Pollution and threats to the environment

Global Climate Change presents both practical and theoretical aspects of global climate change from across geological periods.

This book is a visual tour of Caribbean coral reefs between 1968 and 1978.

Heavy metals always pose serious ecological risks when released into the environment due to their elemental non-degradable nature, regardless of their chemical form.

This volume looks at the ways in which climate change education relates to broader ideas of justice, equity, and social transformation, and ultimately calls for a rapid response to the need for climate education reform.

The book is a seminal contribution from a leading futurist who, over the past three decades, has explored each of the most disruptive forces shaping our world today, including emerging technologies, entrepreneurship, venture investments, and industrial manufacturing.

This book describes the long-term four billion-year context of anthropogenic climate change, and seeks to explain our inability to respond positively to its challenges.

This book helps the readers get a holistic understanding of the emergence of biochar-nanocomposite research.

Climate change is one of the most controversial and misunderstood issues of the 21st century.

This collection of notes was assembled as a supplement and guide to a five-day short course presented at the University of California at Berkeley, September 22-26, 1969.

No single project or endeavour is immune to the issues that the climate crisis brings.

World Congress on Disaster Management (WCDM) brings researchers, policy makers and practitioners from around the world in the same platform to discuss various challenging issues of disaster risk management, enhance understanding of risks and advance actions for reducing risks and building resilience to disasters.

The interaction of sustainability governance and global value chains has crucial implications the world over.

This book examines the imperative role of global environmental governance, and the need to incorporate corporate environmental accountability and mechanisms for enforcement, to effectively address the global environmental crisis.

Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical record, this first environmental history of Scotland explores the interaction of human populations with the land, waters, forests and wildlife.

This book describes the creation of a monitoring network, which can provide information about the exact locations and the environmental threats posed by chemical weapons (CW) dumpsites in the Baltic Sea region, using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs), and utilising the existing research vessels of NATO partner institutions as launching platforms.

This book examines the implications of the net zero transition for food and farming in the UK and how these can be managed to avoid catastrophic climate change in the crucial decades ahead.

Twelve years into the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Project, little progress has been made in restoring the core of the remaining Everglades ecosystem; instead, most project construction so far has occurred along its periphery.

Why are bilateral relations, especially in the area of energy security, so different in the cases of U.

This book aims to provide a comprehensive study on various aspects of environmental pollution dynamics using geospatial technology and modeling techniques.

Japan has been one of the most important international sponsors of human security, yet the concept has hitherto not been considered relevant to the Japanese domestic context.

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.

This thorough review is based on observational satellite, airborne and in-situ data, scientific literature and technical reports, as well as the substantial experience of the authors, who hail from several Baltic Sea countries.

This book explores the nature of climate change in southern Africa, its impacts on tourism and the resilience, adaptation and governance needs in various tourism operations and environments.

This book presents comprehensive reviews on the latest developments of nanotechnologies to detect and remove pollutants in water, air and food.

A fascinating look at the perils and promise of geoengineering and our potential future on a warming planetThe risks of global warming are pressing and potentially vast.

Our cities, and the systems that support them, have not been designed to address the FWE nexus.

Using climate justice as an analytical tool, this volume examines the role of local mitigation and adaptation actions in Southern Africa in furthering climate-resilient development.

Thoroughly updated new edition of this undergraduate textbook examines environmental pollution from our homes to the global environment.

The EU emissions trading scheme is the largest emissions control scheme in the world, capping almost half of European CO2 emissions.

Anthropogenic activity has clearly altered the N cycle contributing (among other factors) to climate change.

Climate change is no longer merely projected to occur in the indeterminate future.

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.

In the late 1980's, a considerable amount of research addressing the effects of acidic deposition was begun, much of it related to the Congr- sionally mandated National Atmospheric Precipitation Assessment Program (NAPAP).

Arising out of human-environment interaction, sustainability problems resist disciplinary categories and simple solutions.

Recent developments in international policy on Reduced Emissions from Deforestation in Developing countries (REDD) open the way for crediting of carbon saved by rural communities through management of the forests in their vicinity.

Plants play a key role in purifying the biosphere of the toxic effects of industrial activity.

Museums and the Climate Crisis shows how museums can respond to the interrelated global climate, biodiversity and pollution crises.

This book presents research from across the globe on how gender relationships in agriculture are changing.

Updated edition of a comprehensive introduction to the economics of water management, with self-contained treatment of all necessary economic concepts.

This book provides examples and suggestions for readers to understand how public investment decisions for sustainable infrastructure are made.

This volume provides a unique collection of contributions addressing both the 'too much' and 'too little' sides of the nitrogen story.

In recent years, citizen science has emerged as a powerful new concept to enable the general public, students, and volunteers to become involved in scientific research.