Environmental Science category: 9368 books
Chemistry for Sustainable Technologies
A Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
The importance of reconciling the continuing needs of humankind with the protection of the environment and the earth's ability to provide for those needs is now better recognised. Chemistry and chemical technology play an important role in this, though not on their own. Interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity...
by John Thornes, Stuart Haszeldine, Tim Lenton
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
It is generally accepted within the scientific community that anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are primarily responsible for a recent warming in global climate and that current trajectories of emissions may lead to potentially catastrophic changes in climate. While reduction in emissions...
Air Quality and Ecological Impacts
Relating Sources to Effects
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Air Quality and Ecological Impacts reviews the characterization of air quality as it pertains to specific emission sources and their environmental effect. Since emissions from multiple sources impact the same location, a multidisciplinary approach is needed to relate atmospheric processes to terrestrial...
How to Deal with Climate Change?
Institutional Adaptive Capacity as a Means to Promote Sustainable Water Governance
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
As the evidence for human-induced climate change becomes more obvious, so too does the realisation that it will harshly impact on the natural environment as well as on socio-economic systems. Addressing the unpredictability of multiple sources of global change makes the capacity of governance systems...
Digital Technology and Sustainability
Engaging the Paradox
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book brings together diverse voices from across the field of sustainable human computer interaction (SHCI) to discuss what it means for digital technology to support sustainability and how humans and technology can work together optimally for a more sustainable future.
Contemporary digital...
International Environmental Risk Management
ISO 14000 and the Systems Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
International Environmental Risk Management: ISO 14000 and the Systems Approach gives readers an extensive analysis of practical applications of ISO 14000 and environmental compliance management systems. It offers a mixture of technical engineering advice, legal guidance, and common-sense business...
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,...
Green Chemistry
An Inclusive Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Green Chemistry: An Inclusive Approach provides a broad overview of green chemistry for researchers from either an environmental science or chemistry background, starting at a more elementary level, incorporating more advanced concepts, and including more chemistry as the book progresses. Every chapter...
by Damia Barcelo
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
The book covers a critical compilation of analytical methods used for the monitoring of pesticides and their degradation products in water. It contains up-to-date material and is the direct result of the authors' experience in the field of pesticide analysis. The book is structured in six chapters, starting...
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,...
by Andrew Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Presents a comprehensive introduction to the nature of pollution, its impact on the environment, and the practical options and regulatory frameworks for pollution control. Sources of pollution, regulatory controls, technological solutions, management and mitigation techniques and assessment tools,...
Integrating Ecology and Poverty Reduction
Ecological Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
In the past, the science of ecology has frequently been excluded from the development agenda for various reasons. Increasingly however there has been a renewed interest in finding more ecologically sustainable means of development that have required a strong foundation in ecological knowledge (for...
Environmental Management in Practice: Vol 3
Managing the Ecosystem
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Volume 3: Managing the Ecosystem focuses on those ecosystems in which human intervention has been or continues to be predominant, specifically within cities and rural areas.
Coastal Wetlands of the World
Geology, Ecology, Distribution and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Salt marshes and mangrove forests, the intertidal wetlands of the world's coastlines, provide key ecological services to all areas of the globe. This cutting-edge, richly illustrated book introduces the essential elements of coastal wetlands and their applications. The book opens by introducing coastal...