This book dispels common myths about electricity and electricity policy and reveals how government policies manipulate energy markets, create hidden costs, and may inflict a net harm on the American people and the environment.
This book states the harsh truth: that despite best intentions, our current environmental practices are doing more harm than good, and that the solution lies in creating supply chains of the future that design, produce, consume, and reuse materials in a manner that is balanced economically and environmentally.
This concisely written and easy-to-read resource provides information on emerging issues and valuable historical context that enables students to better understand a broad range of environmental health topics, from pollution to infectious diseases, natural disasters, and waste management.
Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics explores new horizons in environmental studies, which consider communication and meaning as core definitions of ecological life, essential to deep sustainability.
A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature undertakes a comprehensive ecocritical examination of the region's literature from the foundational texts of the nineteenth century to the most recent fiction.
A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature undertakes a comprehensive ecocritical examination of the region's literature from the foundational texts of the nineteenth century to the most recent fiction.
This concisely written and easy-to-read resource provides information on emerging issues and valuable historical context that enables students to better understand a broad range of environmental health topics, from pollution to infectious diseases, natural disasters, and waste management.
Plastics widespread use and ease of disposal after a single use mean they accumulate rapidly in landfills and the environment, often ending up in wastewater systems.
This handbook provides essential information on toxicology, risk assessment, analysis, monitoring, human and ecological effects, treatment alternatives, ecosystem health, compliance, and much more.
This handbook provides essential information on toxicology, risk assessment, analysis, monitoring, human and ecological effects, treatment alternatives, ecosystem health, compliance, and much more.
Este libro revela el inmenso potencial de la ibia u oca (Oxalis tuberosa), un tuberculo ancestral andino que, pese a su alto valor nutricional y otras propiedades de su valor agregado, esta en riesgo de desaparecer.
El libro Gestion hidrica y planificacion del territorio desde la sustentabilidad es una recopilacion de los trabajos de grado de estudiantes de la Maestria en Desarrollo Sustentable de la Universidad del Valle.
Ademas de escribir un libro sobre los graves problemas ambientales que afectan al planeta a principios del siglo XXI, las autoras quisieron que este tema fuera accesible a todos los lectores, dandole forma de una novela -de ahi su nombre- en la que los personajes intercambian, aparte de sus sentimientos, reflexiones y problemas existenciales, los datos mas actuales con respecto a la contaminacion en sus multiples aspectos: del aire, del agua, de la vida vegetal y animal, del ruido; en fin, de todas las formas que asume, sin olvidar el agujero de ozono.
En este libro, "Ecos y Visiones del Futuro", se emprende un fascinante viaje a través de las complejas transformaciones que definen nuestro mundo actual.
A nivel rural, las microcuencas abastecedoras están sufriendo los impactos de la variabilidad climática, lo cual agudiza los conflictos sociales y ambientales por la escasez de agua, como en el caso de la mayoría de acueductos rurales colombianos.
El libro Gestion hidrica y planificacion del territorio desde la sustentabilidad es una recopilacion de los trabajos de grado de estudiantes de la Maestria en Desarrollo Sustentable de la Universidad del Valle.
Plastics widespread use and ease of disposal after a single use mean they accumulate rapidly in landfills and the environment, often ending up in wastewater systems.
Air Pollution and Related Health Risks: Investigating Environmental Health and Sustainability provides discussion on advanced atmospheric phenomena as they relate to health risks and environmental sustainability.
"e;Enlightening conversations with historical icons that will fill your soul with optimism for the future of our planet while bringing comfort to those seeking answers about crossing over into the spirit world.
This volume discusses the impacts of climate change on sericulture in India, which was the world's second-largest producer of raw silk in 2022-2023, with mulberries accounting for 75.
This volume discusses the impacts of climate change on sericulture in India, which was the world's second-largest producer of raw silk in 2022-2023, with mulberries accounting for 75.
Circular Nanotechnology: Redefining Waste into Resources for a Sustainable Future presents an innovative approach to using nanotechnology to transform waste management and resource recovery, paving the way for a more sustainable future.
Circular Nanotechnology: Redefining Waste into Resources for a Sustainable Future presents an innovative approach to using nanotechnology to transform waste management and resource recovery, paving the way for a more sustainable future.
Air Pollution and Related Health Risks: Investigating Environmental Health and Sustainability provides discussion on advanced atmospheric phenomena as they relate to health risks and environmental sustainability.
Vertical Farming Future: Foods Without Fields is a comprehensive and rigorously researched exploration of one of the most consequential agricultural transformations of the twenty-first century — the emergence of controlled-environment, soil-free, artificially illuminated food production as a credible, commercially viable, and potentially civilization-altering response to the converging crises of population growth, climate disruption, soil degradation, and freshwater scarcity that are steadily overwhelming the productive capacity of conventional field agriculture.
This collection on paper-based sensors is the second volume of a four-volume Handbook devoted to the consideration of all aspects of paper devices from the synthesis of nanocellulose and paper manufacturing to the discussion of the features of their fabrication and use.
This collection on paper-based sensors is the second volume of a four-volume Handbook devoted to the consideration of all aspects of paper devices from the synthesis of nanocellulose and paper manufacturing to the discussion of the features of their fabrication and use.
