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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This volume focuses on modelling the fate of chemicals in the environment and the human body to arrive at an integrated exposure assessment. It covers five broad topics, namely: future challenges in exposure assessment; the evolution of human health and environmental risk assessment; standard documentation...
From Poverty, Inequality to Smart City
Proceedings of the National Conference on Sustainable Built Environment 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
This book is a comprehensive document visualizing the future of built environment from a multidisciplinary dimension, with special emphasis on the Indian scenario. The multidisciplinary focus would be helpful for the readers to cross-refer and understand others' perspectives. The text also includes...
Heartbeats in the Muck
The History, Sea Life, and Environment of New York Harbor, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Heartbeats in the Muck traces the incredible arc of New York Harbor’s environmental history. Once a pristine estuary bristling with oysters and striped bass and visited by sharks, porpoises, and seals, the harbor has been marked by centuries of rampant industrialization and degradation of its natural...
A Face in the Rock
The Tale Of A Grand Island Chippewa
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Eight miles long and four miles wide, Grand Island lies off the south shore of Lake Superior. It was once home to a sizable community of Chippewa Indians who lived in harmony with the land and with each other. Their tragic demise began early in the nineteenth century when their fellow tribesmen from...
Combustible Solid Waste Thermochemical Conversion
A Study of Interactions and Influence Factors
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
This book is written by Dr. Hui Zhou as a Ph.D. dissertation in Tsinghua University, China. It establishes the thermochemical characteristics of model compounds in combustible solid waste (CSW), and delineates the influence of different factors on the thermochemical characteristics and the influence...
Tropospheric Chemistry
Results of the German Tropospheric Chemistry Programme
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Corrib Gas Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
'All I want is to stay where I am . . . My heart and soul are in this place.'
(Willie Corduff, one of The Rossport Five)
In a remote, beautiful part of the west of Ireland, a David and Goliath struggle rages between multinational oil company, Shell, and some of the local community of Rossport,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Using renewable fuels and materials, drinking clean water and food, and breathing safe air are major issues for a sustainable world. This book reviews biodiesel production from microalgae, a promising energy source that does not compete with food production. Several advanced techniques to clean polluted...
Congo's Environmental Paradox
Potential and Predation in a Land of Plenty
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
The first book to present and analyse Congo’s five strategic environmental sectors – forests, minerals, land, water and oil – in a holistic way
Both the DRC and ‘resource curse’ issues are subjects in immense interest amongst researchers, policymakers and academia
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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
This volume provides a detailed overview of water pollution and control of several selected Chinese reservoirs. It explores sediment contamination as well as algal blooms and their impact on water quality. Several chapters also discuss various methods of quality control, such as mixing-oxygenation...
Urban Land
Degradation - Investigation - Remediation
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Urban land is an environmental key topic considering the increasing urbani sation of our world. The amounting pressure on resources especially in the urban environment demand awareness across technical and political sectors and solid concepts for workable solutions. This book will address those...
Hell on Earth
The Wildfire Pandemic
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
The world is burning, and it appears that we are to blame. Conditions that create large-scale fire disasters are occurring more frequently every year, spurred on by global warming. And the potential for damage, loss of life, and greater harm to the environment is staggering.
As devastating...
Sigma 7
The Six Mercury Orbits of Walter M. Schirra, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
Colin Burgess offers a comprehensive yet personal look at the 1962 orbital mission of Wally Schirra aboard the spacecraft Sigma 7, the first book about this popular pioneering astronaut which explores his entire life and accomplishments. This continues the Pioneers in Early Spaceflight series, the...
Sustainable Neighbourhoods in Australia
City of Sydney Urban Planning
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
This book examines the planning and implementation of policies to create sustainable neighborhoods, using as a case study the City of Sydney. The authors ask whether many past planning and development practices were appropriate to the ways that communities then functioned, and what lessons we have...