Pollution and threats to the environment

Germán Vergara explains how, when, and why fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas) became the basis of Mexican society.

Written for skeptics and believers alike, A Climate of Desire is an unconventional blend of the provocative ecological wisdom of the biblical writers with contemporary insights from sustainability experts and practitioners.

'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.

Climate has for a long time been a taken-for-granted background against which social, political and economic interactions have taken place.

Urban agriculture offers promising solutions to many different urban problems, such as blighted vacant lots, food insecurity, storm water runoff, and unemployment.

This book focuses on particulate matter emissions produced by vehicles with combustion engines.

Climate change is a complex and dynamic environmental, cultural and political phenomenon that is reshaping our relationship to nature.

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Water, Environment, Energy and Society.

This groundbreaking book goes beyond conventional approaches and explores how AI is revolutionizing the field of wastewater treatment, offering innovative solutions to pressing challenges.

This book explores how and why innovative climate policies spread across subnational regions and between governance levels in China.

Soldiers deployed during the 1991 Persian Gulf War were exposed to high concentrations of particulate matter (PM) and other airborne pollutants.

A pragmatic, no-holds-barred assessment of climate change, for anyone wishing to be fully informed on the topic.

The prevailing global environmental crisis is primarily because of non-standardized parameters for environmental regulation.

This book shows how humankind can 'prevent dangerous interference with the c- mate system' without dangerous interference with the global economic system.

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Environmental sustainability efforts require a great deal of engagement and political will, ranging from local communities to state departments.

The book aims to highlight the application of microbial electrochemical technologies, their fundamental to advanced, recent applications, management strategies, and relevant case studies.

Why do some economies seem to excel at effective pollution management while others miss the mark when responding to deteriorating urban environments?

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

The third volume of Sustainable Soil and Land Management and Climate Change presents a complete overview of plant soil interactions in a climate affected by greenhouse gas emissions and organic carbon.

Groundwater is of utmost importance in the arid and semi-arid environment.

This book argues that at a time when the world is facing environmental and social upheaval, the political establishment has been unwilling to listen and slow to act.

While the world's scientists and many of its inhabitants despair at the impact of climate change, corporate and military leaders see nothing but opportunities.

This book examines the causes of effective climate policies in the US, through statistical analysis and three longitudinal case studies.

Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight without Oil sets out the challenges to our growing dependence on transport fuelled by low-priced oil.

Originally published in 1985.

Synonymous with catastrophe and destructive tendencies, the Anthropocene provokes reflection on the limits of existing applications of ideas of responsibility, ecological agency and democratic justice.

This book provides state of the art description of various approaches, techniques and some basic fundamentals of bioremediation to manage a variety of organic and inorganic wastes and pollutants present in our environment.

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Approaches climate change as an issue of human security and ethical obligation, arguing for a more equitable and sustainable future.

Originally published in 1975, this extensive bibliography has been drawn from archaeological, botanical, geological, meteorological and zoological sources.

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The Routledge Handbook of the Polar Regions is an authoritative guide to the Arctic and the Antarctic through an exploration of key areas of research in the physical and natural sciences and the social sciences and humanities.

Market-based solutions to environmental problems offer great promise, but require complex public policies that take into account the many institutional factors necessary for the market to work and that guard against the social forces that can derail good public policies.

Mercury is outstanding among the global environmental pollutants of continuing th concern.

This volume explores a range of themes including impacts of climate change, resilience, sustainability, indigeneity, cultural genocide, disaster capitalism, preservation of biodiversity, and environmental degradation.

The book is the collection of the latest research results from Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning in environmental policy and reform during the past years, mainly related to ecological compensation, the emission trading, the environment audit, carbon tax, environment friendly city, environmental health, economic policy in medical waste, scattered coal treatment subsidies, environmental policy efficiency analysis, environmental industry statistics, environmental performance evaluation, green fiscal and taxation policy, etc.

The fruit of twenty years of moral reflection on the emerging greatest challenge to humanity of the 21st century, these far-sighted and influential essays by a pioneering practical philosopher on the tangled questions of justice between nations and justice across generations confronting all attempts at international cooperation in controlling climate change sharply crystallize the central choices and offer constructive directions forward.

This book reviews the factors contributing to the degradation of natural resources in the MENA region caused by climate change and contamination.

All industrialization is deeply rooted within the specific geographies in which it took place, and echoes of previous industrialization continue to reverberate in these places through to the modern day.

The world as we know it needs a new economics.

How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquityScientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may even bring about the extinction of our species.

Originally published in 1975, Man and Wildlife traces the evolution of man from pre-hominid ancestors, and his influence in modifying the environment and its flora and fauna as technical knowledge grew.

The carbon emissions generated by concrete and steel construction are well-known.

Over the last decade, policies and financing decisions aiming to support low carbon resilient development within the least developed countries have been implemented across several regions.

This book opens up a critical dimension of energy transition taking in account multidimensional challenges on economic, social and environmental fields.

Environmental Change and Human Development focuses on environmental change and human fortunes.

Modern treaties, increased self-government, new environmental assessment rules, co-management bodies, and increased recognition and respect of Indigenous rights make it possible for northern communities to exert some control over extractive industries.