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Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
The growing impacts of economic activities and climate change on the conditions of rivers throughout the world, require a new, integrated approach towards river basin management, an approach that can also cope with an uncertain future. In this volume, leading European scientists and representatives...
Resilient Cities 2
Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change – Proceedings of the Global Forum 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Assembling papers originally presented at the Resilient Cities 2011 Congress in Bonn, Germany (June 2011), the second global forum on cities and adaptation to climate change, this volume is the second in a series resulting from this annual event. These cutting-edge papers represent the latest research...
Broad Scale Coastal Simulation
New Techniques to Understand and Manage Shorelines in the Third Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Coastal zones exemplify the environmental pressures we face: their beauty attracts settlement, they offer potential for diverse economic activities, and they are sensitive natural habitats for important species, as well as providing a range of ecosystem services. They are also extremely vulnerable...
Resilience and Transformation
Preparing Australia for Uncertain Futures
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Resilience and Transformation explores what factors contribute to Australia’s resilience, what trends are apparent, and what actions are required to better prepare us for the immediate and longer term future. Resilience is a word used more and more across societies worldwide as decision makers realise...
Environmental Cost and Face of Agriculture in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
Fostering Agriculture in the Context of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2014
This volume presents the outcome of an Agriculture Workshop organized by the Gulf Research Centre Cambridge (GRCC) and held at Cambridge University, UK during the Gulf Research Meeting 11-14 July 2012. Co-directed by the editors, the workshop, entitled “Environmental Cost and Changing Face of Agriculture...
State of the World 2015
Confronting Hidden Threats to Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
We think we understand environmental damage: pollution, water scarcity, a warming world. But these problems are just the tip of the iceberg. Food insecurity, financial assets drained of value by environmental damage, and a rapid rise in diseases of animal originare among the underreported consequences...
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Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The interaction between environmental change and human activities is com plex, requiring the concepts and tools of a number of disciplines for its effective analysis. Land-use and land-cover change has only recently become a topic susceptible to scientific research, as these concepts and tools have...
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Release Date: September 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
The environment of our planet is degrading at an alarming rate because of non-sustainable urbanization, industrialization and agriculture. Unsustainable trends in relation to climate change and energy use, threats to public health, poverty and social exclusion, demographic pressure and ageing, management...
Contaminated Sediments
Lectures on Environmental Aspects of Particle-Associated Chemicals in Aquatic Systems
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
Sediments are increasingly recognized as both a carrier and a possible source of contaminants in aquatic systems, and they may also affect groundwater quality and agricultural products when disposed on land. Four aspects are covered reflecting the development of knowledge in particle-associated pollutants...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
"The best of all things is water" -Pindar 460 B. C. The provision of secure drinking water for its citizens is an aim of every government, and is a priority item to all the NATO and CP countries. The quantity of water in most of these countries is usually adequate, but the quality in many...
The Silent COUNTDOWN
Essays in European Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
There is a growing need for cooperation between disciplines, not only to deal with the burning problems of the present, but to study the interaction of societies and their ecosystems in the past. In the 1970s studies in Environmental History were largely confined to North America. Recent years have...
by Beidou Xi, Yonghai Jiang, Mingxiao Li
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2016
This book focuses on the treatment and disposal technology used for solid waste in China, puts forward an optimal management scheme that takes into account the complete lifecycle, and introduces a new technical model that reflects the synergies of resource utilization and secondary pollution control....
Crossroads
Environmental Priorities For The Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
The environmental movemtoday is at a critical crossroads. Crossroads: Environmental Priorities for the Future is an in-depth assessmof the movement's successes and failures, and also offers prescriptions for the future. It includes contributions from some of the country's top environmental leaders...
Comparative Evaluations of Innovative Fisheries Management
Global Experiences and European Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Comparative Evaluations of Innovative Fisheries Management begins with a look at four places outside the European Union known for innovative management: New Zealand, Nova Scotia, Alaska and Iceland. Then the focus shifts to the success criteria related to specific disciplines including biological...