Science Nature category: 119003 books
Food Safety Management in China
A Perspective from Food Quality Control System
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
In recent years, China has taken a number of effective measures to strengthen the supervision of food quality and safety, but food safety incidents still occur sometimes. The recurrence and intractability of such incidents suggest that, in addition to the imperfect supervision system, the greatest...
by
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Current developments in air pollution modelling are explored as a series of contributions from researchers at the forefront of their field. This newest contribution on air pollution modelling and its application is focused on local, urban, regional and intercontinental modelling; data assimilation...
by
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Recent developments in air pollution modelling are explored as a series of contributions from researchers at the forefront of their field. This newest contribution on air pollution modelling and its application is focused on local, urban, regional and intercontinental modelling; data assimilation...
by
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Current developments in air pollution modelling are explored as a series of contributions from researchers at the forefront of their field. This newest contribution on air pollution modelling and its application is focused on local, urban, regional and intercontinental modelling; long term modelling...
by
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2002
Comforting terms such as "sustainable development" and "green production" frame environmental debate by stressing technology (not green enough), economic growth (not enough in the right places), and population (too large). Concern about consumption emerges, if at all, in benign ways; as calls for...
Cars and Carbon
Automobiles and European Climate Policy in a Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
This volume contains articles from leading analysts and researchers on sustainable transportation, who provide critical reflections on how automobile-related climate policies have evolved up to now in Europe and around the world, in view of the widely recognized need to substantially curb global emissions...
Rewilding the World
Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
A gripping account of the environmental crusade to save the world's most endangered species and landscapes—the last best hope for preserving our natural home
Scientists worldwide are warning of the looming extinction of thousands of species, from tigers and polar bears to rare flowers, birds,...
The Essential Agrarian Reader
The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
With a Foreword by Barbara Kingsolver. A compelling worldview with advocates from around the globe, agrarianism challenges the shortcomings of our industrial and technological economy. Not simply focused on farming, the agrarian outlook encourages us to develop practices and policies that promote...
Practice of Sustainable Community Development
A Participatory Framework for Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Ordinary people, community leaders, and even organizations and corporations still do not fully comprehend the interconnected, “big picture” dynamics of sustainability theory and action. In exploring means to become more sustainable, individuals and groups need a reference in which to frame discussions...
The Economy of Green Cities
A World Compendium on the Green Urban Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
This volume bridges the gap between the global promotion of the Green Economy and the manifestation of this new development strategy at the urban level. Green cities are an imperative solution, not only in meeting global environmental challenges but also in helping to ensure socio-economic prosperity at the local level.
by
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Sustainability applies to everybody. But everybody applies it differently, by defining and shaping it differently—much as water is edged and shaped by its container. It is conceived in absolute terms but underpinned by a great diversity of relatively “green”—and sometimes contradictory—practices...
Facilitating Sustainable Innovation through Collaboration
A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Facilitating Sustainable Innovation through Collaboration, takes an unusually international perspective of sustainable innovation with contributions from Australia, Europe, and North America. Prominent policy makers, scientific researchers and practitioners in this field provide various inputs and...
Chill, A Reassessment of Global Warming Theory
Does Climate Change Mean the World is Cooling, and If So What Should We Do About It?
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Although the world’s climate has undergone many cyclical changes, the phrase ‘climate change’ has taken on a sinister meaning, implying catastrophe for humanity, ecology and the environment. We are told that we are responsible for this threat, and that we should act immediately to prevent it....
The Hydrogen Economy
Opportunities and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
Responding to the sustained interest in and controversial discussion of the prospects of hydrogen, this book strives to reflect on the perspectives of a hydrogen economy in light of the global energy challenge, in particular the question of how to meet the growing demand for transport energy in the...