The environment

The interaction between smoke and air pollution creates a public health challenge.

This book begins with an overview of current thinking on bioavailability, its definition, cutting-edge research in speciation and advancement in tools for assessing chemical bioavailability in the terrestrial environment.

Tropical Stream Ecology describes the main features of tropical streams and their ecology.

A guide to data collection, modeling and inference strategies for biological survey data using Bayesian and classical statistical methods.

Adsorption of Metals by Geomedia II serves as a needed resource for this topic which has received much attention during the past 25 years.

The effect of manmade activities is primarily local but can extend far away from the location of intervention.

Increasing population and industrialization are the key pollutant contributors in water bodies.

The continuously increasing human population, has resulted in a huge demand for processed and packaged foods.

The Middle Holocene epoch (8,000 to 3,000 years ago) was a time of dramatic changes in the physical world and in human cultures.

Introduction to Emergency Management, Third Edition provides a comprehensive update of this foundational text on the background components and systems involved in the management of disasters and other emergencies.

The purpose of this book is to present a state of art summary of current knowledge of methods of assessment of radionuclides in the terrestrial and marine environments.

Many countries are currently exploring the option to dispose of highly radioactive solid wastes deep underground in purpose built, engineered repositories.

In this stunning memoir, beloved internationally acclaimed earth advocate chronicles her journey to reconnect with the earth, offering a model for how we all can nurture the wild around and inside ourselves.

Recognizing the increased interest in forest management world wide, this book addresses the current knowledge gap by defining sustainable forest management, clarifying methods by which ecological knowledge can be applied and how traditional silvicultural methods can be improved.

A participatory and integrated procedure for the planning of water resources is presented and illustrated through its application to a real-world case study: the planning of a trans-boundary, multi-purpose, regulated lake.

Large amounts of data obtained through environmental monitoring of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in 10 Asian countries and Australia have been compiled and explored using principles of environmental chemistry, toxicology, and risk assessment.

The 20th century has experienced environmental changes that appear to be unprecedented in their rate and magnitude during the Earth's history.

This is the third edition of an established and successful university textbook.

From an environmental point of view, mountains are particularly sensitive and important for monitoring the state of health of our planet.

The first book entirely devoted to this topic, Ecosystem Engineers begins with the history of the concept, presenting opposing definitions of ecosystem engineeing.

This book is divided into four parts.

Used Battery Collection and Recycling covers all aspects of spent battery collection and recycling.

The aim of this book is to encourage integration of the natural and social sciences with the policy and design-making community, and thereby develop a deeper understanding of complex environmental problems.

The United States accounts for 25% of the Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions.

This, the first of two volumes, gives a comprehensive treatment of the civil engineering work relating to sewers and emphasises the practical aspects of repair and renovation.

Until a few years ago, hydropower, road tunneling and mining were the main fields interested in rock mechanics.

To achieve successful solutions to the problems resulting from local, distant and global radioactive fallout after nuclear explosions and accidents and to achieve successful retrospective analyses of the radiation conditions from recent observations, certain information is needed: the distribution of the exposure dose rate in the atmosphere and in a country; the distribution of radionuclides in natural environments and the nuclide composition of the radioactive fallout; the features of formation of the aerosol particle-carriers of the radioactivity and of the nuclide distribution of the particles of different sizes formed under different conditions; the processes involved in the migration of radioactive products in different zones and environments; the external and internal effects of nuclear radiation on human beings.

Die Environmental Humanities als sich international etablierendes Forschungsfeld finden zunehmend auch im deutschsprachigen Raum Beachtung.

The Populist Logic on the Environment provides a framework that draws from populism's essence to explain populist politicians' approaches to the environment.

Decommissioning nuclear facilities is a relatively new field, which has developed rapidly in the last ten years.

Muddy coasts are land-sea transitional environments commonly found along low-energy shorelines which either receive large annual supplies of muddy sediments, or where unconsolidated muddy deposits are being eroded by wave action.

In 1906, American humorist Mark Twain published a sixty-page essay entitled ';What is man?

Maize is one of the most generally grown cereal crops at global level, followed by wheat and rice.

This addition to the Advances in Environmental Control Technology Series contains 23 chapters designed to provide an extensive overview and reference on human physiological responses to various forms of pollution.

In countries where scarce surface water causes disease and conflict, an abundance of water can bring peace.

This handbook is an important and valuable source for engineers and researchers in the area of internal combustion engines pollution control.

In spite of the energy crises and the recession, there has been a global, explosive growth in the amount of motor vehicles.

Agricultural crops are prominent features of an increasing number of variously perturbed ecosystems and the landscapes occupied by these ecosystems.

En "La Trampa del Calentamiento Global", Catherine Dumont se embarca en un valiente viaje para desentrañar uno de los problemas más controversiales de nuestro tiempo.

WINNER OF THE BEST MIXED MEDIA BOOK AWARD AT THE CREATIVE BOOK AWARDS 2024A gorgeous guide to foraging, pressing and using seaweeds for a wealth of home creative projects.

Biomass for Renewable Energy, Fuels, and Chemicals serves as a comprehensive introduction to the subject for the student and educator, and is useful for researchers who are interested in the technical details of biomass energy production.

This, the most recent contribution to the Tetrahedron Organic Chemistry series, provides an integrated evaluation of the diversity of natural products in relation to biodiversity.

The Princeton Guide to Ecology is a concise, authoritative one-volume reference to the field's major subjects and key concepts.

This book presents a novel approach in the field of global change by presenting a comprehensive analysis of interhemispheric linkages of climate, present and past, and their effects on human societies.

Chemical processes provide a diverse array of valuable products and materials used in applications ranging from health care to transportation and food processing.

The theory of the Earth's climate evolution based on universal chemical-physical laws of matter-energy transformation is presented in the book.

As the global climate changes, there are concomitant changes in global biological productivity.

Was Wildnis ist und ob und wie wir Wildnis erhalten und fördern wollen, ist eine anhaltende, interdisziplinär geführte Debatte.

Based on the thesis that insights into both evolution and ecology can be obtained through the study of microorganismsm, Microbial Ecology examines microbiology through the lens of evolutionary ecology.

In Lost Wonders Tom Lathan tells ten powerful stories of species that have lived, died out and been declared extinct since the turn of the twenty-first century.