Environmental Science category: 9368 books
Environmental Technology
Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Environmental Technology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 22–26, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Five billion people, at present the world population, inevitably affect the quality of the environment. The general public in an increasing number of countries is getting more and more concerned about this deterioration in quality. As a result many people cast doubts upon the desirability of the increase...
Urban Environmental Planning
Policies, Instruments and Methods in an International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Originally published in 1997, Urban Environmental Planning provides a groundbreaking overview of innovative methods and techniques for measuring and managing the environmental effects of urban land uses on other urban activities. Fully revised and updated, this second edition brings together a team...
by Harold F. Hemond, Elizabeth J. Fechner
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
The third edition of Chemical Fate and Transport in the Environment—winner of a 2015 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) from The Text and Academic Authors Association—explains the fundamental principles of mass transport, chemical partitioning, and chemical/biological transformations in surface...
The Environmental Case
Translating Values Into Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Answers to environmental issues are not black and white. Debates around policy are often among those with fundamentally different values, and the way that problems and solutions are defined plays a central role in shaping how those values are translated into policy.** The Environmental Case **captures...
Environmental Contaminants
Measurement, Modelling and Control
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
This book addresses the measurement of environmental contaminants in water, air, and soil. It also presents modifications of and improvements to existing control technologies for remediation of environmental contaminants. It covers improved designs of wastewater systems and innovations in designing...
by Taylor and Francis
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
The Handbook of Regulations on Environmental Protection in China details the environmental laws, regulations and standards in China for those enforcing and creating environmental policy as it stood in the early 1990’s. Originally published in English in 1994, this translation aims to illuminate...
by Matthew Wynn Sivils
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
While Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are often credited with inventing American environmental writing, Matthew Wynn Sivils argues that the works of these Transcendentalists must be placed within a larger literary tradition that has its origins in early Republic natural histories, Indian...
by Allan M. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
Environmental Biology offers an accessible introduction to the core elements of biology and the biosphere. With balanced coverage of acquatic and terrestrial examples throughout, the text builds logically to present a clear understanding of the fundamental processes of life before examining its more...
by United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
The evaluation builds from the widely recognized assertion that poverty often exacerbates environmental degradation and environmental damage reinforces poverty. UNDPs success at integrating these two aspects of its core mandate is very important for its credibility and the quality of support delivery...
by P. Bajpai, R. Kondo
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Pulp and paper production has increased globally and will continue to increase in the near future. Approximately 155 million tons of wood pulp is produced worldwide and about 260 million is projected for the year 2010. To be able to cope with increasing demand, an increase in productivity and improved...
American Environmental History
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2007
By studying the many ways diverse peoples have changed, shaped, and conserved the natural world over time, environmental historians provide insight into humanity's unique relationship with nature and, more importantly, are better able to understand the origins of our current environmental crisis....
The Progressive Environmental Prometheans
Left-Wing Heralds of a “Good Anthropocene”
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This book is devoted to the exploration of environmental Prometheanism, the belief that human beings can and should master nature and remake it for the better. Meyer considers, among others, the question of why Prometheanism today is usually found on the political right while environmentalism is on...
Business and Environmental Risks
Spatial Interactions Between Environmental Hazards and Social Vulnerabilities in Ibero-America
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
Based on detailed research funded across two continents and involving universities in Argentina, Spain and the UK, this book sets out an innovative, multidisciplinary approach to assessing both environmental and social risks in a given territorial area. Using data from a number of Ibero-American nations,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
With remarkable vision, Prof. Otto Hutzinger initiated The Handbook of Envir- mental Chemistry in 1980 and became the founding Editor-in-Chief. At that time, environmental chemistry was an emerging ?eld, aiming at a complete description of the Earth’s environment, encompassing the physical, chemical,...