Pollution and threats to the environment

This book provides insight into the development of effective climate policy instrumentation in two divergent and mutually exclusive directions.

Despite the efforts of Southeast Asian governments and of ASEAN, transboundary haze continues to be a major environmental problem in Southeast Asia.

An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit (';the voice of the resistance'New York Times), climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment.

Australians are famous for our love of the coast, although in many places this 'love' has caused serious and often irreversible impacts.

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.

This unique book shares the knowledge and experience of experts and scientists who apply high-quality findings and input from their research to issues concerning the management of water resources and their quality in Baltic countries including Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Germany and Russia.

This book presents selected papers from the 11th International Symposium on Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (ISHVAC 2019), with a focus on HVAC techniques for improving indoor environment quality and the energy efficiency of heating and cooling systems.

Surveys the ecological impacts of World War I, showing how the war had a global impact on the environment.

Climate change has been the subject of thousands of books and magazines, scientific journals, and newspaper articles daily.

Originally published in 1977.

Highly acclaimed textbook on the science, economics, and policy of modern climate change, for both science students and non-science majors.

Cities, the world over, are increasingly recognised to be both a principal source of the environmental and social sustainability challenges facing contemporary society and a critical site for addressing these challenges.

Climate change is a major challenge facing the modern world.

The microbiology of drinking water remains an important worldwide concern despite modem progress in science and engineering.

An authoritative reference on food system transformation and how it can be achieved in the face of climate change.

Even by the scientists most closely associated with it, geoengineering - the deliberate intervention in the climate at global scale to mitigate the effects of climate change - is perceived to be risky.

In der modernen Gesellschaft sind Entscheidungen, z.

This book provides readers with cutting-edge techniques that can be applied to energy and environmental economics.

Politicians stand at a crossroads where the path to green policies is fraught with political risks, as the immediate costs to society may overshadow the profound future benefits.

The world consists of many complex systems, ranging from our own bodies to ecosystems to economic systems.

Two major challenges to continued global food security are the ever increasing demand for food products, and the unprecedented abiotic stresses that crops face due to climate change.

Vanadium is an essential element for humans and animals.

In diesem Buch legen Jensen und seine Mitautoren haarklein dar, dass all die »Lösungen« schöner Schein sind und weit davon entfernt, in eine grüne Zukunft zu führen.

Climate Change and Coastal Tourism includes case studies on climate change and coastal tourism that explore current threats to, and consequences of, climate change on existing tourism coastal destinations.

A changing climate is likely to have a drastic impact on crop yields in Africa.

This book describes observed features of urban climate and its long-term variations as well as the relationship of climate to heat stroke in Japan, based on observational data and statistical analyses.

Watersheds, supplying crucial ecosystem services to humans, seem to be a logical territorial unit to integrate societal benefits and environmental needs in order to evaluate the sustainability of natural resource use patterns.

A bold, visionary, and mind-bending exploration of how the geometry of chaos can explain our uncertain world-from weather and pandemics to quantum physics and free will Covering a breathtaking range of topics from climate change to the foundations of quantum physics, from economic modelling to conflict prediction, from free will to consciousness and spirituality The Primacy of Doubt takes us on a unique journey through the science of uncertainty.

Der Klimawandelaus ganzheitlicher Sicht.

The Congress "e;Arsenic in the Environment"e; offers an international, multi- and interdisciplinary discussion platform for research and innovation aimed towards a holistic solution to the problem posed by the environmental toxin arsenic, with considerable societal impact.

This book presents the history of, and current approaches to, farmer-breeder collaboration in plant breeding, situating this work in the context of sustainable food systems, as well as national and international policy and law regimes.

Multidisciplinary treatment of the urgent issues surrounding urban pollution worldwide Written by some of the top experts on the subject in the world, this book presents the diverse, complex and current themes of the urban pollution debate across the built environment, urban development and management continuum.

This book on 'Secondary Agriculture' discusses the goal of doubling farmers' incomes.

This book provides a cross-disciplinary, multi-scale assessment of the development of adsorption-based refrigerants and super-adsorbent-based wastewater purification.

This handbook explores the political economy and governance of the Americas, placing particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences.

This book discusses the history of nuclear decommissioning as a science and industry.

When the Nuclear Safety Commission in Japan reviewed safety-design guidelines for nuclear plants in 1990, the regulatory agency explicitly ruled out the need to consider prolonged AC power loss.

First published in 1991, this title provides a comprehensive and objective account of the basis of 'green' arguments and their social and political implications.

Metals are important environmental pollutants and their toxicity is a problem of increasing significance for ecological, nutritional, and environmental reasons.

Echoing the famous "e;The Limits to Growth"e; report from 1972, this edited volume analyses the changes that the World System has undergone to the present, on the fiftieth anniversary of the original report.

This book encompasses updated information as well as future directions for researchers working in the fields of environmental science, water resource engineering, and agricultural science.

Freshwater scarcity is a critical challenge, with social, economic, political and environmental consequences.

,This is such a timely book.

'Original and thought provoking' Gordon Brown'Challenging and hopeful: a groundbreaking guide to the future' Valerie AmosTo thrive in the twenty-first century, we all need to understand the challenges coming our way.

A study of how the climate crisis is changing human communication from a celebrated rhetorician.

This book addresses disaster and disaster risk reduction (DRR) practices, constraints and capacity in the context of coastal Bangladesh.

The abundance of organic pollutants found in wastewater affect urban surface waters.

Housing affordability, urban development and climate change responses are great challenges that are intertwined, yet the conceptual and policy links between them remain under-developed.

Development of environmentally friendly products gains an increasing - portance in science and in industry.