Pollution & threats to the environment books

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Global Climate: Current Research and Uncertainties in the Climate System

Global Climate: Current Research and Uncertainties in...

Author: Xavier Rodo ,  Francisco Comin
ISBN: 9783540438205
Format: Hardback
$446.16

Climate research has undergone dramatic changes in the last decades. In this text, opinions from experts in different...  Read More >>

Handbook of Groundwater Remediation using Permeable Reactive Barriers: Applications to Radionuclides, Trace Metals, and Nutrients

Handbook of Groundwater Remediation using Permeable...

Author: David Naftz (U.S. Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.) ,  Stan J. Morrison (Environmental Sciences Laboratory, Grand Junction, Colorado, U.S.A.)
ISBN: 9780125135634
Format: Hardback
$345.84

Over the last century and a half, groundwaters have become contaminated by a growing number of organic and inorganic...  Read More >>

GROUNDWATER QUALITY PROTECTION: A GUIDE FOR WATER UTILITIES, MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES AND ENVIRONMENT AGENCIES

GROUNDWATER QUALITY PROTECTION: A GUIDE FOR WATER UTILITIES,...

Author: Stephen Foster
ISBN: 9780821349519
Format: Hardback
$46.95

This work provides an overview of the approaches to the evaluation and control of pollution threats to groundwater....  Read More >>

CO2 Emmissions from Fuel Combustion

CO2 Emmissions from Fuel Combustion

Author: International Energy Agency
ISBN: 9789264097940
Format: Paperback
$272.95

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Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution

Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial...

Author: Gerald Markowitz ,  David Rosner
ISBN: 9780520240636
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Details the attempts by the chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly...  Read More >>

Global Change and Regional Impacts: Water Availability and Vulnerability of Ecosystems and Society in the Semiarid Northeast of Brazil

Global Change and Regional Impacts: Water Availability...

Author: Thomas Gaiser ,  Maarten Krol
ISBN: 9783540438243
Format: Hardback
$683.76

Global climatic change will most likely affect natural resources and human living conditions in semiarid regions....  Read More >>

Double or Quits?: The Future of Civil Nuclear Energy

Double or Quits?: The Future of Civil Nuclear Energy...

Author: Malcolm C. Grimston ,  Peter Beck
ISBN: 9781853839139
Format: Paperback
$60.99

Provides an assessment of the major disputes surrounding the future role of nuclear fuel. The issues covered include...  Read More >>

Making Sense of Intractable Environmental Conflicts: Concepts And Cases

Making Sense of Intractable Environmental Conflicts:...

Author: Roy Lewicki ,  Barbara Gray
ISBN: 9781559639316
Format: Paperback
$132.00

Why can some environmental problems be resolved in one locale but remain contentious in another, often carrying...  Read More >>

Industrialized Nature: Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World

Industrialized Nature: Brute Force Technology and the...

Author: Paul Josephson
ISBN: 9781559637770
Format: Hardback
$79.20

This volume provides an examination of the ways in which science, policy, engineering, finance and hubris have come...  Read More >>

Managing a Global Resource: Challenges of Forest Conservation and Development

Managing a Global Resource: Challenges of Forest Conservation...

Author: Uma J. Lele
ISBN: 9780765809407
Format: Paperback
$119.00

The rapid loss of tropical forests, particularly in the developing world, has been a global concern since the late...  Read More >>

Public Health Risk Assessment for Human Exposure to Chemicals

Public Health Risk Assessment for Human Exposure to...

Author: K. Asante-Duah
ISBN: 9781402009211
Format: Paperback
$237.47

In fact, with the control and containment of most infectious conditions and diseases of the past millennium having...  Read More >>

Double or Quits?: The Future of Civil Nuclear Energy

Double or Quits?: The Future of Civil Nuclear Energy...

Author: Malcolm C. Grimston ,  Peter Beck
ISBN: 9781853839085
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Provides an assessment of the major disputes surrounding the future role of nuclear fuel. The issues covered include...  Read More >>

Apocalypse Soon?: Wagering on Warnings of Global Catastrophe

Apocalypse Soon?: Wagering on Warnings of Global Catastrophe...

Author: Stephen F. Haller ,  Stephen F. Haller
ISBN: 9780773524378
Format: Hardback
$250.80

A timely examination of what to believe and what to do about predictions of global catastrophe.  Read More >>

Global Environmental Challenges of the Twenty-First Century: Resources, Consumption, and Sustainable Solutions

Global Environmental Challenges of the Twenty-First...

Author: David E. Lorey, director of the Latin American Program, Hewlett Foundation
ISBN: 9780842050487
Format: Hardback
$143.95

The most serious environmental problems of the twenty-first century have the potential to alter the course of life...  Read More >>

Making Sense of Intractable Environmental Conflicts: Concepts And Cases

Making Sense of Intractable Environmental Conflicts:...

Author: Roy Lewicki ,  Barbara Gray
ISBN: 9781559639309
Format: Hardback
$211.20

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Managing a Global Resource: Challenges of Forest Conservation and Development

Managing a Global Resource: Challenges of Forest Conservation...

Author: Uma J. Lele
ISBN: 9780765801371
Format: Hardback
$375.19

The rapid loss of tropical forests, particularly in the developing world, has been a global concern since the late...  Read More >>

Public Health Risk Assessment for Human Exposure to Chemicals

Public Health Risk Assessment for Human Exposure to...

Author: K. Asante-Duah
ISBN: 9781402009204
Format: Hardback
$578.16

In fact, with the control and containment of most infectious conditions and diseases of the past millennium having...  Read More >>

Deforestation and Land Use in the Amazon

Deforestation and Land Use in the Amazon

Author: Charles H. Wood ,  Roberto Porro
ISBN: 9780813024653
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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Deforestation and Land Use in the Amazon

Deforestation and Land Use in the Amazon

Author: Charles H. Wood ,  Roberto Porro
ISBN: 9780813024646
Format: Hardback
$198.00

The Amazonian territories of Brazil, Bolivia and Ecuador encompass nearly half of the world's remaining tropical...  Read More >>

Apocalypse Soon?: Wagering on Warnings of Global Catastrophe

Apocalypse Soon?: Wagering on Warnings of Global Catastrophe...

Author: Stephen F. Haller ,  Stephen F. Haller
ISBN: 9780773524385
Format: Paperback
$79.07

A timely examination of what to believe and what to do about predictions of global catastrophe. Environmental decision-making,...  Read More >>

The Potential of U.S. Forest Soils to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect

The Potential of U.S. Forest Soils to Sequester Carbon...

Author: John M. Kimble ,  Rattan Lal
ISBN: 9781566705837
Format: Hardback
$609.00

Includes strategies to monitor and techniques to measure forest soil carbon. This book covers the effects of management...  Read More >>

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