The environment

Through waste-to-energy (WtE) technology, relevant WtE plants use waste as a renewable fuel to co-produce electricity, heating, and cooling for urban utilization.

This comprehensive text provides a concise overview of environmental problems caused by agriculture, (such as pesticide pollution and increased nitrate levels) and offers practical solutions to them.

FROM THE PREFACEThis book brings together (in one text) all of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's regulatory requirements for making safe and proper confined space entries.

The Channel Tunnel is a huge construction project, employing over 14,000 people at peak, and costing over 11 billion of private money.

This book examines cacao cultivation with a view to improving the sustainable management and production of this crop.

Africa is one of the most vulnerable regions, and one where the implementation of the SDGs is particularly urgent.

Africa is one of the most vulnerable regions, and one where the implementation of the SDGs is particularly urgent.

This book offers strategies and solutions for rural communities dependent on fossil fuel economies to enable them to transition to sustainable development.

The third edition of this well-received textbook delivers a concise overview of global and individual environmental pollution for undergraduate courses, presenting students with the tools to assess environmental issues.

La Sabana de Bogota es un territorio clave para entender lo que ha sido el pasado, la experiencia del presente y el incierto futuro de la region metropolitana de Bogota.

Plankton populations have lived in the oceans for hundreds of millions of years, performing essential functions within marine ecosystems.

Este libro aborda la erosion y la restauracion ecologica desde una perspectiva integral y multidisciplinaria, utilizando especies vegetales nativas como herramientas de bioingenieria para mantener la salud del ecosistema.

Originally published in 1988, reissued now with a new series introduction, Environmental Policy, Assessment and Communication, was the second in a trilogy of books to open the series Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences.

This book presents valuable insights, critiques and contributions from energy researchers focused on Latin American case studies.

This book is the first to explore the interconnections between ecology and performance in South Asia.

What role does 'reason' have in tackling the catastrophic ecological situation of the early 21st-century?

In its second edition, the purpose of this handbook is to assist remediation site managers and their operating contractors in ensuring that each remediation system is effectively making progress toward site cleanup objectives and remains protective of human health and the environment.

Polarlichter, auch bekannt als Nordlichter (Aurora Borealis) und Sudlichter (Aurora Australis), gehoren zu den spektakularsten Naturphanomenen, die unsere Erde zu bieten hat.

This publication explains how ADB's Environment Action Plan 2024-2030 (EAP) guides its strategic approach to tackling the triple planetary threats of biodiversity loss, pollution, and climate change to better support sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific.

This report, as part of a series on energy and emission pathways, examines business-as-usual and low-carbon scenarios for Pakistan.

In the decade since the UN SDG agenda was established, how much progress have we really made?

Discover a vast treasure trove of botanical knowledge in The Botanist's Library, a superbly illustrated collection of 300+ seminal books and illustrations from throughout history.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of advanced digital disruptive technologies that can be used or currently used in Construction, and Smart Infrastructures.

After three decades of rapid economic growth, China became the world's second largest economy in 2010 after the United States of America.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of advanced digital disruptive technologies that can be used or currently used in Construction, and Smart Infrastructures.

Member states of the European Union often label themselves as the world's top Green Leaders.

For decades historians argued for the downfall of communication, when early modern societies were hit by a natural disaster.

A call to action that promotes K12 schools and students as key contributors to climate solutions

This book examines the expansion of climate governance frameworks in the EU and US and their re-framing as part of green industrial programs.

Ici, la Terre.

Urban Mobility sheds light on mobility in twenty-first-century Canadian cities.

A beautifully written and illustrated account of the threatened plant species that inhabit the British Isles.

Es ist der zweite Fall in dem das Team um Kriminalhauptkommissarin Carmen Siebert ermitteln muss.

Environmental politics has traditionally been a peripheral concern for international relations theory, but increasing alarm over global environmental challenges has elevated international society's relationship with the natural world into the theoretical limelight.

A beautiful photographic celebration of the world's 18 species of penguin.

In the USA, politically conservative and right-wing apocalyptic evangelicals hold that climate change science and Covid-19 are fabrications governed by manifest evil.

This book covers the structural analysis and design of buried gravity flow conduits, including traditional pipes, arches, box conduits, and buried bridges with spans up to 80 ft (25 m) and greater.