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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
We live in a world which continues to experience dramatic suffering and loss of life due to natural hazard. The disaster paradigm has accelerated efforts towards resilience building, particularly since the adoption of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), a ten year plan to build the resilience of...
Tainted Earth
Smelters, Public Health, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Smelting is an industrial process involving the extraction of metal from ore. During this process, impurities in ore—including arsenic, lead, and cadmium—may be released from smoke stacks, contaminating air, water, and soil with toxic-heavy metals.
The problem of public health harm from...
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
Continuation of Residue Reviews
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Global attention in scientific, industrial, and governmental communities to traces of toxic chemicals in foodstuffs and in both abiotic and biotic environ ments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published progress reports,...
Boomtown
Runaway Globalisation on the Queensland Coast
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
Sitting next to the Great Barrier Reef, marinated in coal and gas, the industrial boomtown of Gladstone, Australia embodies many of the contradictions of the 'overheated' world: prosperous yet polluted; growing and developing yet always on the precipice of uncertainty.*BR**BR*Capturing Gladstone at...
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Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Ecological and biodiversity-based monitoring has been marked by an appalling lack of effectiveness and lack of success in Australia for more than 40 years, despite the billions of dollars that are invested in biodiversity conservation annually. What can be done to rectify this situation? This book tackles...
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Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science. Interest in this subject, however, is growing very rapidly and, although no agreement has been reached as yet about the exact content and limits of this interdisciplinary discipline, there appears to be increasing interest in seeing environmental...
Sustainable Design Through Process Integration
Fundamentals and Applications to Industrial Pollution Prevention, Resource Conservation, and Profitability Enhancement
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
This timely book provides authoritative, comprehensive, and easy-to-follow coverage of the fundamental concepts and practical techniques on the use of process integration to maximize the efficiency and sustainability of industrial processes.
Over the past three decades, significant advances...
System of Open Spaces
Concrete Project Strategies for Urban Territories
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
In the current panorama of urban growth and planning in many urban territories of western societies, open spaces are residual spaces of urban occupation or are reserved for eventual occupation. Open spaces have been viewed in this manner in the earlier stages of the compact city and especially now,...
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Release Date: January 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Assessing and Measuring Environmental Impact and Sustainability answers the question “what are the available methodologies to assess the environmental sustainability of a product, system or process? Multiple well-known authors share their expertise in order to give a broad perspective of this...
Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems
Concepts and Applications in Ecosystem Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Bridging the gap between local knowledge and western science is essential to understanding the world's ecosystems and the ways in which humans interact with and shape those ecosystems. This book brings together a group of world-class scientists in an unprecedented effort to build a formal framework...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Global Change studies are increasingly being considered a vital source of information to understand the Earth Environment, in particular in the framework of human-induced climate change and land use transformation. Satellite Earth Observing systems provide a unique tool to monitor those changes. While...
Risk and Conflicts
Local Responses to Natural Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Communities affected by natural disasters are often stigmatized as being passive with regard to disaster prevention, mitigation and adaptation, waiting only for government assistance in the aftermath of such events. However, many innovative community initiatives have been developed to address natural...
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Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
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...
Toxic Legacy
Synthetic Toxins in the Food, Water and Air of American Cities
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Any professional examination of existing or potential new toxins in a population must account for those already present from past problems and natural conditions.
Toxic Legacy provides extensive information on the occurrence of chemical hazards and their potential dangers in combinations in the food,...