Environmental Science category: 9368 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Few books currently exist that cover such a wide spectrum of topics. The chapters dealing with air pollution from mobile sources, air pollution and health effects and air quality modelling fall into the air pollution category while the ones related to microalgae for carbon dioxide sequestration/biofuels...
Water Security in the Mediterranean Region
An International Evaluation of Management, Control, and Governance Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
The role of water in our communities, from local to regional and right up to global levels, poses a series of key questions about climate change, about the anthropogenic impact on the environment, and about all the interconnected actions and events that affect the availability and quality of the resource....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
The Handbook of Environmental Engineering series is an incredible collection of methodologies that study the effects of pollution and waste in their three basic forms: gas, solid, and liquid. This exciting new addition to the series, Volume 15: Modern Water Resources Engineering , has been designed...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
The book deals primarily with the aspects like energy resources and its proper utilization, disposal of various forms of wastes and its effects and effects of major catastrophic events like nuclear disasters, global warming, etc. It also deals with the choice of suitable disposal sites for solid and...
Chemistry of Advanced Environmental Purification Processes of Water
Fundamentals and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Chemistry of Advanced Environmental Purification Processes of Water covers the fundamentals behind a broad spectrum of advanced purification processes for various types of water, showing numerous applications through worked examples. Purification processes for groundwater, soil water, reusable water,...
Sustainable Heavy Metal Remediation
Volume 2: Case studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
This book presents an assortment of case-studies pertaining to the use of sustainable technologies for heavy metal removal and recovery from mining and metallurgical wastes, construction and demolition wastes, spent catalysts and electronic wastes.
Wastewaters from diverse industrial and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
Within the span of last couple of years, the increasing human interference with v- ious natural ecosystems and higher discharge of pollutants has presented numerous challenges to the society related to preserving the nature for a better tomorrow. The challenges also mount pressure on the scienti?c...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Climate change remains a global challenge requiring international collaborative action. Another area where countries have successfully committed to a long-term multilateral resolution is the liberalization of international trade. Integration into the world economy has proven a powerful means for countries...
India's Environmental History—A Reader
Vol. 1: From Ancient Times to the Colonial Period; Vol. 2: Colonialism, Modernity, and the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Environmental history in India has generated a rich literature on forests, wildlife, humananimal conflict, tribal rights and commercial degradation, displacement and development, pastoralism and desertification, famine and disease, sedentarism and mobility, wildness and civility, and the ecology versus...
Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains
An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
Each year, thousands of tourists visit Mount Mitchell, the most prominent feature of North Carolina's Black Mountain range and the highest peak in the eastern United States. From Native Americans and early explorers to land speculators and conservationists, people have long been drawn to this rugged...
by The Worldwatch Institute
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
From meat consumption to automobile production to hydropower, Vital Signs, Volume 20 documents over two dozen trends that are shaping our future in concise analyses and clear tables and graphs. The twentieth volume of the Worldwatch Institute series demonstrates that while remarkable progress has...
by Heikki Torvela
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Due to the threat of a possible global climate change and the greenhouse effect caused by constituents of anthropogenic origin in the atmosphere, air quality has become a major environmental issue. As a consequence, emissions into the atmosphere need to be monitored and controlled. Measurement of...
Lawyers, Swamps, and Money
U.S. Wetland Law, Policy, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Lawyers, Swamps, and Money is an accessible, engaging guide to the complex set of laws governing America's wetlands. After explaining the importance of these critical natural areas, the book examines the evolution of federal law, principally the Clean Water Act, designed to protect them.
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