Pollution and threats to the environment

Praise for Carbon Finance "e;A timely, objective, and informative analysis of the financial opportunities and challenges presented by climate change, including a thorough description of adaptive measures and insurance products for managing risk in a carbon constrained economy.

This edited volume takes a comprehensive look at solid waste management across jurisdictions in Canada, including provinces, territories, municipalities, and Indigenous communities.

Land contamination is of global concern with many of the world's industries potentially harming the environment and human health.

This state-of-the-art, research level text considers the growing volume of research at the interface of hydrology and ecology and focuses on: the evolution of hydroecology / ecohydrology process understanding hydroecological interactions, dynamics and linkages methodological approaches detailed case studies future research needs The editors and contributors are internationally recognised experts in hydrology and ecology from institutions across North America, South America, Australia, and Europe.

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.

Materials for Carbon Dioxide Mitigation Technology offers expert insight and experience from recognized authorities in advanced material development in carbon mitigation technology and constitutes a comprehensive guide to the selection and design of a wide range of solvent/sorbent/catalyst used by scientists globally.

Global Ecology focuses on the perception of the biosphere or the ecosphere as a unified cooperative system with numerous synergistic effects, which describe the distinctive properties of this sphere.

Communication Strategies for Engaging Climate Skeptics examines the intersection of climate skepticism and Christianity and proposes strategies for engaging climate skeptics in productive conversations.

Communication Strategies for Engaging Climate Skeptics examines the intersection of climate skepticism and Christianity and proposes strategies for engaging climate skeptics in productive conversations.

Environmental Economics and Policy is a best-selling text for environmental economics courses.

Environmental Economics and Policy is a best-selling text for environmental economics courses.

This book presents a global and historical perspective of energy flows during the last millennium.

This book presents a global and historical perspective of energy flows during the last millennium.

This volume is a response to Pope Francis' environmental encyclical Laudato Si'.

This volume is a response to Pope Francis' environmental encyclical Laudato Si'.

Adopting an interdisciplinary social science approach, this book examines community reactions to wind farms to form a new understanding of what facilitates social acceptance.

Adopting an interdisciplinary social science approach, this book examines community reactions to wind farms to form a new understanding of what facilitates social acceptance.

Marine extremes, as they are conceived of in this volume, encompass environments, activities, events and impacts.

Marine extremes, as they are conceived of in this volume, encompass environments, activities, events and impacts.

Why doesn't everyone see sustainability as a huge issue?

Why doesn't everyone see sustainability as a huge issue?

This book examines changing gender roles, relations and hierarchies in an ethnic minority community in Central Viet Nam.

This book examines changing gender roles, relations and hierarchies in an ethnic minority community in Central Viet Nam.

Science for Responsible Citizenship helps the reader to understand how science works and how science can help us develop reasonable and logical solutions to worldwide problems.

This edited volume foregrounds new and vital scholarship shaping Scandinavian art historical research on the representations of the natural world.

Global climate change policy has failed us all, but what is the reasoning that underlies this failure?

Global climate change policy has failed us all, but what is the reasoning that underlies this failure?

Underwater Cultural Heritage investigates cases of underwater cultural heritage, exploring ethical issues that have never been studied before.

Underwater Cultural Heritage investigates cases of underwater cultural heritage, exploring ethical issues that have never been studied before.

The book examines the narratives of climate change which have developed and which are currently evolving in three areas: law, fiction and activism.

The book examines the narratives of climate change which have developed and which are currently evolving in three areas: law, fiction and activism.

Coastal zones represent a frontline in the battle for sustainability, as coastal communities face unprecedented economic challenges.

Coastal zones represent a frontline in the battle for sustainability, as coastal communities face unprecedented economic challenges.

This book addresses the crucial question of how the essential needs of the growing human population can be met without breaking the Earth's already-stretched life-support system.

This book addresses the crucial question of how the essential needs of the growing human population can be met without breaking the Earth's already-stretched life-support system.

This book examines the key Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) relating to environmental sustainability and provides a cutting-edge assessment of current progress with the view of achieving these goals by 2030.

This book examines the key Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) relating to environmental sustainability and provides a cutting-edge assessment of current progress with the view of achieving these goals by 2030.

South Africa's energy transition has become a highly topical, emotive and politically contentious topic.

South Africa's energy transition has become a highly topical, emotive and politically contentious topic.

Very few studies have been conducted to explore the vulnerability of women in the context of climate change.

Very few studies have been conducted to explore the vulnerability of women in the context of climate change.

Utopia in the Anthropocene takes a cross-disciplinary approach to analyse our current world problems, identify the key resistance to change and take the reader step by step towards a more sustainable, equitable and rewarding world.

Utopia in the Anthropocene takes a cross-disciplinary approach to analyse our current world problems, identify the key resistance to change and take the reader step by step towards a more sustainable, equitable and rewarding world.

This book investigates energy access through the lens of everyday energy practices in the Gambian community of Kartong.

This book investigates energy access through the lens of everyday energy practices in the Gambian community of Kartong.

This book explains how social psychological concepts can be closely integrated with sociotechnical perspectives of energy transitions.

This book explains how social psychological concepts can be closely integrated with sociotechnical perspectives of energy transitions.

The science is clear: climate change is a fact and the probability is extremely high that it has been caused by humans.

The science is clear: climate change is a fact and the probability is extremely high that it has been caused by humans.

The World Multiple, as a collection, is an ambitious ethnographic experiment in understanding how the world is experienced and generated in multiple ways through people's everyday practices.