Pollution and threats to the environment

This book covers biodiversity conservation under special consideration of the challenges in the global south with particular attention being paid to consider the existing conservation challenges in relation to the study area in Ethiopia.

Wie lassen sich notwendige Klimaschutzmaßnahmen wie der Braunkohleausstieg so umsetzen, dass sowohl auf lokaler aber auch auf gesamtgesellschaftlicher Ebene keine moralischen Rechtsverletzungen entstehen?

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Journalism provides a thorough understanding of environmental journalism around the world.

This book presents a socio-economic analysis of the issues linking technological innovation in providing arsenic-safe drinking water in rural areas.

This book describes the importance of sustainable livestock production from a food security perspective in the changing climate scenario.

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Pollution Control for Clean Environment (ICPCCE-2023).

Antarctica is the center from which all surrounding continental bodies separated millions of years ago.

This book highlights the impact of COVID-19 on environmental sustainability and SDG's, using various case studies.

Conflicts over waste disposal facility siting is a pressing issue not only in developed countries but also in fast-growing countries that face drastic waste increase and rapid urbanisation.

Public agencies and industry will probably spend tens of billions of dollars on new water pollution abatement facilities in the next few decades.

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.

Nanotechnology is often described as an emerging technology - one that not only holds promise for society, but also is capable of revolutionizing our approaches to common problems.

A non-heated discussion on global warming and climate changeInterested in getting to the core of the reasons for the Earth's changing climate?

The effects of climate change on food production and security are many and varied and represent one of the biggest challenges facing humanity today.

Many emerging economies are on the front line of the devastating impacts of global warming such as desertification and extreme weather events, but, for historical and political reasons, they follow ambitious growth targets with seemingly little concern for climate change and environmental degradation.

Originally published in 1987, this volume examines the ideals and realities of river use in 19th Century Britain and the failure of legal and technological remedies for river pollution.

This book explores who climate refugees are and how environmental justice might be used to overcome legal obstacles preventing them from being recognized at an international level.

In the current international situation, the ability to deal effectively with water contamination emergencies is of rapidly increasing importance.

How does pollution impact our daily quality of life?

Climate change is a pressing problem.

The aim of this book is to catalyse global interest in the pursuit of transformational changes in natural resource and environmental management.

Das Buch stellt die gesamte Bandbreite des Mikroplastikproblems in unseren Gewässern vor, von der Entnahme von Wasserproben bis zu deren Analyse und Interpretation.

Die Klimakrise ist da, auch schon in Deutschland zu spüren, und endlich kommt Bewegung in die satte und träge Gesellschaft.

This book explores the perplexing question of how to increase sustainable energy technology use in the developing world, and specifically focuses on two megacities within Latin America.

International concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental communi- ties over traces of xenobiotics in foods and in both abiotic and biotic envi- ronments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published research papers and progress reports, and archival documentations.

This book discusses how emerging groundwater risks under current and potential climate change conductions reduce available groundwater resources for domestic use, and agriculture and energy production.

This book provides hands-on conceptual, theoretical, and case study discussions on vulnerability and resilience in the global south.

This topic is central to contemporary concerns for more sustainable agricultural development.

With rampant industrialization, the management of waste generated by various industries is becoming a mammoth problem.

The end of life, the universe and humanity as we know it in a handy A to Z format.

This book analyses the status and prospects of the global governance of Access Benefit Sharing (ABS) in the aftermath of 2010's Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

This book considers how basic income could be used as a mechanism for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in African agrarian societies.

This book describes the development of ocean sciences over the past 50 years, highlighting the contributions of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the field's progress.

This book focuses solely on the issues of agricultural productivity analysis with advanced modeling approaches bringing solutions to food-insecure regions of the world, especially in south and southeast Asia and in Africa.

More than seventy percent of the earth's surface is covered by ocean - the home to a staggering and sometimes overwhelming diversity of organisms, a majority of which reside in pelagic form.

This revised edition provides a balanced view on toxicology, risk assessment and management.

Heavy metals can be emitted into environment by both natural and anthropogenic sources, mainly mining and industrial activity.

With 29 percent of all trips made by bicycle, Copenhagen is considered a model of green transport.

What are the 10 key issues that must be addressed urgently to improve Australia's environment?

NATIONAL BESTSELLERWhen you wake up and you see that the Earth is not just the environment, the Earth is us, you touch the nature of interbeing.

This book addresses the legal-geographical implications of the fact that landscapes are not static, but dynamic.

Environmental change presents a new context and new opportunities for transformational change.

Ecological Exile explores how contemporary literature, film, and media culture confront ecological crises through perspectives of spatial justice - a facet of social justice that looks at unjust circumstances as a phenomenon of space.

Silent Spring catalyzed an environmental movement in the 1960s and achieved a ban on DDT, but are the alternatives any less toxic?

Responding to the issues and challenges of teaching and learning about climate change from a science education-based perspective, this book is designed to serve as an aid for educators as they strive to incorporate the topic into their classes.

The book provides a cross-sectoral, multi-scale assessment of development-directed investigations in the main rivers of wider Central Asia and Afghanistan.