The environment

This book relates circular economy principles to housing design and construction and highlights how those principles can result in both monetary savings, positive environmental impact, and socio-ecological change.

Huge forest and bush fires, gigantic downpours, dying forests, floods, drought disasters, and tornadoes - almost daily reports of disasters in newspapers and on news tickers.

The major part of this Catalog presents host lists of particular aphid species in the Palaearctic Region based on published data and more than 2,400 author's unpublished host records, with respective references arranged by geographical provenance.

Praktische Ideen und Tipps für mehr Draußen im LebenWarum das Draußensein uns so gut tut: Auf einer langen Outdoor-Reise erlebt Christo Foerster Momente, »in denen einfach alles gut ist«.

This multidisciplinary book provides insights into the applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) to combined sewer overflows (CSO) and stormwater management (SWM) systems.

Developing upon emerging environmental humanities and multispecies anthropological theories, this book provides a fresh perspective on how we might rethink more-than-human relationality and why it is important to "e;nurture alternative futures"e;.

Many of the polymers we use every day are highly flammable.

A fascinating look at the historical relationship between environmental issues and scientific study, social attitudes, and public policy from the 17th century to the present.

This book is aimed to help us look into the future of mining by defining ultimate operational conditions that will be present in a typical mining operation regardless of how far in the future.

This book is a collection of selected research papers from the 14th conference of the Transportation Planning and Implementation Methodologies for Developing Countries (TPMDC).

From Andrew Caldecott, the bestselling author of ROTHERWEIRD, comes the jaw-dropping conclusion of the MOMENTICON duology - an epic adventure like no other!

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

This volume explores the South Brazilian grasslands, a unique complex of ecosystems in Brazil.

This edited book is based on the accepted papers for presentation at the 1st MedGU Annual Meeting, Istanbul, 2021.

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

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.

We have an imperative, as never before, to change our ways.

Health Disparities, Disasters, and Crises: Approaches for a Culture of Preparedness presents a roadmap to help guide the actions needed to address health disparities introduced as part of the pre-planning, planning, and mitigation phases of natural and technological disasters.

A balanced presentation chronicling both the major events that sparked environmental activism and the nature of that activism in the past century.

Paintings from the Edge of the Santa Lucia Mountains: Sharing Environmental Studies through Art celebrates the visual beauty of Carmel's river valley, located east of the village of Carmel-by-the-Sea.

This book examines the role legal rules play in the resolution of disputes in transboundary river basins.

This book investigates mine closure and local responses in South Africa, linking dependencies and social disruption.

This book offers African, Asian, Latin American, European, and North American perspectives on institutions and regulations promoting sustainable economic growth in the post-2015 development agenda in areas such as environment, labour, risk management, corporate social responsibility, corporate governance, and innovation.

This edited book is based on the accepted papers for presentation at the 1st MedGU Annual Meeting, Istanbul, 2021.

Biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate due to anthropogenic activities around the world.

This book focuses on renegotiating extractive contracts to align with the net-zero goals.

Supercapacitors can both hold large amounts of energy and charge up almost instantly.

Human beings have always moved for what they need until recently.

This book contains the best papers accepted for presentation at the 3rd Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-3).

Carbon dots (CDs) as an emerging carbon nanomaterial have attracted considerable attention and have been widely used in numerous fields.

Carbon dots (CDs) as an emerging carbon nanomaterial have attracted considerable attention and have been widely used in numerous fields.

There is an increasing awareness that materials and chemicals produced from fossil fuels are not sustainable, both in terms of the pollution caused by the extraction and production processes, and the fact that there is only a finite supply of these fossil fuels.

This book applies a critical perspective to anthropogenic climate change and the global socio-ecological crisis.

Supercapacitors can both hold large amounts of energy and charge up almost instantly.

The industrial acceleration intensifies the negative environmental impacts, mainly in some very sensitive geographical areas.

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

The requirement for sustainable transport in urban areas has become more onerous in the past decade due to a number of negative externalities which have been increasingly associated with growing mobility and the advances made in the technology and available options for sustainable transport.

Transforming Futures: Navigating Society, Environment, and Governance holds profound relevance amidst ongoing discussions concerning sustainability and environmental preservation.

What is environmental virtue?

This book provides for the first time an overview on the current approaches and applications of energy aspects in production and logistics by the use of simulation techniques.

La economía española es dinámica y moderna y está integrada en una economía globalizada con un peso creciente en sectores intensivos en conocimiento.

This book on biomimicry assessment tools studies the concepts of sustainability, sustainable construction practices, and the evaluation categories that constitute a sustainability assessment tool.

The Science of Global Warming Remediation examines the workings of a complex chemical system using concepts such as chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and oxidation/reduction.

Endophytes have unique characteristics to propagate inside host plants and aide the host by providing additional defense against environmental stresses and phytopathogens.

This book is a compilation of eel research and fish migration studies for more than 40 years showing the research history and recent advances in eel studies.

This book focuses on renegotiating extractive contracts to align with the net-zero goals.

In The New 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth, Sophie and John have revised the original best-selling book for a concerned and vibrant Web 2.

Drawing on a range of expert contributions, this book explores how the European Green Deal is being deployed in practice and observes how the EU tries to promote the protection of the environment in third countries.

This book on biomimicry assessment tools studies the concepts of sustainability, sustainable construction practices, and the evaluation categories that constitute a sustainability assessment tool.