Environmental Science category: 9368 books
Experiences from Surface Water Quality Monitoring
The EU Water Framework Directive Implementation in the Catalan River Basin District (Part I)
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
This book details the experiences gained by the Catalan Water Agency (ACA) in a Mediterranean watershed – the Catalan River Basin District – following the launch of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) in the year 2000. Experts in rivers, reservoirs, lakes, wetlands and estuaries present 13...
Schooling for Sustainable Development in Chinese Communities
Experience with Younger Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
This book focuses on the academic foundations, trends and traditions of environmental education for sustainable development principally in Chinese contexts. It highlights contexts and case studies that illuminate recent Chinese initiatives. It includes case studies of green schools and reports on...
by R.A. Baumann, I.R. Falconer, J.K. Fawell
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Drinking water quality is a vast and complex subject. In addition to the topics already addressed in Volume 5, part B of this Handbook in 1995, this new volume discusses in an authoritative way the current key issues of drinking water quality and its control: - Toxicity tests for assessing drinking...
by Rolf Nieder, Dinesh K. Benbi, Franz X. Reichl
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
This volume highlights important links existing between soils and human health which up to now are not fully realized by the public. Soil materials may have deleterious, beneficial or no impacts on human health; therefore, understanding the complex relationships between diverse soil materials and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
This book presents multi-sector practical cases based on the author’s own research. It also includes the best practice, which could serve as a benchmark for the creation of smart cities. The global urbanisation index, i.e., the ratio of city dwellers to the total population, has been steadily increasing...
Hydrology
An Environmental Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Hydrology covers the fundamentals of hydrology and hydrogeology, taking an environmental slant dictated by the emphasis in recent times for the remediation of contaminated aquifers and surface-water bodies as well as a demand for new designs that impose the least negative impact on the natural environment....
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Corrib Gas Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
'All I want is to stay where I am . . . My heart and soul are in this place.'
(Willie Corduff, one of The Rossport Five)
In a remote, beautiful part of the west of Ireland, a David and Goliath struggle rages between multinational oil company, Shell, and some of the local community of Rossport,...
Population and Security: Water disputes - on the way to a major global problem?
on the way to a major global problem?
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Scientific Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Environmental Policy, grade: 25 von 40 Punkten, The University of Sydney (Center for International Security Studies), course: CISS6008: Population and Security, language: English, abstract: Water is the base of...
Hell on Earth
The Wildfire Pandemic
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
The world is burning, and it appears that we are to blame. Conditions that create large-scale fire disasters are occurring more frequently every year, spurred on by global warming. And the potential for damage, loss of life, and greater harm to the environment is staggering.
As devastating...
Smell Detectives
An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the nineteenth-century Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary challenges caused by rapid urban and industrial growth. Melanie...
Earth Engineering
Perspectives, Principles, and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
Questions about the Earth continue to haunt engineers. For instance: What do we know about our ancient planet? How should we be using it? And what are the best technologies and strategies to sustain us?
Earth Engineering provides the background necessary to analyze these questions as well as...
Groundwater Hydrology of Springs
Engineering, Theory, Management and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2009
Groundwater Hydrology of Water Resource Series - Water is an essential environmental resource and one that needs to be properly managed. As the world places more emphasis on sustainable water supplies, the demand for expertise in hydrology and water resources continues to increase. This series is...
Response to Marine Oil Pollution
Review and Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Response to Marine Oil Pollution - Review and Assessment is the essential source book, now updated, for all involved in marine oil pollution consequences and response. It covers policy, planning and operations, and provides technical assessment of the true nature of the problem, of the means to maximise...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This book offers insights into the current focus and recent advances in bioremediation and green technology applications for waste minimization and pollution control. Increasing urbanization has an impact on the environment, agriculture and industry, exacerbating the pollution problem and creating...