Environmental Science

Electrostatic accelerators contribute significantly to activities within various fields of work including basic research, environmental monitoring, climate change, water and air quality, forensics, cultural heritage, agriculture, and development of...

What kind of future would the utopian idea of unlimited green energy bring about? On the Grid, based on Michael Warner's Berkeley Tanner Lectures, raises critical questions about the sharp turn in environmental thought which addresses climate change...

Island Press has been publishing the biennial The World's Water series since 1998. In that time, it has become an institution of the water field. The Journal of the American Water Resources Association sums it up well: "The series continues to be an...

In this title, climate change experts Lara Hansen and Jennifer Hoffman consider the implications of climate change for key resource management issues of our time - invasive species, corridors and connectivity, ecological restoration, pollution, and many...

Point Source Nitrogen Pollution: Climate Mitigation and Sustainable Solutions for the Modern Era explores the sources, impacts, and challenges related to point source nitrogen pollution. It provides an overview of challenges and opportunities for...

Indicators of Climate Change focuses on the root causes of global warming and climate change. The book includes detailed discussions on the indicators of climate change, highlighting the rapidity of the changes. Indicators discussed in this book include...

No single event played a greater role in the birth of modern environmentalism than the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and its assault on insecticides. The documents collected by Thomas Dunlap trace shifting attitudes toward DDT and...

Reflecting new thinking about conservation in Southeast Asia, Beyond the Sacred Forest is the product of a unique, decade-long, interdisciplinary collaboration involving research in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Scholars from these countries...

In The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decision Making a group of prominent environmental ethicists, policy analysts, political theorists, and legal experts challenges the dominating influence of market principles and assumptions on the formulation of...

Non-Point Source Nitrogen Pollution: Challenges, Solutions, and Sustainable Approaches delves into the origins, effects, and obstacles associated with non-point source nitrogen pollution. It offers a comprehensive examination of the challenges and...

This publication provides detailed guidance to States and their competent authorities on how to implement and maintain a nuclear security regime for the transport of nuclear and other radioactive material. The publication builds upon relevant...

Graphite has been used as a moderator and reflector of neutrons in more than 100 nuclear power plants and in many research and plutonium-production reactors, in quantities ranging from a few kilograms to more than 3,000 tonnes, depending on the design...

The aim of the publication is to provide an overview on the current knowledge, up to date best practices, experiences, benefits and challenges related to the subject approaches on instrumentation and control (I&C) systems life cycle management. This...

This title highlights the pertinent issue of climate change and its management using sustainable sources of finance. The book provides a comprehensive overview of sustainable development and its management using green finance, green energy, green...

The majority of the hydrogen used presently is produced from fossil fuels, which results in carbon dioxide emissions. Nuclear energy has the potential to replace fossil fuels for supplying a forecasted large increase in the demand of hydrogen with low or...

As the climate crisis worsens, governments around the world are calling for carbon-neutral societies and urging individuals to take responsibility for their climate-related behavior. However, despite growing awareness of the urgent need for climate...

Lead-210 (Pb-210) dating can be used to understand depositional trends of contaminants in the coastal marine environment. Decades of research have been committed to optimizing the use of Pb-210 as an isotopic tool to date sediment layers, yet challenges...

This book describes "global change" pedagogically, offering a comprehensive perspective of its multidimensional nature, and detailing the necessary actions in the main areas to prevent catastrophic scenarios. Currently, there is an unprecedented...

This publication provides detailed guidance (i) on the identification of potential sabotage targets in a nuclear facility and possible vulnerabilities that could lead to unacceptable or high radiological consequences if an initiating event of malicious...

Part of a series to inform nuclear facility designers, vendors, operators and State governments about IAEA safeguards and how associated requirements can be considered early in the design phase of a new nuclear facility, this publication is applicable to...

The development of a nuclear facility needs careful planning, adequate preparation and substantial investment. This includes the establishment of a legislative and regulatory framework with provisions to assess the adequacy of nuclear security and...

The growing use of digital technology in the nuclear field has heightened security concerns around the protection of radioactive materials. This publication offers practical strategies for implementing robust information and computer security measures...

This publication draws together the experience of Member States in the evaluation, management and remediation of legacy trench sites. It describes the overall process necessary to facilitate such projects. The publication provides the reader with an...

Fundamentals of Air Pollution, Sixth Edition offers an extensive study of the science of air pollution. With a highly interdisciplinary approach, the book's author examines air pollution through the lenses of chemistry, physics, meteorology, engineering,...

Nearly seven billion people are collectively such a potent force that their influence on the global environment has begun to rival that of Mother Nature. Scientist Richard C. J. Somerville is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Scripps Institution of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870713583Author David OatesFormat HardbackPage Count 277Imprint Oregon State UniversityPublisher Oregon State University

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870713576Author David OatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Oregon State UniversityPublisher Oregon State University

This text explores the latest ideas about landscapes as they apply to mammalian ecology and conservation. It examines the contribution of mammalian field studies and experimental model systems to landscape ecology, and presents data on the use of such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226425757Author Gilbert F. WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 486Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...

Water - and its governance - is becoming a global concern partly because it is turning into a goods in short supply, with devastating effects on literally billions of people, but also because it is the "carrier" of global warming; whether through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874516227Author Charles ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint University Press of New EnglandPublisher University Press of New England

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870715488Author Michael J. ManfredoFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Oregon State UniversityPublisher Oregon State UniversityWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816633029Author Mark J. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 107Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798823370899Author Dork SahagianFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Cognella Academic PublishingPublisher Cognella Academic PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798823368575Author Younsung KimFormat HardbackPage Count 158Imprint Cognella Academic PublishingPublisher Cognella Academic PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788183703192Author Sakarama SomayajiFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Akansha PublishingPublisher Akansha PublishingDimensions(mm) 241mm * 184mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781881173755Author Philip WillinkFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Conservation International,U.S.Publisher Conservation International,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Microplastics: Origins, Risks, and Mitigation discusses the sources, origin, and health risk assessment of microplastics in the environment. The various contamination indices, like contamination factor, atmospheric behavior, enrichment factor, and marine...

This book gives a comprehensive overview of our present understanding of the Earth's cryosphere, its changes and their consequences for mean sea level changes. Since the middle of the 19th century there has been an increase of sea level height by 20-25...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788176295802Author D. B. N. MurthyFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Deep & Deep PublicationsPublisher Deep & Deep Publications