Environmental management

This volume aims to raise awareness and stimulate research on how agricultural management could help to mitigate climate change impacts, and focuses on technical progressions and innovations in climate change mitigation and adaptation.

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It is increasingly apparent that human activities are not suitable for sustaining a healthy global environment.

This book provides an ecosystem perspective in addressing the water resource management issues in the South Asian region.

A handbook of sustainable energy, covering entire energy aspects from present status to future alternatives under one umbrella This book takes an interdisciplinary system approach to evaluating energy systems so that readers can gain the necessary technical foundation to perform their own performance evaluations and understand their interactions with socioeconomic indicators.

This book is directly aligned to the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management, which is a qualification aimed primarily at those in business who influence the environmental performance of their organisation by the decisions that they make as managers or the actions that they take as operators.

This book is a part of ICL new book series "e;ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction"e; founded in 2019.

An examination of the challenges of water management in Australian cities drawing on environmental, urban and economy history.

This book provides an analysis of the impact of the climate crisis on corporate law and theory in the coming decades as the world seeks to meet the target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Forests are under tremendous pressure from human uses of all kinds, and one of the most significant threats to their sustainability comes from commercial interests.

Environmental biotechnology is an emerging field of scientific and technological investigations that is truly global.

This book reviews the important role of biotechnological innovations in achieving sustainable development goals and conserving global biodiversity.

This book examines the political economy that governs the management of international transboundary river basins in the developing world.

Poole Harbour is protected and recognised, nationally and internationally, for its ecological importance.

This book includes invited contributions presenting the latest research on the oceanography and environment of the Red Sea.

This book stems from a four-year experience of a Training Programme addressing members of several Chinese governmental Institutions which, given the moment of extremely intense and fast development of their country, consider the issues of environment and sustainable growth among the foremost priorities.

This book examines the global scope of tourism-related grabbing of land and other natural resources.

This book covers important topics on various neglected and underutilised crops (vegetables, cereals, fruit crops).

Environmental Nexus Approach: Management of Water, Waste, and Soil establishes linkages between environmental resources, such as water, waste, and soil, in order to facilitate sustainable management of these resources.

Effective urban drainage to manage stormwater and control flooding depends on good engineering, especially when an environmentally sustainable approach is being applied.

Scientific output in low- and middle-income countries is greatly challenged by numerous factors.

In 1969, the federal and New Brunswick governments created Kouchibouguac National Park on the province’s east coast.

The book presents a critical and comparative analysis of the hydropolitical landscape of African transboundary river basins which, for much of the past century, have been affected by water scarcity.

This book explores developments in the countries of the South Caucasus - Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia - since the EU included the region in the European Neighbourhood Policy in 2003.

This book discusses the role of salt in current agricultural approaches, including the low salt tolerance of agricultural crops and trees, impact of saline soils, and salt-resistant plants.

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The annual conferences on energy, which were begun in 1977, continued to 1992 and resumed again in 1994.

Environmental sustainability is increasingly important to organisations, whether for regulatory, financial or ethical reasons.

Macro-engineering involves the large-scale modification and manipulation of natural systems for the benefit of mankind.

This volume describes the thinking on sustainable development and a variety of initiatives across Europe, illustrating regional efforts to foster sustainable communities and ecological and social innovation.

This volume is the result of years of commitment with world-wide sanitation challenges from various research networks linking the editors and authors of this volume to many other sanitation scholars and professionals.

The distribution and re-distribution of people across the landscape has signi cant implications for ecological, economic and social dynamics.

This book is the first comprehensive review of the subsurface monitoring theory and practice.

In this unique edited collection, social scientists reflect upon and openly share insights gathered from researching people and the sea.

The Nile is arguably the most famous river in the world.

Originally published in 1984.

The nonindustrial private forests are a large and valuable national resource and the best possible understanding of their characteristics, capabilities, and potentials is useful for the formation of national policy on natural resources.

The large-scale extraction of natural resources for sale in capitalist markets is not a new phenomenon, but in recent years global demand for resources has increased, leading to greater attention to the role of resource extraction in the development of the exporting countries.

This is a book that tackles the most important issue of our age in a highly informative, accessible and engaging way.

This book contains up-to-date information and findings in research on the evaluation, treatment, reusability, and development of wastewater in India.

Amid the growing calls for a turn towards sustainable agriculture, this book puts forth and discusses the concept of agrarian extractivism to help us identify and expose the predatory extractivist features of dominant agricultural development models.

Originally published in 1976, this study was undertaken to fill a gap in knowledge about non-fuel resources and the advantages and disadvantages of specific methodologies of analysing material modelling.

Many people today feel that something has gone wrong with British society and British politics.

Even though the United States relies heavily on imports for many non-fuel minerals, mineral supply has played only a small role in foreign policy since World War II.

Information-based decision-making during drought, often brings out some of the excellent practices that are prevalent in society / individuals.

Bioregionalism asks us to reimagine ourselves and the places where we live in ecological terms and to harmonize human activities with the natural systems that sustain life.

Biology and Ecology of Earthworms is established as a key valuable text for students of agriculture, soil science, and soil invertebrate zoology and ecology.