Environmental category: 9736 books
A History of Technology and Environment
From stone tools to ecological crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This book provides an accessible overview of the ways that key areas of technology have impacted global ecosystems and natural communities. It offers a new way of thinking about the overall origins of environmental problems. Combining approaches drawn from environmental biology and the history of...
Environmental Education
Principles and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
The book ? Environmental Education: Principles and Policies? in its tangible form is the result of exhaustive research on each of the topics, innovative ideas, and overwhelming response from the student community to my earlier book on this subject. The book will act as self instructional study materials...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Originally published in 1977, this title provides an overview of regional residuals-environmental quality management (REQM). Edited by Blair T. Bower, this volume offers insights on the analytical problems faced in developing useful information for societal decisions on REQM. It is a valuable resource for policy makers and students interested in environmental issues.
Nanoparticles in the Water Cycle
Properties, Analysis and Environmental Relevance
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
As nanotechnology enters everyday life, engineered nanoparticles (ENP) will find their way into nature, including surface and groundwater. Here, distinguished experts of water chemistry present dedicated methods for the analysis of nanoparticles in the aquatic environment, their distribution and fate....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The Clean Air Act remains one of the most significant and complex pieces of environmental legislation in the country's history. Since its inception, the Clean Air Act has arguably had a greater impact on the lives of Americans than any other environmental statute, and it promises to continue this...
Analysis for Residuals-Environmental Quality Management
A Case Study of the Ljubljana Area of Yugoslavia
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
According to the laws of conservation of mass and energy, matter cannot be created or destroyed. Therefore, all human activities result in some residuals. In this title, originally published in 1978, the authors describe the overall magnitude of the annual residuals problem and apply a residuals-environmental...
Environmental Management Systems Handbook for Refineries
Polution Prevention Through ISO 14001
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
This book offers refineries a practical guide for implementing environmental management systems (EMS).The
author, who has implemented hundreds of successful EMS programs throughout North America, Europe, Russia
and the Middle East, provides a detailed explanation of what an EMS is and how it can benefit...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
This volume is the result of years of commitment with world-wide sanitation challenges from various research networks linking the editors and authors of this volume to many other sanitation scholars and professionals. Major contributions to this volume are derived from the work done in the PROVIDE...
Environmental Change, Adaptation and Migration
Bringing in the Region
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
The contributors present empirical and theoretical insights on current debates on environmental change, adaptation and migration. While focusing on countries subject to environmental degradation, it calls for a regional perspective that recognises local actors and a systematic link between development studies and migration research.
Environmental Challenges in the Mediterranean 2000–2050
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Environmental Challenges in the Mediterranean 2000–2050 Madrid, Spain 2–5 October 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book addresses six key factors that will affect environmental policies in the Mediterranean region during the next fifty years: population growth, climate change, soil erosion and desertification, water scarcity, food production, and urbanization and pollution. The authors assess these as potential...
Saving Our Environment from Washington
How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Congress empowered the Environmental Protection Agency on the theory that only a national agency that is insulated from accountability to voters could produce the scientifically grounded pollution rules needed to save a careless public from its own filth. In this provocative book, David Schoenbrod explains...
by V. Ratna Reddy, Mathew Kurian, Reza Ardakanian
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
This book demonstrates the application of Life-cycle Cost Approach (LCCA) in the management of infrastructure and other investment projects in the context of developing countries. The main goal is to identify potential opportunities for the adoption LCCA in developing countries, with the help of case...
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
Continuation of Residue Reviews
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology publishes authoritative reviews on the occurrence, effects, and fate of pesticide residues and other environmental contaminants. It will keep you informed of the latest significant issues by providing in-depth information in the areas of analytical...
Soil and Groundwater Pollution
Fundamentals, Risk Assessment and Legislation
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
SCOPE, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, was established by the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) in 1969 as an international, non to governmental, non-profit organisation with the mandate - advance knowledge of the influence of humans on their environment,...