Pollution and threats to the environment

Developing Climate-Resilient Crops: Improving Global Food Security and Safety is timely, as the world is gradually waking up to the fact that a global food crisis of enormous proportions is brewing.

This book reviews recent research and applications of chitin and chitosan, as natural alternatives of fossil fuel products, in green chemistry, energy, biotechnology, bioprinting, medicine, water treatment, agriculture and food science.

This book studies the role of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as an advocate for greater environmental responsibility and analyses the major achievements and outcomes of two landmark conferences - Stockholm (1972) and Rio (1992) - which set the agenda for the future role of the UNEP.

Since China has now become the world's largest energy consumer, its energy sector has understandably huge implications for the global economy.

Omniconomics shows how we can make human society intrinsically sustainable, harmonically embedded in nature, with the help of a completely new approach in which traditional economics is transformed.

Corporate Governance and the Nuclear Industry explores the UK nuclear Legacy - governance issues associated with the decommissioning of a range of early-generation civil nuclear facilities.

How should we react to climate anxiety?

Low Carbon Politics focuses on how policies and institutions have influenced the deployment of renewable energy and nuclear power in the electricity sector.

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 book, based on research carried out at the Academia Sinica over the past 30 years, explains the basic difference between the variable charge soils of tropical and subtropical regions, and the constant charge soils of temperate regions.

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

This is a Festschrift in honour of Professor Asit K.

This book deepens the understanding of the broader processes that shape and mediate the responses to climate change of poor urban households and communities in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

This book develops a philosophy of education for the Anthropocene, proposing that we think about education in the light of contemporary bioclimatic challenges.

India's sustained and rapid economic growth offers an opportunity to lift millions out of poverty.

Der Begriff Umweltschutztechnik verbindet Schutz und Umwelt als Vorsorgeprinzip und Wiederherstellung geschädigter Ökosysteme mit technischen Mitteln.

As climate change adaptation rises up the international policy agenda, matched by increasing funds and frameworks for action, there are mounting questions over how to ensure the needs of vulnerable people on the ground are met.

Die Neuauflage des Buches bringt neue Anwendungen und neue Methoden, aktuelle Ergebnisse der nationalen (VDI) und internationalen Reinraumkongresse (ICCCS) sowie neue Reinraum-Regulierungen der Pharmazie (EC GMP, FDA), und neue Richtlinien (VDI 2083 und ISO 14644).

Life Adrift critically engages with two of the most defining issues of our contemporary global political economy: migration and climate change.

This state-of-the-art compendium, combining theory with practical examples, looks at the entire biochar supply chain.

Cold-water corals form reef structures in continental margin and seamount settings world-wide, making them more wide-spread and abundant than shallow-water reefs.

There is a plethora of information available on the river Ganga in the form of books, blogs, articles, websites, videos.

This book focuses on sustainability concepts in architecture and urban design, environmental issues, and natural resources.

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, but few would consider it a social good.

This book comprehensively examines the complex relationship between forests and climate change from a biological perspective.

This book presents principles of animal biodiversity, its importance, sustainable utilization, and conservation.

The passage of the Clean Air Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970 marked a sweeping transformation in American politics.

Seit Mitte der 70er Jahre läßt sich in der Unternehmenspraxis eine zunehmende Auseinandersetzung mit Fragen der betrieblichen Umweltkostenrechnung beobachten.

Agriculture and industry are the two most important economic sectors for various countries around the globe, providing millions of jobs as well as being the main source of income for these countries.

Now that so many ecosystems face rapid and major environmental change, the ability of species to respond to these changes by dispersing or moving between different patches of habitat can be crucial to ensuring their survival.

In dieser Einführung stellt der Autor die Grundlagen der Meteorologie vor, indem er die Atmosphäre als ein kom- plexes dynamisches System versteht, das ein Teilsystem des Systems Planet Erde ist.

In the past few years, numerous authors have highlighted the emergence of transnational climate initiatives, such as city networks, private certification schemes, and business self-regulation in the policy domain of climate change.

This book mainly reviews the progress, effectiveness, and transformation mode of China's current practice of "e;Lucid Waters and Lush Mountains Are Invaluable Assets"e; Theory (abbreviated as the "e;Two Mountain Theory"e;).

The book offers a comprehensive account of how the world evolved to its present state in which humans now exercise a powerful, in many cases dominant, influence for global environmental change.

Climate change, a familiar term today, is far more than just global warming due to atmospheric greenhouse gases including CO2.

This 11 volume set is a compilation of important research on climate change.

This thesis focuses on the energy, chemical and carbon implications of diverse wastewater treatment alternatives, and offers effective solutions for wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) to achieve sustainability goals.

This book presents the findings of a three-year study on urban heat in Doha, Qatar, and discusses guidelines and strategies for planning agencies to consider in the context of moderating temperatures to provide pedestrians with greater access to outdoor spaces and greater choice in modes of transport.

For science to remain a legitimate and trustworthy source of knowledge, society will have to engage in the collective processes of knowledge co-production, which not only includes science, but also other types of knowledge.

Die Kenntnis der in einem Gewässer (Fluss, Kanal) fließenden Wassermenge und ihrer räumlichen und zeitlichen Varianz ist eine wesentliche Grundlage für die Bemessung von Wasserbauwerken sowie die  nachhaltige Bewirtschaftung der Ressource Wasser.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book discusses the balance of priorities within the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus and its impact on policy development and implementation, highlighting innovative perspectives in adopting a holistic approach to identify, analyse and manage the nexus component interdependencies.

Aligning global governance to the challenges of sustainability is one of the most urgent international issues to be addressed.

Transnational Food Security addresses food security from an international relations, political economy and legal perspective analysing the relationship between food security and the environment and climate change, trade, finance and contracts, and the intersection between food and human rights.

At a time when Europeans across the continent are focused on the EU's future direction, this book provides an important contribution to the current debate.

The concept of resilience currently infuses policy debates and public discourse, and is promoted as a normative concept in climate policy making by governments, non-governmental organizations, and think-tanks.