Environmental Science category: 9368 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The connections between economics, planning, and the environment are receiv ing increased attention among scholars and policy makers in many countries. The common denominator among these three variables is the earth's life support sys tems, the ecosystems on which the world depends. When we describe...
The Plant Family Brassicaceae
Contribution Towards Phytoremediation
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
With the advent of the industrial revolution , the biosphere has been continuously polluted with a myriad of contaminants that urgently need global attention. In this perspective, most of the genera of the plant family Brassicaceae (Crucifereae or the mustard family) are a significant part of the...
The Environmental Humanities
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
A concise overview of this multidisciplinary field, presenting key concepts, central issues, and current research, along with concrete examples and case studies.
The emergence of the environmental humanities as an academic discipline early in the twenty-first century reflects the growing conviction...
Toxic Exposures
Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2007
The increase in environmentally induced diseases and the loosening of regulation and safety measures have inspired a massive challenge to established ways of looking at health and the environment. Communities with disease clusters, women facing a growing breast cancer incidence rate, and people of...
Tourism and Global Environmental Change
Ecological, Economic, Social and Political Interrelationships
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
This fascinating book is the first comprehensive analysis of the economic, social and political interrelationships between tourism and global environmental change: one of the most significant issues facing humankind today. Its contributors argue that the impacts of these changes are potentially extremely...
The Environmental Impact Statement After Two Generations
Managing Environmental Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This book is about a subject that Michael Greenberg has worked on and lived with for almost forty years. He was brought up in the south Bronx at a time when his neighborhood suffered from terrible air and noise pollution, and domestic waste went untreated into the Hudson River. For him, the National...
An Evaluation of Japanese Environmental Regulations
Quantitative Approaches from Environmental Economics
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
Focusing on air pollution, energy efficiency and climate change, this book provides an introduction to Japan’s environmental policies and regulations, and offers economic analyses and RIAs (Regulatory Impact Analysis) of environmental regulations implemented or planned by the national and local...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
The environment of our planet is degrading at an alarming rate because of non-sustainable urbanization, industrialization and agriculture. Unsustainable trends in relation to climate change and energy use, threats to public health, poverty and social exclusion, demographic pressure and ageing, management...
Landscape Logic
Integrating Science for Landscape Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
In 2005, researchers from four Australian universities and CSIRO joined forces with environmental managers from three state agencies and six regional catchment management authorities to answer the question: 'Can we detect the influence of public environmental programs on the condition of our natural...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
The third edition of Introduction to Environmental Forensics is a state-of-the-art reference for the practicing environmental forensics consultant, regulator, student, academic, and scientist, with topics including compound-specific isotope analysis (CSIA), advanced multivariate statistical techniques,...
by Martina Zeleňáková, Lenka Zvijáková
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
This book explores the benefits of using risk analysis techniques in the evaluation of flood protection structures, and examines the results of the environmental impact assessment for selected planned flood protection projects.
The objective of the book is to propose a methodology for environmental...
Environmental News in South America
Conflict, Crisis and Contestation
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Combining perspectives from media studies and political ecology, this book analyses socially constructed news regarding three environmental conflicts in South America. In recent decades, South American political administrations have tied national economies to neo-extractive development strategies,...
by John O'Neill, Alan Holland, Andrew Light
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
We live in a world confronted by mounting environmental problems; increasing global deforestation and desertification, loss of species diversity, pollution and global warming. In everyday life people mourn the loss of valued landscapes and urban spaces. Underlying these problems are conflicting priorities...
New Natures
Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
New Natures broadens the dialogue between the disciplines of science and technology studies (STS) and environmental history in hopes of deepening and even transforming understandings of human-nature interactions. The volume presents richly developed historical studies that explicitly engage with...