Environmental Science category: 9368 books
by G.Mattney Cole
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Federal regulations have required thousands of underground storage tanks (USTs) to be dug up and removed or replaced. The contamination of soil and ground water from leaking USTs has become widespread and has produced an overwhelming number of sites that require remediation.
Assessment and Remediation...
Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technologies for Building and Environmental Applications
Options for a Greener Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This diverse resource on renewable energy and sustainable technologies highlights the status, state of the art, challenges, advancements and options in areas such as energy recovery systems, turbine ventilators, green composites, biofuels and bio-resources for energy production, wind energy, integrated...
by David F. Ciambrone
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The trend in industry and with the EPA is to prevent wastes before they are created instead of treating or disposing of them later. This book assists design/systems engineers and managers in designing or changing a product or set of processes in order to minimize the negative impact on the environment...
Monitoring Ecological Condition at Regional Scales
Proceedings of the Third Symposium on the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) Albany, NY, U.S.A., 8–11 April, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program was created by EPA to develop the capability for tracking the changing conditions of our natural resources and to give environmental policy the advantages ofa sound scientific understanding of trends. Former EPA Administrators recognized early that...
Environmental Technologies and Trends
International and Policy Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This manuscript was made possible by the exceptional support provided by INSA (Institut National des Sciences Appliquees) Toulouse, the University of New Mexico and the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering. The authors, as listed in this book, took the time to prepare excellent manuscripts...
Global Environmental Change: Challenges to Science and Society in Southeastern Europe
Selected Papers presented in the International Conference held 19-21 May 2008 in Sofia Bulgaria
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
Selected papers from the International Conference "Global Environmental Change: Challenges for Science and Society in South-Eastern Europe" held 19-21 May 2008 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Covers changes in climate, land use, carbon and water cycles, air quality, etc.
Natural Attenuation
CERCLA, RBCAs, and the Future of Environmental Remediation
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Natural Attenuation: CERCLA, RBCAs, and the Future of Environmental Remediation presents the concept of "natural attenuation"-the tendency of soils to severly limit the toxicity of many types of hazardous waste. It reviews and updates the most recent findings from the field and lab and shows...
The Stated Preference Approach to Environmental Valuation, Volumes I, II and III
Volume I: Foundations, Initial Development, Statistical Approaches Volume II:Conceptual and Empirical Issues Volume III: Applications: Benefit-Cost Analysis and Natural Resource Damage Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
There is a truly enormous literature on using stated preference information to place a monetary value on environmental amenities. This three volume set provides the key papers for understanding the historical development of contingent valuation, its theoretical and statistical foundations, and the...
by Silke Marie Christiansen
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The book addresses the question of whether the currently available instruments of international environmental and international humanitarian law are applicable to climate conflicts. It clarifies the different pathways leading from climate change to conflict and offers an analysis of international...
by Vikas Choudhary
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Environmental resources management aims to ensure that ecosystem services are protected and maintained for equitable use by future human generations, and also, maintain ecosystem integrity as an end in itself by taking into consideration ethical, economic, and scientific (ecological) variables. Environmental...
Nanophotocatalysis and Environmental Applications
Materials and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
This book serves the environmentalists to track the development of photocatalytic materials and technology in the present context and to explore future trends. Photocatalysis is the most influential greener technology being researched, developed and adopted for the treatment of wastewater. The technological...
Environmental Studies of a Marine Ecosystem
South Texas Outer Continental Shelf
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Environmental Studies of a Marine Ecosystem reports the temporal and spatial variation of both the living and nonliving resources of the south Texas outer continental shelf. As the last major study to have been conducted before the Ixtoc oil spill in 1979, it is of great importance as a record of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology volume
With Cumulative and Comprehensive Index Subjects Covered Volumes 221-230
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.