Environmental management

Bioremediation is the use of biological interventions for mitigation of the noxious effects caused by pollutants in the environment including wastewater.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of current renewable energy technologies and their basic principles.

Originally published in 1981.

This book provides extensive and comprehensive knowledge to the researchers/academics who are working in the field of cesium contaminated sites, and the impact on plants.

Majority State Ownership of Oil and Mining Sectors in Africa: The Resource Curse Undermined shows that countries in sub-Saharan Africa with majority state ownership of their major oil or mineral export sectors suffered from more severe versions of the natural resource curse than other similar countries.

This book explores the theoretical contribution of peace ecology to the understanding and practice of environmental and conventional peacebuilding.

This book collates, reviews and synthesizes information on how soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks differ among major terrestrial biomes of the U.

According to many authorities the impact of humanity on the earth is already overshooting the earth's capacity to supply humanity's needs.

Energy is crucial to the functioning of any human society and central to understanding East Asia's 'economic miracle'.

The potential for energy transformation from geothermal heat is limitless.

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region is exceptionally biodiverse.

Christopher Ward provides a complete analysis of the water crisis in Yemen, including the institutional, environmental, technical and political economy components.

Camera trapping in wildlife management and research is a growing global phenomenon.

Does money blur perspectives for a better life?

This new edition of Air Pollution Control Equipment Selection Guide builds upon the successes of previous editions that developed a detailed discussion on various technologies used for air pollution control.

Wetlands are among the world's most valuable and most threatened habitats, and in these crucially important ecosystems, the invertebrate fauna holds a focal position.

Fully updated, this third edition explores the benefits and problems of modern energy technology and policy, suitable for a broad readership.

This book aims to identify, present and discuss key driving forces and pressures on ecosystem services.

This book extends the framework of the climate-energy-land nexus to elucidate political, economic, social, and institutional factors and causal mechanisms that stringent climate targets bring about, rather than mitigate a disproportional heavy burden on the forest sector in Indonesia.

A new 'Multi-Coloured Manual' This book is a successor to and replacement for the highly respected manual and handbook on the benefits of flood and coastal risk management, produced by the Flood Hazard Research Centre at Middlesex University, UK, with support from Defra and the Environment Agency.

An interdisciplinary book tackling the challenges of managing peatlands and their ecosystem services in the face of climate change.

This book addresses the growing need for a standard textbook on input-output analysis (IO) within the context of industrial ecology (IE).

This volume provides case studies conducted in Malaysia based on environmental management and the sustainable development of human and ecological systems.

The use of fracking is a tremendously important technology for the recovery of oil and gas, but the advantages and costs of fracking remain controversial.

Strategies for transboundary natural resource management; winner of Harvard Law School''s Raiffa Award for best research of the year in negotiation and conflict resolution.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the origins, occurrences, and remediation strategies for organic micropollutants in the environment.

Environmental Quality Management provides a quantitative analysis of regional residuals environmental quality management in the Lower Delaware Valley.

This book is a firsthand investigation into water management in a fast-growing region of the arid American West.

Food is a massive industry and the many key players involved have very different interests.

Water is becoming one of the world's most crucial concerns.

The Caribbean is a global biodiversity hotspot; half its resident bird species are found nowhere else, yet, a quarter are threatened with extinction.

Social participation in water management and governance recently became a reality in many economies and societies.

This book analyzes the status quo concerning waste generation and management systems in Thailand and other developing countries with similar problems.

This book presents and discusses a strategy which includes four approaches to dealing with the risk of sea-level rise and other water hazards.

Biodegradation is the dominant pathway for the environmental transformation of most chemicals and information on a chemical's biodegradability is essential for proper risk assessment.

Only a few economists have vigorously dealt with mineral economics.

Genetic diversity is essential to the security of agriculture.

"e;This thoroughly referenced book reveals the importance of the development of forest resources to Canadian social and economic existence.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.

This book addresses one of the major solid waste streams resulting from modern society, construction and demolition debris (CDD).

For anyone concerned about the health, safety, affordability, diversity, and sustainability of their food - and the peace of our planet.

Ecosystem Response Modelling in the Murray-Darling Basin provides an overview of the status of science in support of water management in Australia's largest and most economically important river catchment, and brings together the leading ecologists working in the rivers and wetlands of the Basin.

With increased public attention focused on the environment and government legislation on competition, landscape managers are coming under increasing pressure to adopt a more disciplined analytical approach to their work.

In recent years, the adequacy of collected water quality data and the performance of existing monitoring networks have been seriously evaluated for two basic reasons.

Set out with a true aficionado and affable guide to sample a dizzying array of beverages made in America's heartland.

Filling a void in academic and policy-relevant literature on the topic of the green economy in the Arabian Gulf, this edited volume provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the key themes and challenges relating to the green economy in the region, including in the energy and water sectors and the urban environment, as well as with respect to cross-cutting issues, such as labour, intellectual property and South-South cooperation.

This book is for students and researchers across the social sciences who are planning, conducting and disseminating research on sustainability-related issues.

More than 200 major river basins are shared by two or more countries and, together, these basins account for about 60% of the earth's land area, constituting a significant portion of the world's fresh water resources.

There is a widespread assumption that the American food system after World War II was transformed-toward an increasingly industrialized production of crops, more processed foods, and diets higher in fat, sugar, and calories-as part of a unified system.

Before the energy crisis of the 1970s, electricity provision was a non-issue the world over, but the crisis of 1973 induced policymakers worldwide to consider private and restructured electricity provision as an alternative to unified, publicly and privately owned systems.