Environmental Science category: 9368 books
Global Environmental Issues
A Climatological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
This book provides a balanced account of the global environmental issues which threaten our society and which we neglect at our peril. Analysing both social and environmental components of the issues - global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain and drought - the book offers a valuable integrative...
Environmental Policy is Social Policy – Social Policy is Environmental Policy
Toward Sustainability Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book argues that social and environmental policy should be synthetically treated as one and the same field, that both are but two aspects of the same coin – if sustainability is the goal. Such a paradigm shift is indicated, important, and timely to effectively move towards sustainability....
by Salim Momtaz, Zobaidul Kabir
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Evaluating Environmental and Social Impact Assessment in Developing Countries isa valuable reference book for practitioners and researchers conducting research in and developing studies on environmental science and management and environmental and social impact assessment. The book’s authors have...
by Milton Wainwright
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
An Introduction to Environmental Biotechnology provides an introduction to the subject of environmental biotechnology. Environmental biotechnology refers to the use of micro-organisms and other living systems to solve current environmental problems such as the detoxification of pollutants and clean-up...
Global Environmental Biotechnology
Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on the International Society for Environmental Biotechnology
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Environmental Biotechnology is an emerging field of scientific and technological investigations that is truly global. People around the world are now joined together by a common technical bond. Furthermore, popular recognition is high for the environmental problems being faced and solved by biotechnology...
Excel 2016 for Environmental Sciences Statistics
A Guide to Solving Practical Problems
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2016
This book shows the capabilities of Microsoft Excel in teaching environmental science statistics effectively. Similar to the previously published Excel 2013 for Environmental Sciences Statistics, this book is a step-by-step exercise-driven guide for students and practitioners who need to master Excel...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Ecocriticism and environmental communication studies have for many years co-existed as parallel disciplines, occasionally crossing paths but typically operating in separate academic spheres. These fields are now rapidly converging, and this handbook aims to reinforce the common concerns and methodologies...
Environmental Missouri
Issues and Sustainability - What You Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Title: Environmental Missouri: Issues and Sustainability - What You Need to Know
Author: Don Corrigan
Size: 6 x 9
Bindings: softcover
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9781935806684
Cost: $19.95
Environmental Missouri is the first comprehensive guide to local...
Environmental Expertise
Connecting Science, Policy and Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
An important goal of environmental research is to inform policy and decision making. However, environmental experts working at the interface between science, policy and society face complex challenges, including how to identify sources of disagreement over environmental issues, communicate uncertainties...
Foundations of Environmental Sustainability
The Coevolution of Science and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2008
This book reviews and analyzes the period (roughly from the 1950s to the present) when the "environment" became an issue as important as economic growth, or war and peace; to assess the current situation, and begin planning for the challenges that lie ahead. Most people are aware of both the environmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
This comprehensive book covers the environmental issues concerning silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). Following an introduction to the history, properties and applications, the environmental concerns of AgNPs is discussed. In the second chapter, the separation, characterization and quantification of AgNPs...
by Adrian Belcham
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Manual of Environmental Management is a practical guide for those involved in the control and reduction of environmental impacts in organisations. This comprehensive and practical guide takes you through the main environmental challenges organisations face and the improvement strategies used to manage...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Understandings of “nature” have expanded and changed, but the word has not lost importance at any level of discourse: it continues to hold a key place in conversations surrounding thought, ethics, and aesthetics. Nowhere is this more evident than in the interdisciplinary field of environmental...
by Helen Corbett, Susanne Swibold
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2002
The Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy is a comprehensive presentation of definitions, philosophies, policies, models, and analyses of global environmental and developmental issues. With a wealth of comparative, multidisciplinary, and geographically varied perspectives on environmental...