Pollution and threats to the environment

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.

Effects of global warming on the physical, chemical, ecological structure and function and biodiversity of freshwater ecosystems are not well understood and there are many opinions on how to adapt aquatic environments to global warming in order to minimize the negative effects of climate change.

Aus einer zweisemestrigen Vorlesung über die Physik der Atmosphäre im Rahmen des Wahlfaches Umweltphysik hervorgegangen, ist das Buch bewußt als Lehrbuch konzipiert.

In combining practice and theory, this textbook provides a management perspective on the 'business case' for sustainability.

The human-mediated introduction of species to regions of the world they could never reach by natural means has had great impacts on the environment, the economy, and society.

Behavioral toxicology is a young discipline in the United States; so young, in fact, that this is one of its first books.

This book offers essential information on geospatial technologies for water resource management and highlights the latest GIS and geostatistics techniques as they relate to groundwater.

This book examines the concept of liberty in relation to civilization's ability to live within ecological limits.

Focusing on climate-induced migration from Africa to Europe, Climate Change and Migration shows how global warming's impact on international relations has been significant, enhancing the security regimes in not only the advanced economies of the North Atlantic, but in the states that serve as transit points between the most advanced and most desperate nations.

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The Handbook of Regulations on Environmental Protection in China details the environmental laws, regulations and standards in China for those enforcing and creating environmental policy as it stood in the early 1990's.

This book reveals how journalists in the Global North and Global South mediate climate change by examining journalism and reporting in Australia and Bangladesh.

Full Title: Water - Pollution, Biotechnology - Transgenic Plant Vaccine, Energy, Black Sea Pollution, AIDS - Mother-Infant HIV Transmission, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy, Limits of Development - Megacities, Missile Proliferation and Defense - Information Security, Cosmic Objects, Desertification, Carbon Sequestration and Sustainability, Climatic Changes, Global Monitoring of Planet, Mathematics and Democracy, Science and Journalism, Permanent Monitoring Panel Reports, Water for Megacities Workshop, Black Sea Workshop, Transgenic Plants Workshop, Research Resources Workshop, Mother-Infant HIV Transmission Workshop, Sequestration and Desertification Workshop, Focus Africa Workshop

This book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections.

This volume discusses climate change impacts on groundwater quality in arid and semi-arid regions, and provides human health risk assessments due to pollution of surface and groundwater.

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National implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) provisions has yielded enough challenges for providers and users of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge alike.

This collection of essays explores the phenomenon of antiurbanism: the antipathy, fear, and hatred of the city.

This book explores the historical and theoretical classification of True Cost Accounting (TCA) and its business-oriented ways of implementation.

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE**'Desperately needed' - Isabella Tree'I doubt any more important book will published this year' - Stephen FryIn this indispensable follow up to his acclaimed The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World, Charles Clover chronicles how determined individuals are proving that the crisis in our oceans can be reversed, with benefits for both local communities and entire ecosystems.

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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges associated with dye pollution and highlights opportunities for sustainable development in the textile industry.

This book concerns the urgency of thinking and acting in response to climate change through art and education.

This book contains two parts.

This volume brings together extended reviews and papers of new scientific research on atmospheric nitrogen deposition impacts globally.

Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science.

Das Buch schließt einerseits die Lücke zwischen den angewandten Bauingenieur-Hydraulik-Büchern (Bollrich, Zanke, Schröder) und den Strömungsmechanik-Standardwerken wie Schlichting oder Truckenbrodt und ist andererseits als Kurs konzipiert.

This series started in 1981 with the Erice Seminars when the danger of a nuclear East-West confrontation was menacing the world.

Climate change is increasingly a part of the human experience.

Sustainable mobility has long been sought after in cities around the world, particularly in industrialised countries, but also increasingly in the emerging cities in Asia.

Chemical Modeling for Air Resources describes fundamental topics in chemical modeling and its scientific and regulatory applications in air pollution problems, such as ozone hole, acid rain, climate change, particulate matter, and other air toxins.

This book presents case studies of risk management of various hazards and risk management systems at regional, national, and local levels.

Kanalnetzüberlastungen, Grundwasserabsenkungen und Hochwasserspitzen sind nur einige negative Auswirkungen der Versiegelung auf den natürlichen Wasserhaushalt.

In October 2003, a group of experts met in Beijing under the auspices of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Engineering, and National Academy of Engineering (NAE)/National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies to continue a dialogue and eventually chart a rational course of energy use in China.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the various aspects involved in biomass burning, highlighting the complexity of the phenomenon and the ensuing challenges for the design of approaches aimed at reducing fires in the open air.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology publishes authoritative reviews on the occurrence, effects, and fate of pesticide residues and other environmental contaminants.

Blue carbon ecosystems are of tremendous value toward the utilization of high-salinity water, such as seawater, as well as hyper-saline soils, and salt-tolerant biota for the production of biomass, for food, feed, fiber, fuel, other economic purposes, and carbon sequestration.

Greenland and the International Politics of a Changing Arctic examines the international politics of semi-independent Greenland in a changing and increasingly globalised Arctic.

Emerging contaminants are chemical and biological agents for which there is growing concern about their potential health and environmental effects.

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The book reports the results on the fate of POPs in the abiotic and biotic components of the aquatic environment North Pacific Ocean (include Russian part of North Pacific), possible health risks for coastal residents Pacific Ocean exposed to these hazardous pollutants are systematized.

This thesis investigates the combustion chemistry of cyclohexane, methylcyclohexane, and ethylcyclohexane on the basis of state-of-the-art synchrotron radiation photoionization mass spectrometry experiments, quantum chemistry calculations, and extensive kinetic modeling.

Teaching Design for Sustainable Futures: Community, Construction, and Creativity explores how creativity can be integrated into sustainability education within the built environment.

Environmental sustainability efforts require a great deal of engagement and political will, ranging from local communities to state departments.

"e;Climatic Change and Water Resources in the Middle East and North Africa"e; is dedicated to high-priority topics related to the impact of climate change on water resources in a water scarce region.

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.

Explores the importance of policy evaluation in polycentric climate governance using the European Union as an example.

Green Gentrification looks at the social consequences of urban "e;greening"e; from an environmental justice and sustainable development perspective.

The Earth Transformed answers the need for a concise, non-technical introduction to the ways in which the natural environment has been and is being affected by human activities.