Environmental Science category: 9368 books
Advances in Geosciences
Volume 30: Planetary Science (PS) and Solar & Terrestrial Science (ST)
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
This invaluable volume set of Advances in Geosciences continues the excellent tradition of the Asia-Oceania scientific community in providing the most up-to-date research results on a wide range of geosciences and environmental science. The information is vital to the understanding of the effects...
Advances in Geosciences
Volume 28: Atmospheric Science (AS) & Ocean Science (OS)
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
This invaluable volume set of Advances in Geosciences continues the excellent tradition of the Asia-Oceania scientific community in providing the most up-to-date research results on a wide range of geosciences and environmental science. The information is vital to the understanding of the effects...
Policy Legitimacy, Science and Political Authority
Knowledge and action in liberal democracies
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Voters expect their elected representatives to pursue good policy and presume this will be securely founded on the best available knowledge. Yet when representatives emphasize their reliance on expert knowledge, they seem to defer to people whose authority derives, not politically from the sovereign...
The Nature and Use of Ecotoxicological Evidence
Natural Science, Statistics, Psychology, and Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
The Nature and Use of Ecotoxicological Evidence: Natural Science, Statistics, Psychology, and Sociology examines how toxicologists and environmental professionals come to understand and make decisions about possible harm from pollutants. Drawing on concepts and techniques from the natural, social...
Cultures of Prediction in Atmospheric and Climate Science
Epistemic and Cultural Shifts in Computer-based Modelling and Simulation
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
In recent decades, science has experienced a revolutionary shift. The development and extensive application of computer modelling and simulation has transformed the knowledge‐making practices of scientific fields as diverse as astro‐physics, genetics, robotics and demography. This epistemic transformation...
Justice and Natural Resources
Concepts, Strategies, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Just over two decades ago, research findings that environmentally hazardous facilities were more likely to be sited near poor and minority communities gave rise to the environmental justice movement. Yet inequitable distribution of the burdens of industrial facilities and pollution is only half of...
Wetland Science
Perspectives From South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
This book is an attempt to acknowledge the discipline ‘wetland science’ and to consolidate research findings, reviews and synthesis articles on different aspects of the wetlands in South Asia. The book presents 30 chapters by an international mix of experts in the field, who highlight and discuss...
Observation and Ecology
Broadening the Scope of Science to Understand a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
The need to understand and address large-scale environmental problems that are difficult to study in controlled environments—issues ranging from climate change to overfishing to invasive species—is driving the field of ecology in new and important directions. Observation and Ecology documents...
Living Shorelines
The Science and Management of Nature-Based Coastal Protection
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Living Shorelines: The Science and Management of Nature-based Coastal Protection compiles, synthesizes and interprets the current state of the knowledge on the science and practice of nature-based shoreline protection. This book will serve as a valuable reference to guide scientists, students, managers,...
Risk Analysis and Management - Trends, Challenges and Emerging Issues
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Risk Analysis and Crisis Response (RACR 2017), June 5-9, 2017, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
This book collects the papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Risk Analysis and Crisis Response (RACR-2017) held in Ostrava/Prague, Czech Republic, on June 5-9, 2017, organized by VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. The overall theme of the sixth international conference...
Practical Panarchy for Adaptive Water Governance
Linking Law to Social-Ecological Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
This book presents the results of an interdisciplinary project that examined how law, policy and ecological dynamics influence the governance of regional scale water based social-ecological systems in the United States and Australia. The volume explores the obstacles and opportunities for governance...
Science, Politics and Morality
Scientific Uncertainty and Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Current environmental problems and technological risks are a challenge for a new institutional arrangement of the value spheres of Science, Politics and Morality. Distinguished authors from different European countries and America provide a cross-disciplinary perspective on the problems of political...
The God Species
Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
We humans are the God species, both the creators and destroyers of life on this planet. As we enter a new geological era - the Anthropocene - our collective power now overwhelms and dominates the major forces of nature.
But from the water cycle to the circulation of nitrogen and carbon through...
by James Thornton, Martin Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Environmentally, our planet lacks the laws to keep it safe and those laws we do have are feebly enforced. Every new year is the hottest in human history, while forest, reef, ice, tundra, and species are disappearing forever. It is easy to lose all hope.
Who will stop the planet from committing...