches to protecting marine and coastal ecosystems as it recognizes the need to protect entire marine ecosystems instead of individual species. After decades of pollution, habitat degradation and overfishing, now climate change and ocean...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Anthropogenic transformation of the coastal zone continues at a steady pace, especially in the developing maritime countries, where coastal resources are often crucial to national economies. However, exploitation of these resources is often indiscriminate, ill planned, or carried out without adequate...
Environmental Applications of Nanomaterials
Synthesis, Sorbents and Sensors
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
This book is concerned with functional nanomaterials, materials containing specific, predictable nanostructures whose chemical composition, or interfacial structure enables them to perform a specific job: to destroy, sequester, or detect some material that constitutes an environmental threat. Nanomaterials...
by Robert S. Dorney
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
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 environ mental management. Each volume is a thorough treatment of a specific topic of importance for proper management practices. A fundamental ob jective of...
Science and the Global Environment
Case Studies for Integrating Science and the Global Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
Case Studies for Integrating Science and the Global Environment is designed to help students of the environment and natural resources make the connections between their training in science and math and today’s complex environmental issues. The book provides an opportunity for students to apply important...
Environmental Apocalypse in Science and Art
Designing Nightmares
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
At a time when it is clear that climate change adaptation and mitigation are failing, this book examines how our assumptions about (valid and usable) knowledge are preventing effective climate action. Through a cross-disciplinary, empirically-based analysis of climate science and policy, the book...
by Lester R. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now.
We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise?...
Sustaining Lake Superior
An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
A compelling exploration of Lake Superior’s conservation recovery and what it can teach us in the face of climate change Lake Superior, the largest lake in the world, has had a remarkable history, including resource extraction and industrial exploitation that caused nearly irreversible degradation....