Pollution and threats to the environment

Australian Climate Policy and Diplomacy provides a well overdue critique of existing, and high-profile, publications that convey the 'greenhouse mafia' hypothesis, which posits that Australia's weak policy response to climate change is the result of a menacing domestic fossil fuel lobby.

The Everglades ecosystem is vast, stretching more than 200 miles from Orlando to Florida Bay, and Everglades National Park is but a part located at the southern end.

Volume 3 covers recent research with expanded coverage on this important area of remediation.

The establishment of clean, safe water is one of the major challenges facing societies around the globe.

This book provides a wide overview of the issues related to managing of air quality in Canada.

The West fears desire.

Climate and Society presents from a transdisciplinary view, climate and its changes, impact and perception.

This book is about environmental and climate legal protection in the energy transition.

This book provides the information on the application of nanotechnology in cleaning wastewater and the impact of microbial ecosystem to solve environmental problems has been critically reviewed in the chapters.

,Integrating intermittent renewable energy sources like wind into electricity systems must be one of the most misunderstood issues in energy policy.

Environmental indicators are the first line of warning against hazards caused by humans or nature catastrophes to prevent diseases and death of living organisms.

This interdisciplinary collection of essays focuses on critical and theoretical responses to the apocalypse of the late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century cultural production.

In line with COP21 agreements, state-led climate change mitigation and adaptation actions are being undertaken to transition to carbon-neutral, green economies.

This book discusses nanotechnology, its benefits and risks affecting the environment we live in today, and is divided into three parts: Part-I dealing with Sustainability, Part-II describing Toxicological Impacts, and Part-III discussing Nanomaterial-based Adsorbents.

How much of the folk tales of our ancestors is rooted in fact, and what can they tell us about the future?

This book gathers cutting-edge studies on the relationship between energy innovations, economic growth, environmental regulation, promotion of renewable energy use, and climate change.

Exposure to radon gas, which is present in the environment naturally, constitutes over half the radiation dose received by the general public annually.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

The definitive guide to petroleum hydrocarbon fuel spill and leak causes, prevention, response, and cost recoveryOil Spills and Gas Leaks highlights the complex nature of petroleum hydrocarbon fuel extraction methods, the unintended consequences when disasters occur, spill behavior, and environmental impact mitigation.

This book provides a systematic introduction to the debate on historical emissions and climate change, for students, researchers and policymakers.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book examines the evolution of the relationship between climate change and conflict, and attempts to visualize future trends.

Applications of Machine Learning in Hydroclimatology is a comprehensive exploration of the transformative potential of machine learning for addressing critical challenges in water resources management.

The sources, distribution, toxicity and management of environmental contaminants, from molecular interactions to ecological effects.

Overwhelmed by climate anxiety?

The regulation of carbon monoxide has been one of the great success stories in air pollution control.

This book provides one of the first systematic in-depth studies on regional catastrophe risk pools.

An Esquire Essential Book on Climate ChangeFrom the founder of the Climate Outreach and Information Network, a groundbreaking take on the most urgent question of our time: Why, despite overwhelming scientific evidence, do we still ignore climate change?

As the coastal human population increases in the United States, there will likely be increasing environmental and socioeconomic pressures on our coastal and estuarine environments.

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The city of Pittsburgh and surrounding area of southwestern Pennsylvania face complex water quality problems, due in large part to aging wastewater infrastructures that cannot handle sewer overflows and stormwater runoff, especially during wet weather.

This book examines how states in eight countries across Asia and the Pacific address internal displacement in the context of disasters and climate change.

The book describes the clean coal technology of chemical looping combustion (CLC) for power generation with pure CO2 capture.

This book focuses on modelling issues and their implications for the correct design of reactive absorption-desorption systems.

Global climate change is one of the challenges ever to confront humanity with the largest scale, widest scope and most far-reaching influence.

This unique volume offers an up-to-date overview of all the main aspects of groundwater in the Nile Delta and its fringes, as well as latest research findings.

Offers a comprehensive volume discussing groundwater problems in coastal areas, spanning fundamental science to practical water management.

Greenhouse gas (GHG) offsets have long been promoted as an important element of a comprehensive climate policy approach.

As we are moving ahead into the 21st century, our hunger for cost- effective and environmentally friendly energy continues to grow.

This book provides a description of the state of the art on environmental disclosure, illustrating the key theoretical issues, the regulatory frameworks, and the main standards developed and reporting the results of an empirical analysis on the environmental disclosure released by listed firms.

What does sustainable business and net zero carbon emission mean for businesses globally?

Climate change poses multiple challenges to development.

Global Change and Our Common Future includes 22 edited presentations from the Forum on Global Change and Our Common Future.

This book centers Indigenous knowledge and practice in community-led climate change solutions.

Dieses Buch beschreibt die anlagentechnischen Komponenten für die Wärmeversorgung von Gebäuden sowie die Anlagentechnik und die dazugehörigen Parameter.