Environmental category: 9736 books
The Coming Population Crash
and Our Planet's Surprising Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
A leading environmental writer looks at the unexpected effects—and possible benefits—of a shrinking, graying population
Over the last century, the world’s population quadrupled and fears of overpopulation flared, with baby booms blamed for genocide and terrorism, and overpopulation singled...
Introduction to Energy and Climate
Developing a Sustainable Environment
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
The purpose of this textbook is to provide a well-rounded working knowledge of both climate change and environmental sustainability for a wide range of students. Students will learn core concepts and methods to analyze energy and environmental impacts; will understand what is changing the earth’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.
The Bad Earth
Environmental Degradation in China
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
As China strives to significantly increase its economic output, the nation faces an acute deterioration of the physical resources from which this prodigious growth springs. Major problems include water shortages, the pollution of water, high levels of carcinogens in the air, accelerating erosion,...
Sustainability
Approaches to Environmental Justice and Social Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
A critical resource for approaching sustainability across the disciplines
Sustainability and social justice remain elusive even though each is unattainable without the other. Across the industrialized West and the Global South, unsustainable practices and social inequities exacerbate one another....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Geotechnologies and the Environment: Environmental Applications and Mana- ment presents an engaging and diverse array of physically-oriented GIScience applications that have been organized using four broad themes. While the book’s themes are by no means mutually exclusive, Hoalst-Pullen and Patterson...
Hope's Horizon
Three Visions For Healing The American Land
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
At a time of widespread environmental pessimism, Hope's Horizon goes on an inspirational offensive. In this entertaining and thought-provoking book, author Chip Ward tells of his travels among a new generation of activists who are moving beyond defensive environmental struggles and advocating pioneering,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
This book provides a unique contribution to the science of sustainable societies by challenging the traditional concept of rural-urban dichotomy. It combines environmental engineering and landscape sciences perspectives on urban region issues, making the book a unique work in urban study literatures....
Wetlands
Environmental Gradients, Boundaries, and Buffers
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
An understanding of environmental gradients (physical, chemical, hydrological, and biological) is a prerequisite to the accurate delineation of wetland boundaries. Presenting the wide-ranging views of academicians, environmentalists, policy makers, consultants, planners, engineers, hydrologists, biologists,...
Earth Environments
Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This book provides a comprehensive coverage of the major topics within undergraduate study programmes in geosciences, environmental science, physical geography, natural hazards and ecology.
This text introduces students to the Earth's four key interdependent systems: the atmosphere, lithosphere,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
TThis book illustrates recent advances in applications of partial order theory and Hasse diagram techniques to data analysis, mainly in the socio-economic and environmental sciences. For years, partial order theory has been considered a fundamental branch of mathematics of only theoretical interest....
Terrestrial and Inland Water Environment of the Kaliningrad Region
Environmental Studies in the Kaliningrad Region
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
This volume concisely and systematically presents our current knowledge of the terrestrial environment and inland water resources in the Kaliningrad Region. The 22 chapters, including an introduction and a conclusion, are based on observational data; scientific literature, mainly published in Russian;...
Human Nature
A Blueprint for Managing the Earth--by People, for People
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
A radical approach to the environment which argues that by harnessing the power of science for human benefit, we can have a healthier planet
As a prizewinning theoretical physicist and an outspoken advocate for scientific literacy, James Trefil has long been the public's guide to a better understanding...
GMOs Decoded
A Skeptic's View of Genetically Modified Foods
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
The debate over genetically modified organisms: health and safety concerns, environmental impact, and scientific opinions.
Since they were introduced to the market in the late 1990s, GMOs (genetically modified organisms, including genetically modified crops), have been subject to a barrage...