Environmental Science category: 9368 books
The Climate War
True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
In The Climate War, Eric Pooley--deputy editor of Bloomberg BusinessWeek--does for global warming what Bob Woodward did for presidents and Lawrence Wright did for terrorists. In this epic tale of an American civil war, Pooley takes us behind the scenes and into the hearts and minds of the most important...
by Maik A Jochmann, Torsten C Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
The use of Compound-specific Stable Isotope Analysis (CSIA) is increasing in many areas of science and technology for source allocation, authentication, and characterization of transformation reactions. Until now, there have been no textbooks available for students with an analytical chemical background...
Modern Poisons
A Brief Introduction to Contemporary Toxicology
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Traditional toxicology textbooks tend to be doorstops: tomes filled with important but seemingly abstract chemistry and biology. Meanwhile, magazine and journal articles introduce students to timely topics such as BPA and endocrine disruption or the carcinogenic effects of pesticides, but don't provide...
Ecotoxicology Essentials
Environmental Contaminants and Their Biological Effects on Animals and Plants
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Ecotoxicology Essentials: Environmental Contaminants and Their Biological Effects on Animals and Plants provides a fundamental understanding of this area for students and professionals in ecotoxicology, ecology, conservation, chemistry, public health, wildlife management, fisheries, and many other...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The basic objective of this report is to place the debate about the future of the Northern Sea Route into the larger picture of Arctic politics and the emerging agenda of the Arctic as a developing region in international society. National security and international environmental cooperation, are...
by Eldor A. Paul
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2006
Now in its third edition, this classic textbook includes basic concepts and applications in agriculture, forestry, environmental science, and a new section entirely devoted to ecology. This revised and updated edition guides students through biochemical and microbial processes in soils and introduces...
Multifunctional Agriculture
Achieving Sustainable Development in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
In a world increasingly challenged by the need to integrate and understand highly specialized knowledge in a multidisciplinary way, this book is innovative and perhaps unique in addressing this challenge. It focuses on ideas, strategies, techniques and practices spanning many disciplines at the...
Metropolitan Sustainability
Understanding and Improving the Urban Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Global populations have grown rapidly in recent decades, leading to ever increasing demands for shelter, resources, energy and utilities. Coupled with the worldwide need to achieve lower impact buildings and conservation of resources, the need to achieve sustainability in urban environments has never...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
We face an environmental catastrophe of global proportions. The ecological rationality of modern society, and of science in particular, is in question. Science still responds to crises at the level of technocratic expertise, and still treats society as an adaptive system.
By bringing together a number...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
This book presents the basic concepts of quantitative soil science and, within this framework, it seeks to construct a new body of knowledge. There is a growing need for quantitative approach in soil science, which arises from a general demand for improved economic production and environmental management....
Climate and Human Migration
Past Experiences, Future Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Studies warn that global warming and sea level rise will create hundreds of millions of environmental refugees. While climate change will undoubtedly affect future migration patterns and behavior, the potential outcomes are more complex than the environmental refugee scenario suggests. This book provides...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This thorough review is based on observational satellite, airborne and in-situ data, scientific literature and technical reports, as well as the substantial experience of the authors, who hail from several Baltic Sea countries. They pay special attention to national practices, HELCOM and EMSA CleanSeaNet...
Participatory Modelling for Resilient Futures
Action for Managing Our Environment from the Bottom-Up
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Participatory Modelling for Resilient Futures: Action for Managing Our Environment from the Bottom-Up, Volume One provides an important contribution to environmental management by introducing an integrative framework for participatory research for better land use and natural resource planning, organized...
Collected Papers of Michael E. Soulé
Early Years in Modern Conservation Biology
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
In the early 1970s, the environmental movemwas underway. Overpopulation was recognized as a threat to human well-being, and scientists like Michael Soulé believed there was a connection between anthropogenic pressures on natural resources and the loss of the planet’s biodiversity. Soulé—thinker,...