Pollution and threats to the environment

Sustainability at Work is a compelling guide for everyone who wants to have both a successful career and a career that makes a positive difference in society.

In the past decades, environmental scientists, economists and physicists have been juggling critical issues within environmental strategies and environmental management styles in order to find a feasible medium between limited resources, long term demands and objectives, and interest groups.

Public understanding of, and outcry over, the dire state of the climate and environment is greater than ever before.

This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Health, Safety, Fire, Environment, and Allied Sciences (HSFEA 2018), highlighting the latest developments in the field of science and technology aimed at improving health and safety in the workplace.

The loss of biodiversity is a major environmental problem in nearly every terrestrial ecosystem on Earth.

The threat of climate displacement looms large over a growing number of countries.

This volume discusses hazardous environmental micropollutants, their impacts on human health, and possible means to mitigate their associated risks.

Legal frameworks to ''reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation'' (REDD+) are analysed to focus on protections and benefits for indigenous peoples and forest communities.

The recognition that climate change is now a climate emergency has been endorsed by a wide range of scientists and the United Nations.

The environmental impacts of acid rain: on human health, on buildings and materials, on forests, freshwaters, crops and biodiversity and on global warming have been well-documented.

Das modulare Umweltmanagement (MUM) ist vor allem für die mittelständische Industrie ein ideales Verfahren zum sukzessiven Aufbau eines betrieblichen Umweltmanagements.

In this title, originally published in 1984, Wilman develops and describes a methodology for imputing a monetary value to the loss in beach recreational services that would result from a hypothetical oil spill in the Georges Bank area off Massachusetts.

There are significant pressures from climate change and air pollution that forests currently face.

Since the publication of the first edition of ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCE, preventing and treating acute and chronic disease caused by exposure to chemical health hazards has become even more central to the practice of public health.

Climate change poses questions of intergenerational justice, but some of its features make it difficult to determine whether we have obligations of climate justice to future generations.

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Sustainable Energy Development: A Multi-Criteria Decision Making Approach discusses sustainable energy development, the main path for achieving carbon neutrality, and the use of multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) in assessing energy transition in both operational and socio-political forms.

This book presents the state of art of the several advanced approaches to beneficiation of coal.

This book provides a concise synthesis of how toxic chemical pollutants affect physiological processes in teleost fish.

The Green City and Social Injustice examines the recent urban environmental trajectory of 21 cities in Europe and North America over a 20-year period.

This volume contains the proceedings of the International Sym- posium on North Sea Dynamics which was held in Hamburg, August 31 - September 4, 1981.

This book presents the selected papers presented at the 5th International Symposium on Water Pollution and Treatment (ISWPT 2022), held during October 28-29, 2022, in Bangkok, Thailand.

With an emphasis on photographic works that offer new perspectives on the history of American social documentary, this book considers a history of politically engaged photography that may serve as models for the representation of impending environmental injustices.

The role of experts and their expertise, in our personal and social lives, has taken centre stage in the debates about our post-COVID-19 world.

Originally published in 1994, this book links the distant past with the urgent problems of today, taking the reader on a literary and scientific tour of global pollution from pre-history to the post-industrial age.

A comprehensive analysis of state-of-the-art molecular modeling approaches and strategies applied to risk assessment for pharmaceutical and environmental chemicals This unique volume describes how the interaction of molecules with toxicologically relevant targets can be predicted using computer-based tools utilizing X-ray crystal structures or homology, receptor, pharmacophore, and quantitative structure activity relationship (QSAR) models of human proteins.

Climate change is poised to threaten, disrupt, and transform human life, and the social, economic, and political institutions that structure it.

This volume is the result of work carried out under the NATO SPS Study Pilot Project "e;Sustainable Use and Protection of Groundwater Resources - Transboundary Water Management.

In 1880, ancient-growth forest still covered two-thirds of West Virginia, but by the 1920s lumbermen had denuded the entire region.

Research on media coverage of climate change, as a particular subfield of environmental communication research, has proliferated over the past decade.

The Physical Oceanography of the Arctic Mediterranean Sea describes the circulation and the processes in the Arctic Mediterranean, how our present knowledge has developed, and presents recent changes caused by a gradually warmer global climate.

,This thoughtful and original study throws important critical light on the dominant orthodoxies about sustainable development, and suggests a radically new direction.

Many buildings fail to perform adequately, causing illness and productivity loss among the inhabitants.

This book presents the conference proceedings of the F-EIR Conference 2021, Environment Concerns and its Remediation held in Chandigarh, India, October 18-22, 2021.

The Ethics of Climate Change: An Introduction systematically and comprehensively examines the ethical issues surrounding arguably the greatest threat now facing humanity.

Jeremy Webb draws on multiple disciplines to piece together the climate change puzzle, identifying what it would take to limit climate change and its impacts.

For readers of Madhouse at the End of the Earth, Endurance, and other seafaring adventure stories comes a thrilling account of a 21st-century Arctic mission.

This book is a product of the initial phase of a broader study evaluating the voluntary and regulatory compliance protocols that are used to account for the contributions of forests in U.

In response to a request from Congress, the U.

Climate change has been fueling migration, and, according to some policy reports, there could more than one billion climate migrants/refugees across the world by 2050.

There is no more fundamental resource than water.

This volume uses aerosol optical depth (AOD) analysis through mapping and remote sensing techniques to derive the relationship between aerosols and hazardous precipitation events, primarily in the form of flooding.

Both the number and percentage of people living in urban areas is growing rapidly.

Since the need to protect ground water from pollution was recognized, researchers have made progress in understanding the vulnerability of ground water to contamination.

The National Research Council was asked by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to review the draft report of the National Cancer Institute (NCI)-CDC's working group charged with revising the 1985 radioepidemiological tables.

This book summarizes the advanced sustainable trends in removing toxic pollutants by environmental and biotechnological processes from both industrial wastewater and sewage wastewater.

The sixth edition of a bestseller, Air Quality provides students with a comprehensive overview of air quality, the science that continues to provide a better understanding of atmospheric chemistry and its effects on public health and the environment, and the regulatory and technological management practices employed in achieving air quality goals.