Environmental Science

Environmental Change: Key Issues and Alternative Approaches describes and explains the significance of past and contemporary environmental and climatic change. It outlines the conceptual framework for studies of environmental change by posing key...

Technology and Global Change describes how technology has shaped society and the environment over the last 200 years. Technology has led us from the farm to the factory to the internet, and its impacts are now global. Technology has eliminated many...

Controlling the level of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is a rapidly growing area of commercial activity. While debate continues both about the impact of greenhouse gas on climate and the role humans play in influencing its concentration, engineers are...

Metal contamination is one of the most ubiquitous, persistent and complex environmental issues, encompassing legacies of the past (e.g. abandoned mines) as well as impending, but poorly studied, threats (e.g. metallo-nanomaterials). Writing for graduate...

This book was first published in 2005. Time may be running out for Venice. With rising average water levels, the frequency of city flooding is increasing and the threat of a repeat of the November 1966 events, when a violent storm surge took water levels...

Foraminifera and thecamoebians are highly sensitive to environmental stress (natural or anthropogenic). This feature means that they can be used to biologically characterize a variety of freshwater and coastal marine environments. Due to their small size...

Fossil fuels are a finite resource, and their continued use as the world's dominant energy supply is damaging the environment. Future use of alternative methods of energy supply is inescapable, and this book explores the historical origins, technical...

Population and Climate Change provides the first systematic in-depth treatment of links between two major themes of the twenty-first century: population growth and associated demographic trends such as aging, and climate change. It is written by a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262551267Author Benjamin HaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g

We believe in social justice. We support educational reform. Yet unless we reframe our approaches to both, says C. A. Bowers, the social justice attained through educational reform will only lead to more intractable forms of consumerism and further...

Here, the theory of environmental aesthetics is related to our active appreciation of the prosaic landscapes of home, recreation or work. This leads to the discovery of hidden continuities, as well as the pleasure and meaning we receive from our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543446821Author Anthony S MinardiFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 318g

Many areas of Eastern Europe have been polluted to an extent unknown in the West. Four such sites - Kola Peninsula, northern Bohemia, upper Vistula Basin, and Katowice - have been identified and detailed accounts of the pollution at these sites are ...

Research on the ecosystems has emerged in recent decades as a vital, successful, and sometimes controversial approach to environmental science. Ecosystem science has addressed issues such as human alteration of biogeochemical cycles, ecological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860101086Author Ltd Staff Environment ResourcesFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint Graham & Trotman LtdPublisher Kluwer Academic Publishers...

Since the computing revolution, modelling has become the most important way in which we further our knowledge about how the sea moves and how the processes in the sea operate. The coast and the continental shelf are two of the most important areas of...

In 1984, the Conference on Environmental Quality, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Science Foundation, convend a series of panel meetings to discuss long-term environmental issues. Environmental Monitoring, Assessment, and Management...

Casting a wide net, this volume provides personal and professional information on some 445 American and Canadian naturalists and environmentalists, who lived from the late 15th century to the late 20th century. It includes explorers who published works...

An accessible overview of the most important environmental issues facing the United States, with new and updated material. Americans are concerned about the state of the environment, and yet polls show that many have lost faith in both scientists' and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717807604Author Marc BrodineFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780412299100Author I.S. RoxburghFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Chapman and HallPublisher Chapman and Hall

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013274756Author Siddharth SareenFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

This collection of case studies focuses on seven US cities and consider revitalization programmes over the past 15-20 years and analyze their successes and failures. The studies were carried out by the National Center for the Revitalization of Central...

For many countries tourism is an industry of great economic significance; it is seen as a main instrument for regional development, as it stimulates new economic activities. Tourism may have a positive economic impact on the balance of payments, on ...

A revolutionary vision of how we can create a sustainable planet This book focuses on two critical global issues—rapid population growth and a human-induced climate change. John Firor and Judith Jacobsen summarize the current status of these two issues,...

This edited volume is a comprehensive examination of the legal framework in which environmental policy is fashioned in the major English-speaking federations-the United States, Canada, and Australia. The need for national solutions to environmental...

A major contribution to the environmental policy debate, this is the first book to examine the legal, technical, and planning initiatives employed in Europe to avoid land disposal of toxic waste. Although largely ignored in the U.S. until now, safer...

Smelting is an industrial process involving the extraction of metal from ore. During this process, impurities in ore-including arsenic, lead, and cadmium-may be released from smoke stacks, contaminating air, water, and soil with toxic-heavy metals. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780962426384Author Don RittnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Don RittnerPublisher Don RittnerWeight(grams) 263g

Sustainable development, albeit a fashionable phrase, covers several substantive issues. In essence, as the Bruntlandt Report has it, it is "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet...

Many environmentalists believe that religion has been a major contributor to our ecological crisis, for Judeo-Christians have been taught that they have dominion over the earth and so do not consider themselves part of a biotic community. In this book a...

To avoid uncontrolled climate change, greenhouse gas emissions will have to be brought under control by major emitters outside the affluent West. The authors investigate the political obstacles in BRIC countries and what their governments could do to...

The wind power development policy community faces a conundrum. On the one hand, as the most commercially viable form of utility-scale renewable energy, the wind power industry has experienced in excess of ten-fold growth in total installed capacity over...

Exploring the environmental effects of animal agriculture, fishing, and hunting, Eating Earth exposes critical common ground between earth and animal advocacy. The first chapter (animal agriculture) examines greenhouse gas emissions and climate change,...

The study of soil nitrogen has long been an active field, but it was generally pivoted on agricultural and forestry production, and animal husbandry. With the rapid increase in the use of fertilizer nitrogen, more attention has been paid to the...

This review of environmental contamination and toxicology covers issues such as modelling metal bioavailability for marine mussels, and organochloride insecticide residues in African fauna.Book InformationISBN 9780387982380Author G.W. WareFormat...

Numerous studies have revealed that the poor disproportionately bear the burden of environmental problems in America today. Issues range from higher levels of poisonous wastes, carbon dioxide, and ozone, to greater than normal incidences of asthma and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780275907709Author Jeffery GaleFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

A brief yet comprehensive and clearly written compendium of the most important federal energy, environmental, and natural resource statutes through 1982. Freedman's special talent is the ability to relate Congressional intent to the policy context within...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorMartha Gorman is a professional writer and the author of several books for ABC-CLIO.Reviews"This balanced, detailed work will prove a useful reference tool." -...