Pollution and threats to the environment

This book addresses topics related to the impact of invasive species including biosecurity, demographics, species diversity and food security.

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The third edition of this well-received textbook delivers a concise overview of global and individual environmental pollution for undergraduate courses, presenting students with the tools to assess environmental issues.

The first symposium on sediment/freshwater interactions was held in Amsterdam, in 1976, and the second was held at Kingston, Ontario, Canada, in 1981.

Driven by community-based organizations and supported by a growing body of literature, the environmental justice movement contends that poor and minority populations are burdened with more than their share of toxic waste, pesticide runoff, and other hazardous byproducts of our modern economic life.

This book details the state-of-the-art methodological advances for delineating the toxicology and working mechanisms of nanomaterials, microplastics, fine aerosol particulates (PM2.

Organotin compounds, used as antifouling biocides since 1960, are chemical compounds that act as endocrine disrupters.

This book is a theoretically rich and empirically grounded account of UK trade union engagement with climate change over the last three decades.

Sustainability at Work is a compelling guide for anyone who seeks both a successful career and a career that makes a positive difference in society.

Remote Sensing plays a key role in monitoring the various manifestations of global climate change.

A proposal to reframe the Anthropocene as an age of actual and emerging coexistence with earth system variability, encompassing both human dignity and environmental sustainability.

This book comprises select papers from the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Civil Engineering (ICETCE 2018).

We review using iodine incorporated in calcium carbonate (including biogenic) minerals as a proxy for dissolved oxygen in seawater.

The second edition of Ecological Forest Management Handbook continues to provide forestry professionals and students with basic principles of ecological forest management and their applications at regional and site-specific levels.

This is an extended version of lectures that were held at the summer workshop Atmosphiirische Umweltforschung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Technik und Natur (At- mospheric Environmental Research between Technology and Nature) at the Techni- 16, 1996.

Among its key responsibilities, the U.

The book advances knowledge about climate change adaptation practices through a series of case studies.

This book provides an accessible and critical appraisal of Australia's regional energy transition initiatives.

This book presents a history of radioecology, from World War II through to the critical years of the Cold War, finishing with a discussion of recent developments and future implications for the field.

Chemikalien werden vielerorts und in größeren Mengen in Lagerbetrieben, beim Handel und in Produktionsbetrieben gelagert.

Climate Change and Soil Interactions examines soil system interactions and conservation strategies regarding the effects of climate change.

The lntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recently summarized the state ofthe art in research on climate change (Climate Change 1995).

Explains the current state of play in relation to biodiversity loss and explores a sustainable path for the future.

An understanding of long-range transport of air pollutants in the atmosphere requires a knowledge of the relevant atmospheric dynamic and chemical processes active at the regional scale as well as the temporal and spatial distribution of emissions.

In aquatic ecosystems, the oligochaetes are often a major component of the community.

This book looks at the media's coverage of Climate Change and investigates its role in representing the complex realities of climate uncertainties and its effects on communities and the environment.

This book presents the most recent innovations, trends, concerns and practical challenges, and solutions in the field of water resources for arid areas.

This book examines the key Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) relating to environmental sustainability and provides a cutting-edge assessment of current progress with the view of achieving these goals by 2030.

Written for researchers and graduate students, this book explores the different processes through which corporations engage with climate change.

Pioneers, Leaders and Followers in Multilevel and Polycentric Climate Governance focuses on pioneers, leaders and followers as central drivers for international climate change governance innovations.

The clothing industry employs 25 million people globally contributing to many livelihoods and the prosperity of communities, to women's independence, and the establishment of significant infrastructures in poorer countries.

Originally published in 1987.

Climate change, nuclear proliferation, and the threat of a global pandemic have the potential to impact each of our lives.

REACH and the Environmental Regulation of Nanotechnology presents a thorough and comprehensive legal analysis on the status of nanoscale chemicals under the EU's REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and Restriction) regulation, asking whether it effectively safeguards human health and environmental protection.

Human understanding of the rapidly changing environments of the North and South Poles and the realities of climate change has been radically transformed by a host of innovations afforded by the digital technologies.

One of the world's leading scholars of religious trends shows how climate change has driven dramatic religious upheavals.

There are significant pressures from climate change and air pollution that forests currently face.

Microgeneration - producing energy for the home, in the home - is a substantial improvement over the current centralised and detached energy model employed the world over.

This book presents comprehensive chapters on the latest research and applications in wastewater treatment using green technologies.

Sensors are being utilized to increasing degrees in all forms of industry.

This handbook covers the air quality/air pollution from the viewpoints of causing impacts on human/ecosystem health and climate change.

This book focuses on ecosystems and species adaptations in the unique Peruvian Andean-Amazonian region.

Twenty years of talks have done little to slow global warming.

In the wake of the Clean Air Amendments of 1970 in the United States, sources of emissions could be held accountable for the degradation of air quality in the local environment.