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Release Date: November 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
This volume covers a diverse array of alternative technologies and their development with particular attention to the utilization of bioresources for the achievement of a sustainable environment. The book presents a selection of alternative technologies being used in developing and developed countries...
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Release Date: March 26, 2017
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Release Date: March 26, 2017
This book focuses on environmental aspects of Boka Kotorska Bay in Montenegro (South Adriatic Sea), an area that has been shaped by seasonal tourism, and explores the use and limitations of its natural resources. The individual chapters highlight its geographic and oceanographic characteristics, climate,...
Environmental Geochemistry and Health
Report to the Royal Society’s British National Committee for Problems of the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
One of the main outcomes of the eleven meetings of the Working Party was the recognition of the importance of interdisciplinary studies linking regional geochemistry with plant, animal and human health. The effects of major element deficiencies or excesses on plant health are well known; this is not...
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Release Date: July 26, 2016
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Release Date: July 26, 2016
This volume synthesizes the relevant data that is fundamental to our understanding of trace metal biogeochemistry and the ecology of biological communities of deep-sea vent systems. It presents the combined results of biological and geochemical research and analyzes the microdistribution of animals...
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Release Date: June 29, 2013
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Release Date: June 29, 2013
The Arctic troposphere (0 to ca. 8 km) plays an important role in environmental concerns for global change. It is a unique chemical reactor influenced by human activity and the Arctic ocean. It is surrounded by industrialized continents that in winter contribute gaseous and particulate pollution (Arctic...
Wärmefußabdrücke und Energieeffizienz
Nachhaltigkeit messbar machen
Language: German
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Wie weit glauben Sie, fährt ein Mittelklasse-PKW, um irreversibel und mit einem nur ca. 30%igen Wirkungsgrad einen Eiswürfel von 10 x 10 x 10 cm Kantenlänge zu schmelzen?
Dieses Fachbuch befasst sich mit erfolgreicher und messbarer Nachhaltigkeit für Unternehmen – und auch mit Eiswürfeln....
Systemische Bionik
Impulse für eine nachhaltige gesellschaftliche Weiterentwicklung
Language: German
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Dieses Essential vermittelt einen grundlegenden Einblick in die Systemische Bionik als Grenzen überwindende Disziplin. Der Autor erläutert auf leicht verständliche Weise, welchen Wert die Bionik für ganzheitliche Problemlösungen bietet und welche Rolle eine intakte Natur dabei spielt. Wegweisend...
Climate Change-Resilient Agriculture and Agroforestry
Ecosystem Services and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
This book collects wide-ranging contributions such as case studies, reviews, reports on technological developments, outputs of research/studies, and examples of successful projects, presenting current knowledge and raising awareness to help the agriculture and forestry sectors find solutions for mitigating...
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Release Date: August 28, 2018
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Release Date: August 28, 2018
This book comprehensively describes essential research and projects on climate change and biodiversity. Moreover, it includes contributions on how to promote the climate agenda and biodiversity conservation at the local level. Climate change as a whole and global warming in particular are known to...
Habitat, Population Dynamics, and Metal Levels in Colonial Waterbirds
A Food Chain Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
This book is a result of the authors' more than 40 years of study on the behavior, populations, and heavy metals in the colonial waterbirds nesting in Barnegat Bay and the nearby estuaries and bays in the Northeastern United States. From Boston Harbor to the Chesapeake, based on longitudinal studies of colonial waterbirds, it provides a clear pictu
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Release Date: December 6, 2012
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Release Date: December 6, 2012
Proceedings of the 42nd OHOLO Conference held in Eilat, Israel, May 3-7, 1998
Hen Eggs
Basic and Applied Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
The egg is a chemical storehouse-within an incubating egg a complicated set of chemical reactions take place that convert the chemicals into a living animal. Using hen eggs as a model, this new text explores the use of eggs for food, industrial, and pharmaceutical applications. It covers the chemistry,...
by Milton Wainwright
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
An Introduction to Environmental Biotechnology provides an introduction to the subject of environmental biotechnology. Environmental biotechnology refers to the use of micro-organisms and other living systems to solve current environmental problems such as the detoxification of pollutants and clean-up...
Aerosol Inhalation: Recent Research Frontiers
Prodeedings of the International Workshop on Aerosol Inhalation, Lung Transport, Deposition and the Relation to the Environment: Recent Research Frontiers, Warsaw, Poland, September 14–16, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A group of highly esteemed aerosol scientists - physicists, chemists, biologists and toxicologists - met in Warsaw in September, 1995, in order to discuss the latest developments in the field of aerosol health subjects, including inhalation, lung transport and deposition. The relationship of these...