Pollution and threats to the environment

Emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels have ushered in a new epoch where human activities will largely determine the evolution of Earth's climate.

This book offers recent insights into some of the burning issues of our times: climate change, exposure to chemicals, refugee issues and the ecological harm that accompanies conflict situations.

Synthetic dyes, especially those used in the textile industry, are huge contributors to the damaging effects on ecosystems worldwide due to their toxic and non-biodegradable nature.

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

This book is Volume 2 which is published to complement "e;Environmental Processes and Management: Tools and Practices"e; (https://link.

Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science.

Discharges of wastes from activities associated with the federal government's Los Alamos site in northern New Mexico began during the Manhattan Project in 1943.

The environmental challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century are not only acute and grave, they are also unprecedented in kind, complexity and scope.

This book dedicates to publish exceptionally important and high-quality, agenda-setting research so as to tackle the key global and societal challenges of ensuring the provision of energy and protecting our environment for the future.

Combustion is an old technology, which at present provides about 90% of our worldwide energy support.

This book discusses the bioremediation of both solid and liquid waste, including regional solutions for India as well as globally relevant applications.

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

Overwhelmed by climate anxiety?

The establishment of clean, safe water is one of the major challenges facing societies around the globe.

Green Energy: Basic Concepts and Fundamentals addresses the need for diversity within energy systems.

This book examines the issue of solid waste generation and management as a worldwide phenomenon, focusing on strategies that facilitate the disposal and utilization of waste while ensuring environmental integrity and meeting the needs of future generations.

Ausgehend von der Idee des Stoffstrommanagements und dessen Stellung innerhalb des "Sustainable Development"-Konzepts werden dem Leser Informationsgrundlagen, Bewertungsmethoden und Organisationsformen vorgestellt, die für konkrete Stoffstrommanagement-Aktivitäten erforderlich sind.

When the first green wave appeared in the mid and late 1960s, it was considered a fea- sible task to solve pollution problems.

In this ready reference, a global team of experts comprehensively cover molecular and cell biology-based approaches to the impact of increasing global temperatures on crop productivity.

Imagine a world where your autistic child is included, engaged and cherished for how they are; a world which changes for autistic children, rather than changing the child.

William M.

Sustainable Tourism Policy and Planning in Africa offers an accessible and understandable overview of the challenges of integrating sustainability into tourism policy and planning in Sub-Saharan Africa and provides some interesting recommendations on how these could be overcome.

This textbook contains the contents coming from hydraulics, hydrodynamics, chemical principles, chemical reaction engineering and bioengineering, which relates closely with fundamental principles in environmental engineering.

Can political violence create freedom?

"e;awareness"e; of the world's citizens and encourage governments to devote more attention and resources to address this issue.

Experts offer theoretical and empirical analyses that view the regulation of transboundary air pollution as a dynamic process.

The fundamental principles of environmental toxicology are clearly presented here for university students and professionals in related fields.

This book highlights current efforts and research on pollution management and advanced technology for pollution treatment.

The governance and evaluation of 'megaprojects' - that is, large-scale, complex, high-stakes infrastructure projects usually commissioned by governments and delivered through partnerships between public and private organisations - is receiving increased attention.

This book examines the development of bilateral energy relations between China and the two oil-rich countries, Kazakhstan and Russia.

Following a relational, Indigenous-led approach grounded in 25 years of collaborative work, this book looks to weather and climate, tracing the embodied, emplaced and affective ways weather co-constitutes people, place and time/s raising critical questions of ethics, politics and becoming.

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.

Robert Wuthnow has been praised as one of "e;the country's best social scientists"e; by columnist David Brooks, who hails his writing as "e;tremendously valuable.

As a result of the 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prince William Sound, Congress passed the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA 90), and within that legislation, the Oil Spill Recovery Institute (OSRI) was born.

In this study, the award-winning environmental analyst Lester Brown and his colleagues have charted progress in building the eco-economy - an economy in harmony with the Earth's ecosystems, not undermining them.

Rekordtemperaturen, Dürre-Katastrophen und Starkregenereignisse treten heute immer häufiger auf, so dass die Folgen des Klimawandels im gesellschaftlichen Bewusstsein immer präsenter werden und nicht mehr zu verharmlosen sind.

Mercury is a naturally occurring element that is toxic in nature.

This book contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between migration, vulnerability, resilience and social justice associated with flooding across diverse environmental, social and policy contexts in Southeast Asia.

The book offers a comprehensive overview of low-capital cost technologies for enzyme manufacture and utilization in the textile industry with sustainable bioenergy from effluent.

As we know, rapid industrialization is a serious concern in the context of a healthy environment and public health due to the generation of huge volumes of toxic wastewater.

This book explores the myriad issues that play out in the upstream petroleum industry of Ghana from a legal perspective.

Mike Hulme has been studying climate change for over thirty years and is today one of the most distinctive and recognisable voices speaking internationally about climate change in the academy, in public and in the media.

Healthy waterways and oceans are essential for our increasingly urbanised world.

This textbook contains the contents coming from hydraulics, hydrodynamics, chemical principles, chemical reaction engineering and bioengineering, which relates closely with fundamental principles in environmental engineering.

This unique book brings together high-quality research contributions on ecological aspects of urbanization, water quality concerns in an urban environment, and climate change issues with a strong Indian focus under one umbrella.

Brominated flame retardants are one of the last classes of halogenated compounds that are still being produced worldwide and used in large quantities in many applications.

This book addresses the emergent need to act on reducing or getting rid of micro plastic pollution, to achieve a sustainable environment.