Environmental management

This revised second edition highlights the opportunities for achieving cost savings and environmental improvements to enhance competitiveness in organizations of all sizes, with specific guidance for small businesses.

This full color book is a comprehensive visual reference for the interpretation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images with examples of how technological specifications may affect interpretation solutions.

Any discussion of the various facets of petroleum policy in the United States rests to a greater or less extent on the issue of sensitivity of petroleum exploration, and hence of new petroleum discoveries to economic incentives.

This book elaborates on different aspects of the decision making process concerning the management of climate risk in museums and historic houses.

An examination of how international law fails to challenge fundamental assumptions and address practical issues of hunger and climate change.

This volume, originally published in 1975, grew out of Resources for the Future's involvement as a consultant to the Marine Ecosystem Analysis programme management within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency.

This book discusses solid waste management issues from global to local level.

Aquaculture is increasingly complementing global fisheries and is relevant to ocean and freshwater health, biodiversity and food security, as well as coastal management, tourism and natural heritage.

This book is ground breaking in its study of business actors in climate and energy politics.

This book examines Indigenous responses to mining and their connection to peacebuilding, focusing on the experience of the Nasa Indigenous people of North Cauca during the most recent Colombian post-agreement transition.

In the context of the world's pressing sustainability challenges this new Report to the Club of Rome presents a novel approach to navigating collaborative change in partnerships between governments, research institutions, corporations and civil society activists.

Managing the urban water cycle needs to be underpinned by key sustainability principles of water consumption, water recycling, waste minimisation and environmental protection.

Despite their importance in terms of employment and income generation, inshore fisheries have been a neglected area of study.

This monograph offers analyses of construction activities using various key concepts and assessments of sustainable development, and provides students and researchers with methodologies and design aspects for the sustainable development of the built environment.

More than half the world's population now lives in cities.

Sustainability and food production represent a major challenge to society, with both consumption and supply sides posing practical and ethical dilemmas.

Community forestry is an expanding model of forest management around the world.

Paradigm Shift in E-waste Management: Vision for the Future addresses the challenges in the management of electronic wastes in various forms.

Minerals, Metals and Sustainability examines the exploitation of minerals and mineral products and the implications for sustainability of the consumption of finite mineral resources and the wastes associated with their production and use.

This third, thoroughly updated edition of a well received book, presents the most complete collection of theories, paradigms and methods utilized by the landscape sciences.

This book examines the relationship between natural resource management, sustainable development, and governance with case studies from India and other places covering disaster risk reduction, conflict resolution, capacity building, climate change adaptation and resilience, citizen engagement and ecological conservation.

A richly illustrated account of the story of ancient vinicultureThe history of civilization is, in many ways, the history of wine.

This volume includes a collection of research and practical papers from an international research and technology activities on recent developments in pavement design, modeling and performance, and effects on infrastructure, green energy, technology and integration.

This book exposes practitioners and students to the theory and application of river and lake ice processes to gain a better understanding of these processes for modelling and forecasting.

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This third edition of Sheldon and Yoxon's authoritative Environmental Management Systems (previously entitled Installing Environmental Management Systems) has been extensively revised to cover changes in international standards and other related developments in the field such as British Standard BS 8555.

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This book presents a comprehensive, up-to-date review of technologies for cleaning up contaminants in groundwater and soil.

A shift from government oversight to private sector self-regulation appears to be the future of environmental management.

Being the public voice of over 180 member organisations across nearly 90 countries, La Via Campesina, the global peasant movement, has planted itself firmly on the international scene.

Community forestry focuses on the link between forest resources and livelihoods and contributes to forest conservation and reforestation.

This book, first published in 1986, is a major reference work for the political discussions arising out of the 1985 Congress revisions of US food and farm laws.

Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) is increasingly recognised as a distinguished tool of environmental management.

Originally published in 1982, this book presents a detailed review of alluvial river form and process and integrates the distinct but related approaches of geomorphologists, geologists and engineers to the subject.

Global environmental issues such as climate change and species loss are intensifying despite our best efforts to combat them.

Examines the inevitable social and political consequences that will arise from the move to a more sustainable world.

Klimaneutralität bis 2045 lässt sich nur mit Hilfe von grünem Wasserstoff erreichen.

This book provides a critical assessment of conservation in the Anthropocene grounded in the personal, historical, and cultural development of human interaction with nature.

Bringing together a multidisciplinary set of scholars and diverse case studies from across the globe, this book explores the management, governance, and understandings around water, a key element in the assemblage of hydrosocial territories.

This book analyses water allocation law and policy in New Zealand and offers a comparative analysis with Australia.

Despite the strong economic growth of the last decades, our modern global society is facing the existential threat of climate change.

Featuring a stellar international cast list of leading and cutting-edge scholars, The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment presents the state of the art of the discipline that considers ecological issues and crises from a political economy perspective.

Most publications on heavy metals and the environment have focused on environmental pathways and risks.

It is widely understood that good, affordable eco-housing needs to be at the heart of any attempt to mitigate or adapt to climate change.

This book discusses emerging contexts of global warming and climate change, agricultural vulnerability and adaptation from local to global scale.

Chromium: Its Physicochemical Behavior and Petrologic Significance is a collection of papers presented at an interdisciplinary conference on the physicochemical behavior and petrologic significance of chromium, held at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington on January 7-8, 1974.

This book provides a comprehensive approach to all aspects of water-related subjects affected by climate change that expand readers' attitudes toward future of the management strategies and improve management plans.

In recent years, both Chinese overseas investment and hydropower development have been topics of increasing interest and research, with Chinese actors acting as financiers, developers, builders and sub-contractors.