Environmental Science category: 9368 books
The Silicon Valley of Dreams
Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2002
Next to the nuclear industry, the largest producer of contaminants in the air, land, and water is the electronics industry. Silicon Valley hosts the highest density of Superfund sites anywhere in the nation and leads the country in the number of temporary workers per capita and in workforce gender...
Global Effects of Environmental Pollution
A Symposium Organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science Held in Dallas, Texas, December 1968
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Symposium on the Global Effects of Environmental Pollution has performed an important task; it has helped to determine the world-wide impact of certain types of local pollution and has uncovered certain unsuspected effects that might hold dan gerous implications for the future. This Symposium...
Facing Up to Global Warming
What is Going on and How You Can Make a Difference?
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
In this volume, Professor N.F. Gray offers a comprehensive primer on climate change, sustainability, and how the two concepts are related. This book consists of fifteen chapters, each treating a specific aspect of the current global crisis, including scientific background as well as an up to date...
Voices from a disused quarry
An oral history of the Centre for Alternative Technology
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Voices from a disused quarry tells the story of a one-of-a-kind organisation: the Centre for Alternative Technology. Starting its work in February 1974, in an era characterised by fear of imminent environmental collapse, CAT has emerged as one of the UKs most important exponents of practical environmentalism...
Reconstructing Earth
Technology and Environmin the Age of Humans
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The Earth's biological, chemical, and physical systems are increasingly shaped by the activities of one species-ours. In our decisions about everything from manufacturing technologies to restaurant menus, the health of the planet has become a product of human choice. Environmentalism, however, has...
Spoil Island
Reading the Makeshift Archipelago
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Is there an allure of spoiled places? Spoil islands are overlooked places that combine dirt with paradise, waste-land with “brave new world,” and wildness with human intervention. Although they are mundane products of dredging, these islands form an uninvestigated archipelago that demonstrates...
Freshwater Management
Global Versus Local Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The globalization of trade, monetary and fiscal policies, capital markets, and investment patterns is reshaping the world economy and is leading to new financial, commercial, and marketing structures as well as unprecedented economies of scale. Simultaneously, national and international awareness...
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
Continuation of Residue Reviews
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
International concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental communities over traces of xenobiotics in foods and in both abiotic and biotic environments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published research papers and...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
Bioremediation and Bioeconomy provides a common platform for scientists from various backgrounds to find sustainable solutions to environmental issues, including the ever-growing lack of water resources which are under immense pressure due to land degradation, pollution, population explosion, urbanization,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
This book presents specialised methods and tools built on classical LCA. In the first book-length overview, their importance for the further growth and application of LCA is demonstrated for some of the most prominent species of this emerging trend: Carbon footprinting; Water footprinting; Eco-efficiency...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
With the growing awareness and popularity of environmental preservation, research on green computing has gained recognition around the world. Information technology must adopt initiatives in making computers as energy-efficient as possible, as well as design algorithms and systems for efficiency-related...
Atmospheric Environmental Research
Critical Decisions Between Technological Progress and Preservation of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This is an extended version of lectures that were held at the summer workshop Atmosphiirische Umweltforschung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Technik und Natur (At mospheric Environmental Research between Technology and Nature) at the Techni 16, 1996. We were very happy to have Paul J. Crutzen, cal...
by James W. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This series is dedicated to serving the growing community of scholars and practitioners concerned with the principles and applications of environmental management. Each volume is a thorough treatment of a specific topic of importance for proper management practices. A fundamental objective of these...
The Environment and International Politics
International Fisheries, Heidegger and Social Method
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2005
This new study shows how environmental issues represent a deep problem in conceptualising the relationship between human beings and nature.
This key relationship grounds the implicit ethical and political concerns of International Relations and our understandings of environmental politics....