Environmental Science category: 9368 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2012
The packaging industry is under pressure from regulators, customers and other stakeholders to improve packaging’s sustainability by reducing its environmental and societal impacts. This is a considerable challenge because of the complex interactions between products and their packaging, and the...
Governance of Water-Related Conflicts in Agriculture
New Directions in Agri-Environmental and Water Policies in the EU
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This book deals with voluntary approaches between farmers and water suppliers as an instrument to meet environmental standards, impacted by agricultural activities, more economically efficient and environmentally effective than by exclusive application of alternative instruments including command-and-control...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2014
Around the world, many countries are increasing efforts to promote biomass production for industrial uses including biofuels and bio-products such as chemicals and bio-plastic. Against a backdrop of lively public debate on sustainability, bioenergy wields both positive and negative impacts upon a...
Sustainable Social, Economic and Environmental Revitalization in Multan City
A Multidisciplinary Italian–Pakistani Project
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
This book describes six months of initial intensive activities within a motivating multidisciplinary project to achieve sustainable social, economic, and environmental revitalization in the historic core of Multan City, Pakistan. The project is managed by Fondazione Politecnico di Milano within the...
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Analysis in Tourism
A Critical Review of Applications and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Tourism is an activity that anyone can take part in, regardless of their age, gender, nationality or level of income. This makes tourism one of the most rapidly developing industries in the world. Despite the number of benefits which tourism produces, it also has significant negative impacts on the...
by C. Alexis Lane
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Across North America and around the world, a significant shift from conventional to unconventional energy extraction is occurring like never before. As traditional energy sources dwindle and the insatiable demand for fossil fuels continues to increase, civilization seems to be taking greater and greater...
Topical Themes in Energy and Resources
A Cross-Disciplinary Education and Training Program for Environmental Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
This book combines issues several critical ones in the energy field (low-energy technologies, renewable energies such as the hydrogen economy, and geothermal energy).
Moving towards a more sustainable world requires a complete revolution in the way we manage energy and resources. However, from...
Desalination Sustainability
A Technical, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Desalination Sustainability: A Technical, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Approach presents a technical, socioeconomical, and environmental approach that guides researchers and technology developers on how to quantify the energy efficiency of a proposed desalination process using thermodynamics-based...
Good Crop / Bad Crop
Seed Politics and the Future of Food in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
IN RECENT YEARS Canadians have become more and more concerned about the origins oftheir food and the environmental impacts of pesticides in agriculture. What is less well knownis that pesticide corporations such as Monsanto and Du Pont have bought their way into the seed industry and are taking control...
Chemistry and Biology of Solid Waste
Dredged Material and Mine Tailings
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Dredged Material and Mine Tailings are two of the same thing once they are deposited on land: they must be safe-guarded, wash-out must be prevented, and they must be protected by a plantcover. This comprehensive treatise covers both important aspects of their management: In Chemistry and Biology...
The Science of Conservation Planning
Habitat Conservation Under The Endangered Species Act
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Broad-scale conservation of habitats is increasingly being recognized as a more effective means of protecting species and landscapes than single-species preservation efforts. While interest in the approach has grown tremendously in recyears, it remains controversial and the science behind it has yet...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This volume discusses a broad range of vital issues encompassing the production and consumption of food in the current period of climate change. All of these add up to looming, momentous challenges to food security, especially for people in regions where malnutrition and famine have been the norm...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2017
This book comprehensively describes the major ecosystem services in dryland environments that are provided by typical land use, including forestland, grassland and farmland, using the Loess Plateau, Northwest China as an example. It offers extensive information on land policy, implementation and scientific...
Managing the Unknown
Essays on Environmental Ignorance
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Information is crucial when it comes to the management of resources. But what if knowledge is incomplete, or biased, or otherwise deficient? How did people define patterns of proper use in the absence of cognitive certainty? Discussing this challenge for a diverse set of resources from fish to rubber,...