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Late Cenozoic Climate Change in Asia
Loess, Monsoon and Monsoon-arid Environment Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
This book is the first of its kind on environmental change research devoted to monsoon-arid environment evolution history and its mechanism involved. Capturing the most prominent features of Asian climate and environmental changes, it gives a comprehensive review of the Asian Monsoon records providing...
Big, Bold and Blue
Lessons from Australia's Marine Protected Areas
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The world’s oceans cover about 70% of our planet. To safeguard the delicate ecological and environmental functions of the oceans and their remarkable biodiversity, networks of marine protected areas are being created. In some of these areas, human activity is restricted to non-exploitative activities...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Brominated flame retardants are one of the last classes of halogenated compounds that are still being produced worldwide and used in large quantities in many applications. They are used in plastics, textiles, electronic circuitry, and other materials to prevent fires. This volume covers the state-of-the-art...
The Elms
Breeding, Conservation, and Disease Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Elms occur, both naturally and cultivated, throughout much of the temperate world. Because of their high tolerance to extreme growing conditions and their widespread distribution, elms have been widely planted in cities, towns and rural areas throughout North America and northern Europe. As such,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Ecological indicators and surrogates are used widely by resource managers to monitor and understand complex biota and ecosystem processes. Their potential to guide complex resource management has meant they have been proposed for use in all ecosystems worldwide. Despite extensive research into indicators...
Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
This book examines the importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and how it can provide models for a time-tested form of sustainability needed in the world today. The essays, written by a team of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, explore TEK through compelling cases of environmental...
by Rattan Lal, David A. N. Ussiri
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
This book provides an understanding of the role of human activities in accelerating change in global carbon cycling summarizes current knowledge of the contemporary carbon budget. Starting from the geological history, this volume follows a multidisciplinary approach to analyze the role of human activities...
Enhancing Cleanup of Environmental Pollutants
Volume 1: Biological Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
This two-volume work is an effort to provide a common platform to environmental engineers, microbiologists, chemical scientists, plant physiologists and molecular biologists working with a common aim of sustainable solutions to varied environmental contamination issues. Chapters explore biological...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Rapid industrialization is a serious concern in the context of a healthy environment. With the growth in the number of industries, the waste generated is also growing exponentially. The various chemical processes operating in the manufacturing industry generate a large number of by-products, which...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
This book focuses on the engineering aspects of phosphorus (P) recovery and recycling, presenting recent research advances and applications of technologies in this important and challenging area of engineering. It highlights full-scale applications to illustrate the performance and effectiveness of...
Critical Loads and Dynamic Risk Assessments
Nitrogen, Acidity and Metals in Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
This book provides a unique overview of research methods over the past 25 years assessing critical loads and temporal effects of the deposition of air pollutants. It includes critical load methods and applications addressing acidification, eutrophication and heavy metal pollution of terrestrial and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Many industrialized and developing countries are faced with the assessment of potential risks associated with contaminated land. A variety of human activities have left their impacts on soils in the form of elevated and locally high concentrations of potential toxicants. In several cases sources have...
Bioavailability of Organic Xenobiotics in the Environment
Practical Consequences for the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
In the continuing fight against organic environmental xenobiotics, the initial success attributed to bioremediation has paled, in part due to the low availability of xenobiotics entrapped within a soil or sediment matrix. This has generated a very significant wave of interest in the bioavailability...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Soil enzymes play a fundamental role in many soil processes such as the mineralization of organic matter, the synthesis of humic substances, the degradation of xenobiotics or the mechanisms involved in the biocontrol of plant pathogens. Their direct link with soil microorganisms gives them a key role...