Pollution and threats to the environment

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.

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 its first systematic application during the 1970s, bioremediation, or the exploitation of a biological system's degradative potential to combat toxic pollutants such as heavy metals, polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), cyanides, and radioactive material, has proven itself over time, and the many advances in molecular techniques have only amplified its utility.

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

This book focuses on the toxic legacy of Native North America, which is pervasive but largely invisible to most non-Native peoples.

Klimapolitik auf AbwegenViele sind überzeugt, dass echter Klimaschutz nur möglich ist, wenn wir auf wirtschaftliches Wachstum verzichten.

This book focuses on the toxic legacy of Native North America, which is pervasive but largely invisible to most non-Native peoples.

This book summarizes the recent research development concerning olive oil wastewater management: characterization, environmental impact, recovery and treatment.

Partiendo del planteamiento que sostiene que el clima es un factor que incide en diferentes aspectos del territorio tales como la provisión de medios esen-ciales de vida (agua, alimento, energía), la salud humana, la actividad socioe-conómica y los desastres, se propone un marco conceptual y metodológico que es fundamental para abordar los estudios de la relación clima-territorio que deben ser la base o referencia para identificar el impacto potencial de posibles condiciones climáticas futuras (escenarios de cambio climático).

A study of how the climate crisis is changing human communication from a celebrated rhetorician.

This Element provides novel insight into global climate policy implementation.

Ethical and Responsible Tourism explains the methods and practices used to manage the environmental impact of tourism on local communities and destinations.

Ethical and Responsible Tourism explains the methods and practices used to manage the environmental impact of tourism on local communities and destinations.

'This is a rich, beautiful and deeply moving book' GEORGE MONBIOT'I loved this book' CLOVER STROUDOnce Upon a Raven's Nest is the story of a working class man, one Thomas Hedley of Exmoor, and of the planet during the period of its great acceleration towards the current climate emergency.

This, the third volume in the series Climate Change and Fish Health, describes how finfish in cage culture and their pathogens are directly or indirectly affected by ongoing changes to the environment.

This, the third volume in the series Climate Change and Fish Health, describes how finfish in cage culture and their pathogens are directly or indirectly affected by ongoing changes to the environment.

This book provides an overview of the tropical marine environments of Brazil and a multi-disciplinary assessment of the impact of ongoing climate change in these environments.

This book is a focussed and up-to-date review about the key challenges, trends, implications, strategies, and ways of overcoming, that dynamic and competitive organizations are facing now and increasingly in future by climate change.

Woraus besteht unsere Erde, und wie funktioniert sie?

Un relat sobre com, en assolir la majoria d'edat, l'humanitat pren consciència de les possibilitats de vida a altres mons i la seva sobtada rellevància per al nostre destí a la Terra.

This report explains how rising climate and disaster risk is set to increase the vulnerability of Asia and the Pacific region's urban poor and identifies how to engender systemic change to strengthen their resilience.

I gave very little thought to the direction my early life was taking, yet some people considered me to be successful because I avoided the pitfalls of poverty, drugs, crime, and imprisonment.

Groundwater is invisible, but its impact is visible everywhere.

Groundwater is invisible, but its impact is visible everywhere.

World Congress on Disaster Management (WCDM) brings researchers, policy makers and practitioners from around the world in the same platform to discuss various challenging issues of disaster risk management, enhance understanding of risks and advance actions for reducing risks and building resilience to disasters.

World Congress on Disaster Management (WCDM) brings researchers, policy makers and practitioners from around the world in the same platform to discuss various challenging issues of disaster risk management, enhance understanding of risks and advance actions for reducing risks and building resilience to disasters.

This book addresses the major policy, economic and financial issues encountered in global forest carbon.

Climate change not only involves rising temperatures but it can also alter the hydro-meteorological parameters of a region and the corresponding changes emerging in the various biotic or abiotic environmental features.

Climate change not only involves rising temperatures but it can also alter the hydro-meteorological parameters of a region and the corresponding changes emerging in the various biotic or abiotic environmental features.

This book explores urban environments and their impact on resilience, livability, climate adaptation, health, and societal well-being.

In Building Materials, Health and Indoor Air Quality: Volume 2 Tom Woolley uses new research to continue to advocate for limiting the use of hazardous materials in construction and raise awareness of the links between pollutants found in building materials, poor indoor air quality and health problems.

An easy-to-use field guide for teaching on climate injustice and building resilience in your studentsand yourselfin an age of crisis.

This book theorizes the roles of optimism in anthropological thinking, research, writing, and practice.

This book theorizes the roles of optimism in anthropological thinking, research, writing, and practice.

LEBEN UND ÜBERLEBEN IM "LAND IM GEBIRGE" IN FRÜHEREN ZEITEN Dieser reich illustrierte historische Streifzug durch das Tiroler Almleben früherer Jahrhunderte erzählt vom Existenzkampf der Menschen in der alpinen Hochweidestufe.

Ein Streifzug durch die Agrar- und Klimageschichte des "Landes im Gebirge" Erzählungen von kleinen und großen Katastrophen, die das Land im Laufe der Jahrhunderte heimgesucht habenWie sehen Zeitzeugen früherer Jahrhunderte die klimatischen Lebensbedingungen im "Land im Gebirge"?

This book critically discusses the vulnerabilities and local adaptation actions of the traditional marine fishers of the tsunami-hit coastal regions of South India to climate change and risks, with an emphasis on their local institutions.

This book critically discusses the vulnerabilities and local adaptation actions of the traditional marine fishers of the tsunami-hit coastal regions of South India to climate change and risks, with an emphasis on their local institutions.

This book explores interdisciplinary perspectives on socioecological challenges and offers innovative solutions at both a European and global level.

This book explores interdisciplinary perspectives on socioecological challenges and offers innovative solutions at both a European and global level.

This fully revised and expanded new edition provides a short and accessible introduction to how climate change is governed by an increasingly diverse range of actors, from civil society and business actors to multilateral development banks, donors, and cities.

This fully revised and expanded new edition provides a short and accessible introduction to how climate change is governed by an increasingly diverse range of actors, from civil society and business actors to multilateral development banks, donors, and cities.

This book initiates multipolar climate/clime studies of the world's altitudinal and latitudinal highlands with terrestrial, experiential, and affective approaches.

This book examines the history and science of forest–climate influences and forest management to mitigate climate change.

This book presents an overview of the exciting new developments in underwater research in North America, ranging from new approaches for discovering submerged sites to an assessment of how these findings challenge the understanding of the North American past.

This book presents an overview of the exciting new developments in underwater research in North America, ranging from new approaches for discovering submerged sites to an assessment of how these findings challenge the understanding of the North American past.

"e;This wonderful book is faithful both in its witness to the world's beauty and to our need to act now to preserve something of that wonder and grace.