Pollution and threats to the environment

This book deals with issues and concerns for the human environment in the developing countries incorporating natural processes and systems, pollution removal technology, energy conservation, environmental impact assessment process, economics, culture, political structure and societal equity from a management point of view.

This book is a machine-generated literature overview highlighting the importance of natural capital while studying the economics of ecology.

This book highlights processes, impacts and management practices of bamboo expansion occurring in areas where it is distributed around the world.

Effective Waste Management and Circular Economy: Legislative Framework and Strategies is an invaluable resource for researchers, policymakers, implementers and PhD, graduate and Under Graduate level students in universities and colleges analysing the legal framework, strategies in waste management, circular economy adoption, use of mathematical and statistical modelling in setting waste management strategies, sanitation and Hygiene in waste management.

An argument that humanists have the toolsand the responsibilityto mobilize political power to tackle climate changeAs climate catastrophes intensify, why do literary and cultural studies scholars so often remain committed to the separation of aesthetic study from the nitty-gritty of political change?

Originally published in 1994, Paradise Lost?

The Water Research Institute at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) is proud to have initiated and sponsored the International Workshop "e;Soil and Aquifer Pollution: Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids - Contamination and Recla- tion"e;, held May 13th-15th, 1996, on the Technion campus in Haifa.

Although much is known about the processes and effects of land degradation and climate change, little is understood about the links between them.

Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "e;The Earth Summit"e;, the Rio+20 conference in 2012 brought life back to sustainable development by putting it at the centre of a new global development partnership, one in which sustainable development is the basis for eradicating poverty, upholding human development and transforming economies.

This book explores who climate refugees are and how environmental justice might be used to overcome legal obstacles preventing them from being recognized at an international level.

This book helps the readers get a holistic understanding of the emergence of biochar-nanocomposite research.

This book compares how governments in 192 countries perceive climate change related health risks and which measures they undertake to protect their populations.

Leadership for the Great Transition-a changemaker's toolkit for cultivating personal and community resilienceThe Regeneration Handbook offers an abundance of insights, stories, tools, practices, and resources for experienced and aspiring changemakers to step into their full power at this time of unprecedented global crisis.

Energy Poverty and Vulnerability provides novel and critical perspectives on the drivers and consequences of energy-related injustices in the home.

This book addressed the pressing challenges of climate change, land scarcity, and food security, offering a comprehensive synthesis of research on using, managing, and reclaiming marginal lands in Africa.

Life on Earth is critically dependent upon the continuous cycling of water between oceans, continents and the atmosphere.

Volume 2: Handbook of Spatio-Temporal Monitoring of Water Resources and Climate is aimed to describe the current state of knowledge and developments of geospatial technologies (Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems) for assessing and managing water resources under climate change.

As the uncertainty of global and local contexts continues to amplify, the Routledge Handbook for Creative Futures responds to the increasing urgency for reimagining futures beyond dystopias and utopias.

This book examines the threat that climate change poses to the projects of poverty eradication, sustainable development, and biodiversity preservation.

'An important tool for researchers and decision-makers alike' Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO) 'An invaluable source for everyone who needs to be up-to-date on international efforts to solve global environmental challenges.

An overview of state-of-the-art research on how river environments impact biodiversity, species invasions, population dynamics, and the spread of waterborne disease.

Land deterioration, drought, desertification, and water resources shrinkage threaten natural resources, negatively impacting environmental, economic, and political stability.

Die Modellierung hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten als ein selbständiges Arbeitsgebiet herausgebildet.

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Peter McManners gets underneath the well-known facts about the unsustainable nature of the aviation industry and argues for fundamental change to our travelling habits.

This is the first examination of how China is currently dealing with environmental problems and challenges, and of its successes, failures and dilemmas.

In Tropical Forest Ecology, Egbert G.

Defining ecology as a system-theory oriented synthesis ofboth earth and life sciences, the book aims at a novel co-herent understanding of chemicalimpact on the lower at-mosphere and characteristic types of terrestrial ecosystems.

When the Nuclear Safety Commission in Japan reviewed safety-design guidelines for nuclear plants in 1990, the regulatory agency explicitly ruled out the need to consider prolonged AC power loss.

This book systematically investigates the nitrogen removal characteristics of two screened aerobic denitrifying bacteria and their applications in nitrogen oxides emissions reduction.

This volume looks at the ways in which climate change education relates to broader ideas of justice, equity, and social transformation, and ultimately calls for a rapid response to the need for climate education reform.

This book considers all aspects of performability engineering, providing a holistic view of the activities associated with a product throughout its entire life cycle of the product, as well as the cost of minimizing the environmental impact at each stage, while maximizing the performance.

Both academic and popular representations of globalization, critical or celebratory, have tended to conceptualize it primarily in spatial terms, rather than simultaneously temporal ones.

Hydropower generation by construction of large dams attracts considerable attention as a feasible renewable energy source to meet the power demand in Asian cities.

The literature on cavitation chemistry is ripe with conjectures, possibilities, heuris- tic arguments, and intelligent guesses.

This book presents a systems thinking approach in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals for sustainable national development in vulnerable countries.

This book offers anthropological insights into disasters in Latin America.

Emerging contaminants are chemical and biological agents for which there is growing concern about their potential health and environmental effects.

Fridays for Future: Die weltweiten Schülerstreiks für Klimaschutz rütteln die Öffentlichkeit auf.

Focusing on air pollution, energy efficiency and climate change, this book provides an introduction to Japan's environmental policies and regulations, and offers economic analyses and RIAs (Regulatory Impact Analysis) of environmental regulations implemented or planned by the national and local governments.

Anthropos, in the sense of species as well as cultures and ethics, locates humans as part of much larger orders of existence - fundamental when thinking about climate change.

Voters expect their elected representatives to pursue good policy and presume this will be securely founded on the best available knowledge.

In the coming decades, countries around the world will face increasingly severe challenges related to global climate change.

This book comprehensively examines the complex relationship between forests and climate change from a biological perspective.

An essential book for everyone who seeks to reclaim the commons and build a just and equitable society.

Environmental Impact Assessments and Mitigation examines various assessments for developmental projects in the housing, mining, energy, and waste management areas.

This book discusses recent changes in the European legislation for exhaust emissions from motor vehicles.