Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Given the number and scope of environmental problems we face today, everyone from high school students to policy makers to concerned citizens should understand how the economy works and grasp how meltdowns—both economic and environmental in nature—can be avoided. Environmental and Natural Resource...
Environmental Management:
Revision Guide for the IEMA Associate Membership Exam and NEBOSH Diploma in Environmental Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Written by Adrian Belcham, author of Manual of Environmental Management, this is the essential guide to prepare you for the IEMA Associate Membership Exam and NEBOSH Diploma in Environmental Management.
Through the inclusion of revision tips, exam guidance and self-test questions, this guide...
Environmental Principles and Policies
An Interdisciplinary Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Environmental Principles and Policies uses environmental and social principles to analyse the latest wave of economic-based and market-orientated environmental policies currently being adopted around the world. This book provides an in-depth examination of six key principles that have been incorporated...
Sustainability Matters
(In 2 Volumes)Volume 1: Asia's Green ChallengesVolume 2: Asia's Energy Concerns, Green Policies and Environmental Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Sustainability Mattersis a compilation of some of the best research papers by students from the National University of Singapore's inter-disciplinary graduate programme in environmental studies, the MSc in Environmental Management [MEM]. This collection is for the period 2009/10 to 2011/12.
As...
Environmental Protection
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Although climate change and pollution make near-daily appearances in the news, humans have not always recognized that the environment needs to be protected. Only after the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962 did environmental protection became a political and social priority. In Environmental...
Nature in Common?
Environmental Ethics and the Contested Foundations of Environmental Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
This important book brings together leading environmental thinkers to debate a central conflict within environmental philosophy: should we appreciate nature mainly for its ability to advance our interests or should we respect it as having a good of its own, apart from any contribution to human well-being?...
by Chee Yang Teh, Jacqueline Xiao Wen Hay, Ningqun Guo
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
Over the past ten years, innovative technologies have shown that advanced oxidation processes are highly promising when applied to the remediation of polluted water or wastewater as they don’t generate any sludge or solid material of hazardous nature.
Advances in Ultrasound Technology for...
Environmental Organizations in Modern Germany
Hardy Survivors in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
German environmental organizations have doggedly pursued environmental protection through difficult times: hyperinflation and war, National Socialist rule, postwar devastation, state socialism in the GDR, and confrontation with the authorities during the 1970s and 1980s. The author recounts the fascinating...
Rachel Carson and Her Sisters
Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
“In Rachel Carson and Her Sisters, Musil fills the gap by placing Carson's achievements in a wider context, weaving connections from the past through the present. Readers will find new insight into Carson and contemporary figures she influenced...who have historically received less attention. Musil’s...
Taking Action, Saving Lives
Our Duties to Protect Environmental and Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2007
In the United States alone, industrial and agricultural toxins account for about 60,000 avoidable cancer deaths annually. Pollution-related health costs to Americans are similarly staggering: $13 billion a year from asthma, $351 billion from cardiovascular disease, and $240 billion from occupational...
by Dr. J. P. Shrama
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
This book is designed to meet the compulsory course on Environmental Studies for undergraduate and graduate students of all disciplines and gives a balanced presentation of the major issues and concerns related to the environment. The volume examines the major environmental problems we face todayGlobal...
by Benito Cao
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
The increasing awareness of the human impact on the environment is having a profound effect on the concept and content of citizenship – one of the fundamental institutions that structures human relations. In what is the first introduction of its kind, this book provides an accessible, stimulating...
A Movement of the People
The Roots of Environmental Education and Advocacy in Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
How a grassroots movement led primarily by women shaped Alabama’s environmental consciousness.
A Movement of the People: The Roots of Environmental Education and Advocacy in Alabama is a detailed history of the Alabama Environmental Quality Association (AEQA). The AEQA helped to establish...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
This volume works to connect issues in environmental ethics with the best work in contemporary normative theory. Environmental issues challenge contemporary ethical theorists to account for topics that traditional ethical theories do not address to any significant extent. This book articulates and...