Environmental Science category: 9368 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Written in an accessible style that is appropriate for general readers as well as professionals in the environmental health field, this work provides a comprehensive yet coherent review of the principal environmental challenges that confront our society. This four-volume work taps a multidisciplinary...
Enhancing Cleanup of Environmental Pollutants
Volume 1: Biological Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
This two-volume work is an effort to provide a common platform to environmental engineers, microbiologists, chemical scientists, plant physiologists and molecular biologists working with a common aim of sustainable solutions to varied environmental contamination issues. Chapters explore biological...
Jumping from the Ivory Tower
Weaving Environmental Leadership and Sustainable Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
Jumping from the Ivory Tower demonstrates the positive results that occur when colleges work with communities to develop students with a sense of place. The book examines the role of colleges and communities in addressing today's environmental problems, including climate change and biodiversity loss,...
Environmental Science and International Politics
Acid Rain in Europe, 1979-1989, and Climate Change in Copenhagen, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Environmental Science and International Politics features two reacting games in one volume, immersing students in the complex process of negotiating international treaties to control environmental pollution. The issues are similar in all the modules; environmental justice, national sovereignty, and...
Integrated Land Use and Environmental Models
A Survey of Current Applications and Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This volume is the result of an invited symposium titled "Integrated Land-Use and Environmental Models: A Survey of Current Applications and Research" that was held in October 2000 at Arizona State University. The idea for the symposium arose from a belief held by many academics that we...
by M. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Environmental considerations are playing an increasingly important role in determining management strategies for soil and land. Many important environmental issues involve aspects of the biology of soil, and these issues cannot be considered satisfactorily in isolation from a general understanding...
Assessment and Management of Environmental Risks
Cost-efficient Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Managing environmental contamination requires decision makers to weigh eXlstmg risks against the potential effects of implementing environmental policies - considering both the benefits and disruptions that may result from different actions. The NATO Advanced Research Workshop in Lisbon was an important...
Environmental Problems Globally
From Perception to Reaction
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Human behavior causes environmental problems which, in turn, affect people and whole societies. The author elaborates the role of the public in the discourse about environmental protection. As the public consists of socio-economic, legal and political actors, the behavior of those actors is of significance....
Coastal Monitoring through Partnerships
Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) Pensacola Beach, FL, U.S.A., April 24–27, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
As the coastal human population increases in the United States, there will likely be increasing environmental and socioeconomic pressures on our coastal and estuarine environments. Monitoring the condition of all our nation's coastal and estuarine ecosystems over the long term is more than any one...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Learner-centered teaching is a pedagogical approach that emphasizes the roles of students as participants in and drivers of their own learning. Learner-centered teaching activities go beyond traditional lecturing by helping students construct their own understanding of information, develop skills...
Employee Environmental Innovation in Firms
Organizational and Managerial Factors
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
This title was first published in 2003. Testing policies promoted by current environmental management literature, this book puts forward a new conceptual model to identify which organizational and supervisory support factors can positively influence employees to promote environmental initiatives in...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Environmental Toxicity of Nanomaterials focuses on causes and prevention of environmental toxicity induced by various nanomaterials. In sixteen chapters it describes the basic principles, trends, challenges, and future directions of nanoecotoxicity.
The future acceptance of nanomaterials in...
Hazardous Waste and Pollution
Detecting and Preventing Green Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
This volume examines crimes that violate environmental regulations, as part of an emerging area of criminology known as green criminology. The contributions to this book examine criminal justice concerns related to regulating and enforcing environmental laws, as well as the consequences for families...
Nanotechnology
Health and Environmental Risks, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Should you adopt nanotechnology? If you have already adopted it, what do you need to know? What are the risks? Nanomaterials and nanotechnologies are revolutionizing the ways we treat disease, produce energy, manufacture products, and attend to our daily wants and needs. To continue to capture the...