The environment

The perception, assessment and management of risk are increasingly important core principles for determining the development of both policy and strategic responses to civil and environmental catastrophes.

A single-resource volume of information on the most current and effective techniques of wildlife modeling, Models for Planning Wildlife Conservation in Large Landscapes is appropriate for students and researchers alike.

For many decades, investigations of the behaviour and implications of radioactive contamination in the environment have focused on agricultural areas and food production.

Environmental Radionuclides presents a state-of-the-art summary of knowledge on the use of radionuclides to study processes and systems in the continental part of the Earth's environment.

The Third Edition of Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates continues the tradition of in-depth coverage of the biology, ecology, phylogeny, and identification of freshwater invertebrates from the USA and Canada.

Advances in Agronomy continues to be recognized as a leading reference and a first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy.

With an increase of global security concerns over potential terrorist acts, the threat of WMDs, and increasing political issues with nations seeking nuclear capability, the need to track, detect, and safeguard nuclear material globally has never been greater.

A social activist and an entrepreneur remake the future of investing and business, offering a win-win road map for creating wealth and addressing inequalities by investing in groundbreaking tech companies that defy assumptions from Silicon Valley to Wall Street.

'Share[s] the life-enhancing joys of the humble hen' Sunday Times'Clocks our obsession with chicken-keeping .

Providing a wealth of reference material for research scientists and policy makers, these proceedings address the extremely complex problem of acidification - a phenomenon which is causing serious deterioration of natural environments in Europe and North America.

The growing awareness of environmental problems provided the stimulus for this 4th International Symposium on Biotechnology, Interbiotech '90, to address many aspects of the relationship between biotechnology and the environment.

From the Reviews of Previous Volumes"e;In reviewing this volume as a whole, one is struck by the quality and scholarship of the various chapters and the obviously efficient editing.

A major new look at how Africa's geological history, climate, geography and biology resulted in the wonderful diversity of life found there.

This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the dedicated fisherman who caught and set her free, the promises and limits of ocean science and the big truth of how our insatiable appetite for bluefin transformed a cottage industry into a global dilemma.

A new way of thinking about the climate crisis as an exercise in delimiting knowable, and habitable, worldsAs carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, Earth's fragile ecosystems are growing increasingly unstable and unpredictable.

The interaction between smoke and air pollution creates a public health challenge.

This book begins with an overview of current thinking on bioavailability, its definition, cutting-edge research in speciation and advancement in tools for assessing chemical bioavailability in the terrestrial environment.

Tropical Stream Ecology describes the main features of tropical streams and their ecology.

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

Adsorption of Metals by Geomedia II serves as a needed resource for this topic which has received much attention during the past 25 years.

The effect of manmade activities is primarily local but can extend far away from the location of intervention.

The continuously increasing human population, has resulted in a huge demand for processed and packaged foods.

The Middle Holocene epoch (8,000 to 3,000 years ago) was a time of dramatic changes in the physical world and in human cultures.

Introduction to Emergency Management, Third Edition provides a comprehensive update of this foundational text on the background components and systems involved in the management of disasters and other emergencies.

The purpose of this book is to present a state of art summary of current knowledge of methods of assessment of radionuclides in the terrestrial and marine environments.

Many countries are currently exploring the option to dispose of highly radioactive solid wastes deep underground in purpose built, engineered repositories.

In this stunning memoir, beloved internationally acclaimed earth advocate chronicles her journey to reconnect with the earth, offering a model for how we all can nurture the wild around and inside ourselves.

Recognizing the increased interest in forest management world wide, this book addresses the current knowledge gap by defining sustainable forest management, clarifying methods by which ecological knowledge can be applied and how traditional silvicultural methods can be improved.

A participatory and integrated procedure for the planning of water resources is presented and illustrated through its application to a real-world case study: the planning of a trans-boundary, multi-purpose, regulated lake.

Large amounts of data obtained through environmental monitoring of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in 10 Asian countries and Australia have been compiled and explored using principles of environmental chemistry, toxicology, and risk assessment.

The 20th century has experienced environmental changes that appear to be unprecedented in their rate and magnitude during the Earth's history.

This is the third edition of an established and successful university textbook.

From an environmental point of view, mountains are particularly sensitive and important for monitoring the state of health of our planet.

The first book entirely devoted to this topic, Ecosystem Engineers begins with the history of the concept, presenting opposing definitions of ecosystem engineeing.

This book is divided into four parts.

Used Battery Collection and Recycling covers all aspects of spent battery collection and recycling.

The aim of this book is to encourage integration of the natural and social sciences with the policy and design-making community, and thereby develop a deeper understanding of complex environmental problems.

The United States accounts for 25% of the Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions.

This, the first of two volumes, gives a comprehensive treatment of the civil engineering work relating to sewers and emphasises the practical aspects of repair and renovation.

Until a few years ago, hydropower, road tunneling and mining were the main fields interested in rock mechanics.

To achieve successful solutions to the problems resulting from local, distant and global radioactive fallout after nuclear explosions and accidents and to achieve successful retrospective analyses of the radiation conditions from recent observations, certain information is needed: the distribution of the exposure dose rate in the atmosphere and in a country; the distribution of radionuclides in natural environments and the nuclide composition of the radioactive fallout; the features of formation of the aerosol particle-carriers of the radioactivity and of the nuclide distribution of the particles of different sizes formed under different conditions; the processes involved in the migration of radioactive products in different zones and environments; the external and internal effects of nuclear radiation on human beings.

Die Environmental Humanities als sich international etablierendes Forschungsfeld finden zunehmend auch im deutschsprachigen Raum Beachtung.

Decommissioning nuclear facilities is a relatively new field, which has developed rapidly in the last ten years.

Muddy coasts are land-sea transitional environments commonly found along low-energy shorelines which either receive large annual supplies of muddy sediments, or where unconsolidated muddy deposits are being eroded by wave action.

In 1906, American humorist Mark Twain published a sixty-page essay entitled ';What is man?

This addition to the Advances in Environmental Control Technology Series contains 23 chapters designed to provide an extensive overview and reference on human physiological responses to various forms of pollution.

In countries where scarce surface water causes disease and conflict, an abundance of water can bring peace.

This handbook is an important and valuable source for engineers and researchers in the area of internal combustion engines pollution control.

In spite of the energy crises and the recession, there has been a global, explosive growth in the amount of motor vehicles.

Agricultural crops are prominent features of an increasing number of variously perturbed ecosystems and the landscapes occupied by these ecosystems.