Environmental Science category: 9368 books
Blue and Green
The Drive for Justice at America's Port
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
How an alliance of the labor and environmental movements used law as a tool to clean up the trucking industry at the nation's largest port.
In Blue and Green, Scott Cummings examines a campaign by the labor and environmental movements to transform trucking at America's largest port in Los Angeles....
by David Owen
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
**Look out for David Owen's next book,*Where the Water Goes.
The Conundrum* is a mind-changing manifesto about the environment, efficiency and the real path to sustainability.**
Hybrid cars, fast trains, compact florescent light bulbs, solar panels, carbon offsets: Everything you've...
The Derrick Jensen Reader
Writings on Environmental Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
In an age marked by seemingly unstoppable environmental collapse and the urgent quest for solutions, environmental philosopher Derrick Jensen, the voice of the growing deep ecology movement, reveals for us new seeds of hope. Here for the first time in The Derrick Jensen Reader are collected generous...
Polyurethane Immobilization of Cells and Biomolecules
Medical and Environmental Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive review of the chemistry and research illustrating the benefits of polyurethane for immobilizing cells, with dozens of case studies in medical devices and environmental engineering.
• Offers an essential resource for medical and environmental scientists
•...
Ecological Economics
Sustainability in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
In a concise and crisp manner, this book presents the state of the art in ecological economics, an interdisciplinary field focused on the analysis of sustainability of global, national and regional economic systems. An elegant guide, the book offers a range of cutting edge methods used in sustainability...
Sustainability Assessment
Context of Resource and Environmental Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Sustainability Assessment is a comprehensive compilation of all the known policy factors related to sustainability. This book outlines all of the elements and considerations of community aspects of policy evaluation in an effort to reduce the future consequences on resources and environmental sustainability....
Economics, Natural-Resource Scarcity and Development (Routledge Revivals)
Conventional and Alternative Views
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Global warming is an increasing problem, tropical forests are being wiped out and major upper watersheds are being degraded. Using insights provided by environmentalism, ecology and thermo-dynamics, this book – first published in 1989 – outlines an economic approach to the use of natural resources...
Quantified
Redefining Conservation for the Next Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Google, Apple, Amazon, Uber: companies like these have come to embody innovation, efficiency, and success. How often is the environmental movement characterized in the same terms? Sadly, conservation is frequently seen as a losing battle, waged by well-meaning, but ultimately ineffective idealists. Joe...
Global Warming in a Politically Correct Climate
How Truth Became Controversial
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2004
"Societies unravel when they lose the glue that holds them together."
The opening words of Global Warming in a Politically Correct Climate reveal author M. Mihkel Mathiesen's passionate struggle to reveal how the truth has become controversial in the modern community. Mathiesen explores...
by Nicholas Cheremisinoff, Motasem B. Haddadin
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
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: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
This collection examines the role that foreign aid can play in dealing with the severe global challenge of climate change, one of the most pressing international development issues of the 21st century. Addressing the key threats of rising temperatures, changes in precipitation, coastal erosion and...
The Deepest Wounds
A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
In The Deepest Wounds, Thomas D. Rogers traces social and environmental changes over four centuries in Pernambuco, Brazil's key northeastern sugar-growing state. Focusing particularly on the period from the end of slavery in 1888 to the late twentieth century, when human impact on the environment...
Community, Environment and Local Governance in Indonesia
Locating the commonweal
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This book explores the forces reconfiguring local resource governance in Indonesia since 1998, drawing together original field research undertaken in a decade of dramatic political change. Case studies from across Indonesia’s diverse cultural and ecological landscapes focus on the most significant...
Hazardous Wastes, Industrial Disasters, and Environmental Health Risks
Local and Global Environmental Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
The sociology of hazardous waste, risk, and disasters is a relatively new discipline. This book focuses on hazardous and toxic wastes releases, industrial toxic disasters, contamination of communities and the environment, and the subsequent adverse health effects among exposed populations