Pollution and threats to the environment

During the past decade, scientists have learned much about the complex naturalprocesses that influence climate variability and change, and our ability to modelclimate has increased significantly.

Heat islands are urban and suburban areas that are significantly warmer than their surroundings.

The United States produces 25% of the world's wood output, and wood supports a major segment of the U.

Fifteen years have passed since a small group of researchers at the Czech Geo- logical Survey boldly convened a conference called GEOMON, Geochemical Monitoring in Representative Basins, held in Prague in 1987.

Understanding Human Ecology offers a coherent conceptual framework for human ecology - a clear approach for understanding the many systems we are part of and for how we frame and understand the problems we face.

The prevalence of natural disasters in recent years has highlighted the importance of preparing adequately for disasters and dealing efficiently with their consequences.

This book is the first edited compilation of selected, refereed papers submitted to ERTEP 2007.

How do we assess and manage the actual risks from water contamination?

Notwithstanding past achievements, flood damage continues to rise throughout the world as the magnitudes of floods increase, partly as a result of poor land management and partly by climate change, growing populations and continuing development in flood-prone areas, and the aging and deterioration of flood defences.

Written by a leading geographer of climate, this book offers a unique guide to students and general readers alike for making sense of this profound, far-reaching, and contested idea.

The TOGA (Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere) Program was designed to study short-term climate variations.

Most texts on computational methods are borne out of research activities at postgraduate study programs, and this is no exception.

A variety of smokes and obscurants have been developed and used to screen armed forces from view, signal friendly forces, and mark positions.

With knowledge from our deserts, Australians can reshape the human story.

Drastic reduction of carbon emissions is vital if we are to avoid a catastrophe that devastates large parts of the world.

Prior to the Enlightenment era, how was the human-climate relationship conceived?

This book investigates the widespread and persistent relationship between disasters and gender-based violence, drawing on new research with victim-survivors to show how the two forms of harm constitute 'layered disasters' in particular places, intensifying and reproducing one another.

Why does knowing more mean believing-and doing-less?

Modern civilization faces a broad spectrum of daunting problems, but rational solutions are available for them all.

Comprehensive introductory textbook for students and specialists in ecology, environmental science, and chemistry.

Demonstrates a socio-technical reconfiguration approach to low-carbon system transitions for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners.

Sustainable water management is a key environmental challenge of the 21st century.

This book presents an up-to-the-minute overview of arsenic and fluoride pollution of soil and groundwater in Pakistan.

Sealing of boreholes and underground excavations has not received much engineering attention until fairly recently.

,This thoughtful and original study throws important critical light on the dominant orthodoxies about sustainable development, and suggests a radically new direction.

Is democracy, in its neoliberalized form, responsible in part for bringing us to the brink of self-destruction and the policy inertia that is doing away with our chances of survival?

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This book examines the impact of climate change on eye disease and eye health.

This book focuses on validation and reconstruction work on the land surface temperature (LST) products retrieved by thermal infrared remote sensing.

Minimising the most severe risks of climate change means ending societal dependence on fossil fuels, and radically improving the efficiency with which we use all energy sources.

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This book gathers selected papers presented at the 8th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics (ICEG), held on October 28 - November 1, 2018 in Hangzhou, China.

Indigenous Water and Drought Management in a Changing World presents a series of global case studies that examine how different Indigenous groups are dealing with various water management challenges and finding creative and culturally specific ways of developing solutions to these challenges.

The reduction of the fire hazard of fuel is critical to improving survivability in impact-survivable aircraft accidents.

There is not an extensive literature on street sweeping.

Complete coverage of air pollution from its sources to its health and environmental impacts, for advanced students and researchers.

This book highlights quantitative risk assessment and modeling methods for assessing health risks caused by air pollution, as well as characterizing and communicating remaining uncertainties.

Electricity and Energy Transition in Nigeria provides readers with a detailed account of the dynamics of energy infrastructure change in Nigeria's electricity sector.

The ongoing debate concerning the Amazon's crucial role in global climate and biodiversity is entirely dependent upon sustainable development in the region.

The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering.

The Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology (ESST) addresses the grand challenge for science and engineering today.

This anthology is a two-volume work that focuses on our relationship with the Earth and our future, examining the crossover between psychology and environmental studies in the emerging fields of ecopsychology and environmental psychology.

Managing the nation's air quality is a complex undertaking, involving tens of thousands of people in regulating thousands of pollution sources.

Perspectives on Biogeochemistry is an account of the origin of forces and matter at the dawn of time, and the way they evolved to planet Earth of today.

With more than half of the world's population now living in urban areas, it is vitally important that towns and cities are healthy places to live.

Die Verfahrenstechnik allgemein befaßt sich mit der Behandlung und Umwandlung von Stoffen.