Pollution and threats to the environment

The Edwards Aquifer in south-central Texas is the primary source of water for one of the fastest growing cities in the United States, San Antonio, and it also supplies irrigation water to thousands of farmers and livestock operators.

'Penetrating, intensely personal, and impossible to put down, this is a book you need to read.

Predicting Future Oceans: Sustainability of Ocean and Human Systems Amidst Global Environmental Change provides a synthesis of our knowledge of the future state of the oceans.

This volume entitled "e;Radionuclides and Heavy Metals in Environment"e; contains the Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) "e;Monitoring of Natural and Man-Made Radionuclides and Heavy Metal Waste in Environment"e; that was held at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JlNR), Dubna, Russia from 3 October to 6 October, 2000.

It's in our food, our cosmetics, our fuel and our bodies.

Originally published in 1980.

This volume examines diverse developments in the evolution of public policy institutions for remedying social problems.

In Earth's Emergency Room, author, attorney, and environmental historian Lowell E.

Drawing on evidence from urban resilience initiatives around the globe, the authors make a compelling argument for a "e;resilience reset"e;, a pause and stocktake that critically examines the concepts, practices and challenges of building resilience, particularly in cities of the Global South.

Multilateral negotiations on worldwide challenges have grown in importance with rising global interdependence.

This book offers a complex and problem-based analysis of the past, present, and future of smart cities in Japan's energy transition.

Climate scientists have clarified the main causes of climate change, and the tight timescale within which humans must change behaviour, and implement effective solutions, wherever they are needed across the world.

This book reviews all important aspects of wastewater treatment with the aim of shedding new light on these effects through a combined understanding of traditional and new paradigms.

Climate change is perhaps the most important issue of our time and yet despite the urgency of the problem, the measures necessary to mitigate it have not been implemented.

This book provides an overview of cleaner production, including how regulations have evolved, and presents a broad perspective on how it is being developed.

This book discusses the development, types and application principles of portable air purifiers in China.

In the 1970's, agriculture in the United States seemed to be booming.

This edited book gives a general overview on current research, focusing on geoenvironmental issues and challenges in hydrogeosciences in model regions in Asia, Europe, and America, with a focus on the Middle East and Mediterranean region and surrounding areas.

This book provides a wealth of information and a critically required framework for sustainable automobile policy development in major Asian countries.

To date, climate change adaptation and mitigation have been treated separately both in research and in the climate negotiations.

Land deterioration, drought, desertification, and water resources shrinkage threaten natural resources, negatively impacting environmental, economic, and political stability.

'New materialisms' refers to a broad, contemporary, and significant movement of thought across the social sciences and cultural studies which attempts to (re)turn to, renew, or create alternative philosophies of matter.

Approaching the issues of climate change and climate justice from a range of diverse perspectives including those of culture, gender, indigeneity, race, and sexuality, as well as challenging colonial histories and capitalist presents, Climate Futures boldly addresses the apparent inevitability of climate chaos.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the challenges being faced in managing plastic waste and showcases innovative solutions that can mitigate the adverse effects of plastic pollution on the environment.

This book represents the background of the Barind Tract of Bangladesh with the proximity of drought information, conceptual and logic of the books, history, definition and perception on drought and climate scenario and how people understand underlying causes, impacts and consequences of drought in agriculture, environment, human health and society.

Ground water resources are receiving global attention, as human population growth and development cause significant changes to the earth system.

This book collects the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of environmental science and sustainable development, which were presented by scholars and researchers at the 2021 6th Asia Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development, held in Phuket, Thailand, November 6-8, 2021.

"e;Global warming"e; and "e;climate change"e; have become common and trending subjects of interest in recent decades, due to their massive influence on biodiversity and the subsequent effects on sustainable uses by human beings.

This book offers present-day retrospectives and future perspectives on 'phytobiont' studies in the context of phyto-micro restitution, filling some of the information gaps in this promising research field.

Based on a unique industrial European membership, the European Oceanic Association, "e;non-profit Association has as its object the pooling of talents, resources and ex- perience in the marine field with the purpose of promoting in Europe a concentration of efforts to foster the study and exploration of the seas in the light of their industrial exploitation"e; (articZe 2 of the statutes).

In this honest, poignant depiction of autistic regression, Sophie Gaston explores the unexpected joys and challenges of having a child that regresses and surveys the historic and latest professional perspectives on the causes of this little-understood occurrence.

Dieses Buch gibt den Ingenieurstudenten der umweltbezogenen Fachrichtungen sowie den im Labor Arbeitenden grundlegende Informationen über die relevanten Labormethoden und -verfahren der Umweltmikrobiologie und der dabei zu beachtenden Sicherheitsaspekte.

Medicinal plants supply the ever-growing needs of humankind for natural chemicals, such as pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, agrochemicals, and chemical additives.

We have reached a pivotal moment for fishing, with seventy-five percent of the world's fish stocks either fully exploited or overfished.

This volume summarises the result of an interdisciplinary research programme entitled `Rehabilitation of the Atmosphere of the New States of Germany - Effects on Terrestrial Ecosystems'.

In recent times, the devastation occurring in places like Darfur has focused the world's attention on the intertwined relationship of military conflict and the environmentand the attendant human suffering.

Presents an in-depth overview of the psychology behind adaptation behaviour to climate change.

This book compiles 15 chapters about the synthesis, characterizations, and application of many kinds of magnetic adsorbents for water treatment.

Utilizing environmental archival materials from the UK, State, Science and the Skies presents a groundbreaking historical account of the development of a state science of atmospheric pollution.

As climate has warmed over recent years, a new pattern of more frequent and more intense weather events has unfolded across the globe.

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.

This book focuses on water pollution, water management and water structures.

This book discusses water resources management in Romania from a hydrological perspective, presenting the latest research developments and state-of-the-art knowledge that can be applied to efficiently solve a variety of problems in integrated water resources management.

The report evaluates the plan to monitor and assess the condition of Florida's Everglades as restoration efforts proceed.

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

This book addresses learnings from the energy transition in the Netherlands.