Pollution and threats to the environment

Reich illustriertes Sachbuch zur Geschichte des Klimawandels in Europa.

Je globalisierter die Welt, desto verletzlicher die Menschheit.

An up-to-date text on climate change focussing on technical solutions for the most important and climate relevant economic sectors is presented.

This book addresses the evaluation of environmental impacts and services identified in headwaters of different eco-zones around the world.

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 is aimed at covering all aspects of the evaluation, certification, and reduction of the energy and carbon footprint of the built environment from the scale of the city and its neighbourhoods, to the building level and finally to the level of single building materials and components.

The existence of man-made climate change, with dramatic effects on nature and the environment, can no longer be seriously disputed.

The existence of man-made climate change, with dramatic effects on nature and the environment, can no longer be seriously disputed.

This book reviews some of the latest developments in the field of water treatment using multi-functional chitosan-based materials.

The book examines a new concern in water quality policy, namely aquatic micropollutants.

Gee Vero zeigt in diesem authentischen Mutmach-Buch, wie eine erfolgreiche Beschulung autistischer Kinder gelingen kann.

Gee Vero zeigt in diesem authentischen Mutmach-Buch, wie eine erfolgreiche Beschulung autistischer Kinder gelingen kann.

This volume provides a collection of research findings on the distribution and risk associated with emerging contaminants (ECs) in water and wastewater across the globe, and effective remediation techniques and technologies.

»Wir stehen als Menschen nicht außerhalb der Natur.

Das Thema könnte aktueller nicht sein: Eine Rübenzuckerfabrik leitet ihre Abwässer in den Mühlbach, verunreinigt den Wasserlauf und erfüllt die Gegend mit Gestank.

This collection of papers aims to draw lessons and apply indigenous knowledge, wisdom and cultural traditions to suit policy contexts describing the (a) role of individuals (b) communities, and (c) the state to ensure effectively manage water resources.

Routledge Handbook of Climate Law and Governance: Courage, Contributions and Compliance recognises calls from the United Nations (UN), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

First Published in 1965, The Climate of London considers the nature of London's climate, including the manner and degree to which this varies in sympathy with changes in the city's morphology, and studying in particular the contrasts between the built-up area and the surrounding rural districts.

This book presents an integrated, multi-disciplinary analysis that combines climate science, economics, technology and political analysis of US climate policy changes undertaken during 2021.

This two-volume set provides an extensive review of the abundant past and recent literature on the atmospheric chemistry in the Mediterranean region.

This book discusses regional and international climate-change, air- pollution and human-health scenarios.

This interdisciplinary proceedings book addresses highly relevant topics in urbanization and its environmental impacts and presents case studies revealing the negative environmental consequences of the anthropogenic and technogenic pressures.

This book explores a new framework of Adaptive Water Management (AWM) for evaluating existing approaches in urban water management.

This volume has been designed to serve as a natural resources engineering reference book as well as a supplemental textbook.

This book advances the use of biodiesel-more environmentally friendly than traditional fossil fuels-by showing how it can be synthesized at a lower cost, with greater efficiency and as a more pure and stable product.

The introduction of contaminants, due to rapid urbanisation and anthropogenic activities, into the environment causes unsteadiness, distress to the physico-chemical systems including living organisms, which possibly is threatening the dynamics of nature as well as the soil biology by producing certain xenobiotics.

This book presents recent developments in advanced biological treatment technologies that are attracting increasing attention or that have a high potential for large-scale application in the near future.

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

Volume 3 covers recent research with expanded coverage on this important area of remediation.

This book presents a unique collection of up-to-date applications of graphene for water science.

This book highlights quantitative risk assessment and modeling methods for assessing health risks caused by air pollution, as well as characterizing and communicating remaining uncertainties.

This book deals with issues and concerns for the human environment in the developing countries incorporating natural processes and systems, pollution removal technology, energy conservation, environmental impact assessment process, economics, culture, political structure and societal equity from a management point of view.

The purpose of this book is to introduce the phosphorus (P) removal structure as a new BMP for reducing dissolved P loading to surface waters from non-point source pollution, provide guidance on designing site-specific P removal structures, and provide instruction on use of the design software, "e;Phrog"e; (Phosphorus Removal Online Guidance).

Medicinal plants supply the ever-growing needs of humankind for natural chemicals, such as pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, agrochemicals, and chemical additives.

This book on 'Secondary Agriculture' discusses the goal of doubling farmers' incomes.

This book addresses the hazard of gas explosions in sealed underground coal mines, and how the risk of explosion can be assessed, modeled, and mitigated.

This book, written by an international group of experts from China, Europe and the USA, presents a broad and comprehensive analysis of the chemical and meteorological processes responsible for the formation of air pollutants in eastern Asia, and in particular for the development of severe pollution episodes observed primarily during winter in the northeastern part of China.

Attending water security is an important challenge and a major systemic risk humanity faces in the years to come.

Bioremediation is the use of microorganisms' metabolism to degrade waste contaminants (sewage, domestic, and industrial effluents) into non-toxic or less toxic materials by natural biological processes.

This volume describes the identification of emerging organic pollutants, mainly from industrial sources, their associated toxicological threats, and the latest green methods and biotechnological solutions to abate harmful impacts on people and the environment.

This book investigates elementary processes in the Earth's atmosphere involving photons, electrons, ions, radicals, and aerosols.

This book addresses key topics in the current deliberations and debates on low carbon cities that are underway globally.

Light scattering from particles in the nanometric and micrometric size range is relevant in several research fields, such as aerosol science and nanotechnology.

 With the advent of global warming and the nuclear arms race, humans are rapidly approaching a moment of truth.

Climate change is a major challenge facing the modern world.