Pollution and threats to the environment

Dieses Lehrbuch beschreibt ausführlich das Vorgehen und die Methodik von Anlagenbilanzierungen in der Energietechnik.

This book will provide an important source of practical information on the history of toxicology, the ways in which pollutants reach model organisms used in toxicology, sampling methods for research, mechanisms of toxicity and responses of aquatic organisms to toxic agents, as well as the use of therapeutic agents in current approaches.

This book offers a critical exploration into Indigenous knowledge systems, particularly focusing on Indigenous land-based knowledge and practice in reshaping disaster adaptations.

This book includes peer reviewed article from the 2nd International Conference on Trends in Architecture and Construction (ICTAC-2024) held at Chandigarh in India.

Currently, there are no books that cover all the dimensions of Polyphenol Oxidases (PPOs), which is why publication of the book is needed.

This book examines the issue of solid waste generation and management as a worldwide phenomenon, focusing on strategies that facilitate the disposal and utilization of waste while ensuring environmental integrity and meeting the needs of future generations.

This book is about important relevant recent research topics in sustainable aquaculture practices.

This book presents technical information and materials concerning the engineering of decentralized infrastructure to achieve effective wastewater treatment while also minimizing resource consumption and providing a source of reclaimed water, nutrients and organic matter.

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.

This two-volume work presents comprehensive, accurate information on the present status and contemporary development in phycoremediation of various types of domestic and industrial wastewaters.

This book presents the latest findings and information on flash floods in Egypt and presents case studies from various regions throughout the country.

Food manufacturing generates an incredibly high volume of wastewater.

Now in its second volume, Regreening the Built Environment provides an overview of physical and social environmental challenges that the planet is facing and presents solutions that restore ecological processes, reclaim open space, foster social equity, and facilitate a green economy.

In Reading Lovecraft in the Anthropocene: A New Dark Age, the intersection of environmental, philosophical, and literary discourses is explored through the lens of H.

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.

This collection responds to widespread, complex, and current environmental challenges by presenting eleven original essays on a new elemental-embodied approach in environmental humanities.

Through an examination of Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men, this book demonstrates the ability of cinematic fictions, and other complex narrative fictions, to contribute to meeting the climate challenge by shaping the desires of audiences.

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.

Carbon pricing is one of the key policy instruments available to help countries reach the goals of the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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

This book includes peer-reviewed articles from the 8th International Conference on Sustainable Urban Development (ICSUD 2022), held at the Vietnamese-German University (VGU) in Vietnam.

Extreme weather events, droughts, floods, shifts in precipitation and temperature patterns, melting glaciers, sea-level rise, water salinization, and more generally, changes in the water cycle remind us that the climate crisis is mostly a water crisis.

Coined in the 1970s, the term sustainable development and the ideas behind it have enjoyed varying amounts of popularity over the years.

The year 2022 has been declared by the United Nations as the "e;International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development"e;.

To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth, you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert ROLLING STONE An essential voice HELEN MACDONALDUrgent and inspiring lessons from the frontlines of the climate catastrophe by one of our most important and influential environmental writers.

Reflecting the rapid progress in cleanup technology since the previous edition, this revised and expanded third edition of The Basics of Oil Spill Cleanup covers current cleanup techniques, how oil spills are measured and detected, and the properties of the oil and its long-term fate in the environment.

Synthetic dyes, especially those used in the textile industry, are huge contributors to the damaging effects on ecosystems worldwide due to their toxic and non-biodegradable nature.

This book provides an ecocritical analysis of the poetry of the famous Nigerian poet Niyi Osundare.

As a vital human need, water has been absolutely critical to decisions as to where cities originate, how much they grow and the standard of living of the inhabitants.

Following the Thatcher and Major administrations there was an apparent renaissance of planning under New Labour.

Spatial planning has a vital role to play in the move to a low carbon energy future and in adapting to climate change.

Die Durchschnittstemperaturen und viele weitere Indikatoren für den Klimawandel erreichen immer neue Höchstwerte.

The impacts of climate change are already being felt.

This third edition focuses on the application of geoenvironmental engineering procedures and practices to mitigate and reduce the adverse impacts on the geoenvironment from anthropogenic sources including emerging contaminants such as micro and nanoplastics, pharmaceuticals, and fire retarding chemicals.

Various physico-chemical approaches for the removal of toxic pollutants are available, but these are not very effective.

The extraordinary story of Israel’s forests, from ancient times to the present.

This book, the first of its kind, introduces various aspects of urban planning in India and contributes towards debates on changes required in the current practice.

Chou explores the structural dilemmas, mindsets, challenges, and solutions of the net-zero transition in Taiwan.

With the dramatic development of air-space-ground-sea environmental monitoring networks and large-scale high-resolution Earth simulators, Environmental science is facing opportunities and challenges of big data.

Environmental and Pollution Science, Third Edition, continues its tradition on providing readers with the scientific basis to understand, manage, mitigate, and prevent pollution across the environment, be it air, land, or water.

High-Risk Pollutants in Wastewater presents the basic knowledge regarding the diversity, concentrations, and health and environmental impacts of HRPs in municipal wastewater.

A collection of the most advanced and authoritative agricultural-economic research in the face of increasing water scarcity.

Spatiotemporal Analysis of Air Pollution and Its Application in Public Health reviews, in detail, the tools needed to understand the spatial temporal distribution and trends of air pollution in the atmosphere, including how this information can be tied into the diverse amount of public health data available using accurate GIS techniques.

This book critically examines the interplay between digitalization and sustainability.

This detailed volume examines the complex study of the assessment of in situ bioavailability and toxicity of organic chemicals in aquatic systems with a toolbox of reliable techniques.