Pollution and threats to the environment

Does a connection exist between environmental degradation, resource scarcity and violent conflicts?

Optimal Control of Wind Energy Systems is a thorough review of the main control issues in wind power generation, covering many industrial application problems.

This book presents an in-depth, science-based approach to applying key project-management and spatial tools and practices in environmental projects.

This book is a ready reckoner of recent information regarding the impact of leachate landfills, leachate treatment, and heavy metals on a single platform.

This book traces the history and implementation of regulation programs for state crude oil production.

This book explains the science of climate change in plain language and shows that the 2 to 4 percent of climate scientists who are skeptical that humans are the main cause of global warming are a fringe minority-and have a well-established history of being wrong.

Riverbank filtration is widely used in Europe and to some extent in the United States for the public water supply.

Explore the prospects for a deliberative approach to global governance that puts inclusive and transformative communication at the heart.

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Journalism provides a thorough understanding of environmental journalism around the world.

The prevalence of natural disasters in recent years has highlighted the importance of preparing adequately for disasters and dealing efficiently with their consequences.

The group of non-regulated contaminants termed "e;emerging contaminants"e; mainly comprises products used in large quantities in everyday life, such as human and veterinary pharmaceuticals, personal care products, surfactants and surfactant residues, plasticizers and various industrial additives.

The economic paradigms currently dominating the world are not sustainable.

This book is a valuable contribution to the debate about the harmful effects of environmental toxicants on human health, which is a growing concern in the 21st century.

Dieses Buch vermittelt die notwendigen volkswirtschaftlichen und privatwirtschaftlichen Grundlagen zur Beurteilung wasserwirtschaftlicher Projekte.

This book is a practical guide to the subject of numerical modelling of radioactivity dispersion in the marine environment.

The effects of climate change on food safety and plant health represent a relatively new area of study.

Among the many technological and legal efforts being made to restore our environment, electrostatic technologies may well hold the solution to the cleaning of air, water and soil.

Inspired by the new diversity of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in the twenty-first century, Hot Equations: Science, Fantasy, and the Radical Imagination on a Troubled Planet confronts the kinds of literary and political "e;realism"e; that continue to suppress the radical imagination.

In Iran, climate change combined with low adaptation capacity has an unparalleled impact on eco-systems as well as human livelihoods.

This proceedings book presents the main findings of the 13th International Seminar on Polymer Science and Technology ( ISPST 2018), which was held at Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, on November 10-22, 2018.

Gasströme aus Produktions- und Verbrennungsprozessen sind oft erheblich mit Schadstoffen belastet.

Museums, Children and Social Action examines the role that museums play in reaching, teaching and inspiring children as global citizens of the world and, looking to the future, argues that the sustainability of museums will come from strengthening relationships with young visitors.

Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi is a timely and groundbreaking account of the disturbing landscape of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown amidst an earthquake and tsunami on Japan's northeast coastline on March 11, 2011.

Textile materials shed microfibres during different phases of their life cycle.

In focus of this volume are five emerging megacities and mega-urban regions across the globe.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the role of fossil-based economies in the global energy transition toward sustainability.

Climate change not only involves rising temperatures but it can also alter the hydro-meteorological parameters of a region and the corresponding changes emerging in the various biotic or abiotic environmental features.

A hard look at the twin challenges of climate change and energy scarcity that examines historical precedents and allows no room for complacency.

This comprehensive dictionary covers wastewater processes, pollution control, and every major area of environmental engineering used in industry.

A part of the continuing effort to provide innovative in situ remediation techniques, Remediation of Firing-Range Impact Berms presents the results of a soil washing and leaching project.

A discussion of cutting-edge developments in policy on climate change and forced displacement from leading academics and practitioners.

This book offers a first-of-its-kind, standalone review of coalbed methane (CBM) in India, covering all the major technical and policy aspects.

The days of rationalist scientific management and deference to official data are behind us.

Acknowledging mounting socioeconomic inequality, a climate system in disarray, and a collapse of biodiversity that now threatens the very viability of life on earth for both present and future generations, Radical Environmental Resistance demystifies activists' ecological worldviews, their tactical motivations, and their diagnostic and prognostic framings.

The richer countries spend about US$165 billion yearly on overseas aid, mainly to keep human development going.

This book provides a practical, functional comparison among various institutions, tools, implementation practices and norms in environmental law across legal cultures.

Most publications on heavy metals and the environment have focused on environmental pathways and risks.

Protecting and maintaining water distributions systems is crucial to ensuring high quality drinking water.

This SpringerBrief focuses on Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) in the three basins in the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Seasonality is a severe constraint to sustainable rural livelihoods and a driver of poverty and hunger, particularly in the tropics.

This volume explores how the scientific tools of ecology can be used more effectively in dealing with a variety of complex environmental problems.

Nanotechnology is a promising technique that can facilitate sustainability across a wide range of areas.

Decision Support Systems for Risk-Based Management of Contaminated Sites addresses decision making in environmental risk management for contaminated sites, focusing on the potential role of decision support systems in informing the management of chemical pollutants and their effects.

This is the first climate change adaptation plan produced for a national faunal group anywhere in the world.

Today, as cities undergo rapid and dynamic transformations, riddled with uncertainties about the future, the roles of urban planning and urban planners lie in one of these new crossroad moments.

Across the world, the risks of wildfires are increasing and expanding.

Proceedings of a seminar focusing on planetary emergencies, followed in a multidisplinary approach since 1980 by permanent monitoring panels.

Environmental Hydrology presents a unified approach to the role of hydrology in environmental planning and management, emphasizing the consideration of the hydrological continuum in determining the fate and migration of chemicals as well as micro-organisms in the environment, both below the ground as well as on it.

This book is about the enactment, adaption, and ultimately fragmentation of government policy regarding the use of water in the American west.