Pollution and threats to the environment

Examining urban environmental issues at the macro, municipal level down to the micro community and individual level, this volume features cities and metropolitan regions across the global north and south with case studies from the United States, Canada, Eastern and Western Europe to India, Central America, South America and Africa.

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

This book presents a portrait of the social advantages and limitations of climate change related modeling in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region.

Episodes of air pollution throughout the 20th and 21st centuries have had a huge influence socially, economically and politically.

This volume explores the meaning of the Paris Climate Agreement 2015 for business; it analyses its challenges and implications, and establishes required actions by the private sector in order to reduce global warming and mitigating climate change effects.

This book covers the latest advances in sustainable waste management and focuses on its implementation to mitigate water and air pollution, recycle and reuse raw material, and refine valuable metals.

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

Using an evidence-based, critical, population health approach, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the key errors and most effective interventions to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.

A ';smart, honest, and down-to-earth' (Elizabeth Kolbert) citizen's guide to the seven urgent changes that will really make a difference for our climate.

This book addresses how water supply systems can be planned, designed, and managed for sustainability by presenting unique approaches and methodologies in rural drinking water supply schemes.

Science diplomacy and policy can support collaborative national and international science for advancing knowledge with societal impact in fields such as climate, space, medicine, and the environment.

Science diplomacy and policy can support collaborative national and international science for advancing knowledge with societal impact in fields such as climate, space, medicine, and the environment.

This synopsis covers evidence for the effects of conservation interventions for native farmland wildlife.

Science diplomacy and policy can support collaborative national and international science for advancing knowledge with societal impact in fields such as climate, space, medicine, and the environment.

This book gives an overview of recent developments in the synthesis of macromolecules for water purification applications.

Introduction to Global Social Problems introduces undergraduate students to national and international social problems from a critical sociological perspective.

This book outlines the methodologies, approaches and tools for modelling chemicals in a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) perspective, and also covers the main advantages and drawbacks of applying LCA to chemical processes.

This book presents materials and physical methods for carbon dioxide sequestration.

This book provides the technological insight on biorefinery and nanoremediation and provides comprehensive reviews on applications of Biochar for environmental sustainability.

This book describes the water security challenges with focus on water scarcity and quality in our rapidly changing world.

This book aims at deriving governance and sustainability lessons from analysing the implementation and management of some major irrigation programs in the Mediterranean Region.

This book presents a detailed discussion of the fundamentals and practical applications of membrane technology enhancement in a range of industrial processes, energy recovery, and resource recycling.

This book reviews health hazards associated with wastewater use and water pollutants.

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of how local corporate water strategies influence global water governance objectives.

This book offers recent insights into some of the burning issues of our times: climate change, exposure to chemicals, refugee issues and the ecological harm that accompanies conflict situations.

This book focuses on irrigation sources together with water management for agricultural development in Uttar Pradesh state of India.

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.

The world's population is expected to reach the eight billion mark very soon.

This book discusses water resources management in Romania from a hydrological perspective, presenting the latest research developments and state-of-the-art knowledge that can be applied to efficiently solve a variety of problems in integrated water resources management.

This book provides the first comprehensive assessment of the various issues faced by countries in the European Union, where progressing climate change and urbanization pose significant cooperative challenges in a large number of river basins.

This book provides in-situ phytoremediation strategies that are particularly well suited for developing nations.

Current developments in air pollution modeling are explored as a series of contributions from researchers at the forefront of their field.

This book presents an in-depth, science-based approach to applying key project-management and spatial tools and practices in environmental projects.

This book discusses options for an improved compliance system under the Paris Climate Agreement by addressing  current weaknesses.

The book is an overview of the diversity of anthropogenic aquifer recharge (AAR) techniques that use aquifers to store and treat water.

This book presents case studies that share important experiences regarding Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) in various countries.

This book will be a guiding path to understand the photocatalytic process and mechanism for the deterioration of heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants and pathogens from wastewater.

This book provides readers with cutting-edge techniques that can be applied to energy and environmental economics.

This book highlights various challenges and opportunities for water management and cooperation in South Asia.

This book presents insights in green techniques used in conventional and advanced machining.

This book synthesizes current knowledge and understanding of management and governance in the context of water resilience; advances theory through synthesis of research and experiences from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

This book focuses on water pollution, water management and water structures.

This book provides an overview of cleaner production, including how regulations have evolved, and presents a broad perspective on how it is being developed.

This book focuses on the prospects of fresh market waste management in developing countries.

This book report the advances in the synthesis of new nanomaterials for the remediation of natural waters, groundwaters, and wastewaters.

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.

This book provides an in-depth description of water resources of Turkey, a country with a unique geographical location, extending from the Mediterranean in Europe to the Middle East.

This book introduces recent developments of membrane technologies applied to gas and water treatments, energy processes and environmental issues.

In Iran, climate change combined with low adaptation capacity has an unparalleled impact on eco-systems as well as human livelihoods.

This book provides a cross-sectoral, multi-scale assessment of different environmental problems via in-depth studies of the Indian subcontinent.