Pollution and threats to the environment

On May 25,1978, the Commission on Toxicology ofthe Division of Clinical Chemistry of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) established its Subcommittee on Environmental and Occupational Toxicology of Cadmium following aseries of Commission meetings in Kristiansand, Norway.

Mankind has created pollution, and has suffered its consequences since time immemorial.

Finishing this book is giving me a mixture of relief, satisfaction and frus- tration.

This book covers advanced manufacturing in biological, petroleum, and nanotechnology processing for the development of novel products and systems that incorporate enhanced pollution control and waste management for environmental remediation.

Climate change brings about a new set of major economic risks arising from changing weather patterns, extreme weather events and rising sea levels.

First published in 1989, Chernobyl: The Long Shadow offers a balanced review of what happened there, why and how it happened, and what the main lessons and implications of the accident are.

Functional and structural nanomaterials are emerging materials that display interesting physical and chemical properties because of their size and surface area to volume ratio.

The promises, dreams and hopes of architects for future cities are now inextricably linked to climate change.

'Systemic management' describes a holistic, objective and universally applicable form of management, providing a framework for addressing environmental challenges such as global warming, emergent diseases, deforestation, overpopulation, the extinction crisis, pollution, over-fishing, and habitat destruction.

Earth's climate varies even without human influence but the acceleration in the changing pattern with cause and effect by/to the civilisation is a matter of concern to scientists.

As our economic and natural systems continue on their collision course, Bruce Jennings asks whether we have the political capacity to avoid large-scale environmental disaster.

Die Förderung und Umsetzung von Energieeffizienz und Klimaschutz zählen zu den vorrangigen Aufgaben von Städten und Gemeinden aller Größenklassen.

Through its exploration of the spatial dimension of risk, this book offers a brand new approach to theorizing risk, and significant improvements in how to manage, tolerate and take risks.

The interplay between land use and climate change is a crucial aspect of sustainable development, especially in Nepal.

This book reviews air pollutants and their effects on human health, biodiversity, and environmental quality in the context of the One Health framework.

This book explores how the history of philosophy can orient us to the new reality brought on by the climate crisis.

Given the problems of the environment in relation to the ever-growing civi- lization activities of man, it is not surprising that in recent years more and more related data have been collected, phenomena have been observed and concerns have been expressed.

Pandemie und Klimakrise rufen die herausragende Rolle der Wissenschaft und des wissenschaftlichen Wissens für Informierung und Orientierung der Gesellschaft sowie für die Beratung der Politik bei der Ausrichtung praktischer Maßnahmen ins Bewusstsein.

This book addressed an in-depth comprehension of the classifications and characterizations of POPs, which have become global issues due to bioaccumulation, persistency, and toxicity.

This book is about how water managers in the United States are responding to the call for increased effort to achieve sustainable supplies of clean fresh water for present and future generations.

Looks at the question: do forests cool or warm the atmosphere and reduce global warming?

We are the only species that uses fire.

In 1992 Australia's Commonwealth and State governments announced the introduction of a National Drought Policy adopting an innovative risk management approach, which received broad support from Australia's major political parties and the policy community.

Insects, being poikilothermic, are among the organisms that are most likely to respond to changes in climate, particularly increased temperatures.

This book focuses on the most recent developments in bioremediation techniques, exploring how microorganisms can break down different pollutants and the future potential of bioremediation to reduce global pollution levels.

Energy is at the top of the list of environmental problems facing industrial society, and is arguably the one that has been handled least successfully, in part because politicians and the public do not understand the physical technologies, while the engineers and industrialists do not understand the societal forces in which they operate.

Originally published in 1985.

It is already clear that climate engineering raises numerous troubling ethical issues.

Balanced factual and conceptual analysis of the political and economic factors that shape the United States'' responses to climate change.

How prehistoric humans coped with the end of the last Ice Age-and catastrophic global warming.

Natural radiation is omnipresent everywhere on the earth, and humans cannot avoid it.

Over the last 30 years, water quality management in the United States has been driven by the control of point sources of pollution and the use of effluent-based water quality standards.

A practical guide to cultivating expansive understandings of climate change and environmental regeneration in K12 students through classroom instructional practices and curricula.

Great advances have been made in our understanding of the climate system over the past few decades, and remotely sensed data have played a key role in supporting many of these advances.

This book demonstrates how Morocco and other semi-arid countries can find solutions to water scarcity by rediscovering traditional methods of water resource management.

A source of up-to-date information on current water resources, their quality and quantity, in every country in the Balkans.

The processes and consequences of climate change are extremely heterogeneous, encompassing many different fields of study.

For the last two decades, the United States has been destroying its entire stockpile of chemical agents.

This volume highlights important links existing between soils and human health which up to now are not fully realized by the public.

Featuring the theme, From Sources to Solution, this book is based on the research papers presented during the International Conference on Environmental Forensics 2013.

This book is a biography based on a qualitative ethnographic study of adaptation to climate by Mr Zephaniah Phiri Maseko, an award-winning smallholder farmer from Zvishavane, rural Zimbabwe.

This book provides a unique introduction to Bitcoin mining's energy use and environmental impacts.