Environmental management

This book offers the first critical, multi-disciplinary study of how the concepts of resilience and the Anthropocene have combined to shape contemporary thought and governmental practice.

This book describes the source parameters, faulting mechanism, slip distribution, rupture pattern, and aftershock behaviour of the Nepal Earthquake of 2015.

This book explores the benefits of using risk analysis techniques in the evaluation of flood protection structures, and examines the results of the environmental impact assessment for selected planned flood protection projects.

Cold Water Oil: Offshore Petroleum Cultures is a collection of essays examining how societies conceive of fossil fuel extraction in the inhospitable but fragile waters of the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans.

Transparency in the regulation of water utilities is essential in order to ensure quality and fairness.

Environmental Policy and NEPA is a concise study of environmental policy-where we have come from, what we are facing and where we can go in the future.

Hedges and field margins are important wildlife habitats and deliver a range of ecosystem services, and their value is increasingly recognised by ecologists.

A "e;zero waste"e; society and the "e;circular economy"e; trend are urgently needed.

Amidst the pressing challenges of global climate change, the last decade has seen a wave of forest carbon projects across the world, designed to conserve and enhance forest carbon stocks in order to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and offset emissions elsewhere.

The ever-increasing number of pollutants released into the environment drives the search for new treatment technologies or the modification of existing ones.

This book addresses the emergent need to act on reducing or getting rid of micro plastic pollution, to achieve a sustainable environment.

This book attempts to provide insights into the achievement of a sustainable urban form, through spatial planning and implementation; here, we focus on planning experiences at the levels of local cities and some metropolitan areas in Asian countries.

Fifteen climate experts combine forces to present a plan for slowing and ultimately preventing further destruction to our planet.

This book includes the insights of a seminar that was held at IUAV University of Venice, on May 29th and 30th featuring 10 speakers.

The use of water for industrial purposes is of foremost importance.

As the human population increases and nations become more industrialized, the habitat and water quality required for the survival of fish continues to decline.

The globalization of trade, monetary and fiscal policies, capital markets, and investment patterns is reshaping the world economy and is leading to new financial, commercial, and marketing structures as well as unprecedented economies of scale.

Effective coastal engineering is expensive, but it is not as costly as neglect or ineffective intervention.

Originally published in 1986.

Originally published in 1980.

Member states of the European Union often label themselves as the world's top Green Leaders.

AC/DC tells the little-known story of how Thomas Edison wrongly bet in the fierce war between supporters of alternating current and direct current.

The Nile River and its basin extend over a distinctive geophysical cord connecting eleven sovereign states from Egypt to Tanzania, which are home to an estimated population of 422.

At 37 trillion individuals per year, wild-caught shrimp and prawns appear to be the single most numerous group of animals directly killed for human food consumption on the planet.

It has been increasingly recognized that trees and vegetation in urban areas provide a number of ecological services beyond beautifying cities.

Although much is known about the processes and effects of land degradation and climate change, little is understood about the links between them.

Climate change is one of the most severe dangers for mankind worldwide.

This book looks at food security from a socio-economic perspective.

Across the inland West, forests that once seemed like paradise have turned into an ecological nightmare.

The ocean is a major source of income for many coastal nations, particularly in the developing world.

This book addresses the diverse ways in which international law governs the uses, management, and protection of fresh water.

This book addresses two major issues in natural resource management and political ecology: the complex conflicting relationship between communities managing water on the ground and national/global policy-making institutions and elites; and how grassroots defend against encroachment, question the self-evidence of State-/market-based water governance, and confront coercive and participatory boundary policing ('normal' vs.

Water has always been a crucial catalyst for human development.

An innovative study of how the quantity, function and ecology of water changes from watershed to river.

This book addresses the transdisciplinary subject of urban green space governance in Chinese cities through political sciences, organization theory, sociology, and new institutional economics lenses, with urban planning and ecology perspectives as research foundation and the science of climate change on health and wellbeing research background.

It is zero hour for a new US water policy!

The world's oceans cover about 70% of our planet.

This book provides the latest research on zero carbon industry and its practical implications for eco-innovation and environmental sustainability for businesses in current scenario.

It is beyond doubt that the interconnectedness between food, energy, water security and environmental sustainability exists and is getting amplified with increased globalization.

As forests decline in temperate and tropical climates, highly-developed countries and those striving for greater economic and social benefits are beginning to utilize marginal forests of high-latitude and mountainous regions for resources to satisfy human needs.

Through its exploration of the spatial dimension of risk, this book offers a brand new approach to theorizing risk, and significant improvements in how to manage, tolerate and take risks.

Biodiversity loss in terrestrial environments associated with human activities has been appreciated as a major issue for some years now.

Contested Waters provides an in-depth analysis of trans-boundary water conflict involving the Indus Basin in Pakistan.

With advancement in modern technology human life span in 21st century has significantly improved as compared to past centuries.

Recycling is the need of the hour and it is an inevitable destination at the end of the life of any product.

This title was first published in 2001.

The past three decades have seen a global shift in disaster management from an event driven response to a 'could-be' risk management approach.

The Lautenberg Act is shown as an indicator of overall changes due to regulatory efforts abroad as well as in the United States.