Pollution and threats to the environment

Climate change is no longer merely projected to occur in the indeterminate future.

This is a concise book with comprehensive information on coal and biomass ash generated from their combustion in thermal power plants.

This book examines the past, present and prospects of regional economic integration in Africa.

Key Questions in Environmental Toxicology is designed as a self-study tool for undergraduate students.

Dieses Handbuch deckt die gesamte Problematik der Abwassertechnologie ab: Abwasseranfall aus dem häuslichen und industriellen Bereich, direkte und indirekte Abwasserableitung, Abwasserbehandlung sowie der Gewässerschutz werden gemeinsam behandelt.

To enhance sustainable development research and practice the values of the researchers, project managers and participants must first be made explicit.

The Autism-Friendly Cookbook was created by journalist Lydia Wilkins for autistic adults and teens to turn to when cooking for friends, lacking inspiration, or on those low-energy days.

This book focuses on spatial planning of megacities that are growing in Asia, Africa, and America.

The 2015 Paris Agreement marked a turning point in the global community's response to climate change.

Originally published in 1999, The Kyoto Protocol provides a detailed discussion on the history, terms and implications of the Kyoto Protocol 1997.

As the debate on reducing greenhouse gases (GHGs) has progressed, increasing concern has been raised about how a U.

The past three decades have seen a global shift in disaster management from an event driven response to a 'could-be' risk management approach.

Ecotones, or boundary zones between land and inland waters (such as lakes, streams and rivers), are the principal routes for transport of organic matter and nutrients across landscapes via physical and biological vectors.

The book 'Economic Trends and Sustainable Environmental Assessment' attempts to x-ray the economic and socioeconomic activities, and cultural or behavioural aspects from the concept of sustainability by employing several related research scenarios spanning the micro-, meso-, and macro-level approaches.

Forty years since the first UN Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm, how has the situation changed?

As global climate change proliferates, so too do the health risks associated with the changing world around us.

This book focuses on the economics of smart meters and is one of the first to present comprehensive evidence on the impacts, cost-benefits and risks associated with smart metering.

Brings scientists, policy makers, land and water managers and citizen stakeholders together to resolve natural resource and environmental problems.

The two principal objectives of this book were (1) to identify promising materials technologies, design issues (both overall and for individual components), and fire performance parameters (both full scale and for individual components) that, if properly optimized, would lead to improved fire and smoke resistance of materials and components used in aircraft interiors; and (2) to identify long-range research directions that hold the most promise for producing predictive modeling capability, new advanced materials, and the required product development to achieve totally fire-resistant interiors in future aircrafts.

Pesticides in ground, surface and drinking water are a hot topic under continuing discussion.

Coastal-Marine Conservation: Science and Policy introduces students and managers to complex conservation and management issues facing coastal nations of the world, their citizens, and international and non-governmental organizations.

In the summer of 1999, an international group of experts convened in Jerusalem, Israel, in order to define the major environmental challenges facing humanity at the dawn of the new millennium and - where possible - propose ways of addressing them.

When most Americans think of environmentalism, they think of the political left, of vegans dressed in organic-hemp fabric, lofting protest signs.

Based on the author's more than 40 years of experience working on environmental projects, Remediation Manual for Contaminated Sites provides a practical guide to environmental remediation and cleanups.

This book provides an in-depth overview of graphic and visual communication styles for conveying climate change and climate action within the landscape architectural profession and in academia.

Now in its 3rd edition, this extensively revised and significantly expanded handbook addresses important new research findings and the global need for action.

This book presents important recent applied mathematics research on environmental problems and impacts due to climate change.

*A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'Moving and powerful.

The conjunction of climate, food, and financial crises in the late 2000s triggered renewed interest in farmland and agribusiness investments around the world.

This book posits that a sustainable future is possible without abandoning Capitalism.

This book analyzes the relationship between urbandevelopment, greenhouse gases and the carbon footprint, and presents the mainpreventive measures that can be implemented at the design stage.

The Symposium on Radionuclides in the Food Chain, sponsored by the Interna- tional Life Sciences Institute in association with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, was intended to bring together policymakers and other representatives of the food industry with radiation experts involved in measuring and assessing radioactivity in foodstuffs.

This book explores the connections between risk and responsibilisation in official communication to the public about the global risks of the pandemic and climate change.

Dredged Material and Mine Tailings are two of the same thing once they are deposited on land: they must be safe-guarded, wash-out must be prevented, and they must be protected by a plantcover.

The Science of Global Warming Remediation examines the workings of a complex chemical system using concepts such as chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and oxidation/reduction.

Infrastructure that manages our water resources (such as, dams and reservoirs, irrigation systems, channels, navigation waterways, water and wastewater treatment facilities, storm drainage systems, urban water distribution and sanitation systems), are critical to all sectors of an economy.

In der neuen Auflage dieses Buches wurden neben Korrekturen und Aktualisierungen weitere praxisgerechte Übungsbeispiele und vertiefende Fragen ergänzt.

Water policy in United States is one of the most complex topics in the field of public policy.

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The book presents an overview of the International practices and state-of-the-art of LCA studies in the agri-food sector, both in terms of adopted methodologies and application to particular products; the final purpose is to characterise and put order within the methodological issues connected to some important agri-food products (wine, olive oil, cereals and derived products, meat and fruit) and also defining practical guidelines for the implementation of LCAs in this particular sector.

Reaching Net Zero: What It Takes to Solve the Global Climate Crisis addresses the imminent need to fully understand the causes, effects, and evidence of global warming due to the large amount of climate disinformation and complexity of much of the available valid science.

As rates of consumption grow, the problem of waste management has increased significantly.

Phytoplasma-associated diseases are a major limiting factor to quality and productivity of many ornamentals, horticultural and other economically important agriculture crops worldwide.

This book presents a new perspective on climate change for researchers and policymakers in the environmental social sciences and humanities.

A variety of viewpoints is offered in this timely analysis of China's economy and the future shape of Beijing's energy consumption.

This monograph covers uniqueness of micromorphology in resolving many important but enigmatic pedological issues such as clay illuviation, formation of pedogenic and non-pedogenic CaCO3, modification of plasmic fabric, contemporary and relict pedogenic processes, polygenesis of soils in Alfisols, Mollisols, Ultisols, Vertisols and Inceptisols of the tropical Indian environments.

A unique, thought-provoking journey from early humans'' evolutionary response to climate change to today''s global crisis, for students and the general reader.