Environmental category: 9736 books
Global Ecopolitics
Crisis, Governance, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Despite sporadic news coverage of extreme weather, international conventions on climate change, or special UN days, rarely do we participate in a sustained analysis of environmental policy making. To remedy this shortcoming and to propel the discussion forward, Peter J. Stoett provides a concise introduction...
by David Hysell
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This book gives a complete overview of the scientific and engineering aspects of radio and radar pertaining to studies of the Earth environment. The book opens with an analysis of wire antennas, antenna arrays, and aperture antennas suitable for radar applications. Following a treatment of sources...
The Polluters: The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment
The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The chemical pollution that irrevocably damages today's environment is, although many would like us to believe otherwise, the legacy of conscious choices made long ago. During the years before and just after World War II, discoveries like leaded gasoline and DDT came to market, creating new hazards...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2009
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.
Waste Materials in Construction
Putting Theory into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 1997
This book presents the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Waste Materials in Construction, held in June 1997. The papers presented give the state of the art on leaching of materials and products, demonstration projects and product development. Results of workshops on immobilisation...
Global Effects of Environmental Pollution
A Symposium Organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science Held in Dallas, Texas, December 1968
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Symposium on the Global Effects of Environmental Pollution has performed an important task; it has helped to determine the world-wide impact of certain types of local pollution and has uncovered certain unsuspected effects that might hold dan gerous implications for the future. This Symposium...
Enabling Environment
A Worm's Eye View of Environmental Finance
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Enabling Environment is as real as it gets. The global commons are jointly owned and their inhabitants are jointly obligated to ensure their preservation. In the face of protracted negotiations, convoluted documentation, discord, and incessant bickering among scientists, activists, pressure groups...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Although more than 70% of the globe is covered with water, only a small portion is suitable for direct human use, making the scarcity of freshwater one of our planet's most serious challenges. In this context, desalination, defined as "the separation of salts from water," is one of the possible...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Few books currently exist that cover such a wide spectrum of topics. The chapters dealing with air pollution from mobile sources, air pollution and health effects and air quality modelling fall into the air pollution category while the ones related to microalgae for carbon dioxide sequestration/biofuels...
Water Security in the Mediterranean Region
An International Evaluation of Management, Control, and Governance Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
The role of water in our communities, from local to regional and right up to global levels, poses a series of key questions about climate change, about the anthropogenic impact on the environment, and about all the interconnected actions and events that affect the availability and quality of the resource....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
The Handbook of Environmental Engineering series is an incredible collection of methodologies that study the effects of pollution and waste in their three basic forms: gas, solid, and liquid. This exciting new addition to the series, Volume 15: Modern Water Resources Engineering , has been designed...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
The book deals primarily with the aspects like energy resources and its proper utilization, disposal of various forms of wastes and its effects and effects of major catastrophic events like nuclear disasters, global warming, etc. It also deals with the choice of suitable disposal sites for solid and...
Chemistry of Advanced Environmental Purification Processes of Water
Fundamentals and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Chemistry of Advanced Environmental Purification Processes of Water covers the fundamentals behind a broad spectrum of advanced purification processes for various types of water, showing numerous applications through worked examples. Purification processes for groundwater, soil water, reusable water,...
Heavy Metals in Soils
Trace Metals and Metalloids in Soils and their Bioavailability
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
This third edition of the book has been completely re-written, providing a wider scope and enhanced coverage. It covers the general principles of the natural occurrence, pollution sources, chemical analysis, soil chemical behaviour and soil-plant-animal relationships of heavy metals and metalloids,...