Environmental Science category: 9368 books
by Vishwambhar Prasad Sati
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
Sustainable livelihoods and ecosystems are far-reaching and burning issues in the wake of high growth of population, low production and per ha yield of crops and depletion of biodiversity resources. Mountainous regions of the world are facing the menace of poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition....
by A. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
The news media has become a key arena for staging environmental conflicts. Through a range of illuminating examples ranging from climate change to oil spills, Media, Environment and the Network Society provides a timely and far-reaching analysis of the media politics of contemporary environmental debates.
Environmental Populism
The Politics of Survival in the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2019
This book evaluates climate change and populism, two ideas that do not generally go together. The author argues that perhaps they should if policymakers are to be galvanized into action before it is too late. Although populism is usually associated with right-wing authoritarianism, there is growing...
Analysis, Removal, Effects and Risk of Pharmaceuticals in the Water Cycle
Occurrence and Transformation in the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Analysis, Removal, Effects and Risk of Pharmaceuticals in the Water Cycle provides an overview of the current analytical methods for trace determination of pharmaceuticals in environmental samples. The book also reviews the fate and occurrence of pharmaceuticals in the water cycle for their elimination...
by William B. Willers
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
In this inspired collection, some of America's mprovocative thinkers and writers reflect on nature and enviornmetnal science--reaching compelling conclusions about humanity's relationship to the earth. Balanced by science and fact,*Learning to Listen to the Land*explains the significance of our modern...
Emerging and Priority Pollutants in Rivers
Bringing Science into River Management Plans
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
The enduring changes in the aquatic environment and the increasing influx of contaminants call for novel conceptual and methodological approaches to relating chemical pollution and ecological alterations in ecosystems. This volume highlights the latest advances concerning the sampling, analyses, occurrence,...
Rural Sustainability
A Complex Systems Approach to Policy Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
This volume applies the science of complexity to study coupled human-environment systems (CHES) and integrates ideas from the social sciences of climate change into a study of rural development amid flooding and urbanization in the Poyang Lake Region (PLR) of China. Author Qing Tian operationalizes...
Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies
Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
The 1990s have seen a growing interest in the role of local ecological knowledge in the context of sustainable development, and particularly in providing a set of responses to which populations may resort in times of political, economic and environmental instability. The period 1996-2003 in island...
by Lance H. Gunderson
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Ecological resilience provides a theoretical foundation for understanding how complex systems adapt to and recover from localized disturbances likehurricanes, fires, pest outbreaks, and floods, as well as large-scale perturbations such as climate change. Ecologists have developed resilience theory...
Environmental Water Footprints
Concepts and Case Studies from the Food Sector
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
This book discusses the concept of water footprint and corporate water footprint, presenting case studies on a thermal power plant in India and on the food sector. Water conservation is a key element of industrial sustainability strategies.
Energy Development in the Southwest
Problems of Water, Fish and Wildlife in the Upper Colorado River Basin
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
First published in 1980, the first volume of Energy Development in the Southwest analyses four potential energy development scenarios for the Four Corner states (i.e., Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming) and for the Upper Colorado River Basin, based on alternative national energy scenarios...
Acidic Mining Lakes
Acid Mine Drainage, Limnology and Reclamation
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Acidification is a universal problem at all mining sites in which oxygenated water comes in contact with sulfide minerals or other reduced sulfur compounds. An International Workshop was held in September 1995 at the Department for Inland Water Research of the UFZ-Centre for Environmental Research...
by Jan Laitos
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
This book is for those who are not just interested in the ways humans have harmfully altered their environment, but instead wish to learn why the many governmental policies in place to curb such behavior have been unsuccessful. Since humans began to exploit natural resources for their own economic...
Biodiversity and Health
Linking Life, Ecosystems and Societies
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
There is a gap between the ecology of health and the concepts supported by international initiatives such as EcoHealth, One Health or Planetary Health; a gap which this book aims to fill.
Global change is accelerated by problems of growing population, industrialization and geopolitics, and...