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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530000985Author Michael Van ValkenburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780071596404Author Jay H LehrFormat PaperbackImprint McGraw-HillPublisher McGraw-HillWeight(grams) 925g

Animal agriculture is a major industry in the United States and around the world. Like all major industries, animal operations generate a significant amount of waste by-products, by-products which represent serious potential environmental pollutants...

In recent years, interest in the technology of gas cleaning at high temperatures has grown, driven in part by environmental legislation but also by demands for increases in process efficiency and intensity - notably for power generation and waste...

New process technology strategies are required to cope with the future. Fossil feedstocks are losing ground in favour of renewable feedstocks and secondary resources. Conventional processing routes using thermal "sledgehammer" techniques are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998788784Author Hanns GüntherFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Thomas HeddenPublisher Thomas HeddenWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013267772Author Marialuisa VoltaFormat HardbackPage Count 114Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Climate change is one of the major global environmental problems, one that has the potential to confront us with great costs during the decades to come. Climate change is caused by emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as carbon dioxide (CO). As z...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013269493Author Martin WagnerFormat HardbackPage Count 310Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams)...

Robert Bailey is an established authority on ecosystems, and his previous works, Ecosystem Geography and Ecoregions have sold well; Fully illustrated with color diagrams and maps; Includes a Glossary to define terms which may be unfamiliar to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530000992Author Michael Van ValkenburgFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery...

Robert Bailey is an established authority on ecosystems, and his previous works, Ecosystem Geography and Ecoregions have sold well; Fully illustrated with color diagrams and maps; Includes a Glossary to define terms which may be unfamiliar to...

The papers in this volume arose out of two workshops entitled 'Confinement and Remediation of Environmental Hazards', and 'Resource Recovery', as part of the IMA 1999-2000 program year. These workshops brought together mathematicians, engineers and...

Residential Exposure Assessment: A Source Book is the result of a multiyear effort known as the Residential Exposure Assessment Project (REAP) which was initiated by the Society for Risk Analysis and the International Society of Exposure Analysis. This...

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, our nation began to grapple with the legacy of past disposal practices for toxic chemicals. With the passage in 1980 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), commonly known...

Advancing towards sustainable development will be impossible without the active participation of informed and aware citizens and decision-makers. This publication will provide the unspecialised decision-makers, citizens, students and policy-makers of the...

Acting on Opportunity to Increase Financial Inclusion and Foster Development of a Transnational Economy describes the remittance regulatory and market environment, financial inclusion strategies by financial institutions, transnational economic...

Scientists and regulators have struggled to define the role of theory, experiments, models and common sense in risk analysis. This situation has been made worse by the isolation of theory from modeling, of experimentation from theory, and of practical...

ELECTRE and Decision Support focuses on the areas of engineering and infrastructure investment. It begins with some general comments about the different decision components within the project planning process - the definition of objectives, the ...

Risk-Based Environmental Decision: Methods and Culture presents the principles of human health risk analysis as they are applied in environmental decisions. It balances the discussion of scientific theory and methods, philosophical analysis, and ...

Sustainable Assessment Method for Energy Systems provides the reader with a new method for energy system evaluation. It is widely recognized that future energy strategies will have to deal with energy as a complex issue that incorporates...

As we reach the end of the 20th century, the question of how to meet human needs and preferences while safeguarding the global environment is a major concern facing humanity. This book reflects the state of the art of thinking on the necessary...

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the second workshop on Evaluation and Planning held at Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Mediterraneennes (CIHEAM) in Valenzano (Bari) in November 1993. The workshop was financially...

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...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PART 1 FISH CONSUMPTION AND METHYLMERCURY EXPOSURE IN THE AMAZON A. C. BARBOSA, A. M. GARCIA, J. R. DESOUZAI Mercurycontamination inhairofriverine 1-8 populations of Apiacas Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon E. D. BIDONE, Z. C. CASTILHOS,...

Environmental decisions must satisfy a multitude of objectives and the matching of a plan, policy or project to such objectives is a matter of both facts and value judgements. Value Functions for Environmental Management provides a systematic approach...

The climate change problem can only be effectively dealt with if global anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions can be reduced substantially. Since the emission of such gases is closely related to the economic growth of countries, a critical problem...

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',...

Major international, interdisciplinary research programmes are now underway to increase our understanding of how the Earth System operates and how it is changing through the effects of human activities. Although understanding and predictive capacity are...

Environmentally Improved Production Processes and Products introduces students at institutes of higher education, company management, civil servants, professional designers and process engineers to the field of environmentally oriented product and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780792311041Author A. BjorsethFormat HardbackPage Count 552Imprint Kluwer Academic PublishersPublisher Kluwer Academic Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780792312734Author Abdel H. El-ShaarawiFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Kluwer Academic PublishersPublisher Kluwer Academic PublishersWeight(grams) 577g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530005126Author Marcus AllhandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)...

Active noise control - the reduction of noise by generating an acoustic signal that actively interferes with the noise - has become an active area of basic research and engineering applications. The aim of this book is to present all of the basic...

This timely work draws implications from scientific studies for the wise management of old field ecosystems in the neotropics, where conversion of land to cropping systems is the most common kind of disturbance and many landscapes are defined by areas...

After almost fifteen years in the laboratory and in the test plots, bioengineered crops arrived to the market in the mid-1990s. Adoption was rapid and wide spread. In 1996, less than 4 million acres in six countries were planted with bioengineered crops...

In this timely volume, scientists examine the physical, structural, and analytical chemistry of fuel combustion. Their contributions also address the issue of combustion efficiency and how air quality can be protected or improved. Supported by numerous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306440168Author Curtis C. TravisFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint Kluwer Academic / Plenum PublishersPublisher Kluwer Academic Publishers Group

"Countryside Stewardship" is the first cross-country, empirical study to examine the market effects of stewardship policies across Europe, as well as their possible impact on the supply of agricultural commodities. This timely and insightful book...

This book is designed as an undergraduate text for water and environmental engineering courses and as preliminary reading for postgraduate courses in water and environmental engineering- including introductory coverage of irrigation and drainage, water...