The environment

Traditional remedial technologies can be cost-prohibitive and sometimes contribute to environmental contamination themselves.

The continuous rise in the profile of the environment in politics reflects growing concern that we may be facing a large-scale ecological crisis.

This proceedings book of ICES 2023 presents the most recent studies on environmental sciences and environmental sustainability, which contributes to the resolution of environmental issues (air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, noise pollution, thermal pollution, radioactive pollution, light pollution, and global warming).

This book explains how environmental projects and improvements are achieved through the imposition of regulations, on the one hand, and financial incentives on the other.

Der weltweite Verlust an biologischer Vielfalt, verursacht durch eine nicht nachhaltige Nutzung von Ökosystemen, birgt schwerwiegende gesamtgesellschaftliche Risiken, welche jenen des Klimawandels vergleichbar sind.

This book addresses the application of the water, energy and food nexus in the MENA Region.

Emerging contaminants include an extensive array of synthetic chemicals in global use, such as plastic additives, microplastics, water disinfection byproducts, pharmaceuticals, man-made nanomaterials, and UV-filters.

Geodesign, Urban Digital Twins, and Futures explores systems, processes, and novel technologies for planning, mapping, and designing our built environment.

With all the current efforts to use non-fossil sources as a starting point for future energy solutions, consideration is also being given to using microbial activities as a direct or indirect source of energy production.

This book provides a detailed and a clear picture about the impact of climate changes on all aspects of our lives.

With all the current efforts to use non-fossil sources as a starting point for future energy solutions, consideration is also being given to using microbial activities as a direct or indirect source of energy production.

Safety and health professionals face a variety of potential legal and ethical issues.

The book offers a wide range of research topics that are addressed with the aim of contributing to the knowledge of geomorphological hazards in the Himalaya.

The climate crisis has reached a critical point, necessitating urgent global action.

This new volume offers up-to-date coverage of the energy scenario in South Asia, showcasing the major challenges being faced in the South Asian Energy Corridor in the context of energy security versus clean energy.

The book offers a wide range of research topics that are addressed with the aim of contributing to the knowledge of geomorphological hazards in the Himalaya.

This book addresses how sustainability discourse and advocacy can translate to impactful policies especially when bridging the divide between sustainability, climate change and gender.

A look at the origins of British abolitionism as a problem of eighteenth-century science, as well as one of economics and humanitarian sensibilities How did late eighteenth-century British abolitionists come to view the slave trade and British colonial slavery as unnatural, a "e;dread perversion"e; of nature?

Physico-mechanical rock properties are significant in all operational mining activities.

With sea levels rising, marine life disappearing, and global temperatures still climbing, the challenges of SDG14 are as vast and wide as the oceans themselves.

This book examines how different countries across Southeast Asia and Latin America respond to the emergence and expansion of the lucrative, yet controversial palm oil industry, paying attention to how national policy and governance regimes are shaping this global industry.

This work aims to present the practical application of an IoT model that can be used as the solution to the problems of water facilities.

Dieses eBook: "Physische Geographie" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

El presente volumen de la colección Complexus es producto de una investigación conformada por estudios comparativos interdisciplinares realizados en Europa y Latinoamérica y cuyos objetivos son el análisis, desde diversas perspectivas, de las transformaciones en las dinámicas sociales obligadas por el surgimiento del covid–19, así como la identificación de las vulnerabilidades y las repercusiones sobre el territorio y los procesos de adaptación y resiliencia resultantes de la pandemia.

A catastrophic phenomenon should not be considered a sudden and causeless event, but as a process whose characteristics are continuously changing throughout the entire previous period.

A catastrophic phenomenon should not be considered a sudden and causeless event, but as a process whose characteristics are continuously changing throughout the entire previous period.

This rich and beautiful guide from best-selling garden writer Ambra Edwards explores the most magnificent botanic havens from every continent across the world.

Originally published in 1986, this book provides a detailed examination of programmes to introduce improved charcoal making techniques throughout the developing world.

This book provides a systematic, interdisciplinary analysis of the conflicts, issues, and tensions associated with today's ecological transformation processes from an Environmental Humanities perspective.

The astonishing story of how animals use medicine and what it can teach us about healing ourselvesAges before the dawn of modern medicine, wild animals were harnessing the power of nature's pharmacy to heal themselves.

Recycling and Deinking of Recovered Paper, Second Edition covers recent advances in recycling technologies.

This book explores some of the conditions and underlying causes of the multiple environmental crises facing humanity.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'One of the most loving and tender accounts of motherhood I've ever read' Sarah Turner'Heartwarming and honest with magnificent humour sprinkled throughout' Clara Batten'Lisa writes with an honesty that is both refreshing and important' Kellie Bright, actor and SEN ParentThe highs, the lows and the delightfully neurospicy this book is for every parent raising the in-between children in a neurotypical world.

'A thorough guide to just about everything worth drinking.

Our Traumatized Planet explores the state of the environment and some of the major issues faced today and asks what we can learn and apply from contemporary traditional peoples, ancient societies, and our own successes and failures.

Originally published in 1984, Stoves and Trees asks whether better stoves really help the two billion people in the developing world who rely on wood and charcoal for cooking and heating their homes.

This book provides the reader with topical applications of innovative tools for better solid and hazardous waste management.

Diario de una mamá que TEAma es un libro que no busca instruirte respecto al Trastorno del Espectro Autista (TEA), sino que es más bien una invitación a conocer esta realidad desde la intimidad de una familia.

This book provides the reader with topical applications of innovative tools for better solid and hazardous waste management.

The climate crisis' most difficult questions are not technological but relational.

This book presents a critical vision of the role of architecture and design in constantly changing cities, territories and societies from a Latin American perspective.

Landscape conflicts, for example in connection with / in view of the energy transition, climate policy, transport policy, nature conservation, the extraction of mineral raw materials, the design of urban landscapes or tourism are potentially associated with high economic, social and political costs even before a possible escalation.

This book explores the concept of transforming the current macroeconomic system from one based on continuous growth that doesn't recognize the fundamental importance of Earth's natural support structures, to a system consistent with the basic views of biophysical economics that acknowledges that all real wealth ultimately derives from planetary resources, both renewable and non-renewable.

Niche tourism, also known as special interest tourism, refers to specialized tourism products offered to a small group of tourists.

This book presents ways of shaping the built environment sciences and practices for steering the New Urban Agenda in Zimbabwe.

The Microbiology of the Drop-in Biofuel Production is a comprehensive resource that provides basic and applied knowledge, technologies, and regulations of current drop-in biofuel production.

Life on earth will come to an end.