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Global Effects of Environmental Pollution
A Symposium Organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science Held in Dallas, Texas, December 1968
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Symposium on the Global Effects of Environmental Pollution has performed an important task; it has helped to determine the world-wide impact of certain types of local pollution and has uncovered certain unsuspected effects that might hold dan gerous implications for the future. This Symposium...
by Stephen A. Rackley
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) is a technology aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels during industrial and energy-related processes. CCS involves the capture, transport and long-term storage of carbon dioxide, usually in geological reservoirs deep underground...
Environment and Development
Basic Principles, Human Activities, and Environmental Implications
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Environment and Development: Basic Principles, Human Activities, and Environmental Implications focuses on the adverse impact that human activities, developments, and economic growth have on both natural and inhabited environments. The book presents the associated problems, along with solutions that...
Standard Handbook Oil Spill Environmental Forensics
Fingerprinting and Source Identification
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Standard Handbook Oil Spill Environmental Forensics: Fingerprinting and Source Identification, Second Edition, provides users with the latest information on the tools and methods that have become popular over the past ten years.
The book presents practitioners with the latest environmental...
A Fair Share
Doing the Math on Individual Consumption and Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Global warming looms large, and seems beyond the ken of any one person to affect, while the notion that simply driving less or changing other habits could be of any real use seems to make a mockery of the enormity of the problem. However, a rigorous quantification of consumption shows that, far...
Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World
Volume 2: Remediation of Air and Water Pollution
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Environmental chemistry is a fast developing science aimed at deciphering fundamental mechanisms ruling the behaviour of pollutants in ecosystems. Applying this knowledge to current environmental issues leads to the remediation of environmental media, and to new, low energy, low emission, sustainable...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Editorial Scope
The Environmental Communication Yearbook is a multidisciplinary forum through which a broad audience of academics, professionals, and practitioners can share and build theoretical, critical, and applied scholarship addressing environmental communication in a variety of contexts. This...
Beyond Terror
The Truth About the Real Threats to Our World
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Is international terrorism really the single greatest threat to world security?
Since the 9/11 attacks, many Western governments assume terrorism to be the greatest threat we face. In response, their dangerous policies attempt to maintain control and keep the status quo by using overwhelming...
Antarctic Futures
Human Engagement with the Antarctic Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
At the beginning of the 21st century, Antarctica is poised at the edge of a warmer and busier world. Leading Antarctic researchers examine the needs and challenges of Antarctic environmental management today and tomorrow. Through: (i) investigating the impacts of human activities on specific ecosystems...
by Ryszard M. Czarny
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
This book focuses on the Nordic countries through a European perspective and wishes to draw attention to their place in the new world order. The volume emphasizes the specificity of their cooperation within the region itself as well as within the European Union, and stresses the importance of the...
Quintessential Cities, Accountable to the Future
Sustainability, Innovation and Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
This book can be seen as the third part of an unofficial trilogy on Sustainable Cities of the Future with the author's previous books 'Sustainable Development, Energy and the City' and 'Sustainable Cities for the third millennium: The Odyssey of urban excellence', both prefaced by Prof. Sir...
Managing Geo-Based Challenges
World-Wide Case Studies and Sustainable Local Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
This book provides sound conceptual understanding of the current approach to management and decision making regarding geo-based challenges in developing countries that tend to suffer from information poverty and subjectivity and are reactive. The book also provides the necessary technical tools to...
by Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
This book comprehensively reviews, as well as analyzes, various aspects related to the Indian textile and apparel industries. While the focus is on economic and environmental issues, the discussion covers a lot of policy elements. The approach is inter-disciplinary, with concepts drawn from economics,...
Urban Villager
Life in an Indian Satellite Town
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Urban Villager is a superbly etched and finely detailed representation of the life of an ‘urban villager’ in a modern satellite town of India. It describes how Delhi, as a city, is growing radially, stretching its way into the rural fringes of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh that border the city to...