Pollution and threats to the environment

This book is a comprehensive guide that explores the intricate relationship between chemistry and the environment.

This volume discusses the transformational role that carbon - both as a concept and as a distinct set of material forms and effects - has come to play in social and cultural life.

Die Musikerin Johaenne – Sängerin und Bassistin einer Band – steht auf ihrem Fenstersims im fünften Stock, und der Friedhof ist praktischerweise nebenan.

Energy: The Basics offers a concise and engaging introduction to energy, answering critical questions and providing accessible definitions of essential concepts and developments in the field.

'Everyone should read this book' - George Monbiot'A compelling read for anyone who cares about all lives on our planet' - Tanya Steele CBE, CEO of WWF UKIn this extraordinary and hopeful book, leading environmentalist Tony Juniper CBE identifies the real problem at the heart of the climate and nature crises.

This book analyzes social capital and preparations for natural hazards in the Philippines.

To examine the potential role of companion animals as sentinels of relevant, shared environmental exposures that may affect human aging and cancer, the National Cancer Policy Forum held a workshop in collaboration with the Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence and the Standing Committee on the Use of Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions to explore this promising and underutilized pathway for research.

The Tank Cascade System (TCS) of Sri Lanka is a connected series of tanks organized within a micro-catchment of a dry zone landscape for storing, conveying, and utilizing water from a temporary stream.

Urban Density Contextualized provides planners with the tools to understand, assess, and implement urban density successfully.

Natural radiation is omnipresent everywhere on the earth, and humans cannot avoid it.

Urban Density Contextualized provides planners with the tools to understand, assess, and implement urban density successfully.

This handbook brings together a collection of seminal research on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and investigates the effectiveness of the 17 goals for achieving transformative change toward sustainable development.

Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, with petroleum accounting for 90 percent of transportation fuels.

This book provides a unique introduction to Bitcoin mining's energy use and environmental impacts.

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) have become an essential technology used in navigation, positioning, and timing applications in meteorology, environmental monitoring, disaster management, and space exploration.

This book addresses a range of water resources management issues, especially those that are relevant to the water quality in Libya.

Since its first systematic application during the 1970s, bioremediation, or the exploitation of a biological system's degradative potential to combat toxic pollutants such as heavy metals, polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), cyanides, and radioactive material, has proven itself over time, and the many advances in molecular techniques have only amplified its utility.

This volume contains a selection of scientific papers which were presented at an international workshop on the impacts of climatic variability held in Wengen, Switzerland, September 1997.

This book systematically summarizes the occurrence and source of MPs through various municipal and industrial wastewaters.

'I love that I don't need to feel ashamed at my happiest, and that my joy no longer needs to go through a filter before it's ready to see the light of day'Laura Kate Dale and 15 other autistic authors from around the globe, open the door and invite you in to explore and celebrate the candid, uplifting and intimate moments of autistic joy.

Biokinetic modeling provides a mathematical technique for estimating absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of chemicals, including particles and metals, in humans.

The first book-length exploration of climate-driven reproductive anxiety that places race and social justice at the center.

Industrial stormwater is derived from precipitation and/or runoff that comes in contact with industrial manufacturing, processing, storage, or material overburden and then runs offsite and enters drainage systems or receiving waters.

The accident of Chernobyl enabled the scientific community to study nuclear fall-out effects in situ establishing new kinds of interpretation methods.

The consequences of poverty and race on the health and well-being of children are compounded and amplified by the impact of climate change in the form of heat, drought, flooding, or extreme weather events.

During the past century, the Everglades, one of the world's treasured ecosystems, has been dramatically altered by drainage and water management infrastructure to improve flood management, urban water supply, and agricultural production.

This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1879 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

A large number of scientific works are devoted to the study and modeling of accidental oil spills.

More than a decade after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the Gulf Research Program convened a diverse group of 60 experts in a virtual event to inform its efforts to enhance resilience to future offshore oil disasters in the Gulf of Mexico region.

Landscape as Dialogue redefines the process of understanding landscapes for students and practi-tioners so they can create more integrated, healthy places.

'A truly fascinating must-read' - Elinor Cleghorn, bestselling author of Unwell Women'Powerful and well-researched.

As the global pursuit for environmental sustainability and circular water economy grows ever ambitious, this book explores recent trends, methods, and advancements in industrial wastewater treatment.

What do rising temperatures and increasing extreme weather events mean for military readiness?

This book offers a long-overdue analysis of the ubiquity of eco-apocalypticism in current discourses on the climate crisis.

'Urgent, profound and compassionate ROBERT MACFARLANE'Truly original .

The rapid conversion of land to urban and suburban areas has profoundly altered how water flows during and following storm events, putting higher volumes of water and more pollutants into the nation's rivers, lakes, and estuaries.

Celebrated as an aquatic form of divinity for thousands of years, the Yamuna is one of India's most sacred rivers.

Gen Zs first existential toolkit for combating eco-guilt and burnout while advocating for climate justice.

Responding to climate change will entail massive socio-emotional and behavioral changes.

The subject matter of this book is divided into two sections detailing Soil (focussing on geochemistry, contamination, and remediation) and Water (focussing on hydrogeochemistry, crisis, desertification, and modelling) including case studies, review studies, and essential soil remediation and water.