Pollution and threats to the environment

How technological advances and colonial fears inspired utopian geoengineering projects during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries From the 1870s to the mid-twentieth century, European explorers, climatologists, colonial officials, and planners were avidly interested in large-scale projects that might actively alter the climate.

The book examines the narratives of climate change which have developed and which are currently evolving in three areas: law, fiction and activism.

Of Limits and Growth offers new perspectives on environmentalism, post-1945 international history, and the origins of sustainability.

The Handbook of Air Pollution Prevention and Control provides a concise overview of the latest technologies for managing industrial air pollution in petrochemical, oil and gas, and allied industries.

Is ecological knowledge relevant for environmental policy and if so, to what extent and in what way?

The New Carbon Economy provides a critical understanding of the carbon economy.

How do those pushed to the margins survive in contemporary cities?

This book delves into the anthropogenic activities responsible for environmental hazards, their compensation, and potential mitigation strategies.

Bringing together scholarly research by climate experts working in different locations and social science disciplines, this book offers insights into how climate change is socially and culturally constructed.

It is zero hour for a new US water policy!

Die Herrenhausen-Matinee ist eine gemeinsame Veranstaltung der Freunde der Herrenhäuser Gärten e.

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

Murray Bookchin's frank assessment of the disaster we are heading toward at increasing speed is as much a work of ethics as it is of environmentalism.

Coral reefs, which are one of the most productive and biodiverse ecosystems on Earth, serve various important roles, such as providing shelter and spawning grounds to a wide range of marine animals.

This book is a detailed exploration of the working practices of a community of scientists exposed in public, and of the making of scientific knowledge about climate change in Scotland.

Dieses übergreifende Lehrbuch der Siedlungswasserwirtschaft kann vorlesungsbegleitend in Technischen Universitäten und Fachhochschulen sowie zum Selbststudium eingesetzt werden.

A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLEExploring how climate change has configured the international arena since the 1950s, this book reveals the ways that climate change emerged and evolved as an international problem, and how states, scientists and non-governmental organizations have engaged in diplomatic efforts to address it.

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has emerged rapidly as a crucial technological option for decarbonising electricity supply and mitigating climate change.

This book explores sustainability engineering through the lens of the manufacturing and chemical process industries to elucidate the safe and economic implementation of process designs used to transform raw materials into useful finished products.

Displacements in the Asia Pacific region are escalating.

**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** The Garden Jungle is a wonderful introduction to the hundreds of small creatures with whom welive cheek-by-jowl and of the myriad ways that we can encourage them to thrive.

The book addresses the entire water cycle.

This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the 3rd International Conference on Opportunities and Challenges for a Resilient Future (ICOCRF 2024) held at Dehradun, India.

A society that intensifies and expands the use of land and water in urban areas needs to search for solutions to manage the frontiers between these two essential elements for urban living.

Mossbauer Spectroscopy of Environmental Materials and their Industrial Utilization provides a description of the properties of materials formed on the earth's surface, their synthetic analogs where applicable, and the products of their modifications in the course of natural processes, such as weathering, or in industrial processing as reflected in their Mossbauer spectra.

Most of the earth's population would survive the immediate horrors of a nuclear holocaust, but what long-term climatological changes would affect their ability to secure food and shelter?

This synopsis covers evidence for the effects of conservation interventions for native farmland wildlife.

The protection of our environment is one of the major problems in the society.

The conventional approach for energy saving in a process system is to maximize heat recovery without changing any process conditions by using pinch technology.

'This is a well researched, thorough and impressive work on climate change and agriculture in Africa.

,Sound and solid case studies on vulnerability and adaptation have been woefully lacking in the international discourse on climate change.

This book presents working principles for assessing the relative importance of anthropogenic emission sources that contribute to haze in U.

Humanity is dependent on Nature to survive, yet our society largely acts as if this is not the case.

This book embodies the potentials of nanobiotechnology-based water treatment techniques to provide a solid understanding of the subjects.

This edited volume examines how to develop a planning and design process with green infrastructure that creates technical answers to the social and ecological function of the city's climate change adaptations demands.

This book offers a first-of-its-kind, standalone review of coalbed methane (CBM) in India, covering all the major technical and policy aspects.

Dioxin and dioxin-like compounds, or DLCs, are found throughout the environment, in soil, water, and air.

This book examines the costs involved in reducing ammonia emissions from agricultural practices as well as the potential benefits for climate change mitigation.

This book presents the select proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Conception to Execution (TIPCE 2022) and emphasizes the understanding of transportation infrastructure projects being conceptualized, designed, and executed so as to bring the desired development in the focused area.

Climate change is the greatest issue of our time – and yet too often literature on the subject is considered only in the bracket of 'environmental' writing, divorced from culture, society and politics.

The volume presents a comprehensive overview of rotation effects on fluid behavior, emphasizing non-linear processes.

*Selected by Emma Watson for her Ultimate Book List*Fashion is political.

Experten der Wasserversorgung müssen heute die komplexen biologischen, chemischen, physikalischen und hygienischen Grundlagen kennen.

This book presents an accessible and easy-to-follow argument that the climate crisis is a side effect of inequality and injustice, and demonstrates how strategies such as large-scale social investment will prove far more effective in reducing greenhouse gas pollution than cap-and-trade or other forms of free-market environmentalism.

In the present global context, some countries still face many challenges to bringing about inclusive, efficient, and environmentally sustainable development.

For pathways to be truly sustainable and advance gender equality and the rights and capabilities of women and girls, those whose lives and well-being are at stake must be involved in leading the way.

The rise of emerging economies represents a challenge to traditional global power balances and raises the question of how we can combine sustainability with continued economic growth.

This book explains how social psychological concepts can be closely integrated with sociotechnical perspectives of energy transitions.

Zum Gesamtwerk: Die drei Bände des Werkes "Handbuch der Umweltveränderungen und Ökotoxikologie", jeweils in zwei Teilbände unterteilt, dokumentieren und bewerten die Entstehung und Verbreitung von Belastungen der Medien Luft, Boden und Wasser mit stofflichen Verunreinigungen, radioaktiven Substanzen sowie erhöhter UV-Strahlung und die dadurch bedingten Wirkungen auf die Atmosphäre sowie terrestrische und aquatische Systeme.