Pollution and threats to the environment

This book summarizes science and technology of a new generation of high-energy andinsensitive explosives.

The Soil Conservation Service (SCS) curve number (CN) method is one of the most popular methods for computing the runoff volume from a rainstorm.

This book unveils forestry science and its policy and management that connect past and present understanding of forests.

This book takes you on a seven-day journey with your guides: 60 coaches and thought-leaders from around the world.

This collection gathers a set of seminal papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change.

Nobel Prize-winning scientist''s assessment of options for switching to sustainable energy provision to avert potentially disastrous consequences of climate change.

Lake Ladoga is the largest lake in Europe and, with its surface of 17,891 km2 and volume of 837 km3, it ranks among the top fifteen of the world's freshwater bodies.

This book examines changing gender roles, relations and hierarchies in an ethnic minority community in Central Viet Nam.

The interaction of sustainability governance and global value chains has crucial implications the world over.

When the Medicare program was established in 1965, it was viewed as a form of financial protection for the elderly against catastrophic medical expenses, primarily those related to hospitalization for unexpected illnesses.

Dieses Fachbuch ist ein praxisorientiertes Lehr- und Nachschlagewerk zu den wichtigsten Grundlagen der Gasreinigung und Luftreinhaltung.

This book provides the latest research on zero carbon industry and its practical implications for eco-innovation and environmental sustainability for businesses in current scenario.

This book is the final installation in a three-volume series synthesizing 30 years of mercury research in the Florida Everglades.

This book presents microplastics pollution in land and water bodies, their hazardous effects, characterization approaches, and suitable means of utilizing advanced treatment options to solve the problem.

This book introduces the theory and applications of nanometer photocatalysis, and it briefly presents the concept of photocatalysts, photocatalytic reaction mechanisms and kinetics, and photocatalytic reactor design.

Dieses Buch beschreibt die anlagentechnischen Komponenten für die Wärmeversorgung von Gebäuden sowie die Anlagentechnik und die dazugehörigen Parameter.

The world faces a 'perfect storm' of social and ecological stresses, including climate change, habitat loss, resource degradation and social, economic and cultural change.

Corporate responsibility and sustainable development are two concepts that may be able to reconcile many of the big challenges facing the world; challenges such as tensions between respect for the natural environment, social justice, and economic development; the long view versus short-term imperatives and the competing priorities between developed and developing economies.

Greenland and the International Politics of a Changing Arctic examines the international politics of semi-independent Greenland in a changing and increasingly globalised Arctic.

There are two questions often asked of risk communication: what has been learned from past work, and what is needed to push the field forward?

This book collects the papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Risk Analysis and Crisis Response (RACR-2017) held in Ostrava/Prague, Czech Republic, on June 5-9, 2017, organized by VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic.

Warum wir mit dieser Polizei den Klimawandel nicht stoppen können und was sich ändern muss»All Cops Are Bastards«: Auf diesen Post von Klimaaktivistin Hannah antwortet Polizistin Chiara und ahnt nichts von den Folgen.

Now in its updated second edition, this book describes emerging chiral environmental pollutants and their importance in environmental and human toxicology, as well as enantiomer selective separation and analytical methods.

Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability.

The use of catalytic converters for the purification of automotive exhaust gases is a relatively new technology which was brought into existence by social pressures for the preservation of acceptable environmental conditions.

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The Magnitude 9 Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, followed by a massive tsunami struck TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station and triggered an unprecedented core melt/severe accident in Units 1 - 3.

The age of denial is over, we are told.

A straightforward and fact-based exploration of how weather happens, how it relates to climate, and how science answers major questions about Earth as a system Climate change is one of the most hotly contested environmental topics of our day.

This book focuses on irrigation sources together with water management for agricultural development in Uttar Pradesh state of India.

Originally published in 1974 this volume brings together contributions from lawyers, a nuclear physicist, a landscape architect, biologist, engineers and a former Inspector of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Geopolitical changes combined with the increasing urgency of ambitious climate action have re-opened debates about justice and international climate policy.

The question of what to do with radioactive waste has dogged political administrations of nuclear-powered electricity-producing nations since the inception of the technology in the 1950s.

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.

This book will address the major subsoil physical and chemical constraints and their implications to crop production; Plant growth is often restricted by adverse physical and chemical properties of subsoils yet these limitations are not revealed by testing surface soils and hence their significance in crop management is often overlooked.

The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: after doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?

The #1 guide to aerosol science and technology -now better than ever Since 1982, Aerosol Technology has been the text of choice among students and professionals who need to acquire a thorough working knowledge of modern aerosol theory and applications.

Analysing the interactions between institutions in the climate change and energy nexus, including the consequences for their legitimacy and effectiveness.

This topic is central to contemporary concerns for more sustainable agricultural development.

Using arguments that parallel those of Blaise Pascal and William James, Haller offers prudential reasons for caution that should convince those not already persuaded by ethical arguments.

This book intends to bring together and integrate the subject matter of water quality.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has developed spacecraft maximum allowable concentrations (SMACs) for contaminants that might be found in the atmosphere within spacecraft during space missions to ensure the health and well-being of astronauts traveling and working in this unique environment.

The scientific work described in this book is the result of an international coopera- tion of over 60 researchers from many different European countries over more than 10 years.

Property Rights and Climate Change explores the multifarious relationships between different types of climate-driven environmental changes and property rights.

Global warming is an increasing problem, tropical forests are being wiped out and major upper watersheds are being degraded.

The rapid thriving of industries, conversion of agricultural land to residential areas, habitat destruction, deforestation and use of recalcitrant synthetic substances enhanced the rate of degradation of the environment.

This book takes a deep dive into the design and planning, and unique challenges of settlements in the European Arctic.

Public regulation of site-selection for nuclear power plants is woven into the fabric of the distinctively-American experience in exercising government control over privately-owned public utilities.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.