Pollution and threats to the environment

This book will address the current state of climate change predictions, and how climate change will affect conservation and use of crop germplasm, both ex situ and in situ.

The litany of alarming observations about water use and misuse is now familiar-over a billion people without access to safe drinking water; almost every major river dammed and diverted; increasing conflicts over the delivery of water in urban areas; continuing threats to water quality from agricultural inputs and industrial wastes; and the increasing variability of climate, including threats of severe droughts and flooding across locales and regions.

The social cost of carbon (SCC) for a given year is an estimate, in dollars, of the present discounted value of the damage caused by a 1-metric ton increase in CO2 emissions into the atmosphere in that year; or equivalently, the benefits of reducing CO2 emissions by the same amount in that given year.

In May 2019, the United Nations released the Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services which warned that human activities will drive nearly one million species to extinction in a few decades.

The link between justice and climate change is becoming increasingly prominent in public debates on climate policy.

The NATO Advanced Research Workshop on RecentAdvancesin Adsorption Processes for Environmental Protection and Security was held during, September 9-12, 2006, at Hotel Salyut, Kiev, Ukraine.

This book provides a solid foundation for a comprehensive, systemic and water-centric approach to water management.

This book provides essential information on the role of phytonanotechnology in the removal of environmental pollutants and covers recent advances in experimental and theoretical studies on plant-derived nanoparticles.

This book critically explores the legal tools, concepts, principles and instruments, as well as cross-cutting issues, that comprise the field of international environmental law.

This book critically examines sustainability challenges that humankind faces and offers responsible organising as a solution in responding to these challenges.

Coupling phenomena in non-saturated soils are fast becoming a headache for at least one of the following reasons: the large number of equations and unknowns, the complex T.

The heavily-revised Practical Handbook of Marine Science, Fourth Edition continues its tradition as a state-of-the-art reference that updates the field of marine science to meet the interdisciplinary research needs of physical oceanographers, marine biologists, marine chemists, and marine geologists.

This contributed volume gives a state-of-the-art overview of microplastics and nanoplastics (MPs and NPs) in soils and their relationship with growing plants.

This book elaborates the fundamentals, new concepts and key technologies of the Intelligent Environment Friendly Vehicle (i-EFV), and the engineering implementation of these technologies such as structure sharing, data fusion and control coordination.

In May 2005, the International Max Planck Research School for Maritime Affairs organized an international conference addressing marine pollution.

Holocene Climate Change and Environment presents detailed, diverse case studies from a range of environmental and geological regions on the Indian subcontinent which occupies the central part of the monsoon domain.

The book provides an encompassing overview of all aspects relating to the sharing economy paradigm in different fields of study, and shows the ongoing research efforts in filling previously identified gaps in understanding in this area.

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Energy and Environment - Global Challenges (ICEE 2018).

This book offers a broad and holistic overview of issues in the Arctic today, a region which is transforming due to changing world order and climate agenda.

Political elites have been evading the causes of climate change through deceptive fixes.

This book offers a distinctive and comprehensive view of the energy transition of Japan, with a particular focus on the rise of smart cities.

According to some estimates, humanity has now passed the point at which city dwellers outnumber country dwellers.

This book investigates elementary processes in the Earth's atmosphere involving photons, electrons, ions, radicals, and aerosols.

Originally published in 1986, The Permafrost Environment examines how the search for oil, gas and minerals in the arctic region instigated new and vitally important needs to understand the permafrost environment.

Vor 10000 Jahren, zu Beginn des Neolithikums begann der Mensch seßhaft zu werden.

A Political Psychoanalysis for the Anthropocene Age presents an evaluation of the politics of climate change and considers how psychoanalysis can contribute to this discourse.

This book presents sources of carbon dioxide emission, related environmental issues and methods for carbon dioxide utilization, storage, analysis, modeling and optimization.

Das vorliegende Handbuch gibt eine aktuelle und umfassende Übersicht für den sicheren Umgang mit biologischen Agentien.

This book explores energy consumption and thermal comfort in the social housing sector in the Eastern Mediterranean basin.

This volume discusses the theoretical fundamentals and potential applications of the original electro-Fenton (EF) process and its most innovative and promising versions, all of which are classified as electrochemical advanced oxidation processes.

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.

During recent decades, millions of tonnes of man-made chemicals have been produced and released into the environment, with very little safety testing.

Beginning with the Manhattan Project and continuing through the Cold War, the United States government constructed and operated a massive industrial complex to produce and test nuclear weapons and related technologies.

China's rapid economic growth in the recent decades has produced an unprecedented energy vulnerability that could threaten the sustainability of its economic development, a linchpin to social stability and ultimately the regime legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as well as the foundation for China's rising power aspirations.

This book focuses on various tropical fruit tree species management for climate change including mitigation strategies and technological countermeasures taken by researchers, progressive growers and commercial companies to overcome the adverse changes.

As a heavy user of electricity the primary aluminium smelting industry is a leading example of the effects of variations in energy costs.

Originally published in 1931 (this re-issues the 8th edition of 1953), this book gives students a comprehensive account of global climatic types and the impact of climate on economics, issues of race, health, meteorology and geography.

This book comprehensively reviews the key topics in microbial fuel cells (MFC) and its applications in areas related to energy and environmental mitigation.

An Anthropogenic Table of Elements provides a contemporary rethinking of Dmitri Mendeleev's periodic table of elements, bringing together "e;elemental"e; stories to reflect on everyday life in the Anthropocene.

Natural and constructed wetlands play a very important role on the landscape and their ecological services are highly valuable.

Problems of insect enumeration and assessment of needs are addressed in the contexts of rapid and substantial losses and changes to all key Australian terrestrial and freshwater environments and promoting awarenesss of the importance of insects.

We don't know what we've got until it's gone.

Because water access, distribution and quality are the most urgent challenges for societies across the world, this book focuses on the current and future demands and challenges in the areas of water scarcity we may face and possible solutions in terms of technology and management including infrastructure changes that are needed for the future smart cities.

How should responsibility for adapting to climate change be distributed?

Im vorliegenden Lehrbuch werden die Grundlagen der Theoretischen Meteorologie vermittelt.