Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
The Road to Love Canal
Managing Industrial Waste before EPA
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
The toxic legacy of Love Canal vividly brought the crisis in industrial waste disposal to public awareness across the United States and led to the passage of the Superfund legislation in 1980. To discover why disasters like Love Canal have occurred and whether they could have been averted with knowledge...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
The book focuses in detail on learning and adapting through partnerships between managers, scientists, and other stakeholders who learn together how to create and maintain sustainable resource systems. As natural areas shrink and fragment, our ability to sustain economic growth and safeguard biological...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This edited volume focuses on the characterization, reclamation, bioremediation, and phytoremediation of salt affected soils and waterlogged sodic soils. Innovative technologies in managing marginal salt affected lands merit immediate attention in the light of climate change and its impact on crop...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2014
This book addresses in detail multifaceted approaches to boosting nutrient use efficiency (NUE) that are modified by plant interactions with environmental variables and combine physiological, microbial, biotechnological and agronomic aspects. Conveying an in-depth understanding of the topic will spark...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The huge expansion of the chemical and petroleum industries in the twentieth century has resulted in the production of a vast array of chem ical compounds and materials that have transformed our lives. The associated large-scale manufacturing, processing and handling activi ties have caused a...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
In the last two decades technological advances in isotope ratio mass spectrometry have been very rapid, opening up new possibilities for analysis of biological and environmental materials. The new instrumentation has facilitated faster analysis of samples via automated sample preparation and multi-isotope...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This book is based on the assumption that great powers determine global politics and, in this instance, environmental politics. It addresses the approaches of both established and rising powers and their implications for the advancement of international climate negotiations. The new introduction looks...
So Shall You Reap
Farming And Crops In Human Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
So Shall You Reap is a broad-gauged exploration of the intersections of farming and history. Beginning with the prehistorical era, Otto and Dorothy Solbrig describe the evolution of farming. When and how did people learn to irrigate, to fertilize, to rotate their crops -- and why?
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by Alastair Fothergill, Keith Scholey, Fred Pearce
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
With a foreword by Sir David Attenborough, this is the striking photographic companion to the groundbreaking NETFLIX original documentary series, presenting never-before-seen visuals of nature's most intriguing animals in action and the environmental change that has to be seen to be believed.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The effects of isolation, area size, and habitat quality on the survival of animal and plant populations in the cultural landscape are central aspects of a research project started in Germany in 1993 (,Forschungsverbund, Isolation, FHichengroBe und BiotopquaIiHit', abbreviated to 'FIFB'). After a...
Invasive Alien Species
A New Synthesis
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Invasive alien species are among today's mdaunting environmental threats, costing billions of dollars in economic damages and wreaking havoc on ecosystems around the world. In 1997, a consortium of scientific organizations including SCOPE, IUCN, and CABI developed the Global Invasive Species Programme...
Cultivating Crisis
The Human Cost of Pesticides in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Since World War II, the Green Revolution has boosted agricultural production in Latin America and other parts of the Third World, with money, technical assistance, and other forms of aid from United States development agencies. But the Green Revolution came at a high price—massive pesticide dependence...
Handbook on Construction Techniques
A Practical Field Review of Environmental Impacts in Power Transmission/Distribution, Run-of-River Hydropower and Solar Photovoltaic Power Generation Projects
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The report highlights a broad spectrum of environmental impacts triggered due to construction, operation, and maintenance and their mitigation for four sectors: (i) power transmission, (ii) distribution, (iii) run-of-river hydropower, and (iv) solar photovoltaic generation projects for dissemination...
Climate Health Risks in Megacities
Sustainable Management and Strategic Planning
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Climate Health Risks in Megacities: Sustainable Management and Strategic Planning courageously confronts the immense challenges of alleviating climate change and takes the initiative to layout an agenda that calls for action in the rapidly changing landscape of our global climate. This guide provides...