The environment

Drawing on powerful personal testimonies of the hazards of mountaintop removal in southern West Virginia, Combating Mountaintop Removal critically examines the fierce conflicts over this violent and increasingly prevalent form of strip mining.

This book describes a broad view of sustainability as a crucial factor for the success of its implementation.

The book describes methods of modeling, planning and implementing electric energy storage systems.

This book poses the question of whether identifiable individual-level attributes (e.

As debates about the effects of fossil fuels on our climate and foreign policy intensify, the question of just how much longer we can depend on this finite source of energy becomes more and more pressing.

The Ecological Importance of High-Severity Fires, presents information on the current paradigm shift in the way people think about wildfire and ecosystems.

This book is an introduction to one of the fast-developing core pillars in business, sustainability, as well as how it is closely tied into the concept of service.

This book provides an assessment of the impacts of human intervention on the natural environment and peoples' livelihoods through land-use conversion due to industrialization.

Wastewater Treatment and Reuse - Lessons Learned in Technological Developments and Management Issues, Volume 6 explores emerging and state-of-the-art technologies.

A comprehensive, multi-author treatise on the social insects of the world, with some auxiliary attention to such adjacent topics as subsocial insects and social arachnids.

This book outlines the development and perspectives of the Anthropocene concept by Paul J.

Urban Planning for Social Justice in Latin America explores how urban planning can be used as a tool for social equity.

Development interventions often generate contradictions around questions of who benefits from development and which communities are targeted for intervention.

The Nile River Basin supports the livelihoods of millions of people in Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda, principally as water for agriculture and hydropower.

There is only one earth and our world is undergoing dramatic changes brought on by the climate crisis and other human-induced ecological disruptions.

Access to modern energy services remains low or non-existent for approximately 2.

This Handbook discusses the recent advances in biodegradation technologies and highlights emerging sustainable materials, including environmentally friendly nano-based materials for replacing plastics.

In the 21st century the importance of earth sciences in the pursuit of knowledge and understanding of the planet on which we live, has increased tremendously.

This book highlights the advances in essential oil research, from the plant physiology perspective to large-scale production, including bioanalytical methods and industrial applications.

This book focuses on how to create an environmentally friendly society in China from the viewpoint of environmental law and policy.

This book highlights the obstacles to and potential for a just transformation as a way out of the current climate crisis.

This book is focused on the marine mammalian groups the Otariidae and the Odobenidae, otherwise known as fur seals, sea lions and the walrus.

In recent years, citizen science has emerged as a powerful new concept to enable the general public, students, and volunteers to become involved in scientific research.

Jacques offers a unique analysis of the connections between global marine and atmospheric science to global political phenomena.

This is the first book to attempt a systematic comparison of Japanese and British climate policy and politics, and is now available in paperback.

This book aims then to describe in a comprehensible way efforts made over centuries of measuring and understanding the magnetic declination.

This pivot considers how China deals with the globalization of its energy companies in the face of global efforts to combat climate change.

This interdisciplinary book brings philosophers and non-philosophers to the table to address questions of water ethics, specifically in terms of how moral questions inform decision making around water security at local, national, and international scales.

Water, Energy and Food are the very basic necessities of human life and all the three of them are interconnected with each other, this connection being called the Water-Energy-Food nexus.

This book is among the first to address the issue of assessing the efficiency of sustainable development financing from a theoretical and methodical point of view.

For fifty years, Australia has schemed to deny East Timor billions of dollars of oil and gas wealth.

This book documents and examines the state of health of coral reefs in the eastern tropical Pacific region.

This handbook offers an in-depth discussion of the world's oceans.

This book is a comprehensive and timely publication that aims to be an essential reference source, building on contemporary research in the fields of circular economy and green transition in relation to entrepreneurship and technological change.

The world's key resources of energy, food and water, which are closely connected and interdependent on each other, are coming under increasing pressure, as a result of increasing population, development and climate change.

Resistance is fertile bioremediation techniques to heal the earth.

The question of what to do with radioactive waste has dogged political administrations of nuclear-powered electricity-producing nations since the inception of the technology in the 1950s.

Corporate capitalism has ravaged the planet the way HIV ravages the human body, triggering a Critical Mass of cascading environmental, economic, social and political crises.

Cet ouvrage confronte les Congolais à leur histoire, à leurs faiblesses, à leurs atouts, à leurs richesses, à leurs maux.

We live in a world which continues to experience dramatic suffering and loss of life due to natural hazard.

This book presents the state-of-the-art in plant ecophysiology.

This book reconnects energy research with the radical, reflexive, and transformative approaches of Environmental Justice.

Face à la crise environnementale et climatique, que faire ?

This book presents a collection of studies on current best practices for delivering sustainable development policies within supply chains.

This book provides a systematic scientific approach to the understanding of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) as a hydrocarbon extraction technology and its impact on the environment.

This second and expanded edition of the first book on agromining (phytomining) presents a comprehensive overview of the metal farming & recovery of the agromining production chain.

Some scientists predict the sea will rise 1.

From organic produce and clothing to socially conscious investing and eco-tourism, the lifestyles of health and sustainability, or LOHAS, movement encompasses diverse products and practices intended to contribute to a more sustainable lifestyle for people and the planet.

The Routledge Handbook of Energy in Asia presents a comprehensive review of the unprecedented growth of Asian energy over the past quarter of a century.