Environmental Science category: 9368 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Life-cycle assessmentis a methodology used to evaluate the environmental impacts of a product, process, or service during its life cycle, and risk assessmentis a tool to evaluate potential hazards to human health and the environment introduced by pollutant emissions.
The United Nations Sustainable...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
This book provides the fundamental aspects of the diverse ranges of nanostructured materials (0D, 1D, 2D and 3D) for energy and environmental applications in a comprehensive manner written by specialists who are at the forefront of research in the field of energy and environmental science. Experimental...
by Mohammed Isam Mohammed Abdel-Magid, Isam Mohammed Abdel-Magid Ahmed
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Computer Modeling Applications for Environmental Engineers in its second edition incorporates changes and introduces new concepts using Visual Basic.NET, a programming language chosen for its ease of comprehensive usage. This book offers a complete understanding of the basic principles of environmental...
by Valérie David
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Data Treatment in Environmental Sciences presents the various methods used in the analysis of databases—obtained in the field or in a laboratory—by focusing on the most commonly used multivariate analyses in different disciplines of environmental sciences, from geochemistry to ecology. The book...
DDT Wars
Rescuing Our National Bird, Preventing Cancer, and Creating the Environmental Defense Fund
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
DDT Wars is the untold inside story of the decade-long scientific, legal and strategic campaign that culminated in the national ban of the insecticide DDT in 1972. The widespread misinformation, disinformation and mythology of the DDT issue are corrected in this book. DDT contamination had become...
by Dr. Rajan Mishara
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
In this book, the author discusses recent environmental issues related to sustainable developments, human population and environmental disasters caused by pollution. He reflects on how the natural resources have depleted due to human interference affect the human population. Major environmental disasters...
The Changing Arctic Environment
The Arctic Messenger
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
This accessible and engagingly written book describes how national and international scientific monitoring programmes brought to light our present understanding of Arctic environmental change, and how these research results were successfully used to achieve international legal actions to lessen some...
An Interactive History of the Clean Air Act
Scientific and Policy Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The Clean Air Act of 1970 set out for the United States a basic, yet ambitious, objective to reduce pollution to levels that protect health and welfare. The Act set out state and federal regulations to limit emissions and the Environmental Protection Agency was established to help enforce the regulations....
by Elizabeth Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Environmental law is the law concerned with environmental problems. It is a vast area of law that operates from the local to the global, involving a range of different legal and regulatory techniques. In theory, environmental protection is a no brainer. Few people would actively argue for pollution...
Reshaping Environments
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability in a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Reshaping Environments: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability in a Complex World draws together a team of specialist authors from disciplines including urban planning, social sciences, engineering and environmental science to examine the diverse influences humans have upon the natural environment....
Product-Oriented Environmental Management Systems (POEMS)
Improving Sustainability and Competitiveness in the Agri-Food Chain with Innovative Environmental Management Tools
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Representing the coordinated work of a research group from four different Italian University departments which conducted the Eco-Management for Food (EMAF) Project, this book offers a systematic approach for managing and improving the environmental aspects of agri-food processes and products using Product-Oriented Environmental Management Systems (POEMS).
by DR.SUSHMITA BASKAR, DR. R. BASKAR
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2010
This book Environmental Studies for Undergraduate Courses follows specifically and strictly designed model syllabus prescribed by the UGC for undergraduate courses of higher education. The textbook has been divided into eight units. The first unit covers definition, scope and importance of environmental...
A Living Past
Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives...
by Mr. Nathaniel O. Keohane, Dr. Sheila M. Olmstead
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
A clear grasp of economics is essential to understanding why environmental problems arise and how we can address them. So it is with good reason that Markets and the Environment has become a classic text in environmental studies since its first publication in 2007. Now thoroughly revised with updated...