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Ostracod crustaceans, common microfossils in marine and freshwater sedimentary records, supply evidence of past climatic conditions via indicator species, transfer function and mutual climatic range approaches as well as the trace element and stable isotope geochemistry of their shells.

This book consists of selected papers from the 2022 4th International Conference on Environment Sciences and Renewable Energy, which was held as a fully virtual conference during May 27-29, 2022.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.

Examines the politics shaping whether, how and to what extent cities engage in global climate governance.

This volume has been designed to serve as a natural resources engineering reference book as well as a supplemental textbook.

This book presents important recent applied mathematics research on environmental problems and impacts due to climate change.

These lectures presented by experts from the Nordic countries are collected with the purpose of education in the field of environmental radioactivity.

This book is the first to address the important interrelationship between second homes and climate change, which has become an increasingly relevant issue for many regions around the world.

Rapid changes in energy production and consumption are having major socioeconomic implications for the communities of rural America.

When thinking of the leaders of Asia who brought landmark prosperity to their respective nations from the second half of the 20th century, two leaders immediately come to mind: late Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore and Dr.

How is a changing climate affecting hurricanes, and how are these changes intersecting with our changing exposure and vulnerability in ways that affect tropical cyclone risk?

This book gives an overview of the relationships between agriculture and air quality, which is an issue of increasing importance for practitioners and policy makers.

Originally published in 1975 Terrestrial Environments covers the zoogeography and ecology of the main terrestrial environments of the world, including fresh water habitats with emphasis on their fauna.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program.

'Sound and solid case studies on vulnerability and adaptation have been woefully lacking in the international discourse on climate change.

The thesis presents new results on multi-agent formation control, focusing on the distributed stabilization control of rigid formation shapes.

Global environmental change often seems to be the most carefully examined issue of our time.

This volume presents select papers presented during the Second International Conference on Waste Management held at IIT Guwahati.

This book shares real-life case studies taken from GreenSCENT, a three-year EU-funded project that promotes sustainability through the development of digital platforms and tools, green education programme, and climate and environmental literacy certification.

In The Future, former US Vice President Al Gore, explores the political, social and economic forces that are shaping what America and the world will become in ensuing decades.

Contaminated Soils Volume 9 contains 38 technical papers, covering a wide range of environmental issues.

This book examines the issue of disaster recovery in relation to community wellbeing and resilience, exploring the social, political, demographic and environmental changes in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

Accessible introductory textbook for students and researchers, and an introduction for general audiences.

Recent developments in air pollution modeling and its application are explored here in contributions by researchers at the forefront of their field.

This book provides a detailed and a clear picture about the impact of climate changes on all aspects of our lives.

The ongoing assault on climate science in the United States has never been more aggressive, more blatant, or more widely publicized than in the case of the Hockey Stick graph-a clear and compelling visual presentation of scientific data, put together by MichaelE.

Energy policy has always been an important part of China's national policy agenda.

In 1997, New York City adopted a mammoth watershed agreement to protect its drinking water and avoid filtration of its large upstate surface water supply.

The warming of the Earth has been the subject of intense debate and concern for many scientists, policy-makers, and citizens for at least the past decade.

This book was the first in-depth description and analysis of the European Emissions Trading Scheme.

This book deals with the economic modelling of water at the global, national and sub-national levels.

This book moves beyond seeing the commons in the past tense, an entity passed over from the public into the private, to reimagine the commons as a process, a contest of force, a reconstitution, and a site of convening practices.

Livestock production and its use of finite resources is devastating biodiversity and pushing wildlife to the brink of extinction.

Energy consumption and production have major influences on the economy, environment, and society, but in return they are also influenced by how the economy is structured, how the social institutions work, and how the society deals with environmental degradation.

Among the chemical and physical processes involved in the transformation of pollutants between their sources and their ultimate deposition, those associated with clouds, aerosols and precipitation must be rated as the most difficult both to study and to understand.

Asian transportation systems and services, as well as their usage, are fraught with challenges.

This book covers the latest technologies and challenges for water reuse and unconventional water resources.

Provides an up-to-date synthesis of all knowledge relevant to the climate change issue, for researchers, professionals and advanced students.

Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science.

This comprehensive handbook provides a detailed and unique overview of current thinking about marine governance in the context of global environmental change.

This book presents a comprehensive coverage of remote sensing technology used to gather information on 12 types of natural hazards in the terrestrial sphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.

How the subtle but significant consequences of a hotter planet have already begunfrom lower test scores to higher crime ratesand how we might tackle them todayIt's hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we think of it as an impending planetary catastrophe.

'This is a timely, challenging and fascinating book on a topic of central importance to the success or otherwise of our climate change policies.