The environment

Build and manage the sustainable cities of the future with this comprehensive guide Climate change is among the biggest challenges facing today's cities, which are in turn a major factor in driving or mitigating climate change.

Most of the time, industrial wastes contain recoverable resources that would be useful in other applications.

Consequences of natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic have taken a cumulative toll on the health and well-being of people in the Gulf of Mexico region.

Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are extensively used in consumer products, despite their high persistence and other hazards.

This book addresses geohazards by establishing their unique hydrogeological conceptual site models.

This book provides recent developments and advancements in management of plastic wastes and associated challenges with it.

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals is a diverse and intersectional collection which examines human and more-than-human animal relations, as well as the interconnectedness of human and animal oppressions through various lenses.

This volume describes the thinking on sustainable development and a variety of initiatives across Europe, illustrating regional efforts to foster sustainable communities and ecological and social innovation.

This book covers the current escalation of social problems related to the unstable political situation, economic crisis, as well as growing problems related to the state of the natural environment (existential climate crisis; pollution of land, oceans, and the atmosphere; severe declines in biodiversity) which requires a new rethinking of the sustainable tourism paradigm, in relation to the realities of the modern world, based on the practices observed in the tourist services sector.

This book argues for a twofold transformation to mitigate environmental catastrophe, avert war and overcome poverty and authoritarianism: a struggle for democratic, peace-oriented, social and ecological changes within the framework of a post-neoliberal, but still bourgeois-capitalist society, and a drive towards entry-level projects aimed at a great transformation beyond capitalism.

This new volume looks at the impact, assessment, and remediation of various environmental contaminants.

This new volume looks at the impact, assessment, and remediation of various environmental contaminants.

A detailed, step-by-step guide to successfully altering and repairing ready-made apparel that will help you achieve the perfect fit and extend the life of your clothing.

'A sledgehammer of a book putting to bed all the cynicism and misinformation around a condition that affects so many hidden, brilliant people' Professor Tanya Byron'Laugh out loud funny and deeply validating - every person who thinks ADHD isn't real should read this book' Leanne Maskell, author of ADHD: An A to ZNobody should spend their life feeling defective.

Ponds and pools are a common feature of our landscape - there are at least ten times as many ponds as lakes in the UK - and they are also important wildlife habitats.

Impact Investing for a Sustainable Planet guides investors in supporting entrepreneurs to scale business models which maximize positive impact outcomes, including climate- and nature-based solutions.

Written by an outstanding group of contributors, this book examines the function and structure of coastal lagoonal ecosystems and the natural and anthropogenic drivers of change that affect them, most notably nutrient over-enrichment from coastal watersheds and airsheds.

In the last two decades since publication of the first edition, substantial advancements have been made in the science, the need for transdisciplinary approaches to coral reef protection greater than ever before.

This book is presented in two volumes, featuring peer-reviewed research papers from the 7th International Conference on Green Technology and Sustainable Development (GTSD), held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, from July 25 to 26, 2024.

This book discusses selected waste and by-products of the food industry.

With the rapid increase of population, industrialization, urbanization, and the abuse of science and technology, environmental problems have showed an explosive development trend.

Ein Erdbeben erschüttert Haiti und ein Hurrikan wütet in Texas.

This book examines the extent to which the environment is addressed in the sustainability plans of Canadian cities.

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This book is written to transform land disputes toward win-win outcomes utilizing the latest sustainable development theory.

El libro nos habla a nosotros, seres de hoy, quienes nos resistimos a una existencia impersonal atrapados en una ciencia racional, lógica, analítica, explicativa, abstracta, aséptica, teórica, lineal, sucesiva y secuencial.

In The Ends of Research Tom Ozden-Schilling explores the afterlives of several research initiatives that emerged in the wake of the "e;War in the Woods,"e; a period of anti-logging blockades in Canada in the late twentieth century.

This volume engages with the work of Heidegger to argue that the modern environmental crisis is fundamentally a crisis of understanding Life, resulting from the symbolic codification of the world from the Logos of Greek philosophy to the rationality of the modern world and resulting in a metaphysics that privileges ontological thinking on the "e;question of being"e; over the environmental question and the concern for the conditions of life.

To meet the challenge of global environmental degradation activists have tackled clear and concrete problems such as carbon emissions and climate change, the ruination of ecosystems and habitat, the precipitous loss of biodiversity, and many other unhappy consequences of irresponsible human behaviour.

This book focuses on the statistical modeling of geophysical and environmental data using Bayesian latent Gaussian models.

Esta guía —el tercer producto de una colección de materiales para favorecer prácticas formativas, impulsada por la maestría en Educación Ambiental de la Universidad de Guadalajara— ofrece herramientas prácticas para enriquecer la planificación de talleres educativos sobre educación ambiental.

How one organization took on industrial pollutionand the lessons for our new century In 1977, one forward-thinking judge took an ecological disasterthe poisoning of the James River by Allied Chemicaland turned it into a great environmental-protection legacy.

Emphasizing model choice and model averaging, this book presents up-to-date Bayesian methods for analyzing complex ecological data.

A practical introduction to growing and enjoying mushrooms at homeCultivating your own mushrooms is simple and satisfying once you've mastered a few basics.

This book presents specific case studies of climate finance in the Arctic and examines how the green revolution could be a game changer in this sensitive region.

This edited volume explores the challenges and opportunities of knowledge management (KM) in the post-pandemic world.

Ce livre, destiné aux chercheurs comme aux praticiens réflexifs des métiers de l’accompagnement, s’attache à explorer ces moments d’étrangeté où la vie ordinaire apparait comme un rêve, alors même que surgit quelque chose d’inespéré, encore informe, mais porteur de résonances à l’échelle de l’existence entière de cette personne-là, forcément singulière.

This book offers lucid treatment of fundamental concepts related to potential applications and prospects of different membranes for wastewater decontamination by removing heavy metals.

This fully revised second edition reflects the great expansion in urban ecology research, action, and teaching since 2015.

The book focuses on the ecology of the most important infectious diseases of wild avian hosts, especially those with high morbidity and mortality rates.

This book proposes digitalization as a promising direction for green growth and sustainable development of the economy of Central Asia.

Agriculture is often considered as one of the main threats to ecosystems.

By drawing on a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds, this book illustrates the immense complexities of Svalbard as a place, point of reference, or social concept.