Pollution and threats to the environment

What kind of decision-making should multinationals engage in to create a sustainable company?

The first volume of this comprehensive global perspective on Integrated Drought Management is focused on understanding drought, causes, and the assessment of drought impacts.

Covers the problem of accumulative chemicals in the environment; for researchers in environmental science, environmental policy, economics and toxicology.

The world's nations are moving toward agreements that will bind us together in an effort to limit future greenhouse gas emissions.

Episodes of air pollution throughout the 20th and 21st centuries have had a huge influence socially, economically and politically.

For the very first time, this book provides updated, integrated and organized, theoretical and methodological information on regional climate change and the associated environmental and socio-economic impacts on a regional scale.

An overview of the forms of agency in urban climate politics, discussing their strengths, limitations, and the power dynamics between them.

This book provides a concise synthesis of how toxic chemical pollutants affect physiological processes in teleost fish.

The authors and editors of this volume state that with the intensive growth of global industrialization and urbanization, the consumption of various resources and materials, such as energy, minerals, and even water, is increasing at an amazing speed, which poses great pressure on material resources.

Access to new sources of energy and their efficient conversion to provide useful work have been key drivers of economic growth since the industrial revolution.

This book presents a number of innovative uses of fly ash.

This book focuses on interdisciplinary issues of human health in the changing urban environments of India's largest megacities-Delhi and Mumbai.

This book focuses on the robustness analysis of high accuracy surface modeling method (HASM) to yield good performance of it.

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Increasing levels of auto ownership and use are causing severe social, economic, and environmental problems in virtually all countries in Europe and North America.

This book offers a comprehensive and authoritative review of the key environmental areas and compartments where fragrances have been found and discusses the current challenges of their presence and potential hazards.

China, a still developing economy comprising a fifth of the world's population, will play a key role in the global movement towards reducing carbon emissions.

This book describes the impact of modernization on the organization and sustainability of Urban Water Systems in Europe (UWSEs).

It is important for the reader to understand clearly the objectives of these papers.

This book examines how states in eight countries across Asia and the Pacific address internal displacement in the context of disasters and climate change.

This two-volume work presents comprehensive, accurate information on the present status and contemporary development in phycoremediation of various types of domestic and industrial wastewaters.

Hydroclimatic Extremes in the Middle East and North Africa: Assessment, Attribution and Socioeconomic Impacts focuses on assessing the current situation of hydroclimatic extremes in the MENA region, with particular emphasis on dry and wet extreme events.

The amount of hazardous waste in the United States has been estimated at 275 million metric tons in licensed sites alone.

The authors and editors of this volume state that with the intensive growth of global industrialization and urbanization, the consumption of various resources and materials, such as energy, minerals, and even water, is increasing at an amazing speed, which poses great pressure on material resources.

In this awesome new graphic novel for children, kids will learn to never give up on themselves in this charming children's book!

Chlorofluorocarbons are known to be effective spray can propellants, solvents and refrigerators and were often used in deodorants, refrigerators and other goods.

The chemical pollution that irrevocably damages today's environment is, although many would like us to believe otherwise, the legacy of conscious choices made long ago.

Being a teenager is tricky at the best of times.

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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.

The impact on climate from 200 years of industrial development is an everyday fact of life, but did humankind's active involvement in climate change really begin with the industrial revolution, as commonly believed?

Das Kreislaufwirtschafts- und Abfallgesetz vom Oktober 1996 stellt Unternehmen vor eine der größten Herausforderungen.

A multidisciplinary review of salt marshes, describing how they function and respond to external pressures such as sea-level rise.

Wer denkt beim Stichwort "Klimawandel" noch an verzweifelte Eisbären auf dahinschmelzenden Eisschollen?

The majority of clothes we use regularly are made up of plastic-based materials like polyester, rayon, nylon, and acrylic.

A fascinating look at the perils and promise of geoengineering and our potential future on a warming planetThe risks of global warming are pressing and potentially vast.

Spatiotemporal Analysis of Air Pollution and Its Application in Public Health reviews, in detail, the tools needed to understand the spatial temporal distribution and trends of air pollution in the atmosphere, including how this information can be tied into the diverse amount of public health data available using accurate GIS techniques.

From a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in environmental economics, an innovative account of how and why "e;green thinking"e; could cure many of the world's most serious problems-from global warming to pandemicsSolving the world's biggest problems-from climate catastrophe and pandemics to wildfires and corporate malfeasance-requires, more than anything else, coming up with new ways to manage the powerful interactions that surround us.

It is beyond doubt that the climate is changing, presenting us with one of the biggest challenges in the twenty-first-century.

Unpacks humanness and how it shapes our interactions with the environment, helping readers to make responsible decisions about the future.

This edited volume reviews important contemporary issues through relevant case studies and research in China and Australia, such as the challenges posed by climate change, the development of eco-urban design, research on sustainable habitats and the relationship between ecology, green architecture and city regeneration, as well as, in general, the future of the city in the new millennium.

Chlorofluorocarbons are known to be effective spray can propellants, solvents and refrigerators and were often used in deodorants, refrigerators and other goods.

This book summarizes the new major research findings about formation mechanism and control strategies of haze in China, including basic theories, key technologies, equipment and platforms and the applications and implementations of control technologies, in implementing the Strategic Priority Research Program (Class B) of Chinese Academy of Sciences.