Pollution and threats to the environment

This timely book explores the lessons learned in and potentials of injecting supercritical CO2 into depleted oil and gas reservoirs, in order to maximize both hydrocarbon recovery and the storage capacities of injected CO2.

Making Climate Compatible Development Happen introduces readers to the concept of climate compatible development (CCD) through exploring what it might look like, how it could be achieved in practice and identifying challenges and dilemmas raised by CCD.

Agroecosystem is an ideal dynamic functional system with a set of chemical and biological interaction taking place in plant surface either below or above the ground levels.

This book presents fluoride and fluorocarbon toxicity with respect to remediation and health issues.

Carbon Accounting is a vital tool in enabling organisations to measure and report on their greenhouse gas emissions.

Interest in solid and hazardous waste management is relatively recent, i.

Using a risk management approach to tease apart the complex issue of climate change, this book assesses the key vulnerabilities and redirects the discussion to present a comprehensive plan to overhaul our response to climate change.

This book introduces the notion of "e;educational ecology"e; as a necessary and promising pedagogic principle for the teaching of Anglophone literatures and cultures in a time of climate change.

This book provides a comprehensive description of alkaline hydrometallurgy of amphoteric metal hazardous wastes.

Witnessing at first-hand the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference and wondering what went wrong, Andrew Charlton realised the truth of a colleagues words: The world is split between those who want to save the planet and those who want to save themselves.

¿Cómo abordar un tema tan urgente e importante como el cambio climático, paso a paso, en el aula?

Looking to tackle climate change and climate science in your classroom?

To protect space crews from contaminants in potable and hygiene water, NASA requested that the National Research Council (NRC) provide guidance on how to develop water exposure guidelines and subsequently review NASA's development of exposure guidelines for specific chemicals.

This book discusses existing and future global problems of physical, chemical, biological and societal origins faced by increasingly populated cities and mega-cities, and options to mitigate or eliminate them.

This book discusses how climate change and heat islands are a main contributor to water related problems in urban areas in Kosice, Slovakia.

Ways of handling climate change vary worldwide.

Disaster prevention and the mitigation of climate change effects call for global action.

This important volume-the product of a meeting of a select group of scientists-provides the most recent research results from the world's leaders in the study of toxic pollutants in sediments.

Inequality in a Context of Climate Crisis after COVID uses a complex realist approach to examine the crisis of three interconnected problems: economic inequality, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book provides policymakers, researchers, and other interested audiences with knowledge on how to quantify and integrate and advance co-benefits in their decisions.

Seasonality is a severe constraint to sustainable rural livelihoods and a driver of poverty and hunger, particularly in the tropics.

Engineers and scientists have made great progress in advancing the understanding of the principles underlying environmental quality and public health.

This book provides a socio-legal analysis of the public participation of children in climate change matters, whilst developing a range of tools through which their participation can be increased.

The fruit of twenty years of moral reflection on the emerging greatest challenge to humanity of the 21st century, these far-sighted and influential essays by a pioneering practical philosopher on the tangled questions of justice between nations and justice across generations confronting all attempts at international cooperation in controlling climate change sharply crystallize the central choices and offer constructive directions forward.

Climate change is one of the great problems facing humanity; this book introduces readers to major rulings from around the world that centre on climate change as a core focus.

This book covers the latest advances in sustainable waste management and focuses on its implementation to mitigate water and air pollution, recycle and reuse raw material, and refine valuable metals.

Energy Fables: Challenging Ideas in the Energy Sector takes a fresh look at key terms and concepts around which energy research and policy are organised.

In the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1996, the United States Coast Guard (USCG) was directed to assess the risk of spills for oils that may sink or be negatively buoyant, to examine and evaluate existing cleanup technologies, and to identify and appraise technological and financial barriers that could impede a prompt response to such spills.

This book critically engages with the contemporary challenges and opportunities of wild cities in a climate of change.

Beyond Recycling critically explores unasked questions around recycling and its prominent position in contemporary thinking about sustainability.

This expanded, revised, and updated second edition of Innovations in Green Chemistry and Green Engineering provides a comprehensive introduction to the state-of-the-art in this key area of sustainability research.

Around the world, cities provide plenty of opportunities such as better education, advanced health treatment facilities, better employment, commerce and trade as compared to rural areas.

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After years of technological development and its important achievements to make our life easier and more comfortable, human society is going to face one of the most difficult challenges of the last century: to stabilize the concentra- tion levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to prevent harmful effects on the climate system.

This book consists of full research papers submitted by scientists/faculty/research scholars who attended the conference on "e;Earth and Environment: Pollution and Prevention"e; held at Amity University, Noida from January 28-30, 2014 and had their abstracts published in the conference proceedings.

Who Speaks for the Oceans?

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.

This book presents the results of studies that determine the most effective ways for human development, ensuring a decent life, and preserving natural resources within the framework of the defined issues.

Porous media, and especially phenomena of transport in such materials, are an impor1ant field of interest for geologists, hydrogeologists, researchers in soil and fluid mechanics, petroleum and chemical engineers, physicists and scientists in many other disciplines.

A discussion of cutting-edge developments in policy on climate change and forced displacement from leading academics and practitioners.

This book addresses the climate change crisis through scientific, historical, and spiritual lenses.

This book examines the threat posed by climate change to the low-lying islands of Tuvalu through a lens of what it means to be a neighbour.

This series is dedicated to serving the growing community of scholars and practitioners concerned with the principles and applications of environ- mental management.

The concept of naturalness has largely disappeared from the academic discourse in general but also the particular field of environmental studies.

Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change explores the way museums tackle the broad global issue of climate change.

"e;This reassuring consideration of a deeply personal matter teams seamlessly with a reasoned, emphatic call to action.