Pollution and threats to the environment

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.

The book addresses the entire water cycle.

Climate Change and Coastal Tourism includes case studies on climate change and coastal tourism that explore current threats to, and consequences of, climate change on existing tourism coastal destinations.

This book discusses air pollution in Delhi from scientific, social and entrepreneurial perspectives.

This volume uses chemometric mathematical modelling approaches to investigate geographic areas at risk of ecological degradation due to pollution.

Australian Deserts: Ecology and Landscapes is about the vast sweep of the Outback, a land of expanses making up three-quarters of the continent - the heart of Australia.

This book provides insights into microfiber pollution in textile industries that would help researchers and professionals to work from the textile point of view to mitigate the problem, and create a green sustainable future.

The book presents the entire spectrum of the microplastics problem in our waters, from the collection of water samples to their analysis and interpretation.

This book presents recent lessons learned in the context of research and development for various dryland ecosystems, focusing on water resources management, land and vegetation cover degradation and remediation, and socioeconomic aspects, as well as integrated approaches to ensuring water and land security in view of the current and predicted climate change.

Water is a strategic natural resource of vital importance to all nations.

This book is a product of the initial phase of a broader study evaluating the voluntary and regulatory compliance protocols that are used to account for the contributions of forests in U.

As part of the effort to phase out the use of stratospheric ozone-depleting substances, such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), the U.

Environmental issues continue to burden governments and economies throughout the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union.

'Sound and solid case studies on vulnerability and adaptation have been woefully lacking in the international discourse on climate change.

Consent: Legacies, Representations, and Frameworks for the Future examines the conceptualisation of 'consent' across various historical periods, cultures, and disciplines to offer an expansive, pluralistic vision for future articulations of consent as it circulates throughout contemporary life in sexual encounters, medical contexts, and media representations.

The aim of this book is to link demand and supply of environmental information in the field of Life Cycle Management.

When considering biosphere-atmosphere exchange of trace gases and volatile aerosols, significant advances have been made both from an experimental and modelling point of view and on several scales.

The fundamental ecological, cultural and economic roles of insects give them central importance in functioning of terrestrial and inland water ecosystems worldwide.

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The complexity of current water resource management poses many challenges.

This interdisciplinary collection of essays focuses on critical and theoretical responses to the apocalypse of the late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century cultural production.

The Arctic and its unique natural resources have become objects of increasing concern.

Oxidation and removal of atmospheric constituents involve complex sequences of reactions which can lead to the production of photo-oxidants such as ozone.

This book reviews all important aspects of wastewater treatment with the aim of shedding new light on these effects through a combined understanding of traditional and new paradigms.

Virtually every figure in the climate justice literature agrees that states are presently failing to discharge their duties to take action on climate change.

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

Energy policy is at a crossroads.

Junge Menschen brechen auf der Straße das Recht und berufen sich dabei auf das Klima-Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts, nach dem die Lebenden nicht das Recht haben, die Freiheit künftiger Generationen zu halbieren.

This book explores environmental challenges in the Baltic region from an economic perspective.

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This volume brings together, for the first time, a wide-ranging and detailed body of information identifying and assessing risk, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in urban centres in low- and middle-income countries.

Introduction to Environmental Toxicology is designed as a concise text, introducing students to the fundamentals of this important subject.

Filling a void in academic and policy-relevant literature on the topic of the green economy in the Arabian Gulf, this edited volume provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the key themes and challenges relating to the green economy in the region, including in the energy and water sectors and the urban environment, as well as with respect to cross-cutting issues, such as labour, intellectual property and South-South cooperation.

From climate change to GM foods, we are increasingly confronted with complex, interconnected social and environmental problems that span disciplines, knowledge bases and value systems.

This book delivers current state-of-the-science knowledge of tree ecophysiology, with particular emphasis on adaptation to a novel future physical and chemical environment.

What explains our attitudes towards the environment?

The second edition of Dessler and Parson's acclaimed book provides an integrated treatment of the science, technology, economics, policy, and politics of climate change.

This book presents the select proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Conception to Execution (TIPCE 2022) at IIT Roorkee and emphasizes the understanding of transportation infrastructure projects being conceptualized, designed, and executed so as to bring the desired development in the focused area.

Senses of place helps us navigate the stability and change in a world of multiple interconnected global challenges.

A top priority in climate research is obtaining broad-extent and long-term data to support analyses of historical patterns and trends, and for model development and evaluation.

The NATO Advanced Study Institute "e;Flow and Transport Processes in Complex - structed Geometries: from cities and vegetative canopies to engineering problems"e; was held in Kyiv, Ukraine in the period of May 4 - 15, 2004.

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

Coastal areas face increasing pressures from land use change, developmental activities, shoreline erosion, biodiversity losses and natural calamities.

The purpose of risk assessment is to support science-based decisions about how to solve complex societal problems.