Pollution and threats to the environment

This book mainly investigates the adsorption of anionic diclofenac sodium on natural clay minerals, the adsorption of anionic chloramphenicol on natural clay minerals and the behavior of surface and interface modification or adsorption on clay minerals.

This book studies R.

Current research revolves around trends to bring technology into harmony with the natural environment and in order to protect the ecosystem.

Water has become a challenging resource that many countries worldwide are concerned with.

Green European addresses the quest for a better understanding of European type(s) of environmentalism.

This book is the third volume on this subject and focuses on the recent advances of nanopharmaceuticals in cancer, dental, dermal and drug delivery applications and presents their safety, toxicity and therapeutic efficacy.

Urban Planning for Social Justice in Latin America explores how urban planning can be used as a tool for social equity.

Taken from a report for the Electric Power Research Institute, Joy Dunkerley's study aims to clarify the relationship between energy consumption and economic output in industrialised countries.

This book addresses the measurement of environmental contaminants in water, air, and soil.

This up-to-date, comprehensive toxicology handbook is devoted to the effects of environmental pollution on fish.

With rapid advancements in AI, this book reveals how AI can be a powerful tool in reducing pollution and fostering sustainability.

Crisis Management of Chronic Pollution: Contaminated Soil and Human Health deals with a long term pollution problem, generated by the former use of organochlorine pesticides.

Diffuse pollution of water resources has a multi-disciplinary dimension and the measures to prevent and control it are closely inter-related to the development patterns and societal habits of the region.

This books explains a strategy that a country can meet its CO2 emission reduction targets (e.

Industrial ecology (IE) is a rapidly growing scienti?

This book takes a hemispheric approach to contemporary urban intervention, examining urban ecologies, communication technologies, and cultural practices in the twenty-first century.

The report reviews a comprehensive research plan on Everglades restoration drafted by federal and Florida officials that assesses a central feature of the restoration: a proposal to drill more than 300 wells funneling up to 1.

Whether their populations are perceived as too large, just right, too small or non-existent, animal numbers matter to the humans with whom they share environments.

Rapidly increasing interest in the problems of air pollution and source-receptor relationships has led to a significant expansion of knowledge in the field of atmospheric chemistry.

Das Kraftfahrzeug ist auf nahezu allen Ebenen von thermodynamischen Prozessen geprägt: Antriebssysteme – von Verbrennungsmotoren und Hybriden bis hin zu den Elektromotoren mit Brennstoffzellen – Aufladung, Kühl- und Heizkreisläufe, Klimaanlagen, Karosserie-Aerodynamik, Dämpfungssysteme, Einspritzsysteme, Auspuffanlagen, Bremsanlagen, Reifen.

This book provides an overview of the induction mechanism of imposex caused by organotin compounds in gastropods, as well as fundamental information on the physiology and biochemistry of reproduction in mollusks.

The first comprehensive review of the current and future effects of climate change on the world s fisheries and aquaculture operations The first book of its kind, Climate Change Impacts on Fisheries and Aquaculture explores the impacts of climate change on global fisheries resources and on marine aquaculture.

This is an invitation to readers to ponder universal questions about human relations with rivers and water for the precarious times of the Anthropocene.

In Building Materials, Health and Indoor Air Quality: Volume 2 Tom Woolley uses new research to continue to advocate for limiting the use of hazardous materials in construction and raise awareness of the links between pollutants found in building materials, poor indoor air quality and health problems.

This volume examines how local communities respond and adapt to ecological changes and disasters resulting from climate change.

Rivers provide about 60 percent of the nation's drinking water and irrigation water and 10 percent of the nation's electric power needs.

Climate and economies have interdependent dynamics.

This book addresses microalgae, which represent a very promising biomass resource for wastewater treatment and producing biofuels.

Dredged Material and Mine Tailings are two of the same thing once they are deposited on land: they must be safe-guarded, wash-out must be prevented, and they must be protected by a plantcover.

Adaptation Urbanism and Resilient Communities outlines and explains adaptation urbanism as a theoretical framework for understanding and evaluating resilience projects in cities and relates it to pressing contemporary policy issues related to urban climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Das Öko-Auditing wird in Zukunft eines der wichtigsten betrieblichen Werkzeuge des professionellen Umweltschutz-Managements sein.

This book presents a novel picture in current advances in research of theoretical and practical frameworks of environmental problems and solutions taken from the latest empirical research findings.

Originally published in 1994, the first edition of Field Sampling Methods for Remedial Investigations soon became a premier resource in this field.

Current developments in air pollution modelling are explored as a series of contributions from researchers at the forefront of their field.

For years, I searched for a book that I could recommend to parents those just beginning to learn about autism as well as those with decades of experience.

The consequences of twenty-first-century sea level rise on the United States and its nearly 90,000 miles of shoreline will be immense: Miami and New Orleans will disappear; many nuclear and other power plants, hundreds of wastewater plants and toxic waste sites, and oil production facilities will be at risk; port infrastructures will need to be raised; and over ten million Americans fleeing rising seas will become climate refugees.

Darstellung der sich verschärfenden Anforderung hinsichtlich Wassergewinnung, höhere Anforderung bei der Abwassereinleitung sowie der Preisdruck bei Energie- und Rohstoffen.

This book presents both state-of-the art knowledge from Recent coral reefs (1.

Water scarcity, urban population growth, and deteriorating infrastructure are impacting water security around the globe.

The fate of the climate change regime hangs in the balance as the UN-led negotiations try to forge a new international strategy for the post-2020 period.

A classic for our times MONIQUE ROFFEY Haunting, beautiful Anima will live with me for a long time CAL FLYN'A book that mesmerises with its sense of adventure and epic sweep, this is creative non-fiction at its best' GUARDIANOver the course of one summer, Kapka Kassabova lives with perhaps the last true pastoralists in Europe.

Environmental problems - particularly climate change - have become increasingly important to governments and social researchers in recent decades.

This volume of the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, Second Edition, provides a broad and comprehensive view of air pollution, extending from ground-level, localized air quality and regional and global air quality and effects, to sensors and measurement and air pollution control.

PROSE Award for Excellence in Humanities Finalist 2023Climate Change and Human History provides a concise introduction to the relationship between human beings and climate change throughout history.

Cosimo Schinaia and Psychoanalysis and Ecology are winners of the IPA Climate Award!

This book explores the intrinsically multiscale issue of renewable energy transition from a local, national and transnational perspective, and provides insights into current developments in the Upper Rhine Region that can serve as an international model.

Global climate change poses an unprecedented challenge for governments across the world.

This study makes sense of how the media report on climate change and how this influences science and policy decision-making.

Scientists, representing the fields of agriculture, biodiversity, ecology epidemiology, medicine, microbiology, public health, toxicology, risk assessment, environmental protection and bioethics from 15 countries and 3 continents came together in May 8-12 2005, in Sofia, Bulgaria to discuss the future of water safety and security.