Pollution and threats to the environment

This book investigates and evaluates the opportunities and limitations of network governance in building local capacity for energy infrastructure governance.

The generation of offshore energy is a rapidly growing sector, competing for space in an already busy seascape.

This book explores the social implications and challenges of low-carbon development.

Is global climate change likely to become a significant source of violent conflict, and should it therefore be seen as a national security challenge?

With glaciers melting, oceans growing more acidic, species dying out, and catastrophic events like Hurricane Katrina ever more probable, strong steps must be taken now to slow global warming.

Assessing the vulnerability of human populations to global environmental change, particularly climate change, is now the main imperative of research and international action.

The scale of global transportation of oil cargoes has led to a demand for increased control and international legislation to combat accidental and operational dis- charges of oily wastes and residues at sea.

Die Autoren betrachten in diesem Buch die Chancen erneuerbarer Energieträger auf dem Energiemarkt unter verschiedenen Aspekten.

Hydroinformatics systems are systems that combine computational hydraulic modelling with information systems (including knowledge-based systems).

This Element provides novel insight into global climate policy implementation.

This book is a collection of selected, peer-reviewed papers presented at the 2023 8th Asia Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development (ACESD), held in Sapporo, Japan, November 3-5, 2023.

As a society, we use more than 100,000 different industrial compounds to promote health and treat disease, to grow food and to access clean water.

A documentary account of the Chernobyl disaster of April 1986, this is based on interviews with many of the participants.

Ein Qualitätssicherungs-Handbuch ist ein individuell auf ein Unternehmen zugeschnittenes Dokument.

This book is intended to provide a hitherto missing English-language overview of a multi-year research project in which a comprehensive methodology was developed to assess a rule-based classification of the habitat services, the primary net biomass productivity and carbon sequestration capacity.

For both public and private managers, the book Optimization Methods for a Stakeholder Society is today's key to answer the problem of a sustainable development world.

A critical insight into the diverse socio-cultural, political, economic and ecological contexts of the global whale-watching industry.

The feeling of optimism that followed the COP 21 Paris Conference on Climate Change requires concrete action and steadfast commitment to a process that raises a number of crucial challenges: technological, political, social, and economic.

The role of experts and their expertise, in our personal and social lives, has taken centre stage in the debates about our post-COVID-19 world.

This in-depth exploration of five industries in the Kola Peninsula examines Soviet power and its interaction with the natural world.

This book reviews the latest advances in soil remediation and is an authoritative account of the environmental chemistry, microbiology, ecotoxicology, and regulation policies of soil pollution.

Man's understanding of how this planet is put together and how it evolved has changed radically during the last 30 years.

The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Agriculture covers major theoretical issues as well as critical empirical shifts in gender and agriculture.

This book reviews the progresses and achievements made in the past 20 years of research on soil pollution and remediation in China, and presents 50 review and research articles from all over China, including Hong Kong and Taiwan.

How the climate crisis changed one woman's life: “Stunningly beautiful .

This book examines from different perspectives the moral significance of non-human members of the biotic community and their omission from climate ethics literature.

'I no longer try to mask my autism; I now work to support my autism'It is a myth that autistic children grow into 'less autistic' adults.

Boden-, Luft- und Grundwasserverunreinigungen durch gesundheitsgefährdende Abfallstoffe z.

Originally published in 1983, Interpretations of Calamity provides a provocative critique of the 'dominant view' of research into natural hazards.

This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art review of leading research on climate change communication.

Das erfolgreiche Fachbuch zur Einführung in die Hydrologie und Wasserwirtschaft der Oberflächengewässer liegt nun in der 6.

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

This timely anthology brings together for the first time the most important ancient, medieval, Enlightenment, and modern scholarship for a complete anthropological evaluation of the relationship between culture and climate change.

People are exposed to a variety of chemicals throughout their daily lives.

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Atmospheric Pollution and Environmental Change is an introduction to the major pollutants causing concern today, a description of their sources and how their emissions and concentrations have changed through time.

To meet the challenge of global environmental degradation activists have tackled clear and concrete problems such as carbon emissions and climate change, the ruination of ecosystems and habitat, the precipitous loss of biodiversity, and many other unhappy consequences of irresponsible human behaviour.

This book examines the causes of effective climate policies in the US, through statistical analysis and three longitudinal case studies.

This book provides detailed information on the history, analysis and applications of chlorine and bromine isotope geochemistry.

From masks and face shields through at-home tests and sanitizer bottles, many of the tools we used to keep safe during the global COVID-19 pandemic had two things in common: first, they were at least in part made of plastic, and second, they were disposable.

Contemporary society is dependent on man's ability to work fundamental changes in the natural environment.

This book highlights the environmental footprints and best practices in sustainable agriculture.

Air pollution has become part of the daily existence of many people who work, live and use the streets in Asian cities.

This landmark essay collection explains the Anthropocene as a scientific concept and as a human dilemma, showing how it limits our future but liberates our imaginations.

This volume focuses on how, in Europe, the debate on the commons is discussed in regard to historical and contemporary dimensions, critically referencing the work of Elinor Ostrom.

Originally published in this form in 1971, the content of this book was originally part of a larger composite volume 'Water, Earth and Man' (1969) which provided a synthesis of hydrology, geomorphology and socio-economic geography.