Environmental Science category: 9368 books
Agrarian Environments
Resources, Representations, and Rule in India
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2000
Agrarian Environments questions the dichotomies that have structured earlier analyses of environmental processes in India and offers a new way of looking at the relationship between agrarian transformation and environmental change. The contributors claim that attempts to explain environmental conflicts...
by David Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Society's use of energy and technology is at heart of many of the most significant environmental problems of recent years, including problems of health, global warming and acid rain. Use of technology has been a major cause of environmental problems but new technology offers many solutions.
Energy,...
Environmental Science and Sustainable Development
International Conference on Environmental Science and Sustainable Development (ICESSD 2015)
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
This proceedings is a collection of selected papers presented at the 2015 International Conference on Environmental Science and Sustainable Development (ICESSD 2015), which was held on October 25–26, 2015, Bangkok, Thailand. Issues covered inclu
by Frank R. Spellman, Melissa L. Stoudt
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Environmental issues, global warming, pollution, and chemical dumping, are ever present in the news. But what about the health problems these issues pose? Frank Spellman and Melissa Stoudt identify the hazardous environmental issues and explain the science behind the dangers to our health.
The...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book presents the proceedings and the outcomes of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on Integrated Technologies for Environmental Monitoring and Information Production, which was held in Marmaris, Turkey, between September 10- 14, 200 I. With the contribution of 45 experts from 20 different...
The Oceans and Environmental Security
Shared U.S. And Russian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
The concept of environmental security, drawing on the widely understood notion of international strategic interdependence (in facing, for example, threats of nuclear war or economic collapse) is gaining currency as a way of thinking about international environmental management.In 1989, the Institute...
Civil, Architecture and Environmental Engineering
Proceedings of the International Conference ICCAE, Taipei, Taiwan, November 4-6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
This two-volume work contains the papers presented at the 2016 International Conference on Civil, Architecture and Environmental Engineering (ICCAE 2016) that was held on 4-6 November 2016 in Taipei, Taiwan. The meeting was organized by China University of Technology and Taiwan Society of Construction...
by H. van Dop, P. Fabian, H. Güsten
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science. Interest in this subject, however, is growing very rapidly and, although no agreement has been reached as yet about the exact content and limits of this interdisciplinary discipline, there appears to be increasing interest in seeing environmental...
Environmental Political Thought
Interests, Values and Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
This textbook offers a comprehensive overview of the most prominent theories, concepts and debates in environmental political thinking. In doing so, Robert Garner – an esteemed scholar in the field – offers a foundation from which readers can better tackle perennially thorny questions such as...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Due to natural factors and human activity, nature has been changing since the beginning of time. As the environment continuously undergoes such transitions, it is necessary for society to understand the complex interdependency between nature and humanity to promote global sustainability. Promoting...
Environmental Health and Hazard Risk Assessment
Principles and Calculations
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Environmental Health and Hazard Risk Assessment: Principles and Calculations explains how to evaluate and apply environmental health and hazard risk assessment calculations in a variety of real-life settings. Using a wealth of examples and case studies, the book helps readers develop both a theoretical...
by C. Gries, F. Lipfert, M. Lippmann
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science. Interest in this subject, however, is growing very rapidly and, although no agreement has been reached as yet about the exact content and limits of this interdisciplinary subject, there appears to be increasing interest in seeing environmental...
by Taesam Lee, Vijay P. Singh
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Global climate change is typically understood and modeled using global climate models (GCMs), but the outputs of these models in terms of hydrological variables are only available on coarse or large spatial and time scales, while finer spatial and temporal resolutions are needed to reliably assess...
Wastelanding
Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Wastelanding tells the history of the uranium industry on Navajo land in the U.S. Southwest, asking why certain landscapes and the peoples who inhabit them come to be targeted for disproportionate exposure to environmental harm. Uranium mines and mills on the Navajo Nation land have long supplied U.S....