Environmental Science

Protecting and maintaining water distributions systems is crucial to ensuring high quality drinking water. Distribution systems-consisting of pipes, pumps, valves, storage tanks, reservoirs, meters, fittings, and other hydraulic appurtenances-carry...

From the origin of the leak, to the amount of oil released into the environment, to the spill's duration, the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill poses unique challenges to human health. The risks associated with extensive, prolonged use of dispersants, with...

Beryllium is an important metal that is used in a number of industries-including the defense, aerospace, automotive, medical, and electronics industries-because of its exceptional strength, stability, and heat-absorbing capability. It is found in a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780309063944Author Committee on Assessing the Costs of Natural DisastersFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint National Academies PressPublisher National...

Sustainability Assessment is a comprehensive compilation of all the known policy factors related to sustainability. This book outlines all of the elements and considerations of community aspects of policy evaluation in an effort to reduce the future...

Sustainability Metrics and Indicators of Environmental Impact: Industrial and Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment covers trending topics on the environmental impact of systems of production, putting emphasis on lifecycle assessment (LCA). This methodology...

Reaching Net Zero: What It Takes to Solve the Global Climate Crisis addresses the imminent need to fully understand the causes, effects, and evidence of global warming; due to the large amount of climate disinformation and complexity of much of the...

Environmental Sustainability and Economy contains the latest practical and theoretical concepts of sustainability science and economic growth. It includes the latest research on sustainable development, the impact of pollution due to economic activities,...

Advances in Streamflow Forecasting: From Traditional to Modern Approaches covers the three major data-driven approaches of streamflow forecasting including traditional approach of statistical and stochastic time-series modelling with their recent...

The Global Carbon Cycle and Climate Change examines the global carbon cycle and the energy balance of the biosphere, following carbon and energy through increasingly complex levels of metabolism from cells to ecosystems. Utilizing scientific...

Trends and Changes in Hydroclimatic Variables: Links to Climate Variability and Change discusses the change detection and trend analysis methods used to assess hydroclimatic variables in a changing climate. Changes and trends in hydroclimatic variables...

Urban Heat Island Modeling for Tropical Climates takes into account the different urban physics in tropical environments, presenting a way of UHI scaling for tropical cities. Topics include measuring, modeling and proper mitigation strategies, which...

Water Conservation and Wastewater Treatment in BRICS Nations: Technologies, Challenges, Strategies, and Policies addresses issues of water resources-including combined sewer system overflows-assessing effects on water quality standards and protecting...

Innovation Strategies in Environmental Science introduces and examines economically viable innovations to optimize performance and sustainability. By exploring short and long-term strategies for the development of networks and platform development, along...

Water Quality in the Third Pole: The Roles of Climate Change and Human Activities offers in-depth coverage of water quality issues (natural and human-related), the monitoring of contaminants, and the remediation of water contamination. The book's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780309042376Author Water Science and Technology BoardFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint National Academies PressPublisher National Academies Press

We began this book with a simple goal- to assemble a collection of readings for an undergraduate interdisciplinary course taught by one of us (AR) at Macalester College. This course explored environmental problems and solutions in Latin America and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788179935156Author Suroopa MukherjeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint The Energy and Resources Institute, TERIPublisher The Energy and Resources...

It is generally accepted within the scientific community that anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are primarily responsible for a recent warming in global climate and that current trajectories of emissions may lead to potentially catastrophic...

Agricultural production is in a period of rapid transformation which has seen an increase in the use of biotechnology, synthetic chemistry, biological chemicals and biopesticides. These disciplines are integrated with improvements in application...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631175251Author Oskar StrobelFormat HardbackPage Count 158Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 406g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622578306Author Jackson L WalkerFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 350g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620818084Author Harrison M GrahamFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 396g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619424999Author Denis A MichaelsFormat HardbackImprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604271034Author Carol Ann WoodyFormat HardbackPage Count 612Imprint J Ross PublishingPublisher J Ross PublishingWeight(grams) 2005gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

The Scars of Project 459 tells the environmental story of the Lake of the Ozarks, built by the Union Electric Company in 1931. At 55,000 acres, the lake was the biggest manmade lake in the United States at the time of its completion, and it remains the...

Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development takes stock of cultural and environmental contexts in many different regions of the world by exploring literature and film. Artists and scholars working in the social ecology, environmental justice, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781486305353Author Peat LeithFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint CSIRO PublishingPublisher CSIRO PublishingWeight(grams) 457g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781486303847Author Stuart SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint CSIRO PublishingPublisher CSIRO PublishingWeight(grams) 926g

We offer here a non-conventional approach to muhivariate ima- structured data for which the basis is well tested but the analytical ramifi cations are still unfolding. Although we do not formally pursue them, there are several parallels with the nature...

Handbook of Operations Research in Natural Resources will be the first systematic handbook treatment of quantitative modeling natural resource problems, their allocated efficient use, and societal and economic impact. Andres Weintraub is the very top...

An eyewitness account of this controversial environmental action.Construction plans for the reroute of Highway 55 through south Minneapolis sparked an environmental movement that pitted activists against public authorities in one of the most dramatic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631179624Author Jake S DiazFormat HardbackPage Count 147Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 406g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631179020Author Kassy KinsleyFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 366g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631176227Author Annabella FerroFormat HardbackPage Count 123Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 346g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628082449Author Robin LauritsFormat HardbackPage Count 103Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 372g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620815779Author Aaron J Abrego GomezFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620813652Author Jacob M BrownFormat HardbackImprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 325g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613249987Author Robert A TammFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 406g

The first book of its kind to explore this magnificent creature, this collected volume captures many aspects of the remarkable Great Lakes sturgeon, from the mythical to the critically real. Lake sturgeon are sacred to some, impressive to many, and...