Environmental management

A world expert on how trees chemically affect our environment, Diana Beresford-Kroeger has woven together ecology, ancient myth, horticulture, spirituality, science and alternative medicine in The Global Forest to capture their enormous significance to us - and our future.

Ein Adventskalender mit Magie statt Schokolade .

Advances in Carbon Management Technologiescomprises 43 chapters contributed by experts from all over the world.

La integración de sistemas de gestión facilita el uso eficiente de los recursos, evita la duplicidad de funciones y optimiza el trabajo, reduciendo los costes e incrementando los beneficios.

This book presents a collection of practitioner and community stories that reveal how invasive species management is a community issue that can spark community formation and collective action.

Die Widersprüche zwischen Ökonomie und Ökologie bringen unseren Planeten an den Rand einer Katastrophe, wenn wir es nicht lernen, Energie in einer Form zur Verfügung zu stellen, die schrittweise den Überschuss von Schadstoffen zu reduzieren hilft.

Una visión crítica, mordaz, contra corriente, de qué hay detrás de tantos productos supuestamente "naturales" y "ecológicos".

Las temáticas relacionadas con el agua y el ambiente están integradas y en cada reunión que congrega a expertos y académicos se obtienen nuevas formas de análisis y propuestas variadas para el planteamiento de posibles soluciones en la gestión del recurso hídrico.

El enfoque de la gestion comunitaria del agua en el Ecuador es un tema de vital importancia.

A contracorriente: agua y conflicto en América Latina, es el resultado de un diálogo abierto entre académicos y activistas interesados en pensar y resistir la violencia e injusticia inherente en los conflictos de agua en América Latina.

El agua fluyey a su paso siembra vida.

La conservación, acceso, distribución, uso y disposición final del agua son preocupaciones constantes, especialmente en zonas rurales donde las comunidades indígenas y campesinas han implementado formas propias de gestión y manejo.

Esta obra, de una manera extraordinaria e inspiradora, nos revela las intimas conexiones entre el agua, los megaproyectos y las relaciones de poder en la costa ecuatoriana.

The proceedings of a Cost Effective Biological Surveys and Data Analysis workshop held at the old Quarantine Station, North Head, Sydney, in March 1988, under the auspices of the Council of Nature Conservation Ministers (CONCOM) and the Australian Environment Council (AEC).

Here is the story of the long interaction between humans, land, and climate in the American South.

This book analyzes long-term demographic, economic, and resource-use trends in seventeen Caribbean basin countries.

The twelve contributors to this volume, from ten different nations, are world-renowned sociologists who examine problems of ecology and world resources as they affect the quality of social life.

Williams examines the efforts of public agencies to better incorporate citizen participation in the administrative process.

Energy and mineral resources are essential for the nation's fundamental functions, its economy, and security.

For integrated water resources management both blue and green water resources in a river basin and their spatial and temporal distribution have to be considered.

For integrated water resources management both blue and green water resources in a river basin and their spatial and temporal distribution have to be considered.

This book deals with the interaction of various social groups, and the extent to which they may or may not conflict.

Originally published in 1990, this volume addresses issues surrounding global ecological changes and sustainability of present patterns of urbanisation and industrialisation.

This book poses the question of whether identifiable individual-level attributes (e.

As debates about the effects of fossil fuels on our climate and foreign policy intensify, the question of just how much longer we can depend on this finite source of energy becomes more and more pressing.

This book outlines the development and perspectives of the Anthropocene concept by Paul J.

This book focuses on how to create an environmentally friendly society in China from the viewpoint of environmental law and policy.

This interdisciplinary book brings philosophers and non-philosophers to the table to address questions of water ethics, specifically in terms of how moral questions inform decision making around water security at local, national, and international scales.

Water, Energy and Food are the very basic necessities of human life and all the three of them are interconnected with each other, this connection being called the Water-Energy-Food nexus.

For fifty years, Australia has schemed to deny East Timor billions of dollars of oil and gas wealth.

This book presents the state-of-the-art in plant ecophysiology.

This book presents a collection of studies on current best practices for delivering sustainable development policies within supply chains.

Ecological Exile explores how contemporary literature, film, and media culture confront ecological crises through perspectives of spatial justice - a facet of social justice that looks at unjust circumstances as a phenomenon of space.

This book examines the environmental footprints of recycled polyesters, highlighting the benefits and impact of recycling polyester waste and preparing it to replace virgin polyester in the raw material stage.

With such a wide range of social and economic uses, energy has become essential to global infrastructure and operations, regardless of economic or environmental cost.

With such a wide range of social and economic uses, energy has become essential to global infrastructure and operations, regardless of economic or environmental cost.

In May 2007, the National Academies Chemical Sciences Roundtable held a public workshop on the topic of Bioinspired Chemistry for Energy, where government, academic, and industry representatives discussed promising research developments in solar-generated fuels, hydrogen-processing enzymes, artificial photosynthetic systems, and biological-based fuel cells.

This book, the result of a congressionally mandated study, examines the adequacy of the regulatory framework for mining of hardrock mineralssuch as gold, silver, copper, and uraniumon over 350 million acres of federal lands in the western United States.

Natural gas in deep shale formations, which can be developed by hydraulic fracturing and associated technologies (often collectively referred to as "e;fracking"e;) is dramatically increasing production of natural gas in the United States, where significant gas deposits exist in formations that underlie many states.

In some coalbeds, naturally occurring water pressure holds methanethe main component of natural gasfixed to coal surfaces and within the coal.

The United States and China are the world's top two energy consumers and, as of 2010, the two largest economies.

The Chemical Sciences Roundtable (CSR) was established in 1997 by the National Research Council (NRC).

The Office of Fuels Development (OFD), a component of the U.

There is a growing sense of national urgency about the role of energy in long-term U.

The book "e;Building Climate Resilient Communities along Africa's Coasts: The Role of Mangroves"e; highlights the crucial role mangrove ecosystems play in enhancing climate resilience for coastal communities in Africa, which face rising sea levels, intensified storms, and habitat loss.

Despite the many benefits of energy, most of which are reflected in energy market prices, the production, distribution, and use of energy causes negative effects.