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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Reconstruction of the climate variability of the past 500 years is a topic of great scientific interest not only in global terms, but also at regional and local levels. This period is interesting on account of the increasing influence of anthropogenic forcing and its overlap with natural factors....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2004
Transboundary transport of air pollution has been a topic of scientific research for several decades and has also been addressed already by environmental policies. However, the importance of air pollution transport on the largest - intercontinental - scales, has been recognized only recently. It was...
Environment and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: Managing an Emerging Crisis
Selected Papers from ERTEP 2007, July 17-19 2007, Ghana, Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
This book is the second edited compilation of selected, refereed papers submitted to ERTEP 2007. The book is organized into 10 chapters along four of the key themes that were discussed at the conference: Environmental Health Management; Mining and Environment; Environmental Monitoring and Policy Development;...
Infrastructural Ecologies
Alternative Development Models for Emerging Economies
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
An integrated, holistic model for infrastructure planning and design in developing countries.
Many emerging nations, particularly those least developed, lack basic critical infrastructural services—affordable energy, clean drinking water, dependable sanitation, and effective public transportation,...
by Professor Gareth Shaw, Professor Allan M Williams
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2004
This is a critical introduction to the relations between tourism, tourists, and tourism spaces. It fuses economic and cultural perspectives to explain how tourism is dependent on place and space, while at the same time as defining those places and spaces.
Examining different levels of scale...
Industrial Air Pollution
Assessment and Control
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Presented here is an account of industrial and general air pollution problems in view of air quality management, community and industrial health aspects, emission inventorying, emission and air quality measurement techniques, dispersion phenomena and control technologies. Moreover, several case studies...
Breakpoint
Reckoning with America's Environmental Crises
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
An insightful look at the American environmental crisis and emerging solutions from the heartland to the coasts in the era of global climate change†‹
Eminent ecologist Jeremy B. C. Jackson and award†‘winning journalist Steve Chapple traveled the length of the Mississippi River interviewing...
Monitoring of Gaseous Pollutants by Tunable Diode Lasers
Proceedings of the International Symposium held in Freiburg, F.R.G., 13–14 November 1986
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
By now it has been nearly twenty years since the pioneering studies at the MIT-Lincoln Laboratories, Lexington, USA, demonstrated the unique capabilities of lead salt tunable diode lasers (TDL) for infrared absorption spectroscopy. The progress in the use of TDL instrumentation for a wide variety...
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Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the field of biosensors the previous focus has been almost entirely on medical diagnostics. Here it is discussed in relation to bioremediation. The application of new biosensing techniques to environmental monitoring promises to be a more economical approach to monitoring both soil consortia and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
This volume focuses on practical aspects of sustainable water management in urban areas and presents a discussion of key concepts, methodologies, and case studies of innovative and evolving technologies. Topics include: (1) challenges in urban water resiliency; (2) water and energy nexus; (3) integrated...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
This book presents reviews, examples and case studies of innovative applications in solid and hazardous waste management. The economics of waste management have since become a significant research area in their own right, and two chapters address these issues. In addition, dedicated chapters cover...
Combating Water Scarcity in Southern Africa
Case Studies from Namibia
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
This book offers a close examination of water scarcity as a developmental challenge facing member nations of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the interventions that have been implemented to combat the situation and the challenges still outstanding. The first chapter paints the backdrop...
Our Toxic World
A Guide to Hazardous Substances in our Everyday Lives
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
The mode of development that the world-and India-has followed has led to a situation where we are surrounded by numerous hazardous substances in our everyday lives, which affect the health of people, of other living creatures, and of the planet as a whole. Our Toxic World is an effort to shine a keen...
Beyond the Biophysical
Knowledge, Culture, and Power in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Beyond the Biophysical provides a broad overview of agriculture and natural resource management (NRM) scholarship and practice that lies beyond the biophysical, emphasizing instead epistemological, cultural, and political foundations of NRM. The volume is oriented toward professionals with expertise...