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This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.This book provides an unprecedented synthesis of the current status of scientific and management knowledge regarding global rangelands and the major challenges that confront them. It has been...

Urban water and wastewater systems have an inherent vulnerability to both manmade and natural threats and disasters including droughts, earthquakes and terrorist attacks. It is well established that natural disasters including major storms, such as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783836450973Author Stefan FurnsinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639304336Author Asma SaeedFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 127g

This book provides applications of wireless sensor networks (WSN) in environmental monitoring, with an emphasis on livestock disease detection and agricultural management in Africa to aid farmers. This proposed system entails current and innovative...

The monograph addresses a problem of stochastic analysis based on the uncertainty assessment by simulation and application of this method in ecology and steel industry under uncertainty. The first chapter defines the Monte Carlo (MC) method and random...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639364422Author Faisal DurraniFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

Taking Complexity Seriously applies the advanced policy analysis technique of triangulation to what is now the world's most complex public policy challenge: sustainable development. One central problem of public policy analysis has been to find new ...

Quantified Societal Risk and Policy Making is the result of an international workshop on societal risk organized by the Dutch Ministry for Transport, Public Works and Water Management with additional financial support from the Directorate for...

Disclaimer The work reported in this book was carried out prior to the publication of the final guidance document on Heavily Modified and Artificial Water Bodies of the Water Framework Directive Common Implementation Strategy. The European Commission,...

This book deals with the economic potentials of biodiversity and its capacity to support its own conservation aiming to provide livelihood for millions engaged in conservation, both now and for future generations. The book highlights the potentials of...

This book reviews the latest advances in the bioelectrochemical degradation of recalcitrant environmental contaminants. The first part introduces readers to the basic principles and methodologies of bioelectrochemical systems, electron-respiring...

This textbook contains the contents coming from hydraulics, hydrodynamics, chemical principles, chemical reaction engineering and bioengineering, which relates closely with fundamental principles in environmental engineering. It mainly covers principles...

This manuscript was made possible by the exceptional support provided by INSA (Institut National des Sciences Appliquees) Toulouse, the University of New Mexico and the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering. The authors, as listed in this book,...

The early 1990's marked an environmental watershed for our countly. Under two federal administrations significant environmental legislative, regulatOly and institutional changes took place which affected our Nation's wetland resources. Injust a few...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639768855Author Balakrishnan BalamohanFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Scholars' PressPublisher Scholars' PressWeight(grams) 177g

The books provides a timely analysis in support of a paradigm shift in the field of wastewater management, from 'treatment for disposal' to 'treatment for reuse' by offering a variety of value propositions for water, nutrient and energy recovery which...

This book discusses land degradation in India using statistical tools such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Regression Analysis (RA), and uses statistical analyses and graphical representations of the causal relationship between land degradation...

This book deals with the challenges posed by the transformation of society towards much-needed sustainability. Especially, it deals with the local condi- tionalities ofthis change, but seen in a global context. Indeed, its two cases are Swedish, but the...

As the coastal human population increases in the United States, there will likely be increasing environmental and socioeconomic pressures on our coastal and estuarine environments. Monitoring the condition of all our nation's coastal and estuarine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783843361408Author Ghaffar AliFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams)...

Multiple criteria decision making is a major and rapidly growing field of research. Methods resulting from this field of research are used in this book to develop a Multiobjective Decision Support Systems (MODSS) for environmental management. The primary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786207807581Author Kaushal KumarFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039218103Author Mercedes SollaFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Mdpi AGPublisher Mdpi AGWeight(grams) 472g

This book includes details on the environmental implications of recycling, modeling of recycling, processing of recycled materials, recycling potential of materials, characterisation of recycled materials, reverse logistics, case studies of recycling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783659572784Author Awoyera PaulFormat PaperbackImprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783659790850Author Oku Okon Oku-UkpongFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic...

During the last years international cooperation on environmental issues has increased, especially after UNCED in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The efforts made by the United Nations or groups of states to solve more or less global problems through negotiation...

The book presents the state-of-the-art document describing the knowledge, data, cost-effectiveness and technologies employed to manage the waste in several countries such as Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordon, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, and Yemen. It covers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639257496Author Fitsum MelakuFormat PaperbackImprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 163g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783846559604Author Andrew WhyteFormat PaperbackImprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams) 313g

This book highlights the concept of water footprint in different industrial sectors such as leather tanning, steel, agriculture, textile and wine. One of the very basic necessities of life which is soon going to be scarce is water, hence the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639305289Author Dr Bala Ramudu ParamkusamFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 177g

After the success of the Acid Rain Program, pollution trading became a more acceptable policy in dealing with pollution problems. Trading of pollution credits and allowances helps to achieve environmental goals faster and more co- effectively. Although...

This book mainly focuses on ecological approaches for preventing and controlling non-point source (NPS) pollution on the basis of forestry measures. In addition to the effects of ecological control, it introduces readers to the characteristics of NPS...

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has become the recognized instrument to assess the ecological burdens and human health impacts connected with the complete life cycle (creation, use, end-of-life) of products, processes and activities, enabling the assessor to...

The work aims at answering the question as to how far discourses on human security are present in Jordan and Israel, if they converge and if political solutions for the issue of water security could be derived. The analysis is based on the assumption...

What is the role of government in environmental politics and policy? The answer to this question used to be relatively clear. Government was to regulate the environmental performance of state and non-state actors, to set standards, impose charges, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639229738Author Aysha AkterFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 227g

Nowadays, the environment looms large in the analysis of conflict in developing societies, and the precise role it plays is the subject of an ongoing debate. The de bate has moved on from the earlier, but still popular, notions of 'power struggles',...