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by V. Ratna Reddy, Mathew Kurian, Reza Ardakanian
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
This book demonstrates the application of Life-cycle Cost Approach (LCCA) in the management of infrastructure and other investment projects in the context of developing countries. The main goal is to identify potential opportunities for the adoption LCCA in developing countries, with the help of case...
by David A Lewandowski
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Controlling the emission of volatile organic compounds (VOC) became a very prominent environmental issue with the passage of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, and will continue to be an environmental priority through the next decade. No single technology has played as important a role in the control...
Soil and Groundwater Pollution
Fundamentals, Risk Assessment and Legislation
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
SCOPE, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, was established by the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) in 1969 as an international, non to governmental, non-profit organisation with the mandate - advance knowledge of the influence of humans on their environment,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
This book focuses on how to create an environmentally friendly society in China from the viewpoint of environmental law and policy. The authors accessed a great number of valuable sources not available in English, and interviewed various scholars and public officials, in order to analyze the environmental...
Sustainability and Human Settlements
Fundamental Issues, Modeling and Simulations
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2005
This book—an outcome of the authors’ ongoing research on the complex relationships between humans and water in an urban context—presents an integrated model for assessing and forecasting the sustainability of human settlements, particularly urban communities. After introducing the conceptual...
Global Emission Inventory and Atmospheric Transport of Black Carbon
Evaluation of the Associated Exposure
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
This thesis presents research focusing on the improvement of high-resolution global black carbon (BC) emission inventory and application in assessing the population exposure to ambient BC. A particular focus of the thesis is on the construction of a high-resolution (both spatial and sectorial) fuel...
by Harry Eyres
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
This book shows how our new-found ability to observe the Earth from “the necessary distance” has wide and profound cultural and ethical implications. First of all, it is the outcome of speculations and investigations of human beings in relation to their home planet carried out over millennia....
A Little Less Arctic
Top Predators in the World's Largest Northern Inland Sea, Hudson Bay
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2010
In Arctic Canada, Hudson Bay is a site of great exploration history, aboriginal culture, and a vast marine wilderness supporting large populations of marine mammals and birds. These include some of the most iconic Arctic animals like beluga, narwhal, bowhead whales, and polar bears. Due to the challenges...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
This book is based on the outcomes of a Turkish-Japanese bilateral project dealing with the impacts of climate change on basin agro-ecosystems. The book is unique in showing an up-to-date knowledge for the developing world. The chapters are related to: a) the development and improvement of a regional...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Divided into three sections, this book explores the three main pillars of sustainable development, namely economy, environment and society, and their interlinkages at the regional level. The first section, Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) for sustainable development, focuses on international agreements...
Easter Island
Scientific Exploration into the World’s Environmental Problems in Microcosm
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Easter Island, a World Heritage Site is still, after over 50 years since Thor Heyerdahl's work on the island, a fascinating area to explore and learn about a culture that has only remnants remaining, while documenting a marine ecology still mostly unknown.
Easter Island: Scientific Exploration...
Biodiversity Offsets
European Perspectives on No Net Loss of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
This book deals with the new concept of biodiversity offsets. The aim of offsetting schemes is to achieve no let loss or even net gain of biodiversity. Offsets obey a mitigation hierarchy and reflect the precautionary and polluter-pays principle in regard to project impacts.
Readers gain insights...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
This book advances discussions of values in fisheries by showing the rich theoretical insights and connections possible when value is grounded in a multi-dimensional social well being approach. Questions of value have long been a central, if often unacknowledged, concern in maritime studies and in...
Non-Thermal Plasma Techniques for Pollution Control
Part B: Electron Beam and Electrical Discharge Processing
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Acid rain, global warming, ozone depletion, and smog are preeminent environmental problems facing the world today. Non-thermal plasma techniques offer an innovative approach to the solution of some of these problems. There are many types of non-thermal plasma devices that have been developed for environmental...