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Metallic Effluents of Industrial Origin in the Marine Environment

A report prepared for the Directorate-General for Industrial and Technological Affairs and for the Environment and Consumer Protection Service of the European Communities by l'Association Europeenne Oceanique

by Association Européenne Océanique
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Based on a unique industrial European membership, the European Oceanic Association, "non-profit Association has as its object the pooling of talents, resources and ex­ perience in the marine field with the purpose of promoting in Europe a concentration of efforts to foster the study and exploration...
Cover of Conflict and the Environment
by Lothar Brock, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Renat Perelet
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013

Nils Petter Gleditsch International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) & Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trond­ heim This book could hardly have happened but for the end of the Cold War. The decline of the East-West conflict has...
Cover of Remote Sensing and GIS in Ecosystem Management
by Al Sample
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013

Recadvances in remote-sensing technology and the processing of remote-sensing data through geographic information systems (GIS) presecologists and resource managers with a tremendously valuable tool -- but only if they are able to understand its capabilities and capture its potential.Remote Sensing...
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Russia and the West

Environmental Co-operation and Conflict

by Geir Hønneland
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003

Hønneland assesses current environmental discourses and applies this analysis to look at the relations between Russia and the West with regards to environment problems. It includes three in-depth case-studies on environmental problems, living marine resources, nuclear safety and air pollution.
Cover of International Liability Regime for Biodiversity Damage

International Liability Regime for Biodiversity Damage

The Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol

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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014

The Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, adopted on 15 October 2010 in Nagoya, Japan, provides an international liability regime for biodiversity damage caused by living modified organisms (LMOs). Its adoption marks a significant...
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Cows, Kin, and Globalization

An Ethnography of Sustainability

by Susan Alexandra Crate
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006

Crate presents the first cultural ecological study of a Siberian people: the Viliui Sakha, contemporary horse and cattle agropastoralists in northeastern Siberia. The author links the local and global economic forces, and provides an intimate view of how a seemingly remote and isolated community is...
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The Wild and the Toxic

American Environmentalism and the Politics of Health

by Jennifer Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019

Health figures centrally in late twentieth-century environmental activism. There are many competing claims about the health of ecosystems, the health of the planet, and the health of humans, yet there is little agreement among the likes of D.C. lobbyists, grassroots organizers, eco-anarchist collectives,...
Cover of For the Wild

For the Wild

Ritual and Commitment in Radical Eco-Activism

by Sarah M. Pike
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017

For the Wild explores the ways in which the commitments of radical environmental and animal-rights activists develop through powerful experiences with the more-than-human world during childhood and young adulthood. The book addresses the question of how and why activists come to value nonhuman animals...
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Environmental Winds

Making the Global in Southwest China

by Michael J. Hathaway
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013

Environmental Winds challenges the notion that globalized social formations emerged solely in the Global North prior to impacting the Global South. Instead, such formations have been constituted, transformed, and propelled through diverse, site-specific social interactions that complicate and defy...
Cover of Soil and Climate
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018

Climate is a soil-forming factor and soil can mitigate climate change through a reduction in the emissions of greenhouse gases and sequestration of atmospheric CO2. Thus, there is a growing interest in soil management practices capable of mitigating climate change and enhancing environmental quality....
Cover of The Soils of Ireland
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018

This book provides a comprehensive overview of pedology in Ireland. It describes the main soil types of the country, their functions, ecological use, and the conditions to which they were subjected associated with management over time. In addition, it presents a complete set of data, pictures and...
Cover of Renewable Energy Systems from Biomass

Renewable Energy Systems from Biomass

Efficiency, Innovation and Sustainability

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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018

New innovations are needed for the invention of more efficient, affordable, sustainable and renewable energy systems, as well as for the mitigation of climate change and global environmental issues. In response to a fast-growing interest in the realm of renewable energy, Renewable Energy Systems:...
Cover of The Way the Wind Blows

The Way the Wind Blows

Climate Change, History, and Human Action

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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2000

Scientists and policymakers are beginning to understand in ever-increasing detail that environmental problems cannot be understood solely through the biophysical sciences. Environmental issues are fundamentally human issues and must be set in the context of social, political, cultural, and economic...
Cover of Une loi garantissant l'accès aux rives
by Simon Coutu
Language: French
Release Date: September 20, 2012

Considéré dans ce texte: La protection de l'environnement et l'accès public aux rives. La Société des gens de baignade et le plaisir du Kayak. Le développement économique du littoral.
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