Pollution and threats to the environment

This book investigates the role of law in enabling and addressing the barriers to the development of off-grid renewable electricity (OGRE).

What explains our attitudes towards the environment?

Cities are the most likely actors to design and bring about lasting sustainability.

EDOARDOCROCI IEFE - Universita Bocconi, Milano, Italy Voluntary approaches in environmental policy represent a "e;third wave"e; of regulation in the environmental field.

In the present global context, some countries still face many challenges to bringing about inclusive, efficient, and environmentally sustainable development.

Presenting a nonmathematical approach to this topic, Statistics for Environmental Science and Management introduces frequently used statistical methods and practical applications for the environmental field.

Originally published in 1994.

Echoing the famous "e;The Limits to Growth"e; report from 1972, this edited volume analyses the changes that the World System has undergone to the present, on the fiftieth anniversary of the original report.

In the late 1970s.

Through a combination of theoretical and empirical approaches, this book explores the role of international environmental law in protecting and conserving plants.

Not long ago it seemed flood control experts were close to mastering the unruly flows funnelling toward Hudson Bay and the Prairie city of Winnipeg.

This book presents a comprehensive and detailed overview of indoor pollution, covering the main contaminants in the indoor environment - air and dust, the health aspects of exposure, and different possibilities for a risk assessment.

Here is a refreshing look at how American cities are leading the way toward greener, cleaner, and more sustainable forms of economic development.

Worldwide concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental com- munities over traces of toxic chemicals in foodstuHs and in both abiotic and biotic environments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published progress reports, and archival documentations.

This IPCC Special Report provides the latest comprehensive assessment of the ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate.

The relationship between energy and the environment has been the basis of many studies over the years, as has the relationship between energy and development, yet both of these approaches may produce distortions.

This book investigates the relationship between non-state actors and climate justice from a philosophical perspective.

A practical guide to understanding, using and producing downscaled climate data, for researchers, graduate students, policy makers and practitioners.

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.

This book probes the interconnections of time and ecology in order to spark our imagination and inspire us to re-think the planetary, ecology, and otherwise.

Urban systems now house about half of the world's population, but determine some three quarters of the global economy and its associated energy use and resulting environmental impacts.

Urban sustainability citizenship situates citizens as social change agents with an ethical and self-interested stake in living sustainably with the rest of Earth.

This book expands the body of scientific knowledge on research and solutions for alternative water systems.

Light pollution (light smog, light pollution or light emissions) is a fundamental problem in metropolises with effects on flora, fauna and people.

Wide- scale chemical monitoring programmes are required by international conventions and European Union policies such as the Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC) and the new EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD).

Global attention in scientific, industrial, and governmental commumties to traces of toxic chemicals in foodstuffs and in both abiotic and biotic environ- ments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published progress reports, and archival documentations.

"e;Change the system, not the climate"e; is a common slogan of climate change activists.

Introduces a bold, new model for energy industry pollution prevention and sustainable growth Balancing industrial pollution prevention with economic growth is one of the knottiest problems faced by industry today.

Some of what we know about the health effects of exposure to chemicals from food, drugs, and the environment come from studies of occupational, inadvertent, or accident-related exposures.

Energy security is known for its 'slippery' nature and subsequent broad range of definitions.

This book examines the impact of climate change on eye disease and eye health.

Advanced Modelling Techniques Studying Global Changes in Environmental Sciences discusses the need for immediate and effective action, guided by a scientific understanding of ecosystem function, to alleviate current pressures on the environment.

For many years, the objective of environmental campaigners was to push climate change on to the agenda of political leaders and to encourage media attention to the issue.

Environmental Ethics and Behavioural Change takes a practical approach to environmental ethics with a focus on its transformative potential for students, professionals, policy makers, activists, and concerned citizens.

Against Catastrophism explores catastrophism from multiple vantage points and considers the impact of ongoing crisis on individuals.

Climate change impacts are scale and context specific, and cities are likely to bear some of the greatest costs.

This book presents an accessible and easy-to-follow argument that the climate crisis is a side effect of inequality and injustice, and demonstrates how strategies such as large-scale social investment will prove far more effective in reducing greenhouse gas pollution than cap-and-trade or other forms of free-market environmentalism.

This book aims to stimulate new thinking on the roles of river contracts in the protection and management of hydrographic resources and ecosystems and in the sustainable development of dependent territories and communities.

Building upon presentations given during the conference on 'Disaster Risk Reduction for Natural Hazards: Putting Research into Practice', held at University College London in November 2009, the articles collected in this book examine how natural hazards research is accessed and used by practitioners and decision-makers, and conversely, how policy and practice inform research.

This study makes sense of how the media report on climate change and how this influences science and policy decision-making.

Employing scientific explanations and hard data, this book shows why coal is such a problem, how the pro-coal forces got to be so powerful, and how those forces might be defeated through political activism.

The Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Panel of the National Research Council (NRC) was tasked by the U.

This edited volume includes all papers presented at the 22nd International Conference on Mine Planning and Equipment Selection (MPES), Dresden, Germany, 2013.

Climate change is changing the context of spatial planning and shaping its priorities.

Membranverfahren haben sich in den vergangenen 15 Jahren von einem exotischen Sonderverfahren zu einem zuverlässigen Standardverfahren entwickelt.

Surveys atmospheric, oceanic and cryospheric processes, present and past conditions, and changes in polar environments.

Drawing on cutting-edge research from leading scholars, this book investigates state preferences for regime creation and assesses state capacity for executing these preferences in Northeast Asia's energy domain, defined as the geographical area comprising the following countries: Russia, Mongolia, China, Japan, South Korea and North Korea.