Pollution and threats to the environment

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.

China has been subject to floods, droughts and heat waves for millennia; these hazards are not new.

Highlighting recent trends that employ innovative management and conservation approaches, this volume provides an informative overview of the issues and challenges in water resources affected by climate change, such as drought, flooding, glacier changes, and overbuilt-up urban areas.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the current knowledge on the fate and interaction of pharmaceuticals in soil-crop systems.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to microcosms (N-systems) in multiple-species testing and aquatic ecosystem risk assessment.

Sustainable mining is need of hour to fulfil the increasing energy demand of the country and at the same time reduction in rate of carbon emission at utmost priority.

Formaldehyde is ubiquitous in indoor and outdoor air, and everyone is exposed to formaldehyde at some concentration daily.

This book discusses contamination of water, air, and soil media.

The Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program was created by EPA to develop the capability for tracking the changing conditions of our natural resources and to give environmental policy the advantages ofa sound scientific understanding of trends.

The green economy is widely seen as a potential solution to current global economic and environmental crises, and a potential mechanism by which sustainable development might be achieved in practice.

This book presents a detailed analysis in relation to pollutant processes and transport pathways encompassing atmospheric pollutants, atmospheric deposition and build-up on road surfaces of traffic generated key pollutants.

The purpose of this collection is to provide the student with an introduction to the way in which the discipline of economics tackles the problems posed in affluent societies by their various ‘waste’ products.

This book presents the latest developments and recent research trends in the field of plankton, highlighting the potential ecological and biotechnological applications.

Deforestation in tropical rainforest countries is one of the largest contributors to human-induced climate change.

This book reviews the occurrence and fate of pesticides in soils, their impact on soil quality and soil ecosystems, and it also provides a comprehensive overview of the latest prevention and remediation strategies of soil contamination.

Teaching Design for Sustainable Futures: Community, Construction, and Creativity explores how creativity can be integrated into sustainability education within the built environment.

Solving the global climate crisis through local partnerships and experimentationGlobal climate diplomacy-from the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement-is not working.

This book discusses new and innovative trends and techniques in the application of nanotechnology to industrial wastewater treatment both at a laboratory scale and an industry scale, including treatment, remediation, sensing and pollution prevention.

Western society moved from a period in which Christianity was the dominant spiritual force to one of nationalism and then to making the economy the object of public devotion.

In diesem Buch stellt der Autor die Grundlagen der Meteorologie vor.

Chiral Organic Pollutants introduces readers to the growing challenges of chirality in synthetic chemicals.

This book addresses key topics in the current deliberations and debates on low carbon cities that are underway globally.

This book is the second volume in a series on montology dedicated to the transdisciplinary reflection of mountain research, considering the diversity of views on mountains and their problemata in the context of rapid technological development and unprecedented accumulation and dissemination of information around the world.

Comprising 12 chapters, this book focuses on volatile methylsiloxanes (VMSs), the shorter-chained organosiloxanes, and reviews the main areas and environmental compartments where they have been found and studied.

This book explores the possibilities and scope of facilitating innovation and transfer of the environmentally sound technologies in the Post-Paris climate era.

This book builds on the insights of Gunther Bachmann, former Secretary General for the German Sustainability Council, who spent almost 20 years advising the German government on sustainability policy.

Das fossile System bröckelt.

The volume focuses on the ecological functioning of rivers, which has received less attention than functioning of lakes and reservoirs.

This book reviews recent research and applications of chitin and chitosan, as natural alternatives of fossil fuel products, in medicine and pharmacy, agriculture, food science and water treatment.

The Kyoto Protocol, the world's first tentative step towards avoiding the threat of climate change, has failed.

The development of water resources has proceeded at an amazing speed around the world in the last few decades.

Originally published in 1985.

This monograph reviews the establishment of new theories of the ozone hole and global climate change, two major scientific problems of global concern.

Hydrometallurgy '94 contains the 78 papers that were presented at the international symposium organized by the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy and the Society of Chemical Industry and held in Cambridge, England, in July 1994.

Particle samplers are widely used in workplaces in order to determine the concentration of airborne particles in the atmosphere.

This book showcases the latest trends and innovations in the field of Green Building, covering topics from research and design to innovative practices and challenges.

In the opening session the Chairman of the Seminar underlined the important role of the permanent monitoring panels with respect to the 15 planetary emergencies.

Originally published in 1979, this book discusses the model developed to deal with air pollution from coal fired power plants, but it broadly also illustrates how available scientific information can be organized to improve our understanding of pollution control.

Environment-Friendly Machining provides an in-depth overview of environmentally-friendly machining processes, covering numerous different types of machining in order to identify which practice is the most environmentally sustainable.

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