Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
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...
Protecting the Commons
A Framework For Resource Management In The Americas
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Commons -- lands, waters, and resources that are not legally owned and controlled by a single private entity, such as ocean and coastal areas, the atmosphere, public lands, freshwater aquifers, and migratory species -- are an increasingly contentious issue in resource management and international affairs.Protecting...
Analytical Chemistry of Aerosols
Science and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Until the 1980s, researchers studied and measured only the physical properties of aerosols. Since the 80s, however, interest in the physicochemcal properties of aerosols has grown tremendously. Scientists in environmental hygiene, medicine, and toxicology have recognized the importance held by the...
The effects of legislation on the municipal solid waste management in the European Union in the context of greenhouse gas emissions
Using England, Germany and Bulgaria as representatives
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2008
Master's Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: Pass with Distinction, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 73 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Since the pre-industrial era the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased by...
by Joseph S. Devinny, Marc A. Deshusses, Todd Stephen Webster
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
The number-one environmental threat to public health, air pollution remains a pressing problem-made even more complicated by the massive quantity and diversity of air pollution sources.
Biofiltration technology (using micro-organisms growing on porous media) is being recognized as one of the most...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
This book advances the scientific understanding, development, and application of geospatial technologies related to water resource management. It presents recent developments and applications specifically by utilizing new earth observation datasets such as TRMM/GPM, AMSR E/2, SMOS, SMAP and GCOM in...
Framing Discourse on the Environment
A Critical Discourse Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
In this study, Richard Alexander presents a series of original and empirically based case studies of the language and discourse involved in the discussion of environmental and ecological issues. Relying upon a variety of different text types and genres – including company websites, advertisements,...
Environment and Citizenship in Latin America
Natures, Subjects and Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Scholarship related to environmental questions in Latin America has only recently begun to coalesce around citizenship as both an empirical site of inquiry and an analytical frame of reference. This has led to a series of new insights and perspectives, but few efforts have been made to bring these...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Biodiversity is the delicate ecological balance within biological systems such as species and populations. Evidence suggests air pollution disrupts and impoverishes ecosysytems processes, and genetic and population diversity. Based on a symposium conducted by the EPA's Environmental Research Laboratory,...
PHEs, Environment and Human Health
Potentially harmful elements in the environment and the impact on human health
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
This book is dedicated to the occurrence and behaviour of PHEs in the different compartments of the environment, with special reference to soil. Current studies of PHEs in ecosystems have indicated that many industrial areas near urban agglomerates, abandoned or active mines, major road systems and...
The Wisdom of the Spotted Owl
Policy Lessons For A New Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
The controversy over the managemof national forests in the Pacific Northwest vividly demonstrates the shortcomings of existing manageminstitutions and natural resource policies. The Wisdom of the Spotted Owl explores the American policymaking process through the case of the spotted owl -- a case that...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
This book reviews the progresses and achievements made in the past 20 years of research on soil pollution and remediation in China, and presents 50 review and research articles from all over China, including Hong Kong and Taiwan. The authors include scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and managers...
Mercury from Gold and Silver Mining
A Chemical Time Bomb?
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Due to its inherent characteristics, mercury contamination from gold mining is a major environmental problem compared to past mercury contamination from industrial point sources. The worsening of social-economical conditions and increasing gold prices in the late 1970s resulted in a new rush for gold...