Pollution and threats to the environment

"e;This is, for my money, the best single-source primer on the state of climate change.

The number of airplane flights worldwide continues to grow and is one of the many drivers of climate change.

Climate change could have a substantial economic impact, particularly on coastal states where seas level rises will be felt most strongly.

This book covers the full spectrum of water and environment conservation, offering management lessons, identifying the barriers to transformative change, and then presenting agendas and initiatives for sustainable global water and environment management.

This new volume offers up-to-date coverage of the energy scenario in South Asia, showcasing the major challenges being faced in the South Asian Energy Corridor in the context of energy security versus clean energy.

Solar energy is a substantial global industry, one that has generated trade disputes among superpowers, threatened the solvency of large energy companies, and prompted serious reconsideration of electric utility regulation rooted in the 1930s.

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.

Originally published in 1987.

Easter Island, a World Heritage Site is still, after over 50 years since Thor Heyerdahl's work on the island, a fascinating area to explore and learn about a culture that has only remnants remaining, while documenting a marine ecology still mostly unknown.

The book deepens understanding of biomass sources and technologies used for cooking worldwide.

Over the course of a year, in just one national forest in California, raids on illegal marijuana growing operations yielded 19,710 pounds of infrastructure, 138 ounces of restricted poisons, 4,595 pounds of fertilizer, 12 gallons of common pesticides, 5.

In Zeiten des Klimawandels stehen Mensch und Baum unter Stress.

The state of the art in the area of security related civil science and technology concerning energetic materials and munitions is of pressing importance at the present time, because 10 years after the end of the cold war, in many countries in east and west, huge stockpiles of munitions still await destruction.

Communication Strategies for Engaging Climate Skeptics examines the intersection of climate skepticism and Christianity and proposes strategies for engaging climate skeptics in productive conversations.

ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE III deals with the detection andevaluation of environmental pollutants as well as with theirrelevance to human health.

Climate change is a pressing international political issue, for which a practical but principled solution is urgently required.

In this cutting-edge study of Tolkien's most critically neglected maps, Anahit Behrooz examines how cartography has traditionally been bound up in facilitating power.

Once imagined as a place on the very edge of the world, Greenland is now viewed as being at the epicentre of climate change.

This book presents the dynamic role of algae in a sustainable environment.

Synthetic plastic offers a wide range of utilities because of its physico-chemical properties, thus the demand for its commercial availability and generation of waste is inevitable.

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.

Climate change is now the biggest challenge faced by humanity worldwide and ethics is the crucial missing component in the debate about what to do about this enormous threat.

While understanding history has always been an essential task for God's people, rapid changes within the past two generations of Christianity have challenged many of our assumptions and methods for studying the past.

Nothing could seem more contemporary than climate change.

This book provides a detailed analysis of the economic and environmental impacts of climate change on the tropical ecosystems in Tanzania.

Climate crisis disrupts the beliefs, values and behaviors of contemporary societies, sparking potential for radical changes in culture and consciousness.

Watershed research is conducted by the U.

This book describes the Conference on Fire and Smoke-Resistant Materials held at the National Academy of Sciences on November 8-10, 1994.

Despite the global movement to tackle plastic pollution, demand for plastics continues to rise.

This book emphasizes how we already have the technologies available, including renewable energy and the ability to recycle most materials, to make ecological living possible and that perceived barriers to energy transitions can be overcome.

This book provides the first systematic comparative analysis of climate security discourses.

The overarching contribution of this book is a review and assessment of the current and future impacts of globalization on the world's forests.

Environmental problems in coastal ecosystems can sometimes be attributed to excess nutrients flowing from upstream watersheds into estuarine settings.

This book presents a historically situated explanation of the rise of global water governance and the contemporary challenges that global water governance seeks to address.

Weather, Religion and Climate Change is the first in-depth exploration of the fascinating way in which the weather impacts on the fields of religion, art, culture, history, science, and architecture.

Practical, evidence-based advice for managing distressed behaviours and common situations involving autistic children.

High-level nuclear waste (HLW) is a controversial and risky issue.

Die Welt hat nicht nur ein Corona-Problem.

The feeling of optimism that followed the COP 21 Paris Conference on Climate Change requires concrete action and steadfast commitment to a process that raises a number of crucial challenges: technological, political, social, and economic.

There is a growing need for cooperation between disciplines, not only to deal with the burning problems of the present, but to study the interaction of societies and their ecosystems in the past.

A lively introduction to how plants function covering everything from energetics and development to their interaction with the environment.

This book presents the editor's recently proposed mathematical models for flux prediction in membrane filtration.

The Earth's climate system depends entirely on the Sun for its energy.

Urban land is an environmental key topic considering the increasing urbani- sation of our world.

Die Gefährdung und Verschmutzung unserer Umwelt wird zum zentralen Problem am Ende dieses Jahrtausends.

Gespräche mit Noam Chomsky, Vandana Shiva, Immanuel Wallerstein, Amy Goodman, Yanis Varoufakis, Aminata Traoré, Harald Schumann, Maude Barlow, Jeremy Scahill, Wangui Mbatia, Alyn Ware, Srećko Horvat, Alberto Acosta, Kevin Anderson, Rob Hopkins u.

National (and transnational) regulations significantly transform rural areas.

Dieses Fachbuch ist ein praxisorientiertes Lehr- und Nachschlagewerk zu den wichtigsten Grundlagen des Gewässerschutzes und der Abwasserbehandlung.

Durch den Klimawandel wird es zu erheblichen Veränderungen der Biodiversität weltweit und in Deutschland kommen.