Environmental Science

The contributors to Reactivating Elements examine chemicals as they mix with soil, air, water, and fire to shape Earth's troubled ecologies today. They invoke the elements with all their ambivalences as chemical categories, material substances, social...

We are in the grip of global warming: sea levels are rising; glaciers are melting, Arctic sea ice is thinning, meteorological events are becoming more extreme. But how do these changes compare with the environmental changes that have occurred in the...

The near meltdown in 1979 at Three Mile Island, America, plunged the nuclear power industry into a crisis of confidence that threatened its very existence. This work analyzes how the industry managed to stabilize itself through a complete transformation...

The fully revised second edition of the highly acclaimed book.Long-term monitoring programs are fundamental to understanding the natural environment and managing major environmental problems. Yet they are often done very poorly and ineffectively. This...

A brand new edition of the definitive textbook on humankind's impact on the Earth's environment-now in full color This classic text explores the multitude of impacts that humans have had over time upon vegetation, animals, soils, water, landforms, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904078609Author Des ThompsonFormat HardbackPage Count 598Imprint Langford PressPublisher Langford PressWeight(grams) 1820g

The average person produces about four hundred pounds of excrement a year. More than seven billion people live on this planet. Holy crap! Because of the diseases it spreads, we have learned to distance ourselves from our waste, but the long line of...

What can you do to improve your health and at the same time improve the health of our home planet? Do you want to be a healthier and more sustainable consumer? In this straightforward, easy-to-understand and entertaining book, dietitian and...

Randomness is ubiquitous in nature. Random drivers are generally considered a source of disorder in environmental systems. However, the interaction between noise and nonlinear dynamics may lead to the emergence of a number of ordered behaviors (in time...

The only metric that tracks how much nature we have - and how much nature we use Ecological Footprint accounting, first introduced in the 1990s and continuously developed, continues to be the only metric that compares overall human demand on nature with...

Building Regulations and Standards is a concise practical guide to requirements of the building regulations explaining how to achieve compliance to secure safe, sustainable and healthy developments. The book provides clarity on key roles and...

The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production AwardsThe effects of global warming are being felt around the world through climate change, and images of our rivers and oceans choking with plastic have provoked an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578995304Author Bruce GlassFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Dbg PublishingPublisher Dbg PublishingWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Atmospheric chemistry has been the focus of much research activity in recent years, and there is now heightened public awareness of the environmental issues in which it plays a part. In a clear, readable style, this important book looks at the insights...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262700634Author Mitchell ThomashowFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This book is the first comprehensive book in the world on co-processing of wastes as Alternative Fuels and Raw materials (AFRs) in cement kilns. It discusses how AFR from wastes can play an important role in contributing toward reducing the use of fossil...

In this ground-breaking book, pre-eminent thought leader in the fields of sustainability and flourishing, John R. Ehrenfeld, critiques the concept of sustainability as it is understood today and which is coming more and more under attack as unclear and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845400804Author Mary MidgleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 205mm *...

The present and future state of the environment gives rise to ever increasing concern, but much less is known as yet about the past: the damage that has been done since, and by, the Industrial Revolution; how far our predecessors were aware of it; the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636480985Author Ioannis S VourdoubasFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Eliva PressPublisher Eliva PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

In The Mangle of Practice (1995), the renowned sociologist of science Andrew Pickering argued for a reconceptualization of research practice as a "mangle," an open-ended, evolutionary, and performative interplay of human and non-human agency. While...

A comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the conceptual tools used to explore real-world environmental problems Environment and Society: A Critical Introduction, Third Edition demonstrates how theoretical approaches such as environmental ethics,...

Our understanding of climate and its role in human affairs has changed markedly over recent years, as have climate observation systems and modelling capabilities. Reliance on recent weather statistics to provide a guide for future climate is no longer...

Fifteen climate experts combine forces to present a plan for slowing and ultimately preventing further destruction to our planet.As governments and businesses continue to set climate goals for reducing carbon emissions and slowing global warming,...

This book accompanies you on a journey that starts with the basics of mine water treatment and takes you further through correct sampling for planning to active and passive systems. In the respective chapters you will learn the most important techniques...

Waste is one of the planet's last great resource frontiers. From furniture made from up-cycled wood to gold extracted from computer circuit boards, artisans and multinational corporations alike are finding ways to profit from waste while diverting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781664108240Author Ghazally IsmailFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Xlibris NzPublisher Xlibris NzWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

Mark Rowlands presents a novel analysis of three epoch-defining environmental problems: climate, extinction, and pestilence. Our climate is changing at a rate that is unprecedented and, if unchecked, disastrous. Species are disappearing hundreds or...

Everything You Need to Know about Natural Parasite Control for Livestock, All in One Place! This concise book is loaded with valuable information about ridding livestock of their unwanted guests. Whether you're raising sheep, pigs, horses, cows,...

Raging wildfires have devastated vast areas of California and Australia in recent years, and predictions are that we will see more of the same in coming years, as a result of climate change. But this is nothing new. Since the dawn of life on land,...

Twenty years on from the first edition of Pollution and the topic remains high in the public awareness. Environmental pollution is now a major area of research, consultancy and technological development and is a priority for the political agendas of both...

This book aims to take the reader through all aspects of fire safety and management in residential settings, from origin and ignition, risk assessment, protection and prevention, as well as comparing effective enforcement options from across all parts of...

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is an established methodology used to quantify the environmental impacts of products, processes and services. Circular economy (CE) thinking is conceptual way of considering the impacts of consuming resources. By taking a...

How the marriage of Industry 4.0 and the Circular Economy can radically transform waste management-and our world Do we really have to make a choice between a wasteless and nonproductive world or a wasteful and ultimately self-destructive one? Futurist...

The field of human rights and the environment has grown phenomenally during the last few years and this textbook will be one of the first to encourage students to think critically about how many environmental issues lead to a violation of existing rights...

Reflecting changes in the current health and safety landscape, Occupational Health and Safety Management: A Practical Approach, Third Edition includes examples and tools to facilitate development and implementation of a safety and health management...

Improving the Sustainable Development Goals evaluates the Global Goals (Agenda 2030) by looking at their design and how they relate to theories of economic development. Adopted unanimously by the member states of the United Nations (UN) in 2015, the...

Over recent years, important contributions on the topic of solving various aquifer problems have been presented in numerous papers and reports. The scattered and wide-ranging nature of this information has made finding solutions and best practices...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226495859Author Beth GardinerFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...

Inaction by governments in the face of climate change is often attributed to a lack of political will or a denial of the seriousness of the situation, but as Mark Alizart argues in this provocative book, we shouldn’t exclude the possibility that part of...