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The Chesapeake in Focus
Transforming the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
When Captain John Smith arrived in Virginia in 1607, he discovered a paradise in the Chesapeake Bay. In the centuries that followed, the Bay changed vastly—and not for the better. European landowners and enslaved Africans slashed, burned, and cleared the surrounding forests to grow tobacco. Watermen...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
Featuring a collection of informative and descriptive chapters, this book is essential reading for environmental scientists, environmental toxicologists and people from allied fields. The research and its outcomes presented here focus on pollution prevention approaches, clean technologies and toxic...
The Race to the Moon Chronicled in Stamps, Postcards, and Postmarks
A Story of Puffery vs. the Pragmatic
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
The story of the famed race to the Moon between the US and the USSR has been told countless times. The strategies of these two superpowers have often been paralleled in a way that highlights their fight for dominance and efforts to develop needed new technologies. This book will show how beneath these...
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
Continuation of Residue Reviews
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology publishes authoritative reviews on the occurrence, effects, and fate of pesticide residues and other environmental contaminants. It will keep you informed of the latest significant issues by providing in-depth information in the areas of analytical...
Waste Valorisation and Recycling
7th IconSWM—ISWMAW 2017, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
This book gathers high-quality research papers presented at the Seventh International Conference on Solid Waste Management, held at Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Hyderabad on December 15-17, 2017. The Conference, IconSWM 2017, is as an official side event of the high-level...
Waste Management and Resource Efficiency
Proceedings of 6th IconSWM 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
The book contains high-quality research papers presented at Sixth International Conference on Solid Waste Management held at Jadavpur University, Kolkata India during November 23-26, 2016. The Conference, IconSWM 2016, is organized by Centre for Quality Management System, Jadavpur University in association...
Agroecology
Simplified and Explained
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
This book presents the core elements that underwrite agroecology. Expressed across twelve chapters, the universality of the core is the essence of agroecology. This alone would be of interest to researchers, students, and academics. Furthermore, the book contains a long, detailed, and inclusive glossary...
Nanophotocatalysis and Environmental Applications
Detoxification and Disinfection
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2019
This book will be a guiding path to understand the photocatalytic process and mechanism for the deterioration of heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants and pathogens from wastewater. Environmental remediation is of crucial importance in the context of human sustainability in the present and future...
Bio-innovation and Poverty Alleviation
Case Studies from Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
The proposed volume attempts to understand how forms of bio-innovation might be linked to the problem of poverty and its reduction through an inquiry into a number of empirical cases of present-day bio-innovations in Asia. Conditions and circumstances in countries like Cambodia, China, India, Korea,...
Environment in Poland
Issues and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
than 6,000 hectares of arable land turn The second half of the twentieth century will pass into history as an epoch that saw great irreversibly into desert (Tolba, 1992). During the last 30 years, human activity acceleration in technological development, the birth of electronics, the first space flights,...
Sustainability of Agricultural Environment in Egypt: Part I
Soil-Water-Food Nexus
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2018
This volume discusses the sustainability of Egypt’s agriculture and the challenges involved. It provides a comprehensive review and the latest research findings, and covers a variety of topics under the following themes:
· Applicability of sustainable agriculture in Egypt
· ...
Sustainability of Agricultural Environment in Egypt: Part II
Soil-Water-Plant Nexus
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
This volume discusses the sustainability of Egypt’s agriculture and the challenges involved. It provides a comprehensive review and the latest research findings, and covers a variety of topics under the following themes:
· Integrated natural resources management for sustainable...
Sedimentation Processes in the White Sea
The White Sea Environment Part II
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
This book presents a new perspective on the sedimentation processes in the White Sea, based on a multidisciplinary research study conducted between 2001 and 2016. It provides a comprehensive review and discusses the latest research findings on the ecosystem of this sub-arctic zone.
The topics...
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Language: German
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Dieses Buch präsentiert das Themenfeld Anpassung an den Klimawandel erstmals aus unterschiedlichen, disziplinären Sichtweisen – von der Ökonomie über Geographie und Rechtswissenschaft bis hin zu Politikwissenschaft und Soziologie. Darüber hinaus werden Vulnerabilität und Resilienz sowie Indikatoren...