Pollution and threats to the environment

In the era of the Anthropocene, artists and scientists are facing a new paradigm in their attempts to represent nature.

Nanotechnology is a promising technique that can facilitate sustainability across a wide range of areas.

Do scientists expect the number and severity of extreme weather events to increase in a warming world?

***VERKAUFSKATEGORIE*** 1 e This textbook covers the core subjects of nuclear engineering.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.

Climate change vulnerability assessment is a rapidly developing field.

The fundamental principles of environmental toxicology are clearly presented here for university students and professionals in related fields.

This book taps into discussions about social vulnerability, empowerment, and resistance in relation to disaster relief and recovery.

Few books currently exist that cover such a wide spectrum of topics.

Bioinvasions and Globalization synthesises our current knowledge of the ecology and economics of biological invasions, providing an in-depth evaluation of the science and its implications for managing the causes and consequences of one of the most pressing environmental issues facing humanity today.

This book reports on the development of nanostructured metal-oxide-based electrode materials for use in water purification.

Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence examines the complexities surrounding the concept of wilderness.

Climate Change is geared toward a variety of students and general readers who seek the real science behind global warming.

This collection responds to widespread, complex, and current environmental challenges by presenting eleven original essays on a new elemental-embodied approach in environmental humanities.

First published in 1985.

The control of arsenic pollution has attracted worldwide attention, as it is one of the top 20 hazardous substances, and greatly threatens the human health, ecological balance, and industrial development.

Environmental Consciousness in China: Change with Social Transformation discusses the status of environmental consciousness within China from both an economic and political view.

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

With a specific focus on the United States and the United Kingdom, Carbon Inequality studies the role of the richest people in contributing to climate change via their luxury consumption and their investments.

It is now becoming clear that relatively few U.

This book focuses on the challenges of living with climate disasters, in addition to the existing gender inequalities that prevail and define social, economic and political conditions.

Originally published in 1987, Conservation of Ecosystems and Species examines conservation as a major world issue for governments, industrialists and the general public.

The book provides insights into community narratives concerning life in the face of creeping calamities through a case study from the Colombian Andes.

Futures: Imagining Socioecological Transformation brings together leading scholars to explore how we might know, enact, and struggle for, the conjoined social and ecological transformations we need to achieve just and sustainable futures.

The Climate Change Debate: A Reference Handbook provides an in-depth look at climate change facts and statistics.

Southeast Asia is highly diversified in terms of socio-ecosystems and biodiversity, but is undergoing dramatic environmental and social changes.

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of how local corporate water strategies influence global water governance objectives.

This book provides a snapshot of the manifestations of the climate emergency in the Philippines from a wide array of disciplines including physical sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, management, and law.

Societies need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by 80 per cent in order to counter the risks of climate change.

Managing climate variability and change remains a key development and food security issue in Bangladesh.

Renewable energy has never been more important than it is today, as climate change becomes arguably the world's most essential problem to be solved.

In this new and highly original textbook for a range of interdisciplinary courses and degree programmes focusing on marine and coastal resource management, readers are offered an introduction to the subject matter, a broad perspective and understanding, case study applications, and a reference source.

Global Environmental Politics has provided an accurate, up-to-date, and unbiased understanding of the world's most pressing environmental issues for thirty years.

Across the United States, thousands of hazardous waste sites are contaminated with chemicals that prevent the underlying groundwater from meeting drinking water standards.

Pesticides in groundwater can contaminate drinking water and threaten the health of communities.

This book is the first to address the important interrelationship between second homes and climate change, which has become an increasingly relevant issue for many regions around the world.

The demands placed on land, water, energy and other natural resources are exacerbated as the world population continues to increase together with the expectations of economic growth.

This volume is based on the lectures presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute: (ASI) Pollutants Formation from Combustion.

International concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental commumtIes over traces of xenobiotics in foods and in both abiotic and biotic environments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published research papers and progress reports, and archival documentations.

The book covers the chemistry of various nanosponges, as well as the methods for synthesizing them and altering them chemically, as well as their characterization and uses in environmental remediation.

Since the computing revolution, modelling has become the most important way in which we further our knowledge about how the sea moves and how the processes in the sea operate.

This book identifies four key forms of air pollution: indoor, urban, regional and global.

In this book major construction projects are reviewed.

This book discusses the numerical simulation of water waves, which combines mathematical theories and modern techniques of numerical simulation to solve the problems associated with waves in coastal, ocean, and environmental engineering.

In the aftermath of catastrophes, it is common to find prior indicators, missed signals, and dismissed alerts that, had they been recognized and appropriately managed before the event, could have resulted in the undesired event being averted.

Essentials of Water Systems Design in the Oil, Gas and Chemical Processing Industries provides valuable insight for decision makers by outlining key technical considerations and requirements of four critical systems in industrial processing plants-water treatment systems, raw water and plant water systems, cooling water distribution and return systems, and fire water distribution and storage facilities.