The environment

From the author of Capitalism at the Crossroads, a call to consciousness-and action-for individuals, organizations, communities, and nations.

From the author of Capitalism at the Crossroads, a call to consciousness-and action-for individuals, organizations, communities, and nations.

Successive IPCC reports consistently stress the devastating impact of human activity on the climate.

This proceedings volume contains selected papers presented at the Workshop on the Conservation of the Subterranean Cultural Heritage, held 25-27 March 2014, in Seville, Spain.

National (and transnational) regulations significantly transform rural areas.

Natural hazards cost the global economy over $50,000 million per year.

Volume III of the Six Volume Remote Sensing Handbook, Second Edition, is focused on agriculture; food security; vegetation; phenology; rangelands; soils; and global biomass modeling, mapping, and monitoring using multi-sensor remote sensing.

This book presents the contributions from the 3rd International Conference Engineering Innovations and Sustainable Development, held in Samara, Russia on April 26, 2024.

Now in its second edition, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to book project management and production, including the creation and development of digital products.

This novel volume delves into a specific and crucial aspect of early years pedagogy - the intersection between early childhood education and spirituality, offering tips on nurturing spirituality and a sense of connectedness with nature through outdoor learning.

A CHOICE Recommended title 2025This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, methods and applications of chemical ecology, covering such topics as chemical signalling, predator-prey interactions, host plant selection and chemical defence.

In recent years, problems such as environmental pollution, global warming, and high energy consumption have brought waste treatment technologies to the forefront.

How far would or should you go to feel secure?

Canadian Ecopolitics provides a comprehensive overview of the intersection between environmental issues and political processes in Canada.

Practical Engineering Geology provides an introduction to the way projects are managed, designed and constructed, and how the engineering geologist can contribute to cost- effective and safe project achievement.

What does it mean when a food-rich society has thousands going hungry?

This new volume addresses the global concern of environmental pollution mediated by a variety of organic, inorganic, persistent, and nonpersistent pollutants, which have a substantial detrimental impact on the structural and functional aspects of ecosystems.

A critical aspect of sustainability associated with water and wastewater systems is to maintain and manage infrastructure in the most efficient and economical manner while complying with environmental regulations and keeping rates at acceptable levels.

This new volume addresses the global concern of environmental pollution mediated by a variety of organic, inorganic, persistent, and nonpersistent pollutants, which have a substantial detrimental impact on the structural and functional aspects of ecosystems.

This book provides a detailed overview of ethical omnivorism, as well as the philosophical foundations of this movement and diet.

Shortlisted for the 2018 TWS Wildlife Publication Awards in the authored book categoryIn recent years, conflicts between ecological conservation and economic growth forced a reassessment of the motivations and goals of wildlife and forestry management.

This companion volume focuses on the application and practical ramifications of Indian ethics.

Nature-Based Design in Landscape Architecture showcases a range of built works designed by landscape architects from many countries of the world representing diverse environmental regions and uses.

This book has been written with an aim to enhance the understanding of renewable energy sector policies, finance, and project management.

This book helps readers to understand the fast growing and timely concept of social metabolism.

This book offers a collection of papers presented at the 2023 6th International Conference on Green Energy and Environment Engineering (CGEEE 2023), held during July 21-23, 2023 in Jeju Island, Korea.

This edited book contests that if design's raison d'etre is to make things better, then the object of design has always been, remains and can only be a changed world and our relationship to it - the world-for-us.

The greatest challenges of the twenty-first century stem from the fact that we are now living in a new epoch: the Anthropocene.

In Meaningful Pasts, Russell Johnston and Michael Ripmeester explore two strands of identity-making among residents of the Niagara region in Ontario, Canada.

Decolonizing the Memory of the First World War contributes to the imperial turn in First World War studies.

This book focuses on the Heritage Conservation of Architecture, Historic Districts of a City and Conservation strategies with specific case studies from India, in order to highlight the need for conserving the rich piece of history through research, education, advocacy, and practice.

This collection covers innovations in the field of composite materials with a specific focus on eco-friendly and environmentally sustainable systems.

Sustainable Engineering: Concepts and Practices provides insights into current perspectives on sustainable engineering research.

This book examines the main environmental challenges and their management in post-Soviet Eurasia and China.

This book offers the basics of embodied and operational carbon while discussing the inclusion of carbon emission in the GBRS at global and national level.

This book covers the basics and advancements in various solar thermal desalination systems that are highly affordable and viable even for applications in low-income countries.

Das Handbuch Umweltsoziologie bietet eine umfassende und aktuelle Übersicht über das breite und dynamische Forschungsfeld der Natur-Gesellschaft-Beziehungen.

In the fight against climate change, the world cannot wait for some hoped-for perfect solution in the future.

This book focuses on the economic, political, and cultural factors that make up India's "e;informal processors,"e; which are the highly networked, multi-generational systems that reuse, repurpose, and otherwise dispose of 80% of India's electronic waste.

This edited book is a compilation of information on existing frontier technologies in agriculture, such as driving modernized crop improvement programs via digitalization, mechanization and automation, artificial intelligence, speed breeding.

This new title covers the most recent theoretical and practical advancements in green technology for a clean and healthy environment.

"e;Global warming"e; and "e;climate change"e; have become common and trending subjects of interest in recent decades, due to their massive influence on biodiversity and the subsequent effects on sustainable uses by human beings.

Through the lens of African emerging economies, this text examines empirical studies and the related practices of agritourism.

This book is an interdisciplinary work that reveals the contemporary sustainability narratives in India within the context of various SDGs.

This book exposes practitioners and decision-makers to the theory and application of river ice processes to gain a better understanding of these processes for modelling and ice flood hazard and risk assessment.

Making the complexities of green architecture accessible to the design studio, The Green Studio Handbook remains a must-read for current and future architects.

This volume discusses: (1) the treatment of hazardous sludge, wastewater, textile effluent, contaminated groundwater, laboratory waste, toxic dye, heavy metals, acid mine drainage and palm oil effluent; (2) the technologies of stabilization, solidification, natural coagulation-flocculation, river catchment control and mitigation, dredging and mining operations, and (3) the management of acid mines, laboratories, nano pollutants and plant effluents.

Agriculture deals with vastly different raw materials, products, and production technologies, generating pollution that is equally diverse and complex and involving biosafety issues.

This book analyses how protecting the rights of local communities can contribute to the alleviation of ecological harms through the development of an innovative 'Rights for Ecosystem Services' framework.