Pollution and threats to the environment

This book addresses environmental changes and how they reconfigure society's relationship to the future.

The development of an international substantive environmental right on a global level has long been a contested issue.

This book describes the complex interplay between Earth's surface processes (erosion and sedimentation) and human interactions.

Despite sporadic news coverage of extreme weather, international conventions on climate change, or special UN days, rarely do we participate in a sustained analysis of environmental policy making.

Air Pollution Reviews will provide state-of-the-art reviews of key problems in air pollution science.

For many years, it has been recognised that improving the energy performance of the existing housing stock is vital if energy demand is to be reduced to combat climate change.

Depth Psychology and Climate Change offers a sensitive and insightful look at how ideas from depth psychology can move us beyond psychological overwhelm when facing the ecological disaster of climate change and its denial.

This book offers an exploration of how plants respond to the presence of cadmium, shedding light on both the physiological and molecular mechanismsIn an era of growing environmental concern, this edited book serves as an invaluable resource, shedding light on the intricate interplay between plants and cadmium, a menacing environmental pollutant.

This book examines the multiple scales at which the inequities of climate change are borne out.

Approaches climate change as an issue of human security and ethical obligation, arguing for a more equitable and sustainable future.

Climate change caused by human activity is the most fundamental challenge facing mankind in the 21st century, since it will drastically alter the living conditions of millions of people, mainly in the Global South.

Climate change is dramatically affecting freshwater supplies, particularly in the developing world.

Originally published in 2002, The Subsidy Scandal examines the subsidies spent by governments and the affect this has had on the environment.

In the present scenario, stresses induced due to global environmental change have indeed become a focal point of researches and study programmes worldwide.

River Morphology deals with the interaction between flowing waters in rivers and their environment.

Within all areas of transportation, solutions for economical and environmentally friendly technology are being examined.

Science for Ecosystem-based Management: Narragansett Bay in the 21st Century addresses the broad problem of coastal nutrient pollution.

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Environmental and Human Security: Then and Now 1 2 ALAN D.

There is much we can learn about conservation from native peoples, says Gene Anderson.

The discussion about energy perspectives up to 2050 and beyond has started.

Sustainable economic development is necessary to improve the standard of liv- ing and quality of life in the developing countries.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy, and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.

'We don't just come out once.

This book looks at institutional reforms for the use of energy, water and resources toward a sustainable future in East Asia.

This book discusses the role of energy in agriculture which reaches 30%, and the role of agriculture in energy where the water shred by 17% in total electricity generation in addition to the role of bioenergy as a source of liquid energy.

The role of cities in addressing climate change is increasingly recognised in international arenas, including the Sustainable Development Goals, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the New Urban Agenda.

This textbook is tightly focused on the problem of anthropogenic climate change.

Across the United States, the practices for collecting water use data vary significantly from state to state and vary also from one water use category to another, in response to the laws regulating water use and interest in water use data as an input for water management.

The National Academies' Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (BASC) held a workshop to explore and evaluate current efforts to model physical processes of coupled atmosphere-land-ocean (A-L-O) models.

This book begins with the principal subject of biodiversity in agriculture.

Bringing together scholars from English literature, geography, politics, the arts, environmental humanities and sociology, Imagining Apocalyptic Politics in the Anthropocene contributes to the emerging debate between bodies of thought first incepted by scholars such as Mouffe, Whyte, Kaplan, Hunt, Swyngedouw and Malm about how apocalyptic events, narratives and imaginaries interact with societal and individual agency historically and in the current political moment.

This book reviews water treatment technologies for the removal of pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs).

With the widespread availability of satellite and aircraft remote sensing image data in digital form, and the ready access most remote sensing practitioners have to computing systems for image interpretation, there is a need to draw together the range of digital image processing procedures and methodologies commonly used in this field into a single treatment.

With rampant industrialization, the management of waste generated by various industries is becoming a mammoth problem.

This book focuses on the traditional ecological knowledge in addressing the current climate crisis in the Indian Himalayas.

This book aims to draw readers' attention to the benefits once present nature in Azerbaijan.

The first summer study at IIASA brought together a cross-section of individ- uals from different disciplines and nationalities.

Analysing the interactions between institutions in the climate change and energy nexus, including the consequences for their legitimacy and effectiveness.

This book highlights best practices in climate change education through the analysis of a rich collection of case studies that showcase educational programs across the United States.

This bold and important new book presents current and emerging thinking on the social dimensions of climate change.

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Cities: Opportunities and Challenges (ICSC 2019).

The carbon markets are in the middle of a fundamental crisis - a crisis marked by collapsing prices, fleeing actors, and ever increasing greenhouse gas levels.

Dow Chemical developed the Chemical Exposure Index to help its engineers design and operate safer facilities.

This book is a ready reckoner of recent information regarding the impact of leachate landfills, leachate treatment, and heavy metals on a single platform.

Explores the shaping of China and India''s energy and climate policies by two-level pressures characterized as wealth, status and asymmetrical interdependence.

This book considers the global question of climate change from local perspectives in the context of Central Africa.