Pollution and threats to the environment

This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems and show how together we can solve them.

This book is a comprehensive account of all significant energy sources, evaluated according to their capacity, reliability, cost, safety and effects on the environment.

This book presents a historically situated explanation of the rise of global water governance and the contemporary challenges that global water governance seeks to address.

Up to now, environmental policies have relied mainly on rules, regulations, and prohibitions.

Volume 1: Spatio-Temporal Monitoring of Forests and Climate is aimed to describe the recent progress and developments of geospatial technologies (remote sensing and GIS) for assessing, monitoring and managing fragile Himalayan ecosystems and their sustainability under climate change.

A multi-disciplinary analysis of the evolution of water politics and policy by an international team of distinguished experts.

The Sunday Times BestsellerA new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet.

This book details theexperiences gained by the Catalan Water Agency (ACA) in a Mediterraneanwatershed the Catalan River Basin District following the launch of the EUWater Framework Directive (WFD) in the year 2000.

Climate change is here.

This book discusses the law and practice of the European Union's new chemical regulatory programmes known under the acronym 'REACH'.

This edited volume advances our understanding of climate relocation (or planned retreat), an emerging topic in the fields of climate adaptation and hazard risk, and provides a platform for alternative voices and views on the subject.

Windpower is a modular technology, and compared to most other power plants also rather small scale.

Using the most successful evaluation system in the world for measuring impact and ROI the ROI Methodology learn how to measure the success of all business programs and projects involving environmental initiatives, health-related programs for employees and citizens, and various safety programs in all types of settings Few topics are more important than the health and safety of employees, associates, and citizens.

This book addresses the latest research advances, innovations, and applications in the field of urban drainage and water management as presented by leading researchers, scientists and practitioners from around the world at the 11th International Conference on Urban Drainage Modelling (UDM), held in Palermo, Italy from 23 to 26 September, 2018.

Shifts the conversation from abstract ';global warming' to the deeply human impacts of heatand how our efforts to keep cool have made the problem worse.

As major environmental crises loom, Christina Ergas makes the argument in Surviving Collapse that one possible way forward is a radical sustainable development that turns the focus from monetary gain to social and ecological regeneration and transformation.

This book explores urban environments and their impact on resilience, livability, climate adaptation, health, and societal well-being.

Access state-of-the-art research about trace element contamination and its impact on human health in Trace Elements as Contaminants and Nutrients: Consequences in Ecosystems and Human Health.

Waste management poses increasing challenges to both the protection of the environment and to human health.

The state of the art of the impact assessment of recycled hazardous waste materials on surface and ground waters is presented.

This book challenges mainstream Western IEJ (intergenerational environmental justice) in a manner that privileges indigenous philosophies and highlights the value these philosophies have for solving global environmental problems.

A concise yet thorough overview of the environmental issues, problems, and controversies facing the world's largest and most populous continent-Asia.

This book studies the role of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as an advocate for greater environmental responsibility and analyses the major achievements and outcomes of two landmark conferences - Stockholm (1972) and Rio (1992) - which set the agenda for the future role of the UNEP.

This textbook on Environmental Biotechnology not only presents an unbiased overview of the practical biological approaches currently employed to address environmental problems, but also equips readers with a working knowledge of the science that underpins them.

Geoengineering provides new possibilities for humans to deal with dangerous climate change and its effects but at the same time creates new risks to the planet.

Applies organization theory to the current period of human impact on climate change, chemical waste, habitat destruction, and despeciation.

For many years, it has been recognised that improving the energy performance of the existing housing stock is vital if energy demand is to be reduced to combat climate change.

This book contains papers presented in the 6th International Conference on Civil, Offshore & Environmental Engineering (ICCOEE2020) under the banner of World Engineering, Science & Technology Congress (ESTCON2020) will be held from 13th to 15th July 2021 at Borneo Convention Centre, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.

It is clear that the climate is changing and ecosystems are becoming severely degraded.

Volume 1 of a two volume set, this book is a self-contained, state-of-the-art analysis of remote sensing, ground-based, and spatial techniques used for characterizing biomass burning events and pollution.

This book, which is divided into three parts, gives a state-of-the-art report on technical developments in instrumentation and on theoretical advancements in acoustic remote sensing.

In recent years, interest in climate change has rapidly increased in the social sciences and yet there is still relatively little published material in the field that seeks to understand the development of climate change as a perceived social problem.

This volume offers detailed information on the behaviour of various water pollutants, and on the principles and concepts of groundwater flow and transport.

This edited volume explores the crucial intersections between Indigenous Land-Based Knowledge (ILK), sustainability, settler colonialism, and the ongoing environmental crisis.

Das vollständige deutschsprachige Werk zum Thema Abfall, das alle Fragen der Umweltbeauftragten auf kommunaler Ebene beantwortet.

Sauber, grün und nachhaltig - so beschreibt die Gemeinschaft Südostasiatischer Nationen (ASEAN) ihre Vision von Umweltschutz, nachhaltiger Ressourcennutzung und einem hohen Lebensstandard für die Region.

In the past few years, numerous authors have highlighted the emergence of transnational climate initiatives, such as city networks, private certification schemes, and business self-regulation in the policy domain of climate change.

International concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental communi- ties over traces of xenobiotics in foods and in both abiotic and biotic envi- ronments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published research papers and progress reports, and archival documentations.

This book is a study of the making of foreign policy of China, a rising power in the 21st century.

Interweaving the human aspects of river control with analysis of hydro-physical data, including historical data over the last few centuries, this monograph is a comprehensive evaluation of the Damodar's lower reaches.

The focus of this edited volume is to identify challenges facing organizations in achieving zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and a new energy economy, and to explore solutions from various sectors of the economy to enable the transition to a zero emissions future.

Drought is one of the likely consequences of climate change in many regions of the world.

Das Öko-Auditing ist eines der wichtigsten betrieblichen Werkzeuge des professionellen Umweltschutz-Managements.

As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has fundamentally reshaped not only the landscape of governance, but also social and political thought throughout the world.

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It is becoming increasingly recognized that for the optimal sustainable development and use of natural resources, an integrated approach to water management, agriculture, food security and energy is required.

The National Human Monitoring Program (NHMP) identifies concentrations of specific chemicals in human tissues, including toxicologic testing and risk assessment determinations.

Ecotones are interface zones between different ecosystems.

The book is about global energy use, its past and present, and its increasingly uncertain future.

The Alsea Logging and Aquatic Resources Study, commissioned by the Oregon Legislature in 1959, marked the beginning of four decades of research in the Pacific Northwest devoted to understanding the impacts of forest practices on water quality, water quantity, aquatic habitat, and aquatic organism popu- tions.