The environment

This book consists of the most recent group of peer-reviewed research papers presented at the 8th International Conference on Civil Engineering, ICOCE 2024 held in Singapore from March 22 to 24.

Climate change is triggered by a too high concentration of greenhouse gases in the air, carbon dioxide in particular, primarily originating from fossil fuel-burning.

This volume contributes to the construction of a multi-voice mosaic on the theme of Nature and the relationship between Man (understood as designer) and Nature by emphasizing the innovative and sustainable proposals coming from the discipline of design, in its many facets and interdisciplinary contributions.

Esta investigación aporta a la comprensión del problema energético argentino, describe sus principales desafíos, interpreta qué lazos vinculan a este sector con aspectos productivos, distributivos, fiscales y de política macroeconómica.

This book aims to be the preeminent university chemistry textbook for environmental engineers.

Originally published in 1953, this book was compiled to provide students of forestry with a simple outline of what the management of forests involves, and of the way in which forestry operations are organized and controlled.

Businesses in African countries continued to face crises due to COVID-19, supply chain, and climate change.

This short introduction takes us on a journey through the history of the elements and highlights its deep cultural influence on humans.

This book offers a philosophical analysis of the environmental crisis in the Indian Sundarbans, drawing upon phenomenological narratives.

This Springer essential addresses the impacts of the climate crisis by integrating various branches of research from psychology and neuroscience.

Presenting topics according to the conventional process used by most mining houses, this book covers the design and operation of sublevel open stoping.

This book demonstrates how the capability approach to human development can contribute to the realisation of the 2015 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The Naturalist on the River Amazons is a record of adventures, habits of animals, sketches of Brazilian and Indian life and aspect of nature under the Equator, during the author's eleven years of travel, in two volumes this is the second.

Sustainable Agroecosystem Management: Integrating Ecology, Economics, and Society examines the challenges for developing integrated approaches to the management of agricultural ecosystems.

This book aims to provide evidence of the impact of climate change and urbanization on cities' urban environments thus on human health and wellbeing; and principles and methods for the improvement of the resilience of a city to extreme weather and long-term climatic changes through case studies.

In The Evolution of Gerald Durrell: A Naturalist's Critical Biography, Mary Sanders Pollock revisits the life and work of Gerald Durrell, one of the most significant environmentalist figures of the 20th century.

This book examines critical themes in environmental studies though theatre and performance studies.

Connecting Ecologies focuses on the environmental aspects of Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato Si' and the challenge to care for our common home.

This book covers environmental and economic waste treatment with resource recovery strategies covering mining, urban, agricultural, industrial, and sewage wastes.

Waste-derived Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Applications, and Sustainability embarks on an illuminating exploration at the intersection of waste management and nanotechnology.

Aquatic Ecosystems and Microbial Biofilms: Significance, Dynamics, Prevention and Control provides a systematic introduction and review of state-of-the-art information on microbial biofilms in aquatic ecosystems and their control.

Remediation of Legacy Hazardous and Nuclear Industrial Sites provides an overview of the key elements involved in remediating complex waste sites using the Hanford nuclear site as a case study.

Jan Hegenberg entlarvt in seinem neuen Buch »Klima-Bullshit-Bingo« die gängigsten Scheinargumente gegen Klimaschutz!

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.

The objective of this publication is to provide insight into advancing remote sensing techniques dealing with floods, droughts, landslides, earthquakes, permafrost-related hazards, glacial lake outburst floods, forest fires, droughts, tropical cyclones, climate resilience and COVID-19.

This book aims to integrate new technologies and adaptation tools into the process of smart city planning.

'Literary and learned.

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 book fills a unique gap in the research on the cultural history of vegetarianism and veganism, children's literature and Victorian periodicals, and it is the first publication to systematically describe the phenomenon of Victorian children's vegetarianism and its representations in literature and culture.

Transportation remains one of the largest contributors to global carbon dioxide emissions with the majority of vehicles using fossil-based fuels such as gasoline and diesel.

Por cada persona visiblemente autista que conoces, hay innumerables personas autistas «enmascaradas» que pasan por neurotípicas.

Best-selling author Christopher Horner shows how President Obama wants to take critical decisions about energy and the environment out of your hands and make you, your children, and grandchildren pay for it.

Connecting Ecologies focuses on the environmental aspects of Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato Si' and the challenge to care for our common home.

This book describes how large-scale wastes can be used as a resource for making other materials.

This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the First International Conference on Advanced Renewable Energy Systems (ICARES'22) held in Tipaza, Algeria.

This book focuses on Peru's highest and most glacierized mountain range - the Cordillera Blanca.

This book examines critical themes in environmental studies though theatre and performance studies.

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 presents peer-reviewed articles from the First International Conference on Advanced Renewable Energy Systems (ICARES'22) held in Tipaza, Algeria.

This book provides the recent advanced research results of environmental engineering and energy resources, covering the main multidisciplinary research on waste treatment and recycling, ecological environment protection, energy strategy management, etc.

Best-selling author Christopher Horner shows how President Obama wants to take critical decisions about energy and the environment out of your hands and make you, your children, and grandchildren pay for it.

The book addresses the contribution of Intangible Cultural Heritage to the sustainable management of historic cities and towns.

This book provides the recent advanced research results of environmental engineering and energy resources, covering the main multidisciplinary research on waste treatment and recycling, ecological environment protection, energy strategy management, etc.

This book focuses on Peru's highest and most glacierized mountain range - the Cordillera Blanca.

The transformative power of urban design in shaping our experiences within high-rise cities takes center stage in Humanizing the High-Rise City: Podiums, Plazas, Parks, Pedestrian Networks, and Public Art.

This substantially updated new edition reflects the growing recognition that large areas of forests are degraded globally.

Climate change is triggered by a too high concentration of greenhouse gases in the air, carbon dioxide in particular, primarily originating from fossil fuel-burning.

'I love that I don't need to feel ashamed at my happiest, and that my joy no longer needs to go through a filter before it's ready to see the light of day'Laura Kate Dale and 15 other autistic authors from around the globe, open the door and invite you in to explore and celebrate the candid, uplifting and intimate moments of autistic joy.

Sustainability Beyond 2030: Trajectories and Priorities for Our Sustainable Future is an indispensable guide to understanding our planet's sustainability past, present, and future.

This book presents an overview of different data collection methods and approaches that have been used to identify and analyse institutions associated with natural resource governance.