Environmental Science category: 9368 books
Technology Options for Electricity Generation
Economic and Environmental Factors
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Environmental constraints and market uncertainties create new challenges for electricity generation. In this title, originally published in 1991, the authors present a simulation model with a capability for highly detailed activity to identify cost-minimising investment options under different assumptions...
by Bill Tomlinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
How the tools of information technology can support environmental sustainability by tackling problems that span broad scales of time, space, and complexity.
Building to Last
The challenge for business leaders
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The major challenge for companies is to create a business that will last. This means they have to take seriously the issue of sustainable development, rather than simply having an environmental policy, conducting social or environmental audits or consulting the stakeholder. It requires more radical...
Carbon Shift
How Peak Oil and the Climate Crisis Will Change Canada (and our lives)
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
"We are now so abusing the Earth that it may rise and move back to the hot state it was in fifty-five million years ago, and if it does, most of us, and our descendants, will die."
-James Lovelock, leading climate expert and author of The Revenge of Gaia
"I don't see why people are so worried...
The Economics of Sustainable Development
The Case of India
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
This book highlights methodological approaches for the economics of sustainable development and brings together recent empirical work done in India, especially by Dr. Surender Kumar and Dr. Shunsuke Managi. Various chapters in this book use Indian data to show the very wide applicability of methodologies...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
The field of environmental history emerged just decades ago but has established itself as one of the most innovative and important new approaches to history, one that bridges the human and natural world, the humanities and the sciences. With the current trend towards internationalizing history, environmental...
by Jane P. Gardner, Chris Womack, Stephanie Richards
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Organized for easy reference and crucial practice, coverage of all the essential topics presented as 500 AP-style questions with detailed answer explanations
5 Steps to a 5: 500 AP Environmental Science Questions to Know by Test Day is tailored to meet your study needs—whether you’ve left...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book contains a selection of papers from a NATO Advanced Research Workshop entitled "Stochastic models of hydrological processes and their applications to problems of environmental preservation" convened in Moscow over the period 23-27 November 1998. The Workshop was unique in providing...
The Greening of Asia
The Business Case for Solving Asia's Environmental Emergency
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
One of Asia's best-respected writers on business and economy, Hong Kong-based author Mark L. Clifford provides a behind-the-scenes look at what companies in China, India, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Thailand are doing to build businesses that will lessen the...
The World Food Situation
Resource and Environmental Issues in the Developing Countries and The United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
At the beginning of the 1970’s, global grain reserves were level and food prices were low however as the decade progressed crop production plummeted leading to a food crisis. Originally published in the aftermath in 1977, Crosson and Frederick set out to explore the ability of agricultural output...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Climate change is one of the major environmental concern of many countries in the world. Negotiations to control potential climate changes have been taking place, from Rio to Kyoto, for the last five years. There is a widespread consciousness that the risk of incurring in relevant economic and environmental...
Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie
Australia, America, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Though separated by thousands of miles, the United States and Australia have much in common. Geographically both countries are expansive—the United States is the fourth largest in land mass and Australia the sixth—and both possess a vast amount of natural biodiversity. At the same time, both nations...
The Future of Conservation in America
A Chart for Rough Water
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
This is a turbulent time for the conservation of America’s natural and cultural heritage. From the current assaults on environmental protection to the threats of climate change, biodiversity loss, and disparity of environmental justice, the challenges facing the conservation movement are both immediate...
by Pen-Chi Chiang, Shu-Yuan Pan
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
This book focuses on an important technology for mineralizing and utilizing CO2 instead of releasing it into the atmosphere. CO2 mineralization and utilization demonstrated in the waste-to-resource supply chain can “reduce carbon dependency, promote resource and energy efficiency, and lessen environmental...