In 2001, the National Research Council (NRC) completed a congressionally mandated assessment of the benefits and costs of DOE's fossil energy and energy efficiency RD programs, Energy Research at DOE: Was It Worth It?
In the past several years, some energy technologies that inject or extract fluid from the Earth, such as oil and gas development and geothermal energy development, have been found or suspected to cause seismic events, drawing heightened public attention.
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.
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.
Best Available and Safest Technologies for Offshore Oil and Gas Operations: Options for Implementation explores a range of options for improving the implementation of the U.
Since the 1950s,the International Joint Commission (IJC) of Canada and the United States has issued water regulation and management plans for Lake Ontario and the St.
Since the 1950s,the International Joint Commission (IJC) of Canada and the United States has issued water regulation and management plans for Lake Ontario and the St.
In 2001, the National Research Council (NRC) completed a congressionally mandated assessment of the benefits and costs of DOE's fossil energy and energy efficiency RD programs, Energy Research at DOE: Was It Worth It?
En este libro se han incluido los temas clásicos relacionados con la contaminación domestica e industrial, pero adicionalmente se agregaron otros tópicos que incluyen trazas y contaminantes emergentes de mucha actualidad, pues su presencia en los ecosistemas naturales empieza a ser una preocupación para los especialistas y las autoridades ambientales.
This book presents the innovative concept of the dual function of wave farms as both renewable energy generators and coastal protection elements against erosion and flooding.
In our society, we must make decisions about the production and use of energy and the consequences of that production and use, whether we are buying a car, voting for ballot measures or building a house.
This book constitutes the referred proceeding of the 1st International Conference on Engineering Solutions Toward Sustainable development (ESSD2023), organized by the Faculty of Engineering, Port Said University and held in Port Said, Egypt, during May 2-3, 2023.
Relying upon extensive global and multidisciplinary research, this book analyzes the perils of market-driven scenarios and peeps into the possibilities responsible for the failure of traditional approaches.
This book presents a novel way to enable people, regardless of their scale of influence, to take responsibility for global environmental problems including climate change.
This book provides viewpoints on a cross-sectoral, multiscale assessment of food and livelihood security in changing climate, the main global threats of the 21st century.
Global climate change calls for rapid and decisive measures, particularly from the world’s metropolises—the future of our climate will be decided in cities!
In addition to senior scientists, who have summarised their main results in the five volumes of the Future Megacities Book Series, ambitious young researchers have also contributed substantially to the German research programme on sustainable development of future megacities.
The projects in the Future Megacities programme gain valuable experiences in developing energy efficient standards and urban structures with adequate conditions to treat resources with care and avoid unnecessary emissions.
Global climate change calls for rapid and decisive measures, particularly from the world's metropolises-the future of our climate will be decided in cities!
Este libro fue escrito en el marco de las preocupaciones actuales por el diseño de herramientas teóricas, conceptuales y metodológicas para la comprensión y gestión de cuencas hidrográficas desde una perspectiva integral que articule las dinámicas hidro-biofísicas y sociales a escala de paisaje desde un enfoque ecosistémico.
Este libro refleja el proceso de diseño y aplicación de un programa de Educación ambiental que emplea el arte mural como herramienta pedagógica y sensibilizadora para promover una conducta sostenible de la sociedad esmeraldeña; impulsando el buen uso del agua y la conservación de los ecosistemas marino-costeros.
Ethical and Responsible Tourism explains the methods and practices used to manage the environmental impact of tourism on local communities and destinations.
Ethical and Responsible Tourism explains the methods and practices used to manage the environmental impact of tourism on local communities and destinations.
This contributed volume presents relevant examples of socio-environmental research that highlight the challenges and opportunities of using geotechnologies in interdisciplinary settings across the vast, culturally, and environmentally mega-diverse region known as Latin America.
This book presents possible solutions for a circuler economy (CE) in the water and wastewater sector through an inventory of multidisciplinary knowledge with high scientific and practical importance which can contribute to support the transition to the CE model in water and wastewater sector.
This book is a compilation of diverse, yet homogenic, research papers that discuss current advances in Earth Observation and Geospatial Information Technologies to tackle new horizons concerning the digitization and information management in smart cities' infrastructures.
En este libro se abordan de forma integral tres pilares de la gestión de la calidad del aire: los inventarios de emisión, el monitoreo de contaminantes del aire y la modelización numérica de contaminantes, a partir de su aplicación en una ciudad intermedia andina de Colombia, Manizales, capital del departamento de Caldas.
The aim of this book is to open a vision to sustainability and development through a holistic perspective comprising the critical blocks of energy, environment and economy.
This book analyses the underlying communication strategies and approaches of grassroots water management practices in India through a case study-based ethnographic approach.
This book analyses the underlying communication strategies and approaches of grassroots water management practices in India through a case study-based ethnographic approach.
This book systematically investigates the strategy and practice of comprehensive land consolidation in China by assessing the objective of the program and its implementation.
This book systematically investigates the strategy and practice of comprehensive land consolidation in China by assessing the objective of the program and its implementation.
Climate change not only involves rising temperatures but it can also alter the hydro-meteorological parameters of a region and the corresponding changes emerging in the various biotic or abiotic environmental features.
Climate change not only involves rising temperatures but it can also alter the hydro-meteorological parameters of a region and the corresponding changes emerging in the various biotic or abiotic environmental features.
