The environment

A guide to data collection, modeling and inference strategies for biological survey data using Bayesian and classical statistical methods.

Tsunamis in the European-Mediterranean Region: From Historical Record to Risk Mitigation provides readers with a much needed, reliable, and up-to-date history of the region, including descriptions and parameters of the main events from pre-history to the present that are supported by parametric catalogues, pictorial material, and examples of instrumental records, such as tide-gauge records.

Disaster prevention and the mitigation of climate change effects call for global action.

This completely updated and revised Second Edition of the popular Workbook of Atmospheric Dispersion Estimates provides an important foundation for understanding dispersion modeling as it is being practiced today.

The Definitive Guide to Energy Conservation in Water and Wastewater Treatment PlantsCovering both drinking water treatment as well as wastewater, this authoritative guide from the Water Environment Federation presents the latest strategies for improving energy efficiency in plant operations.

This book states that whilst academic research has long been grounded on the idea of western or scientific epistemologies, this often does not capture the uniqueness of Indigenous contexts, and particularly as it relates to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This book considers the importance of African values, not only in catalysing development, but in sustaining it.

Natural disasters are having an increasing effect on the lives of people in the United States and throughout the world.

"e;The present book is intended as a progress report on [the] synthetic approach to evolution as it applies to the plant kingdom.

Williams examines the efforts of public agencies to better incorporate citizen participation in the administrative process.

The public depends on competent risk assessment from the federal government and the scientific community to grapple with the threat of pollution.

In the encyclical Laodato Si, Pope Francis describes the earth as 'the new poor', opening it up as a place in need of liberation.

For over 200 years, legislators, educators, and public-minded citizens have debated how to govern public schools.

Morrone and Lohner assert that sound science is often misinterpreted, which leads to questionable policy decisions.

Energy and mineral resources are essential for the nation's fundamental functions, its economy, and security.

This edited collection provides a cross-sectional review of environmental legislation and administration in the United States, with comparative chapters relating to Canada and New Zealand.

Environmental challenges have never been greater than today.

Metal contamination in the environment is a persisting global issue.

Metal contamination in the environment is a persisting global issue.

Environmental challenges have never been greater than today.

Today global changes and human activities affect plants within each of the world's ecosystems.

Presents papers on mine and mill tailings and mine waste, as well as current and future issues facing the mining and environmental communities.

Part of the worldwide biodiversity program DIVERSITAS, the Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment (GMBA) assesses the biological richness of high-elevation biota.

The 11 volumes in this set, originally published between 1982 and 1995, draw together research by leading academics in the area of environmental policy and provides a rigorous examination of related key issues.

These papers focus on mine and mill tillings and mine waste.

Interest in solid waste disposal has been growing since the early 1960s, when researchers emphasized the potential for solid waste to harbor pathogenic microorganisms.

This book introduces the latest frontier of the tunneling science and technology in Japan.

Bringing together scholars from English literature, geography, politics, the arts, environmental humanities and sociology, Imagining Apocalyptic Politics in the Anthropocene contributes to the emerging debate between bodies of thought first incepted by scholars such as Mouffe, Whyte, Kaplan, Hunt, Swyngedouw and Malm about how apocalyptic events, narratives and imaginaries interact with societal and individual agency historically and in the current political moment.

A comprehensive overview of the climate crisis and need for a renewable energy transition, and the current blocks to progress.

This book is based on the topics, questions and results of the international conference "e;Aesthetics of Transformation - Arts Education Research and the Challenge of Cultural Sustainability"e;.

The marvelous microbes that made life on Earth possible and support our very existenceFor almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves.

This book presents a detailed analysis in relation to human health risk assessment of the main toxic chemical pollutants in urban stormwater generated from urban traffic and land use activities.

The definitive case for radically rethinking humanity's relationship with other animals - for the good of us all.

Everything you need to know about the fruit of the vine-From A to Zinfandel.

Disability or difference?

The notion of sustainable development is applied to financial activities through sustainable finance.

Der Mensch hinterlässt Spuren, selbst in den ent­legensten Regionen der Erde – DDT in den Polarge­bieten, Mikroplastik in Tiefseegräben, abbauresistente Stoffe im Boden, in Gewässern und der Pfanzenwelt: Überall fnden sich künstliche Stoffe, mit denen die Natur zurechtkommen muss.

This book provides a developing country perspective on the internationalization of science and the role of Science, Technology and Innovation Diplomacy (STID) in leveraging scientific cooperation for sustainable development.

In April 2016, the Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business of the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame with the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) Office convened a group of scholars and business leaders to discuss the Encyclical Laudato Si (LS) and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

An in-depth look at what microplastics are, how prevalent they are, and what can be done about them for a professional and academic audience.

Originally published in 1990, this volume addresses issues surrounding global ecological changes and sustainability of present patterns of urbanisation and industrialisation.

This text describes a comprehensive adjoint sensitivity analysis methodology (C-ASAM), developed by the author, enabling the efficient and exact computation of arbitrarily high-order functional derivatives of model responses to model parameters in large-scale systems.

This book examines resource recovery and recycling from waste metal dust, including currently used techniques for waste processing and recycling and their applications, with practical examples and economic potentials of the processes.

Mayer Hillman, one of Britain's most original and influential thinkers, here offers the reader both a stunning analysis of the looming environmental catastrophe and a blueprint for avoiding it.

In April 2016, the Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business of the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame with the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) Office convened a group of scholars and business leaders to discuss the Encyclical Laudato Si (LS) and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This book explores the myriad issues that play out in the upstream petroleum industry of Ghana from a legal perspective.

Organisationen sind das Zentrum unserer Gesellschaft.

Sarah B.