Environmental Science category: 9368 books
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Release Date: December 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
This book focuses on different aspects of microplastic pollution, offering authors and readers the opportunity to share their knowledge, identify issues and propose solutions and actions to face this environmental threat. Although plastic pollution is a well-known global problem, the recent discovery...
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Release Date: July 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2008
Radiological Risk Assessment and Environmental Analysis comprehensively explains methods used for estimating risk to people exposed to radioactive materials released to the environment by nuclear facilities or in an emergency such as a nuclear terrorist event. This is the first book that merges the...
Emerging Organic Contaminants in Sludges
Analysis, Fate and Biological Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
There are a growing number of new chemicals in the environment that represent an ascertained or potential risk. Many of them can be found in sewage sludge and are the subject of this volume. Experts in the field highlight their occurrence and fate, risks of biosolid use, advanced chemical analysis...
Late Cenozoic Climate Change in Asia
Loess, Monsoon and Monsoon-arid Environment Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
This book is the first of its kind on environmental change research devoted to monsoon-arid environment evolution history and its mechanism involved. Capturing the most prominent features of Asian climate and environmental changes, it gives a comprehensive review of the Asian Monsoon records providing...
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Release Date: May 23, 2014
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Release Date: May 23, 2014
Environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD) are asserting their growing role in curricula around the world, yet how deeply embedded are they in the learning systems of the Pacific nations? Building on an earlier analysis in China and Taiwan, this volume expands its...
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Release Date: November 2, 2015
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Release Date: November 2, 2015
Ecological indicators and surrogates are used widely by resource managers to monitor and understand complex biota and ecosystem processes. Their potential to guide complex resource management has meant they have been proposed for use in all ecosystems worldwide. Despite extensive research into indicators...
Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
This book examines the importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and how it can provide models for a time-tested form of sustainability needed in the world today. The essays, written by a team of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, explore TEK through compelling cases of environmental...
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Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Maintaining and preserving the environment is a crucial consideration in an era where climate change and rising sea levels are common knowledge. It is important for researchers and developers alike to explore potential solutions for a steadily warming world. The Handbook of Research on Uncovering...
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Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Soil enzymes play a fundamental role in many soil processes such as the mineralization of organic matter, the synthesis of humic substances, the degradation of xenobiotics or the mechanisms involved in the biocontrol of plant pathogens. Their direct link with soil microorganisms gives them a key role...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Environmental sustainability issues in a fragile, semi-arid region and its coastal area, which experience climate changes from extreme drought conditions to the effects of hurricanes over a period of weeks to years, provide specific challenges for the ecosystems and the populations existing within...
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
Continuation of Residue Reviews
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology contains timely review articles concerned with all aspects of chemical contaminants (including pesticides) in the total environment, including toxicological considerations and consequences. It provides concise, critical reviews of advances, philosophy,...
by Jayanta K. Saha, Rajendiran Selladurai, M. Vassanda Coumar
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
The book provides reader with a comprehensive up-to-date overview of various aspects of soil pollutants manifestation of toxicity. The book highlights their interactions with soil constituents, their toxicity to agro-ecosystem & human health, methodologies of toxicity assessment along with remediation...
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Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Whether considered a threat to the health of humans in particular or of the ecosystem in general, the problem of air pollution affects us all. In addition to the 189 chemicals listed in the air toxins category of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, smog, acid rain, ozone depletion, and global warming...
Field Screening Europe
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Strategies and Techniques for the Investigation and Monitoring of Contaminated Sites
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
These Proceedings contain both oral and poster contributions to the first interna tional conference" Field Screening Europe - Strategies and Techniques for On-Site Investigation and Monitoring of Contaminated Soil, Water and Air", held in Karls ruhe September 29 - October 1, 1997. Environmental...