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Waste as a Resource by R. E. Hester 9781849736688
Booksplease Price: $88.66The volume of waste produced by human activity continues to grow, but steps are being taken to mitigate this problem by viewing waste as a resource. Recovering a proportion of waste for re-use... -
Agricultural Chemicals and the Environment by R. E. Hester 9780854042203
Booksplease Price: $40.61Enormous increases in agricultural productivity can properly be associated with the use of chemicals. This statement applies equally to crop production through the use of fertilizers, herbicides and... -
Chlorinated Organic Micropollutants by R. E. Hester 9780854042258
Booksplease Price: $40.61Chlorinated Organic Micropollutants addresses the sources, environmental cycles, uptake, consequences and control of many of the more important chlorinated organic micropollutants, including PCBs,... -
Chemistry in the Marine Environment by R. E. Hester 9780854042609
Booksplease Price: $46.96The oceans cover more than 70% of the earth's surface to an average depth of almost 4000 metres. It is therefore not surprising that exchanges that occur between ocean and atmosphere exert major... -
Alternatives To Animal Testing by R. E. Hester 9780854042111
Booksplease Price: $79.08Animal experimentation has long been a controversial issue with impassioned arguments on both sides of the debate. Increasingly it has become more expedient and feasible to develop new methods that... -
Waste Treatment and Disposal by R. E. Hester 9780854042104
Booksplease Price: $31.15This Issue follows on from the review of waste incineration in Issue 2, providing a thorough and detailed review of other waste management options. Waste generation affects everyone, and its... -
Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals by R. E. Hester 9780854042555
Booksplease Price: $46.96Long-term environmental effects of chemical exposure have long been of concern and, more recently, chemicals which cause changes to the sexual development of exposed organisms have been identified... -
Risk Assessment and Risk Management by R. E. Hester 9780854042401
Booksplease Price: $37.50Risk assessment is considered by many analysts to be an objective scientific tool. It is considered to be variously influenced by broader issues which in turn have important practical implications... -
Mining and its Environmental Impact by R. E. Hester 9780854042005
Booksplease Price: $40.61This first Issue in the series contains nine articles written by leading British and American experts from the mining industry, regulatory authorities, and academia, and incorporates the latest... -
Volatile Organic Compounds in the Atmosphere by R. E. Hester 9780854042159
Booksplease Price: $31.15Interest in volatile organic compounds (VOCs) as air pollutants has increased dramatically in recent years. This book covers a number of very topical issues concerning VOCs, including stratospheric... -
Carbon Capture: Sequestration and Storage by R. E. Hester 9781847559173
Booksplease Price: $79.08It is widely recognised that global warming is occurring due to increasing levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Methods of capturing and then storing CO2 from major... -
Marine Pollution and Human Health by R. E. Hester 9781849732406
Booksplease Price: $85.10There is growing concern about the state of the world's oceans. The rapid growth of human populations in coastal regions has led to increasing dependence on marine resources. Beneficial features... -
Environmental Impact of Power Generation by R. E. Hester 9780854042500
Booksplease Price: $40.04In today's automated world, the need for economic generation of power is of vital importance. However, the industry is commonly perceived as being responsible for pollution of the atmosphere and... -
Energy Storage Options and Their Environmental Impact by R E Hester 9781788013994
Booksplease Price: $91.45Recent decades have seen huge growth in the renewable energy sector, spurred on by concerns about climate change and dwindling supplies of fossil fuels. One of the major difficulties raised by an... -
Nanotechnology: Consequences for Human Health and the Environment by R. E. Hester 9781847559562
Booksplease Price: $78.69Nanotechnology is a much talked about, and rapidly expanding area of science, which is sometimes little understood. It looks set to make a significant impact on human life and, with numerous... -
Environmental Forensics R E Hester (University of York, UK) 9780854049578
Booksplease Price: $78.69'Environmental forensics' is a combination of analytical and environmental chemistry, which is useful in the court room context. It therefore involves field analytical studies and both data... -
Sustainable Water R E Hester (University of York, UK) 9781849730198
Booksplease Price: $78.69It is predicted that climate change will result in big changes to the global distribution of rainfall, causing drought and desertification in some regions and floods in others. Already there are... -
Electronic Waste Management R E Hester (University of York, UK) 9780854041121
Booksplease Price: $79.08Electronic waste includes such items as TVs, computers, LCD and plasma displays, and mobile phones, as well as a wide range of household, medical and industrial equipment which are simply discarded... -
Agricultural Chemicals and the Environment: Issues and Potential Solutions by R. E. Hester 9781782626909
Booksplease Price: $88.27Agricultural 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... -
Soils and Food Security Prof. R E Hester (University of York, UK) 9781849734264
Booksplease Price: $85.49Soil is essential to agriculture and a resource that cannot be replaced easily. Nevertheless, its importance to food production and the threats to its sustainability are often overlooked. This book,... -
Biodiversity Under Threat Prof. R E Hester (University of York, UK) 9780854042517
Booksplease Price: $79.08There is much public concern about threats to global biodiversity. Industrial pollution, changes in agricultural practices and climate change, are all having a direct impact on biodiversity. In this... -
Food Safety and Food Quality R E Hester (University of York, UK) 9780854042708
Booksplease Price: $46.96The quality and safety of the food we eat attracts a great deal of publicity and is high on the list of public concerns. This highly emotive issue is discussed in this timely book, which brings... -
Contaminated Land and its Reclamation R E Hester (University of York, UK) 9780854042302
Booksplease Price: $34.26Contaminated land and the methods and legal controls governing its reclamation for subsequent development and use are of great current interest and concern. This volume in the Issues in Environmental... -
Coal in the 21st Century: Energy Needs, Chemicals and Environmental Controls by R. E. Hester 9781782628606
Booksplease Price: $91.45The long-term future for coal looks bleak. The recent UN climate change conference in Paris called for an end to the use of fossil fuels. However, coal remains one of the world's most important... -
Sustainability and Environmental Impact of Renewable Energy Sources R E Hester (University of York, UK) 9780854042906
Booksplease Price: $59.71The world's dependence on fossil fuels is widely acknowledged to be a major cause of rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Thus there is an urgent need to develop energy sources with... -
Global Environmental Change by R. M. Harrison 9780854042807
Booksplease Price: $46.96Few people today are unaware of the far-reaching effects of global environmental change, and it is now generally accepted that human activities are the root cause of the changes in climate. Global... -
Fracking by Ron E. Hester 9781849739207
Booksplease Price: $88.66Fracking has the potential to extract hydrocarbons from previously inaccessible sources of gas and oil, but is regularly in the news because of environmental concerns surrounding the process. First...