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by Branimir Jovančićević, Jan Schwarzbauer
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
This second volume in the series 'Fundamentals in Organic Geochemistry' focusses on molecular chemical aspects introducing the structural diversity of natural products, their fate in the sedimentary systems and the consequences of the corresponding alterations for geoscientific questions. Organic...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
“Water and Health” strengthens the dynamic relationship between human health and water. The book has the potential to ignite our minds about several water-related diseases due to biological and chemical contamination, and to their high-end solutions. The contents are original, comprehensive and...
A Fierce Green Fire
Aldo Leopold's Life and Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
For anyone interested in wildlife, birds, wilderness areas, parks, ecology, conservation, environmental literature, and ethics, the name Aldo Leopold is sure to pop up. Since first publication, Aldo Leopold: A Fierce Green Fire has remained the classic short, inspiring biography of Leopold--the perfect...
by Kartik Shanker
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Tigers, elephants, lions and other large mammals have so far been central to India's conservation story. In spite of the country's vast coastline and millions being dependent on marine resources for their livelihoods, such species and habitats have been largely neglected in writings on wildlife. From...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
This book addresses key topics in the current deliberations and debates on low carbon cities that are underway globally. Contributions by experts from around the world focus on the key factors required for creating low carbon cities. These include appropriate infrastructure, ensuring co-benefits of...
Business and Environmental Risks
Spatial Interactions Between Environmental Hazards and Social Vulnerabilities in Ibero-America
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
Based on detailed research funded across two continents and involving universities in Argentina, Spain and the UK, this book sets out an innovative, multidisciplinary approach to assessing both environmental and social risks in a given territorial area. Using data from a number of Ibero-American nations,...
Air Pollution
Measurement, Modelling and Mitigation, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
This established textbook offers a one-stop, comprehensive coverage of air pollution, all in an easy-reading and accessible style. The fourth edition, broadly updated and developed throughout, includes a brand-new chapter providing a broader overview to the topic for general reading, and presents...
Water and Power
Environmental Governance and Strategies for Sustainability in the Lower Mekong Basin
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
This book brings together a talented international group of scholars, policy practitioners, and NGO professionals that explores a range of issues relating to environmental, developmental, and governing challenges on the Mekong, one of the world’s greatest rivers and, alas, one of the most endangered.
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by Thayer Scudder
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This book highlights the long-term resettlement process of the Egyptian Nubian people along the Aswan High Dam. Assessing the resettlement of 48,000 Egyptian Nubians in connection with the High Dam is especially important for three main reasons: firstly, this resettlement process is one of the rare...
Ecosystems and Human Well-Being
A Manual for AssessmPractitioners
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Designed by a partnership of UN agencies, international scientific organizations, and developmagencies, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessm(MA) is the mextensive study ever of the linkages between the world’s ecosystems and human well-being. The goal of the MA is to establish the scientific basis for...
by Roger G. Barry, Eileen A. Hall-McKim
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
The polar regions are the 'canary in the coal mine' of climate change: they are likely to be hit the hardest and fastest. This comprehensive textbook provides an accessible introduction to the scientific study of polar environments against a backdrop of climate change and the wider global environment....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
This book is a collection of the lectures, held at the International Summer School ISSAOS-2000 in L'Aquila (Italy), given by invited lecturers coming from both Europe and the USA. The goal of the book is to provide a broad panorama of spaceborne remote sensing techniques, at both microwave and visible-infrared...
Nuclear Waste
A Technological and Political Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Foreword Over the past decades, Piero Risoluti has built up an intimate knowl edge of the nuclear industry - in particular of nuclear waste man agement. In this book, his scientific understanding is apparent - for example in his comprehensive but readily understandable descrip tions of waste...
Emerging Organic Contaminants in Sludges
Analysis, Fate and Biological Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
There are a growing number of new chemicals in the environment that represent an ascertained or potential risk. Many of them can be found in sewage sludge and are the subject of this volume. Experts in the field highlight their occurrence and fate, risks of biosolid use, advanced chemical analysis...