Environmental management

Developments in Economic Geology, 11: Geology of Tin Deposits focuses on the principles, methodologies, and approaches involved in the study of the geology of tin deposits.

Water is the key to human civilization.

The global drug trade and its associated violence, corruption, and human suffering create global problems that include political and military conflicts, ethnic minority human rights violations, and stresses on economic development.

This book provides insight into the hydrology, ecosystem services and management of water resources in the Parana River basin, including the importance of water to the socio-economic development of the countries within the watershed.

The business of business is business.

The book presents a review of research and pilot-scale efforts undertaken by scientists all over the world towards utilization of solar energy for environmental remediation.

Offers solutions and best practices to respond to recurrent problems and contemporary challenges in the field Since the publication of the first edition of Environmental Impact Assessment in 2003, both the practice and theory of impact assessment have changed substantially.

The emphasis now placed on the concept of sediment cells as boundaries for coastal defence groups, and the development of SMPs, should help CPAs realise the importance of natural processes at the coast when designing defence and protection schemes.

This landmark work lauds the benefits of decreased energy consumption, investigating its relationship to public policy and analyzing its potential billion-dollar benefits to the U.

This book provides a reference to analysis techniques of common cooling water system problems and a historical perspective on solutions to chronic cooling water system problems, such as corrosion and biofouling.

The advent of the 21st century marks the unfolding of a new urbanism, of a new urban fabric in the making.

The collaborative orco-management of natural resources - whether between states and local communities or amongst and within communities themselves - is a process of collective understanding and actions to bring about negotiated agreements on roles, rights and responsibilities for decentralized governance of natural resources.

Coal occupies a large share in the global energy basket.

The global drug trade and its associated violence, corruption, and human suffering create global problems that include political and military conflicts, ethnic minority human rights violations, and stresses on economic development.

In pursuit of feasible near-future sustainable and environmentally acceptable - ergy solutions to speci?

Provides a comprehensive synthesis of a fundamental phenomenon, the species–area relationship, addressing theory, evidence and application.

Researchers and agencies collect reams of objective data and authors publish volumes of subjective prose in attempts to explain what is meant by environmental quality.

Illustration of copula theory with detailed real-world case study examples in the fields of hydrology and water resources engineering.

Not since the 19th century has the future of the countryside been such a focus of political and public attention, nor of profound uncertainty and anguished debate.

Ecotourism and natural resource extraction may be seen as contradictory pursuits, yet in reality they often take place side by side, sometimes even supported by the same institutions.

This book, first published in 1966, reports the results of a pilot study devoted to understanding the middle-term resource situation for one metal - manganese.

Conflicts between Hispanic farmers and developers made for compelling reading in The Milagro Beanfield War, the famous novel of life in a northern New Mexico village in which tradition triumphs over modernity.

Estimating abundance of wildlife is an essential component of a wildlife research program, and a prerequisite for sound management.

This sourcebook is for all who work with others on participatory learning and change.

This book focuses on global efforts to protect plant diversity and the role that botanic gardens play in conserving plant species.

Featuring chapters from an international range of leading and emerging scholars, this Handbook provides a collection of cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research that sheds new light on contemporary futures studies.

Soil degradation is a widespread problem in Africa resulting in decreased agricultural productivity while demand for food continues to increase.

With more than half of the world's population now living in urban areas, it is vitally important that towns and cities are healthy places to live.

'An important and timely book' from the Foreword by Stanley Johnson 'A complete and absorbing history of a decade of intense international politics offers many insights for future negotiators of sustainable solutions' Stephen Bass, International Institute for Environment and Development 'Skillfully navigates the jungle of forest politics, leaving us in no doubt that the verbal commitment to save the world's forests has yet to be translated into action on the ground.

Renewable energy is becoming crucially important, as concern over burning fossil fuels is increasing and the price of oil continues to rise.

This book provides a first-ever synthesis of sustainability and sustainable development experiences in the Arctic.

The circular economy is a policy approach and business strategy that aims to improve resource productivity, promote sustainable consumption and production and reduce environmental impacts.

Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions.

Planning, operating, and policy making in the electric utility and natural gas sectors involves important trade-offs among economic, social, and environmental criteria.

This book provides the first in-depth investigation of how non-timber forest products are an integral part of local, national, and global bioeconomies.

This book explores the challenges our society faces in making the transition to renewable resource use in a way that is truly sustainable - environmentally, economically and socially.

Since 1909, the waters along the Canada-US border have been governed in accordance with the Boundary Water Treaty, but much has changed in the last 100 years.

This book reviews and evaluates the scientific basis of U.

This book explores the critical role of urban food production in strengthening communities and in building ecosocialism.

This book explores the relationship between oil pollution laws and environmental justice by comparing and contrasting the United States and Nigeria.

This book presents a comprehensive exploration of the emerging concept and framework of telecoupling and how it can help create a better understanding of land-use change in a globalised world.

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This book shows how the Fukushima plaintiffs have challenged narratives of safety and risk containment produced by TEPCO and the Japanese government through offering new empirical data on risk perceptions and life choices of some nuclear evacuees.

To assess urban sustainability performance, this book explores several clusters of cities, including megacities, cities of the Global South, European and North American cities, cities of the Middle East and North Africa, cities of Central and South East Asia, a city state of Singapore and a large group of global cities.

Around the world, a growing number of businesses are taking steps to reduce their climate impact by managing their greenhouse gas emissions.

Environmental issues are of fundamental importance, and a broad approach to understanding the relationship between the human economy and the natural world is essential.

In one volume, this book brings together a diversity of approaches, theory and frameworks that can be used to analyse the governance of renewable natural resources.

This is the first comprehensive international atlas featuring all ecological services provided by Ramsar wetlands, with complete views of all Ramsar sites, through remote sensing and mapping.

In recent years, there has been a rapid expansion of the growing of crops for use in bioenergy production rather than for food.

This book identifies four key forms of air pollution: indoor, urban, regional and global.