Environmental category: 9736 books
Natural Attenuation
CERCLA, RBCAs, and the Future of Environmental Remediation
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Natural Attenuation: CERCLA, RBCAs, and the Future of Environmental Remediation presents the concept of "natural attenuation"-the tendency of soils to severly limit the toxicity of many types of hazardous waste. It reviews and updates the most recent findings from the field and lab and shows...
by Jan Laitos
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
This book is for those who are not just interested in the ways humans have harmfully altered their environment, but instead wish to learn why the many governmental policies in place to curb such behavior have been unsuccessful. Since humans began to exploit natural resources for their own economic...
by R M Christie
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2007
Textile dyes enhance our environment, bringing colour into our lives. The current range of dyes have been developed to withstand environmental effects, such as degradation by exposure to light and water. However, the industry involved with the application of dyes to textiles has a responsibility to...
The Stated Preference Approach to Environmental Valuation, Volumes I, II and III
Volume I: Foundations, Initial Development, Statistical Approaches Volume II:Conceptual and Empirical Issues Volume III: Applications: Benefit-Cost Analysis and Natural Resource Damage Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
There is a truly enormous literature on using stated preference information to place a monetary value on environmental amenities. This three volume set provides the key papers for understanding the historical development of contingent valuation, its theoretical and statistical foundations, and the...
by Silke Marie Christiansen
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The book addresses the question of whether the currently available instruments of international environmental and international humanitarian law are applicable to climate conflicts. It clarifies the different pathways leading from climate change to conflict and offers an analysis of international...
Genetically Engineered Marine Organisms
Environmental and Economic Risks and Benefits
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Genetically Engineered Marine Organisms: Environmental and Economic Risks and Benefits provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary overview of the environmental, economic, and regulatory implications of advances in marine biotechnology. The book has been specifically designed to bridge the gap between...
by Vikas Choudhary
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Environmental resources management aims to ensure that ecosystem services are protected and maintained for equitable use by future human generations, and also, maintain ecosystem integrity as an end in itself by taking into consideration ethical, economic, and scientific (ecological) variables. Environmental...
Antibiotics and Antibiotics Resistance Genes in Soils
Monitoring, Toxicity, Risk Assessment and Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
This book summarizes the current state of knowledge regarding antibiotics and antibiotics resistance genes (ARGs) in the soil environment. It covers a wide range of topics to help readers understand antibiotics and ARGs in soils, the risks they pose for the environment, and options for effective control....
Nanophotocatalysis and Environmental Applications
Materials and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
This book serves the environmentalists to track the development of photocatalytic materials and technology in the present context and to explore future trends. Photocatalysis is the most influential greener technology being researched, developed and adopted for the treatment of wastewater. The technological...
Environmental Studies of a Marine Ecosystem
South Texas Outer Continental Shelf
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Environmental Studies of a Marine Ecosystem reports the temporal and spatial variation of both the living and nonliving resources of the south Texas outer continental shelf. As the last major study to have been conducted before the Ixtoc oil spill in 1979, it is of great importance as a record of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
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.
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology volume
With Cumulative and Comprehensive Index Subjects Covered Volumes 221-230
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
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 William G. Gray, Genetha A. Gray
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
This textbook presents an understanding of how basic physical descriptions can be translated into mathematical analogues that provide an opportunity to investigate environmental processes. Examples come from a range of hydrologic, atmospheric, and geophysical problems. The emphasis is on simple examples...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
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.