Environmental monitoring

This publication includes peer-reviewed manuscripts from the 2009 International Network of Environmental Forensics (INEF) held in Calgary, Canada on August 31 through September 1, 2009.

This volume uses chemometric mathematical modelling approaches to investigate geographic areas at risk of ecological degradation due to pollution.

This book provides an introduction to the relationship between environmental protection and human rights, being formalized into law in many legal systems.

Fatty alcohols occur naturally in most organisms and can also be used in consumer products including detergents and cosmetics and all of these materials make their way to the sea eventually.

Following a description of the various sources and factors influencing the contents of heavy metal pollution in post-catastrophic and agricultural soils, subsequent chapters examine soil enzymes and eggs as bio-monitors, lead adsorption, the effects of arsenic on microbial diversity, and the effects of Mediterranean grasslands on abandoned mines.

This book reviews air pollutants and their effects on human health, biodiversity, and environmental quality in the context of the One Health framework.

This book delves into the anthropogenic activities responsible for environmental hazards, their compensation, and potential mitigation strategies.

An accessible overview of the statistical analysis methods which can be used to investigate climate extremes and analyse potential risk.

Indicators are more and more applied to describe and analyze complex systems.

This volume reviews recent hydrological and environmental issues resulting from human-induced water pollution practices while providing case studies on the physical, chemical, and eco-biological techniques used to mitigate the impacts of river ecosystem pollution in South Asian countries.

This book is composed of 12 review papers invited for the Palmen Memorial Symposium on Extratropical Cyclones held in Helsinki, Finland, 29 August - 2 September 1988.

The Bosco della Mesola represents one of the few remnants of coastal woodlands in Italy.

"e;Data-Driven Modeling: Using MATLAB(R) in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering"e; provides a systematic account of major concepts and methodologies for data-driven models and presents a unified framework that makes the subject more accessible to and applicable for researchers and practitioners.

Presents the methodology of the Human-Environment Regional Observatory project (HERO), which developed infrastructure for monitoring and understanding local dimensions of global change.

This book explores the current ecosystem status of tropical inland waters especially in Southeast Asia, the progress of ecosystem restoration in terms of current studies, technological interventions, policy recommendations, and stakeholder participation that gives due respect to traditional knowledge and cultural practices, and the challenges and opportunities of the restoration processes.

This book describes how Bayesian methods work.

This handbook is unique in its comprehensive coverage of the subject and focus on practical applications in diverse fields.

This is methods/tools textbook that covers the fundamental tasks in research and management at the landscape scale.

Climate Change and Cities bridges science-to-action for climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts in cities around the world.

This book discusses contamination of water, air, and soil media.

This is the second of two volumes that together provide a global overview of the impact of agriculture on soil degradation, tracing the most critical drivers like the use and abuse of agrochemicals, mechanization, overgrazing, irrigation, slash and burn agriculture, and the use of plastics.

This book describes how natural or constructed wetlands can be used to reduce pollution of freshwater and coastal ecosystems, while still preserving their biodiversity and ecological functions.

This book is dedicated to Professor Kolumban Hutter of the Darmstadt Univer- sity of Technology on the occasion of his 60th birthday on 22 January 200l.

Access, distribution and processing of Geographic Information (GI) are basic preconditions to support strategic environmental decision-making.

This book explores state-of-art techniques based on methodological and modeling aspects of solid and hazardous waste management, specifically focusing on the recent trends in data acquisition and robust modeling of the results obtained.

This volume includes a selection of papers presented at the conference "e;Susta- able Resource Use and Economic Dynamics"e; (SURED), held on Monte Verita ` in Ascona, Switzerland, in June 2004.

This book will help decision makers model nature-based solutions to the complex problem of sustainable development, locally and globally.

This report examines the scientific basis for the use of remotely sensed data, particularly Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), primarily for the assessment of land degradation at different scales and for a range of applications, including resilience of agro-ecosystems.

This volume discusses the challenges of Latin America in global environmental geopolitics.

This interactive book presents comprehensive information on the fundamentals of landslide types and dynamics, while also providing a set of PPT, PDF, and text tools for education and capacity development.

Over the last few decades, unprecedented global population growth has led to increased demand for food and shelter.

With growing concerns about the security, cost, and ecological consequences of energy use, people around the world are becoming more conscious of the systems that meet their daily needs for food, heat, cooling, light, transportation, communication, waste disposal, medicine, and goods.

This book presents selected articles from the International Conference on Asian and Pacific Coasts (APAC 2019), an event intended to promote academic and technical exchange on coastal related studies, including coastal engineering and coastal environmental problems, among Asian and Pacific countries/regions.

The need to understand and quantify change is fundamental throughout the environmental sciences.

This book explains to governments, decision makers and disaster professionals the potential uses of recent technologies for disaster monitoring and risk reduction based on the knowledge and experience of prominent experts/researchers in the relevant fields.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the theoretical developments and technological breakthroughs that have deepened our understanding of environmental pollution and human health, while also promoting a comprehensive strategy to address these problems.

The management of flood risk seems to be facing a daunting paradox.

Global climate change threatens human existence through its potential impact on agriculture and the environment.

This unique book focuses on environmental degradation in Asian countries including land degradation and soil erosion.

This book offers a completely new approach to learning and teaching the fundamentals of analytical chemistry.

Comprehensive and multidisciplinary coverage of fundamental and advanced statistical tools and issues relevant to long-term ecological monitoring.

This volume provides readers with the tools to unlock the potential of Earth observation (EO) technologies to transform coastal zone management.

This book is based on the accepted papers for presentation at the 2nd MedGU Annual Meeting, Marrakesh 2022.

This book presents a comprehensive and detailed overview of indoor pollution, covering the main contaminants in the indoor environment - air and dust, the health aspects of exposure, and different possibilities for a risk assessment.

Rocky outcrops are landscape features with disproportionately high biodiversity values relative to their size.

Biological diversity is important for ecosystem function and services, which in turn is essential for human well-being.

This book provides the advance research results of environmental pollution and governance and covers the main research field of environmental remediation, environmental monitoring, sanitation and so on.