Environmental Science category: 9368 books
Emerging Trends of Nanotechnology in Environment and Sustainability
A Review-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
This book discusses nanotechnology, its benefits and risks affecting the environment we live in today, and is divided into three parts: Part-I dealing with Sustainability, Part-II describing Toxicological Impacts, and Part-III discussing Nanomaterial-based Adsorbents.
The crucial challenge...
Interdisciplinary Approaches for Sustainable Development Goals
Economic Growth, Social Inclusion and Environmental Protection
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
This book discusses the impacts of climate change that are already being felt on every continent and provides the scientific basis for a number of modern approaches and state-of-the art methods for monitoring the environment, social behavior and human expectations concerning protection of the environment.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
This book presents an overview of current knowledge about social–ecological systems (SESs), a productive new field dedicated to understanding the relationships between human society and nature. To make the reader aware of how SESs are necessary to maintain our society, the book begins with a broad...
To Conserve Unimpaired
The Evolution of the National Park Idea
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
When the national park system was first established in 1916, the goal "to conserve unimpaired" seemed straightforward. But Robert Keiter argues that parks have always served a variety of competing purposes, from wildlife protection and scientific discovery to tourism and commercial development. In this...
Confronting the Climate
British Airs and the Making of Environmental Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
This book explores the social origins of the Western preoccupation with health and environmental hazards. It looks at the rise of the dichotomy between the vulnerable 'in' and the threatening 'out' by examining the pathologies associated with weather, domestic space, ventilation, clothing, and travel in Britain at the turn of the 19th century.
Conservation
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The need to protect nature has never been so pressing. As unprecedented environmental challenges threaten to wipe out many of the planet’s species, there is a battle against time to formulate new ways of defending nature. Jepson and Ladle cover all aspects of modern conservation from inspiring successes...
Forest Development
Succession, Environmental Stress and Forest Management Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Forest ecosystems are characterized by a steady change in their structure of function. Natural developments are more and more radically disturbed by human impact. Air pollution leads to soil acidification, change in nutrient budget and to a decreasing vitality of the trees. Forest management can prevent...
by Beidou Xi, Yonghai Jiang, Mingxiao Li
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2016
This book focuses on the treatment and disposal technology used for solid waste in China, puts forward an optimal management scheme that takes into account the complete lifecycle, and introduces a new technical model that reflects the synergies of resource utilization and secondary pollution control....
Hazardous Decisions
Hazardous Waste Siting in the UK, The Netherlands and Canada. Institutions and Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
where Jeremy Richardson, Albert Weale and Hugh Ward were excellent hosts at the Department of Government and Thomas Christiansen a very good roommate. Having included the UK as a country where decision processes were far less participatory (and thus ‘worse’ in my own view) than those in the Netherlands,...
Transport and Chemical Transformation in the Troposphere
Proceedings of EUROTRAC Symposium 2000 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany 27–31 March 2000 Eurotrac-2 International Scientific Secretariat GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health Munich, Germany
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The sixth EUROTRAC Symposium was held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, th st Gennany from 27 - 31 March 2000. Some 375 scientists from 28 different countries (from the USA to Uzbekistan) gathered together and contributed to a lively week. Symposium 2000 was the second Symposium of the second phase, EUROTRAC-...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2012
The book contains invited lectures and selected contributions presented at the Enzo Levi and XVII Annual Meeting of the Fluid Dynamic Division of the Mexican Physical Society in 2011. It is aimed to fourth year undergraduate and graduate students, and scientists in the field of physics, engineering...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The monitoring of point sources by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the states, and the tribes has documented and helped reduce the levels of chemical stressors affecting our ecosystems. With the controls on point sources reducing chemical contamination, new environmental challenges associated...
by Christopher Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
With the narrative punch of Jonathan Harr’s A Civil Action and the commitment to environmental truth-telling of Erin Brockovich, The Fluoride Deception documents a powerful connection between big corporations, the U.S. military, and the historic reassurances of fluoride safety provided by the nation’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Nature provides us with many services seemingly for free: recharged groundwater, fertile soil and plant biomass created by photosynthesis. We human beings draw extensive benefits from these “ecosystem services,” or ES – food, water supply, recreation and protection from natural hazards. Major...