Environmental Science category: 9368 books
Progress in Clean Energy, Volume 1
Analysis and Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
This expansive reference on clean energy technologies focuses on tools for system modelling and analysis, and their role in optimizing designs to achieve greater efficiency, minimize environmental impacts and support sustainable development. Key topics ranging from predicting impacts of on-grid energy...
Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Theory and Design Examples, Volume 2
Post-Treatment, Reuse, and Disposal
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book will present the theory involved in wastewater treatment processes, define the important design parameters involved, and provide typical values of these parameters for ready reference; and also provide numerical applications and step-by-step calculation procedures in solved examples. These...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Drawing upon recent analytical work prepared inside and outside the World Bank, this report identifies key lessons concerning the linkages between poverty and the environment. With a focus on the contribution of environmental resources to household welfare, the analysis increases our understanding of...
by John Glasson, John Glasson, Riki Therivel
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Green Economy Reader
Lectures in Ecological Economics and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
State of the art in sustainability thinking, inspired by interdisciplinary ideas of ecological economics. This book is focusing on sustainability pathways, new economic theory, democracy and institutions, multidimensional assessment of sustainability, macroeconomic modelling and policies, climate...
Polluted Promises
Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Association for Humanist Sociology 2007 Book Award co-winner
Julian Steward Award 2006 Runner-Up!
Over the past two decades, environmental racism has become the rallying cry for many communities as they discover the contaminations of toxic chemicals and industrial waste in their own backyards.
Living...
by Yontcho Pelovski, Stoyan K. Stoyanov
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
For historical and socio-economic reasons, the countries of the southern Black Sea region are facing mounting and apparently intractable problems in managing their solid waste, with increasingly serious implications for public health and quality of life, as well as the wider socio-economic development...
Post-2020 Climate Action
Global and Asian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
This book summarizes assessments of the Paris Agreement to provide an excellent introduction to this research field. The AIM/CGE (Asia-Pacific Integrated Modeling /Computable General Equilibrium) model, which is the core of AIM modeling framework, is used for the assessment.
The first part...
Bioethical Insights into Values and Policy
Climate Change and Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Changes in earth’s atmosphere, oceans, soil, weather patterns, and ecosystems are well documented by countless scientific disciplines. These manifestations of climate change harm public health. Given their goals and social responsibilities, influential health organizations recognize health impacts...
Increasing Resilience to Climate Variability and Change
The Roles of Infrastructure and Governance in the Context of Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
This book highlights the role that both infrastructure and governance play in the context of resilience and adaptation to climate variability and change. Eleven case studies analyze in-depth impacts of extreme events in projects, basins and regions in the Arid Americas (Unites States and Mexico),...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
This volume offers a comprehensive analysis of the water resources in the Souss-Massa river basin in southwestern Morocco and provides novel water-management approaches to narrow the gap between supply and demand for water. It evaluates conventional water resources−surface water and groundwater−and...
Remediation of Abandoned Surface Coal Mining Sites
A NATO-Project
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Christopher Kennedy University of Toronto, Department of Civil Engineering, 35 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S IA4 Coal is a valuable resource. It provides a significant amount of the World's energy supply and it is the basis for many industries. However, in areas where coal lies close...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Urban areas are major sources of air pollution. Pollutant emissions affecting air quality in cities are considered to have adverse consequences for human health. Public and government concern about environmental issues arising from urban air pollution has increased over the last decades. The urban...
The Environments of Architecture
Environmental Design in Context
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2007
This well-illustrated 'think piece' provides a much needed and topical philosophical introduction to the place of environmental design in architecture.
The Environments of Architecture sets out a range of considerations necessary to produce appropriate internal environments in the context of...