Pollution and threats to the environment

The book highlights the importance of newly developed bioremediation technologies in industrial waste treatment to clean up the environment from pollution caused by human activities.

Climate change and ecological instability have the potential to disrupt human societies and their futures.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change (IPCC) was jointly established by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Envir- ment Programme (UNEP) to assess the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change.

Few, if any, environments are free of human intervention.

Presto!

This timely volume presents the key concepts, issues, and debates surrounding environmental security, illustrating through a range of examples and cases how global environmental matters and international security are closely linked.

At present, constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment are a widely used technology for treatment of various types of wastewaters.

This book presents ideas for strengthening the foundations for transformational change in polar and global education leadership in all stages of the education process.

This book integrates 30 years of mercury research in the Florida Everglades to inform scientists and policy makers.

The indoor environment affects occupants' health and comfort.

Anthropocene Antarctica offers new ways of thinking about the 'Continent for Science and Peace' in a time of planetary environmental change.

Biological invasions - the introduction, establishment and spread of invasive alien species - are complex global phenomena that can cause significant environmental, ecological, and economic harm.

This book covers the fundamental requirements for air, soil and water pollution control in oil and gas refineries, chemical plants, oil terminals, petrochemical plants, and related facilities.

Ways of handling climate change vary worldwide.

Climate change challenges are unlike any hazard that infrastructure and related shareholders have faced for millennia.

This book goes beyond current ways that the impact of climate change upon the city are understood.

Oxides and acids of nitrogen play an important role in regulating atmospheric radical levels, in particular, that of the OH radical the main initiator of the degradation of chemicals in the atmosphere.

Die Umwelt unter dem Einfluß menschlicher Nutzungen wird als dynamisches, rückgekoppeltes System dargestellt: Bevölkerung, Klima, Energiehaushalt, Nährstoffkreisläufe, Ökosysteme, erneuerbare und nicht-erneuerbare Ressourcen, Umweltbelastung durch Schadstoffe usw.

This book presents novel design principles and technologies for dynamic isolation based on experimental studies.

The geologically ancient Tidewater region of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina rests precariously atop millions of years of erosion from the nearby Appalachian Mountains.

An account of the catastrophic decline and remarkable recovery of a fox species inhabiting only the California Channel Islands.

Latin American viticulture faces a wide range of difficulties that include social, political, economic, and productive aspects.

The Clean Air Act established a pair of programsknown as New Source Review (NSR)that regulate large stationary sources of air pollution, such as factories and electricity-generating facilities.

What does successful adaptation look like?

Do changes in stratospheric ozone relate to changes in UV-B irradiance and do both relate to life on Earth?

Britain's supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal.

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`Jellyfish', a group that includes scyphomedusae, hydromedusae, siphonophores and ctenophores, are important zooplankton predators throughout the world's estuaries and oceans.

The book provides an analysis of impacts of climate change on water for agriculture, and the adaptation strategies in water management to deal with these impacts.

This book consists of 10 Chapters in 4 Parts.

A sine qua non of control system development for modern sewer networks is the preservation of the water system around a network's outflow(s).

Greenhouse gas removal (GGR) technologies can remove greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

This highly readable yet challenging book provides a critical examination of the failings of mainstream economics and the resultant environmental problems we are facing.

This volume examines how local communities respond and adapt to ecological changes and disasters resulting from climate change.

The American West at Risk summarizes the dominant human-generated environmental challenges in the 11 contiguous arid western United States - America's legendary, even mythical, frontier.

International concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental communities of xenobiotics in foods and in both abiotic and biotic environments over traces 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 emphasis the role of farm level adaptation as a key in developmental pathways that are challenged by climate risks in the semi-arid tropics of Asia and Africa.

Provides insight into how diverse societies observe and respond to changing environments, for those interested in climate science, policy and adaptation.

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A powerful work of memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural world.

Drawing from the unique context and climate of the Himalaya, this book highlights several innovative design interventions, shaped by a myriad of social, cultural, environmental, and political factors that have been employed in villages to combat climate change.

Demonstrates a socio-technical reconfiguration approach to low-carbon system transitions for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners.

The Autonomous Vehicle (AV) has been strongly heralded as the most exciting innovation in automobility for decades.

This edited book covers the application of modern genomics tools for developing climate-smart oilseed cultivars.

Atmospheric Pollution and Environmental Change is an introduction to the major pollutants causing concern today, a description of their sources and how their emissions and concentrations have changed through time.

This accessible book defines 100 key concepts, ideas and processes in Environmental Psychology to provide an introductory reference work that brings together research and theory in a bite-size format.

Infrastructure that manages our water resources (such as, dams and reservoirs, irrigation systems, channels, navigation waterways, water and wastewater treatment facilities, storm drainage systems, urban water distribution and sanitation systems), are critical to all sectors of an economy.

How will climate change affect our lives?