Pollution and threats to the environment

Education for Social Justice is a statement of the role of education in promoting social justice.

Membrane technology has received great popularity in many industrial sectors and significantly enhanced our abilities to restructure production processes, protect the environment and public health, and provide competitive strategies for separation and purification.

Contemporary society is dependent on man's ability to work fundamental changes in the natural environment.

When you edit a book, the editors should ask themselves, why are we - ing this and whom are we doing this for?

This volume provides a unique collection of contributions addressing both the 'too much' and 'too little' sides of the nitrogen story.

Ocean and coastal law has grown rapidly in the past three decades as a specialty area within natural resources law and environmental law.

This third edition of the book has been completely re-written, providing a wider scope and enhanced coverage.

This book discusses options for an improved compliance system under the Paris Climate Agreement by addressing  current weaknesses.

This book provides extensive information on high-temperature H2S removal for integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) coarse gas, together with briefly introductions to the concept of clean coal technology, and to the mechanism and kinetics of hot coal gas desulfurizers.

Biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate due to anthropogenic activities around the world.

Die konkreten gesellschaftlichen Folgen des Klimawandels sind sehr unsicher und nicht vorhersagbar.

Some children just haven't read the parenting books.

This book reviews the work in the field of nanoadsorbents derived from natural polymers, with a special emphasis on materials finding application in water remediation.

Urban Mobility sheds light on mobility in twenty-first-century Canadian cities.

This book highlights several methods and quantitative implementations of both probabilistic and fuzzy-based approaches to uncertainty quantification and uncertainty propagation through environmental subsurface pollution models with uncertain input parameters.

Provides a novel insight into global climate governance, illuminating scope for mobilizing action in response to the Climate Emergency.

This book is a sister volume to Volume 20 of the Handbook of Environmental Engineering Series, "e;Integrated Natural Resources Management"e;, and expands on the themes of that volume by addressing the conservation and protection of natural resources in an environmental engineering context through state-of-the-art research methodologies and technologies.

This book serves as an introduction to the burgeoning field of ecothology, illustrating both its variety and its commonality across different Christian theological divides.

Living Shorelines: The Science and Management of Nature-based Coastal Protection compiles, synthesizes and interprets the current state of the knowledge on the science and practice of nature-based shoreline protection.

Irrigated agriculture produces about 40% of all food and fibre on about 16% of all cropped land.

In his investigation of the nature of madness and civilization, the French social theorist Michel Foucault expressed the difficulty most scholars have in addressing episodes of confusion that lead a society into acts of self-destruction and chaos.

When you look at the world through the lens of upfront carbon, everything changes The astonishing upfront carbon of everyday objects from coffee cups to heat pumps, and why electric bikes, not electric cars, are the answer.

Over the past few decades, agriculture and related sectors in West Africa have been challenged by climate change, which has become one of the most important developmental issues in the region.

This book presents a comprehensive, up-to-date review of technologies for cleaning up contaminants in groundwater and soil.

How many of our efforts to save the environment are effective?

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Tracing the history of environmental policy and politics from the seminal moments of 1978 at Love Canal to current environmental justice disputes, this in-depth study offers a cross-border analysis of the modern environmental movement that should be of interest to students and practitioners, academics and activists.

This book highlights how climate change has affected migration in the Indian subcontinent.

In a world facing a growing water crisis, conflicts regarding water sharing and environmental issues are expected to grow, especially in transboundary river basins, where 40% of the world's population lives.

Originally published in 1994, this book links the distant past with the urgent problems of today, taking the reader on a literary and scientific tour of global pollution from pre-history to the post-industrial age.

Located within the field of environmental humanities, this volume engages with one of the most pressing contemporary environmental challenges of our time: how can we shift our understanding and realign what water means to us?

This thesis presents research focusing on the improvement of high-resolution global black carbon (BC) emission inventory and application in assessing the population exposure to ambient BC.

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

This work investigates law as an instrument to deal with the challenges of sea level rise.

A provocative work that urges governments and policymakers to concentrate on existing policies and tools for combating climate change.

As climate change and extreme weather events increasingly threaten traditional landscapes and livelihoods of entire communities the need to study its impact on human migration and population displacement has never been greater.

Hundreds of million tonnes of agricultural and food waste are produced each year around the world, most of which is just that, waste.

The report reviews NARSTO's recent report on atmospheric science issues associated with management of airborne particulate matter (PM) to achieve air quality standards.

This book intervenes in contemporary debates about climate activism, militancy, and strategy that have been gathering force in radical ecological circles.

This book describes the water security challenges with focus on water scarcity and quality in our rapidly changing world.

Learn how to green your business with the help of one of the UK's leading corporate activists.

Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Novel responds to the critical need for transdisciplinary research on the relationship between colonialism and catastrophe.

This book presents research from across the globe on how gender relationships in agriculture are changing.

Bioremediation is the use of microorganisms' metabolism to degrade waste contaminants (sewage, domestic, and industrial effluents) into non-toxic or less toxic materials by natural biological processes.

Why doesn't everyone see sustainability as a huge issue?

This book explores the work of important authors in the search for a transition towards more ethical design focused on more-than-human coexistence.

Volume 3 covers recent research with expanded coverage on this important area of remediation.

This book covers cadmium contamination of soil and plants, its sources, acute and long-term impacts on the environment and human health, and overall challenges posed by the global poisoning issue.

A harrowing journey through the past, present, and future of mining, this expertly-researched account ends on a vision for how industry can better serve the needs of humanity.