Environmental Science category: 9368 books
Betrayal of Science and Reason
How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In this hard-hitting and timely book, world-renowned scientists and writers Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich speak out against what they call the "brownlash." Brownlash rhetoric, created by public relations spokespersons and a few dissidscientists, is a deliberate misstatemof scientific findings...
by Jill Lindsey Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2011
An examination of political conflicts over pesticide drift and the differing conceptions of justice held by industry, regulators, and activists.
The widespread but virtually invisible problem of pesticide drift—the airborne movement of agricultural pesticides into residential areas—has...
Conceptualizing Environmental Justice
Plural Frames and Global Claims in Land Between the Rivers, Kentucky
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Conceptualizing Environmental Justice evolved from an ethnographic study of an environmental justice movement in a rural community called Land Between the Rivers in Kentucky. The environmental movement emerged as a result of collective displacement for the construction of two dams and an environmental...
by W.H. Bassett, Tim Deveaux
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Environmental health law is a wide-ranging, detailed and complex body of law within the UK. Environmental Health Procedures is an established and essential reference source which provides an accessible entry into enforcement and administrative procedures for environmental health. The main legal procedures...
by Maureen Y. Lichtveld, Barry L. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
As with the first edition, this second edition describes how environmental health policies are developed, the statutes and other policies that have evolved to address public health concerns associated with specific environmental hazards, and the public health foundations of the policies. It lays out...
Environmental Perspectives
A Brief Overview of Selected Topics
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
This short, readable book is intended as a big-picture introduction/overview for environmental students and lay-people involved with environmental issues. Every freshman in college intending to study environmental science should read it. It begins with a historical perspective on waste and environmental...
Neighborhood as Refuge
Community Reconstruction, Place Remaking, and Environmental Justice in the City
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
An examination of environmental revitalization efforts in low-income communities in Boston, Barcelona, and Havana that help heal traumatized urban neighborhoods.
Environmental justice as studied in a variety of disciplines is most often associated with redressing disproportionate exposure to...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
This report connects the missions and functions of our nation's nuclear weapons facilities with the inventories of waste and materials remaining at the plants, and the extent and characteristics of contamination in and around the sites. It aims to provide Congress, DOE program managers, nongovernmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Designed for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and environmental professionals, this book builds upon the tremendous success of the previous editions with a comprehensive and up-to-date discussion of environmental microbiology as a discipline that has greatly expanded in scope and...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Assessing and Measuring Environmental Impact and Sustainability answers the question “what are the available methodologies to assess the environmental sustainability of a product, system or process? Multiple well-known authors share their expertise in order to give a broad perspective of this...
by Frank R. Spellman
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This new edition of The Science of Environmental Pollution presents common-sense approaches and practical examples based on scientific principles, models, and observations, but keeps the text lively and understandable for scientists and non-scientists alike. It addresses the important questions regarding...
Best Practices for Environmental Health
Environmental Pollution, Protection, Quality and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
In a present where there are countless opportunities for the spread of exotic diseases, the expansion and creation of far more illness in our global population through globalization and rapid transportation, and the contamination of water, air and land, we find ourselves accountable. In this day and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
This seminal book results from a NATO Advanced Research Workshop at the University of Cambridge with Russian co-directorship, enabling the first formal dialogue between NATO and Russia about security issues in the Arctic Ocean. Involving interdisciplinary participation with experts from 17 nations,...
Environmental Protection
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Although climate change and pollution make near-daily appearances in the news, humans have not always recognized that the environment needs to be protected. Only after the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962 did environmental protection became a political and social priority. In Environmental...