Environmental Science category: 9368 books
Expanding Peace Ecology: Peace, Security, Sustainability, Equity and Gender
Perspectives of IPRA’s Ecology and Peace Commission
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
This book has peer-reviewed chapters by scholars from Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Mexico and the USA that were presented to the Ecology and Peace Commission (EPC) of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) in November 2012 in Japan. The chapters address these themes: Expanding Peace...
Nature Across Cultures
Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures consists of about 25 essays dealing with the environmental knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal...
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
Continuation of Residue Reviews
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology provides detailed review articles concerned with aspects of chemical contaminants, including pesticides, in the total environment with toxicological considerations and consequences. L.S. ANDREWS, M. AHMEDNA, R.M. GRODNER, J.A. LIUZZO, P.S. MURANO,...
The Slain Wood
Papermaking and Its Environmental Consequences in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
When the paper industry moved into the South in the 1930s, it confronted a region in the midst of an economic and environmental crisis. Entrenched poverty, stunted labor markets, vast stretches of cutover lands, and severe soil erosion prevailed across the southern states. By the middle of the twentieth...
by John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Special symposium by leading lawyers and scholars on intellectual property law, including patents and trademarks. The Green Issue presents cutting-edge articles on the emerging "green" movement in environmental law and its promotion through IP law. Topics include encouraging biodiversity/HIPPO,...
by Mahesh Chandra Chattopadhyaya, Ravi Kumar Gautam
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Nanomaterials for Wastewater Remediation introduces techniques for nanoparticle formation and their benefits in environmental cleanup, as well as their recent advances and applications in wastewater treatment. The book follows a sequential approach for the treatment of wastewater, presenting state-of-the-art...
Water Resources Management Sustaining Socio-Economic Welfare
The Implementation of the European Water Framework Directive in Asopos River Basin in Greece
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
The aim of this book is to offer a river-basin management plan which is directly implementable and consistent with the European Union -Water Framework Directive (EU WFD).The contributors, who are leading world experts in their respective fields, develop an integrated water resources management plan...
Environmental Interactions of Clays
Clays and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This companion volume to Velde's Origin and Mineralogy of Clays deals with the role of clays in specific environmental issues, and is unique in its subject matter. Individual chapters are written by recognized international experts in their field, and cover such subjects as radioactive waste disposal,...
Environmental Cost and Face of Agriculture in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
Fostering Agriculture in the Context of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2014
This volume presents the outcome of an Agriculture Workshop organized by the Gulf Research Centre Cambridge (GRCC) and held at Cambridge University, UK during the Gulf Research Meeting 11-14 July 2012. Co-directed by the editors, the workshop, entitled “Environmental Cost and Changing Face of Agriculture...
Contaminated Sediments
Lectures on Environmental Aspects of Particle-Associated Chemicals in Aquatic Systems
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
Sediments are increasingly recognized as both a carrier and a possible source of contaminants in aquatic systems, and they may also affect groundwater quality and agricultural products when disposed on land. Four aspects are covered reflecting the development of knowledge in particle-associated pollutants...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 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: August 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 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.
by Douglas S Frink
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
The paradigm and models of traditional soil science lack the ability to adequately address issues of soil dynamics, environmental integration, and change. Unexplainable research results obtained from traditional soil studies applied to non-traditional soil phenomena in physical geography, archaeology...
The Noetics of Nature
Environmental Philosophy and the Holy Beauty of the Visible
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Contemplative or “noetic” knowledge has traditionally been seen as the highest mode of understanding, a view that persists both in many non-Western cultures and in Eastern Christianity, where “theoria physike,” or the illumined understanding of creation that follows the purification of the...