Environmental Science category: 9368 books
The MBR Book
Principles and Applications of Membrane Bioreactors for Water and Wastewater Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
The MBR Book covers all essential aspects of membrane bioreactors in water and wastewater treatment, including the working principles of MBR technologies. The book aims to separate science from engineering, in an attempt to avoid confusion and to help readers understand the ideas of MBR.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Glaciers provide an unparalleled tool for studying global environmental change. This book is the first of its kind concentrating on the paleoenvironmental record archived in mid- and low-latitude glaciers. By concentrating mainly on the last 500 years of these records, we can now see that laws enacted...
by Ronald Eisler
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2007
Thousands of inorganic and organic chemicals and their metabolites enter the biosphere daily as a direct result of human activities. Many of these chemicals have serious consequences on sensitive species of natural resources, crops, livestock, and public health. The most hazardous of these were identified...
Trees in a Changing Environment
Ecophysiology, Adaptation, and Future Survival
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
This book delivers current state-of-the-science knowledge of tree ecophysiology, with particular emphasis on adaptation to a novel future physical and chemical environment. Unlike the focus of most books on the topic, this considers air chemistry changes (O3, NOx, and N deposition) in addition to...
Energy Development in the Southwest
Problems of Water, Fish, and Wildlife in the Upper Colorado River Basin
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
First published in 1980, the second volume of Energy Development in the Southwest analyses water conditions and habitat life in the Upper Colorado River Basin, based on alternative national energy scenarios and attempts to assess some of the economic, demographic, and environmental impacts of each...
Community Forestry in Canada
Lessons from Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
This book is key reading for community forestry organizations, government policy makers, environmental NGOs, as well as students and scholars of forest policy, environmental studies, rural sociology, geography, and Canadian studies.
Changing Things — Moving People
Strategies for Promoting Sustainable Development at the Local Level
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book results from a pioneering effort to organize a productive interdisciplinary research program on sustainable development policy in a small country not previously recognized as a world leader in environmental social science. The results are very promising, considering the short time frame...
Residue Reviews
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Worldwide concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental com munities over traces of toxic chemicals in foodstuffs and in both abiotic and biotic environments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published progress reports,...
The Earth on Trial
Environmental Law on the International Stage
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
The Earth on Trial examines the degree to which the law has accommodated an increased understanding of the natural environment. Paul Stanton Kibel provides a clear assessment of what conceptual and practical changes are needed to reconcile law to the limits of ecology. By moving the debate between...
Sustainable Values, Sustainable Change
A Guide to Environmental Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Sustainability is a nearly ubiquitous concept today, but can we ever imagine what it would be like for humans to live sustainably on the earth? No, says Bryan G. Norton in Sustainable Values, Sustainable Change. One of the most trafficked terms in the press, on university campuses, and in the corridors...
Climate Change, Energy Use, and Sustainability
Diagnosis and Prescription after the Great East Japan Earthquake
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
This book is an outcome of the symposium “Towards Earth Friendly Use of Resources and Energy,” organized by the Nagoya University Center of Excellence Program “From Earth System Science to Basic and Clinical Environmental Studies” and presents papers by four eminent researchers. 1) Syukuro...
Hydrology and Water Resource Management
Breakthroughs in Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
A prime concern in contemporary environmental science is the proper management of water supply and usage. It is critical to develop effective processes to manage these resources and decrease negative impacts on the ecosystem. Hydrology and Water Resource Management: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Ever since mankind first appeared on Earth, people have confronted a variety of threats caused by global environmental changes and catastrophic natural disasters. In recent years, there has been a huge necessity to attempt the complementary co-evolution among technologies, urban management, and policy...
by James Winpenny
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2005
Water, already a scarce resource, is treated as though it were plentiful and free. The task of supplying enough water of the required quality to growing populations is straining authorities and governments to the limit as the economic and environmental costs of new supply sources escalate and wasteful...