Environmental Science category: 9368 books
Inorganic Contaminants of Surface Water
Research and Monitoring Priorities
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 environ mental management. Each volume is a thorough treatment of a specific topic of importance for proper management practices. A fundamental ob jective of...
On the Frontiers of Climate and Environmental Change
Vulnerabilities and Adaptations in Central Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
This book is intended to fill a gap in climate-change literature by providing a comprehensive regional study and identifying the overall adaptation challenges in a real-life context. The way in which possible climate impacts interact with a range of other challenges in agriculture, forestry, disaster...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The goal of this book is to examine the complex state of radioactivity in the environment, and to understand the interplay of its two principal sources: man-made and natural. The text examines human contributions to release of radionuclides, with an eye to future reductions, and assesses natural occurrences in an evaluation of baseline radioactivity.
by Paola Gattinoni, Laura Scesi, Enrico Maria Pizzarotti
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The construction of tunnels involves the resolution of various complex technical problems depending on the geological and geological-environmental context in which the work fits.
Only a careful analysis of all the geological and geological-environmental issues and a correct reconstruction of...
Resetting the Compass
Australia's Journey Towards Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2001
Resetting the Compass: Australia's Journey Towards Sustainability Updated Edition sets out Australia's environmental problems in their global context and explains what is now needed to fix them. It also illustrates how ecological sustainability can be achieved together with economic, social and cultural...
Environmental Geophysics
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Applied geophysics were developed to explore the raw materials needed by civilization. Today it is used to investigate the extent and nature of buried contaminated waste and leachates.
The book describes in detail, yet in a simple language, possibilities, advantages and shortcomings of geophysical...
Water on Sand
Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
From Morocco to Iran and the Black Sea to the Red, Water on Sand rewrites the history of the Middle East and North Africa from the Little Ice Age to the Cold War era. As the first holistic environmental history of the region, it shows the intimate connections between peoples and environments and how...
The Earth Manifesto
Saving Nature with Engaged Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies.
We live in critical times. Choices we make daily now will affect the future of life itself. Years from now children will study our era on the brink and ask...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
This vital Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) independent training course manual from the Emergency Management Institute (EMI) is intended to provide a general introduction to hazardous materials that can serve as a foundation for more specific studies in the future. The course has five Units...
Eating Earth
Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Exploring the environmental effects of animal agriculture, fishing, and hunting, Eating Earth exposes critical common ground between earth and animal advocacy. The first chapter (animal agriculture) examines greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, manure and dead zones, freshwater depletion,...
The Scars of Project 459
The Environmental Story of the Lake of the Ozarks
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The Scars of Project 459 tells the environmental story of the Lake of the Ozarks, built by the Union Electric Company in 1931. At 55,000 acres, the lake was the biggest manmade lake in the United States at the time of its completion, and it remains the biggest in the Midwest, with 1,100 miles of shoreline...
by Ann M Holloway, Richard P Wayne
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Atmospheric Chemistry provides readers with a basic knowledge of the chemistry of Earth's atmosphere, and an understanding of the role that chemical transformations play in this vital part of our environment. The composition of the 'natural' atmosphere (troposphere, stratosphere and mesosphere) is...
Governing the Climate
New Approaches to Rationality, Power and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Despite a growing interest in critical social and political studies of climate change, the field remains fragmented and diffuse. This is the first volume to collect this body of scholarship, providing a key reference point in the growing debate about climate change across the social sciences. The...
The Man Who Built the Sierra Club
A Life of David Brower
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
David Brower (1912–2000) was a central figure in the modern environmental movement. His leadership, vision, and elegant conception of the wilderness forever changed how we approach nature. In many ways, he was a twentieth-century Thoreau. Brower transformed the Sierra Club into a national force...