Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Soil Science Working for a Living
Applications of soil science to present-day problems
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
This book discusses gritty issues that society faces every day: food and water security, environmental services provided by farmers, almost accidentally, and taken for granted by everyone else, the capability of the land to provide our needs today and for the foreseeable future and pollution of soil,...
by Miles O. Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Black tides of spilled oil pollute the world's coasts with depressing regularity, giving scientists ample opportunity to observe their environmental impacts and learn how to clean up and restore the affected shorelines. Miles O. Hayes has been a leader in this work for over twenty years. In this highly...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Water Policy and Planning in a Variable and Changing Climate addresses the current challenges facing western water planners and policy makers in the United States and considers strategies for managing water resources and related risks in the future. Written by highly-regarded experts in the industry,...
Dendroecology
Tree-Ring Analyses Applied to Ecological Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Dendroecologists apply the principles and methods of tree-ring science to address ecological questions and resolve problems related to global environmental change. In this fast-growing field, tree rings are used to investigate forest development and succession, disturbance regimes, ecotone and treeline...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2006
The Hudson River Estuary is a comprehensive look at the physical, chemical, biological and environmental management issues that are important to our understanding of the Hudson River. Chapters cover the entire range of fields necessary to understanding the workings of the Hudson River estuary; the...
Restoring Layered Landscapes
History, Ecology, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Restoring Layered Landscapes brings together historians, geographers, philosophers, and interdisciplinary scholars to explore ecological restoration in landscapes with complex histories shaped by ongoing interactions between humans and nature. For many decades, ecological restoration - particularly...
Wastewater Treatment and Reuse, Theory and Design Examples, Volume 1
Principles and Basic Treatment
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...
Ecocatalysis
A New Integrated Approach to Scientific Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Reconquest of biodiversity; remediation of degraded and anthropic areas, prevention of environmental health risks; eco-innovation; Green industry ... The current French ambitions are closely related to an interdisciplinary approach to scientific ecology, all of which participate in the expected industrial...
Selenium Assessment in Aquatic Ecosystems
A Guide for Hazard Evaluation and Water Quality Criteria
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Selenium is a naturally occurring trace element that can become concentrated and released by industrial, agricultural, petrochemical and mining activities. At concentrated levels it is toxic and has polluted ecosystems around the world. This book will serve as a comprehensive practical handbook for...
Fractivism
Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
From flammable tap water and sick livestock to the recent onset of hundreds of earthquakes in Oklahoma, the impact of fracking in the United States is far-reaching and deeply felt. In Fractivism Sara Ann Wylie traces the history of fracking and the ways scientists and everyday people are coming together...
Transient Landscapes
Insights on a Changing Planet
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Landscape—the unique combination of landforms, plants, animals, and weather that compose any natural place—is inherently transient. Each essay in Transient Landscapes introduces this idea of a constantly metamorphosing global landscape, revealing how to see the ubiquity of landscape transience,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Air and Waste Management
A Laboratory and Field Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
This manual will serve a useful function in training and giving experience to environmental scientists at all levels. Included in this manual are explanatory materials, exercises and experiments. These are intended as training guides. The users of this manual will find it possible to use simple equipment...
Tar Wars
Oil, Environment and Alberta's Image
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Tar Wars offers a critical inside look at how leading image-makers negotiate escalating tensions between continuous economic growth mandated by a globalized economic system and its unsustainable environmental costs. As place branding assumes paramount importance in an increasingly global, visual,...