Pollution and threats to the environment

Whether on personal health, politics, or climate change, we are constantly bombarded with more numerous 'breaking news' articles than we have time for.

This publication is extracted from a much larger report, Global Environmental Change: Research Pathways for the Next Decade, which addresses the full range of the scientific issues concerning global environmental change and offers guidance to the scientific effort on these issues in the United States.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the environmental challenges posed by emerging pollutants and the innovative strategies available for their management.

Higher education has recently been recognized as a key driver for societal growth in the Global South and capacity building of African universities is now widely included in donor policies.

This book provides state-of-the-art knowledge on how to establish, organize, staff, and develop online education/e-learning programs.

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

Explores the importance of policy evaluation in polycentric climate governance using the European Union as an example.

Environmental ethics presents and defends a systematic and comprehensive account of the moral relation between human beings and their natural environment and assumes that human behaviour toward the natural world can and is governed by moral norms.

This book is about the resilience of silvo-pastoral systems now, and in the future.

Climate change brings about a new set of major economic risks arising from changing weather patterns, extreme weather events and rising sea levels.

This volume explores whether theatre pedagogy can and should be transformed in response to the global climate crisis.

Posthuman Personhood takes up the ethical challenge posed by Francis Fukuyama's work, Our Posthuman Future.

This book critically analyses how diverse Parties and non-Party stakeholders (such as subnational governments, cities, states, foundations, NGOs, civil society, multilateral organizations, and the private sector) promote climate actions through linguistic and visual symbols across multiple platforms, unveiling the underlying ideologies within these discourses.

With tipping points and extreme global warming looming, the key to understanding our climate future lies in our distant past "e;If you care at all about our future, you must read Runaway Climate.

Building resilience to the world's increasingly damaging environmental hazards has become a priority.

The book extends the knowledge on wetland ecosystem services based on the new research.

This book mainly focuses on ecological approaches for preventing and controlling non-point source (NPS) pollution on the basis of forestry measures.

This book deals with the major issues being faced by the coastal population in Asia with emphasis on natural and man-made hazards, climate change impact and pressures caused by mega cities along Asian coasts.

Energy security is known for its 'slippery' nature and subsequent broad range of definitions.

This unrivaled reference and handbook on this hot topic covers the technical and administrative aspects of CO2 emissions, with special reference to the chemical and petrochemical industry.

Many veterans returning from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have health problems they believe are related to their exposure to the smoke from the burning of waste in open-air "e;burn pits"e; on military bases.

This book highlights China's theoretical advances and practical actions toward climate risk prevention in 2019.

A clear, concise discussion of today's hottest topics in climate change, including adapting to climate change and geo-engineering to mitigate the effects of change, Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition takes on the tough questions of what to do and offers real solutions to the practical problems caused by radical changes in the Earth's climate.

This book offers insights into the recent research focusing on green solutions to address environmental pollution and its impacts.

Systemic global risks of oil supply, climate shock and financial collapse threaten tomorrow's economies and mean businesses and policy makers face huge challenges in fuelling tomorrow's world.

Twenty years on from the first edition of Pollution and the topic remains high in the public awareness.

The coastal and ocean ecosystem is a significant feature of our planet and provides a source of food for much of life on Earth.

This book addresses the crucial - but oddly neglected - question of what it means to say climate change is political.

Looking to tackle climate change and climate science in your classroom?

The transition to secondary school can be a daunting time for parents of autistic youngsters, as well as children themselves.

What is sustainability?

Forests are considered the lungs of the planet, as they consume and store carbon dioxide and produce oxygen.

Hydraulic parameter identification is a crucial step in hydrogeological investigations.

This book focuses on the traditional ecological knowledge in addressing the current climate crisis in the Indian Himalayas.

Green Magnetic Nanoparticles (GMNPs): Recent Developments in Preparation and Application highlights established research and technology on nanomaterials, nanocomposites and other alternative materials to be used for different applications and move to their rapidly emerging aspects and then discusses future research directions.

In the 1970's, agriculture in the United States seemed to be booming.

Bioremediation is the use of biological interventions for mitigation of the noxious effects caused by pollutants in the environment including wastewater.

This book presents the environmental history of the Delta of the lowland rivers Rhine and Meuse, an ecological story on evolving human-environmental relations coping with climate change and sea-level rise.

This volume which carries the designationCumulative Series Index, is the master key to the first five volumes of the CRC Handbook of Environmental Control.

This volume outlines the specific conditions and responses to climate change in India.

Waste management poses increasing challenges to both the protection of the environment and to human health.

This book presents emerging perspectives on disaster resilience and human settlements in the larger context of the Anthropocene.

The West African Sahel is predicted to be heavily affected by climate change in the future.

Since the HMS Challenger expedition of 1872 1876, our vision of the ocean has changed completely.

Climate Change and Geodynamics in Polar Regions covers most of the scientific aspects of geoscientific investigation undertaken by Indian researchers in the polar regions: the Antarctic, Arctic, and Himalayan regions.

An increasing allllo~/allce because of the anthropogenically induced ozone depletion and relevant illcrca5e of the surface ultraviolet (UV) radiation (including erythemal part of the UV spectrum) has resulted in the growth of interest to total ozone (TOZ) surface and satellite observations, surface UV measurements (with an emphasis on UV -B) and.

The aim of the monograph is to present a modern and original approach towards designing and implementation of effective solutions that ensure an induction towards positive climate change.

The change in climatic conditions has resulted in a series of events from the melting of polar ice to the rising of sea levels.