Pollution and threats to the environment

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.

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of recent trends of green science and technology.

Second only to soda, bottled water is on the verge of becoming the most popular beverage in the country.

This book explains how the specifics of Stiff Extrusion influence on the metallurgical properties of Extruded Briquettes.

The eleven papers presented in this issue are intended to provide a comprehen- sive description of the cloud systems studied during the Kleiner Feldberg experi- ment.

Water is essential for life, a strategic resource for every country and population.

The EU has been the region of the world where the most climate policies have been implemented, and where practical policy experimentation in the field of the environment and climate change has been taking place at a rapid pace over the last twenty-five years.

Despite an overwhelming scientific consensus, climate change remains one of the most controversial issues of our time.

This book describes the effect that hydrocarbon energy (oil, gas and coal) has had on human evolution, how we got to the stage we are at today, what we are doing about it and where it will lead us in the not-too-distant future.

Community Responses to Disasters in the Pacific Rim presents different aspects of place-making in displacement in the Pacific Rim region.

This book is proposed to be a collection of excellently peer-reviewed research from the 2023 14th International Conference on Environmental Science and Development (ICESD 2023), which will be held during May 25-27, 2023, in Xiamen, China.

This book undertakes a scholarly assessment of the state of the art of law and policy perspectives on groundwater and climate change at the international, regional and national levels.

This book is the proceedings of the conference Faecal Indicators: problem or solution?

This book aims at deriving governance and sustainability lessons from analysing the implementation and management of some major irrigation programs in the Mediterranean Region.

The EU has been portrayed as a leader in international climate change negotiations.

Advances in Earth Science outlines the latest developments and new research directions currently being made world-wide in the earth sciences.

This book presents an empirical study of the role of knowledge in the making of the climate-security nexus.

Carbon Politics and the Failure of Kyoto charts the framework and political evolution of the Kyoto Protocol negotiations and examines the ensuing failure of the international community to adequately address climate change.

This important work on boundary-layer measurements was originally published in 1986 and sponsored by the American Meteorological Society (AMS) in cooperation with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

Weathering the Reformation explores the role of the Little Ice Age in early modern Christian culture and considers climate as a contributing factor in the Protestant Reform.

A concise but comprehensive interdisciplinary examination of global deforestation for a broad audience of scientists and policymakers.

This book began when Kevin Timoney noticed a suspicious pattern in data reported by the Alberta Energy Regulator.

Many of the challenges that decision-makers grapple with in relation to climate change are governance related.

This book highlights the positive and negative impacts that hemp fibre and textiles have on environment, while studying the effects of climate change on the growth of fibre hemp.

,This book provides valuable lessons that will improve public policy and the quality of decisions that will affect generations to come.

Arsenic contamination in drinking water and crops is a major health issue in many countries worldwide, threatening the health of millions of people due to arsenic's toxicity and carcinogenicity.

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

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

This book presents the editor's recently proposed mathematical models for flux prediction in membrane filtration.

In 1989, the International Labor Organization stated that all indigenous peoples living in the postcolonial world were entitled to the right to prior consultation, over activities that could potentially impact their territories and traditional livelihoods.

Transformations of Global Food Systems for Climate Change Resilience: Addressing Food Security, Nutrition, and Health provides poignant case studies of climate change resilience frameworks for nutrition-focused transformations of agriculture and food systems, food security, food sovereignty, and population health of underserved and marginalized communities from across the globe.

In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy.

The Mobile Source Emissions Factor (MOBILE) model is a computer model developed by the U.

This book gathers technical and scientific contributions from leading researchers, academics, and lecturers, focusing on water management, water pollution and water structures in the Czech Republic.

Peter Goin and the Photography of Environmental Change narrates the forty-year quest of award-winning and internationally exhibited contemporary photographer Peter Goin to document human-altered landscapes across America and beyond.

In Climate Obstruction: How Denial, Delay and Inaction are Heating the Planet, Kristoffer Ekberg, Bernhard Forchtner, Martin Hultman and Kirsti Jylha bring together crucial insights from environmental history, sociology, media and communication studies and psychology to help us understand why we are failing to take necessary measures to avert the unfolding climate crisis.

A changing climate is causing challenges for soil and water management in many parts of the world.

Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account explores local perceptions of climate change through ethnographic encounters with the men and women who live at the front line of climate change in the lower Himalayas.

This book introduces readers to environmental background investigation, pollution source intensity evaluation and risk assessment approaches used at three main types of groundwater-contaminated sites: municipal domestic waste landfills, hazardous waste landfills and oil-contaminated sites.

An Introduction to Sustainability provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key concepts and ideas which are encompassed within the growing field of sustainability.

Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Mitigation and Adaptation focuses on the link between climate change threats and sustainable development goals.

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.

This timely, comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume advances an original argument about the complex roots and multiple politics of globality.

Beim Betreiben jeglicher Art von Anlagen zum Umgang mit wassergefährdenden Stoffen ist eine kaum noch zu überschauende Vielzahl von Rechtsvorschriften und Technischen Regeln zu beachten.

Originally published in 1980, this book is an original approach to the study of the atmosphere at A Level and introductory undergraduate courses.

Hazardous Materials Handbook for Emergency Responders breaks down the hazards and response priorities according to the nine classes of hazardous chemicals defined by the U.

The Lake Chilwa Basin Climate Change Adaptation Programme was a seven-year research and development programme in Malawi that concluded in March 2017.

This book provides researchers and graduate students with an overview of the latest developments in and applications of adsorption processes for water treatment and purification.

This book reviews air pollution, discussing its far-reaching impacts and presenting sustainable strategies to effectively address and mitigate these challenges.