Pollution and threats to the environment

This book presents information on common-to-rare organisms from around the world that inhabit freshwater habitats.

What can justice and sustainability mean, pragmatically speaking, in today's cities?

Originally published in 1973 and based on papers published in The International Journal of Environmental Studies, this book discusses the impact of road vehicles on the environment.

This collection clarifies the background of land and property problems in conflict-affected settings, and explores appropriate policy measures for peace-building.

The automobile is one of the inventions that have made a decisive contribution to human mobility, and consequently it has become an inseparable part of modern human society.

Humanity is facing an unprecedented global catastrophe as a result of global warming.

Although poor air quality is probably not the hazard that is foremost in peoples' minds as they board planes, it has been a concern for years.

'The global oil industry is an exceptionally complex one, and its importance to governments, business and society as a whole is immense.

Extremely hazardous substances can be released accidentally as a result of chemical spills, industrial explosions, fires, or accidents involving railroad cars and trucks transporting EHSs.

Despite the findings on global climate change presented by the scientific community, there remains a significant gap between its recommendations and the actions of the public and policy makers.

Climate Change Impacts on Coastal Soil and Water Management discusses the latest approaches for monitoring soil and water degradation in coastal regions under current climate conditions as well as potential further changes in the future.

The urban environment - buildings, cities and infrastructure - represents one of the most important contributors to climate change, while at the same time holding the key to a more sustainable way of living.

This book discusses energy transfer, fluid flow and pollution in built environments.

This book is written in a simple, straightforward manner without complicated mathematical derivatives.

Fluid flow and solute transport within the vadose zone, the unsaturated zone between the land surface and the water table, can be the cause of expanded plumes arising from localized contaminant sources.

When this two-day meeting was proposed, it was certainly not conceived as a celebration, much less as a party.

Dieses Buch ist aus einer zweisemestrigen Vorlesung über die Physik der Atmosphäre im Rahmen des Faches Umweltphysik and der Universität Heidelberg hervorgegangen.

In all of the major challenges facing the world currently, whether it be climate change, terrorism and conflict, or urbanization and demographic change, no progress is possible without the alleviation of poverty.

"e;Wetland Restoration: Shanghai Dalian Lake Project"e; introduces the whole Shanghai DaLian wetland restoration project, including the background investigation of the wetland, the overall planning of wetland restoration, its detailed design, engineering construction and engineering effects.

The change in climatic conditions has resulted in a series of events from the melting of polar ice to the rising of sea levels.

The 10th Urban Environment Symposium (10UES) was held on 9-11 June 2010 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Life Adrift critically engages with two of the most defining issues of our contemporary global political economy: migration and climate change.

The first hopeful book about climate change, The Future Earth shows readers how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades.

This book presents recently-developed crop, soil, and management practices that can be used to improve phosphorous use efficiency in agriculture.

Formaldehyde is ubiquitous in indoor and outdoor air, and everyone is exposed to formaldehyde at some concentration daily.

A broad survey of Irish literature''s environmental focus, this book shows the significance of narratives in addressing the climate crisis.

Complete coverage of air pollution from its sources to its health and environmental impacts, for advanced students and researchers.

The Low-Carbon Good Life is about how to reverse and repair four interlocking crises arising from modern material consumption: the climate crisis, growing inequality, biodiversity loss and food-related ill-health.

The economic paradigms currently dominating the world are not sustainable.

In 1996, the Guatemalan civil war ended with the signing of the Peace Accords, facilitated by the United Nations and promoted as a beacon of hope for a country with a history of conflict.

Across contemporary Asia, each day dawns with a new story about living in an era of profound environmental change.

The public depends on competent risk assessment from the federal government and the scientific community to grapple with the threat of pollution.

Aviation is integral to the global economy but it is also one of the main obstacles to environmentally sustainable development.

Environmental Treatment Technologies for Municipal, Industrial and Medical Wastes will provide the reader with a simple and clear path to analyze the full range of options to manage/treat any solid, hazardous, or medical waste problems/issues at hand.

Every movement has its bellweathers, the ideas that lead the way and rally its adherents towards a set of shared values and visions.

The purpose of this book is to introduce the phosphorus (P) removal structure as a new BMP for reducing dissolved P loading to surface waters from non-point source pollution, provide guidance on designing site-specific P removal structures, and provide instruction on use of the design software, "e;Phrog"e; (Phosphorus Removal Online Guidance).

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This book calls for more holistic place-based action to address the social and environmental crisis, deploying the Deep Place approach as one contribution to the toolbox of actions that will underpin the UN Decade of Action towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

Earth is the only planet known to have fire.

Explains how communities and ecosystems everywhere can be strengthened to survive climate chaos.

This book consists of selected papers from the 2022 4th International Conference on Environment Sciences and Renewable Energy, which was held as a fully virtual conference during May 27-29, 2022.

Numerous studies have revealed that the poor disproportionately bear the burden of environmental problems in America today.

Die schädlichen Auswirkungen der Luftverschmutzung sind sowohl ein ökologisches als auch ein ökonomisches Problem.

This volume calls upon over a dozen Indus observers to imagine a scenario for the Indus basin in which transboundary cooperation over water resources overcomes the insecurity arising from water dependence and scarcity.

Water management in industrialised western countries has long been seen as a technical process associated with pipes, drains and bureaucracies.

As the dazzling economic and social changes in China have imposed substantial impact upon the quality of environmental governance, it is time to review the problems and progress in the politics of China's environmental protection.

An award-winning author and photographer returns to the Arctic to document the effects of climate change.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of rivers affected by natural and anthropogenic disturbances in the southern Chile and Patagonia.

Praised for its ability to kill insects effectively and cheaply and reviled as an ecological hazard, DDT continues to engender passion across the political spectrum as one of the world's most controversial chemical pesticides.