Environmental Science category: 9368 books
Roadmap to Sustainable Textiles and Clothing
Environmental and Social Aspects of Textiles and Clothing Supply Chain
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
This book covers the elements involved in achieving sustainability in textiles and Clothing sector. The chapters to be covered in three volumes of this series title cover all the distinctive areas earmarked for achieving sustainable development in textiles and the clothing industry. This second volume...
Introduction to Environmental Toxicology
Molecular Substructures to Ecological Landscapes, Fifth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The fifth edition includes new sections on the use of adverse outcome pathways, how climate change changes how we think about toxicology, and a new chapter on contaminants of emerging concern. Additional information is provided on the derivation of exposure-response curves to describe toxicity and...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
This edited volume examines the multiple dimensions of sustainability in the Circumpolar North, a territory facing unprecedented environmental and social challenges at the start of the 21st century. The chapters explore the cultural, economic, political and environmental aspects of sustainability,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Increasingly over the next few decades, the oil and gas industry faces the complex task of decommissioning its offshore platforms, pipelines and sub-sea equipment as they reach the end of their operational capabilities. Decommissioning involves and integrates many distinct aspects: engineering, environmental,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
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.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
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.
Wind Field and Solar Radiation Characterization and Forecasting
A Numerical Approach for Complex Terrain
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
In addition to describing core concepts and principles, this book reveals professional methodologies and tools used by national agencies and private corporations to predict sites’ potential for wind and solar power generation. Each chapter focuses on a different issue, showing readers the corresponding...
Ecometric and Dynamic Modelling —
Exemplified by Caesium in Lakes After Chernobyl Methodological Aspects of Establishing Representative and Compatible Lake Data, Models and Load Diagrammes
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
The accident of Chernobyl enabled the scientific community to study nuclear fall-out effects in situ establishing new kinds of interpretation methods. This study presents the development of ecometric analysis, mainly based on load diagrammes for entire ecosystems and their interpretation with regard...
by Madelon L. Finkel
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Oil and gas account for a large percentage of the world's energy consumption, and the search for new ways to extract both from the earth is a global quest. Fracking is viewed as an energy game-changer but is a controversial topic about which there is much misunderstanding. This unbiased work was written...
The Shipping Industry, Ocean Governance and Environmental Law in the Paradigm Shift
In Search of a Pragmatic Balance for the Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
This book examines the corpus of status quo environmental legal regime, geographical issues and redundant “stakeholder claims,” which persist in the Arctic. It examines multifarious theories relating not only to conflicting and opposing interests, but also to parties to whom the shipping industry...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
In this volume of the TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) publication series, the key concepts of the project are applied to local and regional policy and public management. The aim is to show that by taking nature's benefits into account, decision makers can promote local development...
by Thomas T. Shen
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
"...This book is the best I have read on this subject of increasing importance in the past five years. Therefore, I recommend it strongly to a broad audience which is interested in and responsible for pollution prevention: students on environmental management courses, their lecturers, government...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the field of biosensors the previous focus has been almost entirely on medical diagnostics. Here it is discussed in relation to bioremediation. The application of new biosensing techniques to environmental monitoring promises to be a more economical approach to monitoring both soil consortia and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book deals with water management, one of the most challenging issues of contemporary society. Research and innovation in the field of water management must address certain fundamental aspects: access to water, water quality, water treatment, transboundary effect of water, etc. A comprehensive...