Environmental Science

This book takes a new approach on understanding causes of extreme poverty and promising actions to address it. Its focus is on marginality being a root cause of poverty and deprivation. "Marginality" is the position of people on the edge,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789380156576Author S.P. MishraFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint ANE BooksPublisher ANE Books

This book takes a new approach on understanding causes of extreme poverty and promising actions to address it. Its focus is on marginality being a root cause of poverty and deprivation. "Marginality" is the position of people on the edge,...

Environmental Fate and Safety Management of Agrochemicals discusses residue analysis, environmental fate and safety management, environmental risk assessment, metabolism, resistance and management, and advances in formulation and application technology...

This report addresses carbon labeling schemes, a high-profile issue and one that has important economic implications for developing countries. Carbon accounting and labeling instruments are designed to present information on greenhouse gas emissions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781664108257Author Ghazally IsmailFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint Xlibris NzPublisher Xlibris NzWeight(grams) 476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593133996Author Ferris JabrFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665704410Author J R SchubelFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Alongside other factors, cultural values and identities help to explain different regulatory frameworks for genetically modified organisms. This book uses insights from environmental history and sociology to illuminate the cultural politics of regulation...

Contains papers from the November 1995 meeting, on the main themes of the role of atmospheric models in air pollution policy and abatement strategies, integrated regional modeling, global and long-range transport, new developments, accidental releases,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789815305746Author Robert de SaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Bentham Science PublishersPublisher Bentham Science PublishersWeight(grams) 553g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788121209663Author K.T. ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Gyan Publishing HousePublisher Gyan Publishing House

WAhrend das VerstAndnis, die Bearbeitung und die LAsung von existierenden Umweltproblemen sowie die Vermeidung neuer Probleme immer schwieriger werden, werden im gleichen Zuge die finanziellen Ressourcen immer knapper. Deshalb stellt sich die Frage nach...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984508478Author Margaret BannanFormat HardbackPage Count 274Imprint Xlibris AuPublisher Xlibris AuWeight(grams) 558g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798989546237Author Justin NobelFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint KarretPublisher KarretWeight(grams) 748g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798330601134Author Maxwell StonebridgeFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Rwg PublishingPublisher Rwg PublishingWeight(grams) 218g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798224165377Author P RajendranFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Mjp PublishersPublisher Mjp PublishersWeight(grams) 413g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223059387Author Raven GorewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Prof. Stephen William Bradeley Bsc.Publisher Prof. Stephen William Bradeley Bsc...

Below the famously flat surface of the Netherlands lies a fascinating world of buried mountains and valleys, which can only be unraveled with drillings, geophysical techniques and geological understanding. Thorough exploration for hydrocarbons,...

Modern industrial agriculture is not sustainable because of its heavy reliance on petroleum, a non-renewable source of the energy used in farming, and because of pollution caused by petroleum products such as fertilizers and pesticides. A systems...

Research, Action and Policy: Addressing the Gendered Impacts of Climate Change presents the voices of women from every continent, women who face vastly different climate events and challenges. The book heralds a new way of understanding climate change...

Shortly, this book is the written up-graded version of the topics discussed during the Small Meeting of the 2nd International School Congress: Natural Resources, Sustainability and Humanity, held in Braga, Portugal, 5-8 May 2010 with the diverse...

Community-based enterprises are the result of a process in which the community acts entrepreneurially to create and operate a new enterprise embedded in its existing social structure and network. This book argues that community-based enterprise could...

This book provides the reader with the comprehensive view necessary to understand and critically evaluate the design, implementation, and monitoring of phytoremediation at sites characterized by contaminated groundwater. Part I presents the historical...

This detailed account tells the background story of a privatised monopoly whose sharp practices embroiled a national government in scandal and shocked a nation that prides itself on the strength of its institutions. AWB Limited, the former Australian...

The book presents detailed case studies examining the Rhone Basin in the Canton Valais, Switzerland and the Aconcagua Basin in Valparaiso, Chile. In order to understand and assess the interplay of complex and interlinked environmental and socio-economic...

Human-kind and ecological systems are currently facing one of the toughest challenges: how to feed more billions of people in the future within the perspective of climate change, energy shortages, economic crises and growing competition for the use of...

Hurricanes are nature's most destructive agents. Widespread interest surrounds the possibility that they might get even more destructive in the future. Policy makers consider it a call for action. Answers about when and by how much hurricanes will change...

This book is a translation of the French book "Pollution atmospherique. Des p- cessus a la modelisation", published by Springer France (2007). The content is mainly derived from a course devoted to air pollution I taught at Ecole nationale des...

Global Change studies are increasingly being considered a vital source of information to understand the Earth Environment, in particular in the framework of human-induced climate change and land use transformation. Satellite Earth Observing systems...

This volume is an interdisciplinary mix of perspectives and studies on social issues in fisheries from a diverse range of case studies and research disciplines. The case is made regarding the dearth of attention to socio-cultural considerations which to...

Sustainable development is the key for the survival in 21st century. The natural resources are finite and cannot be used with impunity because we are the custodian of these resources and have responsibility to pass these to the next generation. This...

A number of arguments are made by an international group of authors in this though provoking book about an understudied and socially important context. A future in which financial wealth transfers across the North-South divide from richer to poorer...

Large dam construction has significant environmental and social impacts at different scales. As the largest developing country in the world, China has built about half of the world's large dams, and more are expected to be built over the next two decades...

Commissioned by the Intergovernmental Meeting (IGM) of the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN), this book offers a detailed survey of the current status of climate change and climate variability in the Asia-Pacific region, a thorough...

Environmental sustainability issues in a fragile, semi-arid region and its coastal area, which experience climate changes from extreme drought conditions to the effects of hurricanes over a period of weeks to years, provide specific challenges for the...

This volume gathers distinguished researchers on travel behavior from a variety of disciplines, to offer state-of-the-art research and analysis encompassing environmental, traffic and transport psychology; transport planning and engineering; transport...

Using renewable fuels and materials, drinking clean water and food, and breathing safe air are major issues for a sustainable world. This book reviews biodiesel production from microalgae, a promising energy source that does not compete with food...

This volume discusses a broad range of vital issues encompassing the production and consumption of food in the current period of climate change. All of these add up to looming, momentous challenges to food security, especially for people in regions where...

This book addresses environmental and climate change induced migration from the vantage point of migration studies, offering a broad spectrum of approaches for considering the environment/climate/migration nexus. Research on the subject is still...