Pollution & threats to the environment books

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Natural Attenuation for Groundwater Remediation

Natural Attenuation for Groundwater Remediation

Author: Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources ,  Board on Radioactive Waste Management
ISBN: 9780309069328
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Explores how contamination occurs, explaining concepts and terms, and includes case studies from the Hanford nuclear...  Read More >>

Bioremediation

Bioremediation

Author: J.J. Valdes
ISBN: 9780792364597
Format: Hardback
$472.56

The application of new biosensing techniques to environmental monitoring promises to be a more economical approach...  Read More >>

Don't Breathe the Air: Air Pollution and U.S. Environmental Politics, 1945-1970

Don't Breathe the Air: Air Pollution and U.S. Environmental...

Author: Scott Hamilton Dewey
ISBN: 9780890969144
Format: Hardback
$81.40

This work is a comprehensive examination of the role of air pollution and citizen activism during the rise of environmentalism...  Read More >>

Cleaner Transport Fuels for Cleaner Air in Central Asia and the Caucasus

Cleaner Transport Fuels for Cleaner Air in Central Asia...

Author: Masami Kojima ,  etc.
ISBN: 9780821347836
Format: Paperback
$34.95

Urban air pollution is a matter of increasing concern in many of the newly independent states (NIS). Traffic is...  Read More >>

Where We Live, Work and Play: The Environmental Justice Movement and the Struggle for a New Environmentalism

Where We Live, Work and Play: The Environmental Justice...

Author: Patrick Novotny
ISBN: 9780275960261
Format: Hardback
$140.00

An analysis of the emerging awareness of environmental problems as they impact the poor, particularly African-American,...  Read More >>

Energie und Umwelt: Wo liegen optimale Lösungen?

Energie und Umwelt: Wo liegen optimale Lösungen?

Author: M. Freerk ,  Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften
ISBN: 9783540675754
Format: Paperback
$127.43

Die Bereitstellung von Energie ist eine zentrale Voraussetzung unserer technischen Zivilisation, die einen im Vergleich...  Read More >>

Exchange and Transport of Air Pollutants over Complex Terrain and the Sea: Field Measurements and Numerical Modelling; Ship, Ocean Platform and Laboratory Measurements

Exchange and Transport of Air Pollutants over Complex...

Author: Soren E. Larsen ,  Franz Fiedler
ISBN: 9783540674382
Format: Hardback
$385.44

As the regional models required to understand and control the generation, distribution and deposition of air pollutants...  Read More >>

Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment

Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment...

Author: Ted Schettler (Science and Environmental Health Network) ,  Gina Solomon
ISBN: 9780262692472
Format: Paperback
$68.64

Compelling evidence suggests that human exposure to some toxic chemicals can have lifelong and even intergenerational...  Read More >>

Environmental Markets: Equity and Efficiency

Environmental Markets: Equity and Efficiency

Author: Graciela Chichilnisky ,  Geoffrey Heal
ISBN: 9780231115889
Format: Hardback
$157.95

Markets are increasingly central to the resolution of environmental problems. They play a critical role in the USA's...  Read More >>

Clean Coastal Waters: Understanding and Reducing the Effects of Nutrient Pollution

Clean Coastal Waters: Understanding and Reducing the...

Author: National Research Council ,  Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources
ISBN: 9780309069489
Format: Hardback
$168.30

Environmental problems in coastal ecosystems can sometimes be attributed to excess nutrients flowing from upstream...  Read More >>

Environmental Endocrine Disruptors: An Evolutionary Perspective

Environmental Endocrine Disruptors: An Evolutionary...

Author: A Crain ,  L J GuilletteJr
ISBN: 9781560325710
Format: Hardback
$462.00

Dealing with the research in many aspects of endocrine disruption by environmentally-encountered toxic substances...  Read More >>

Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols 2000: 15th International Conference, Rolla, Missouri, USA, 6-11 August 2000

Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols 2000: 15th International...

Author: Barbara N. Hale (University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO, USA) ,  Markku Kulmala (University of Helsinki, Finland)
ISBN: 9781563969584
Format: Hardback
$594.00

The text specifically addresses aerosol and nucleation mechanisms affecting ice formation, cloud droplet formation...  Read More >>

Plutonium Futures: The Science - Topical Conference on Plutonium and Actinides

Plutonium Futures: The Science - Topical Conference...

Author: K.K.S. Pillay ,  K.C. Kim
ISBN: 9781563969485
Format: Hardback
$421.74

This text covers the field of radioactive waste management, it is intended to increase awareness of a branch of...  Read More >>

The Amenity Value of the Global Climate

The Amenity Value of the Global Climate

Author: David Maddison
ISBN: 9781853836787
Format: Hardback
$196.00

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Thermal Solid Waste Utilisation in Regular and Industrial Facilities

Thermal Solid Waste Utilisation in Regular and Industrial...

Author: Lucjan Pawlowski ,  Marzenna R. Dudzinska
ISBN: 9780306464492
Format: Hardback
$393.36

Proceedings of the International Workshop, Thermal Solid Waste Utilization in Regular and Industrial Facilities,...  Read More >>

Environmental Stress: Indication, Mitigation and Eco-conservation

Environmental Stress: Indication, Mitigation and Eco-conservation...

Author: Mohammad Yunus ,  Nandita Singh
ISBN: 9780792364108
Format: Hardback
$662.64

In the present scenario, stresses induced due to global environmental change have indeed become a focal point of...  Read More >>

Global Perspectives on River Conservation: Science, Policy and Practice

Global Perspectives on River Conservation: Science,...

Author: P. J. Boon (Scottish Natural Heritage, Edinburgh, UK) ,  B. R. Davies (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
ISBN: 9780471960621
Format: Hardback
$735.95

Global Perspectives in River Conservation reviews the current state of river conservation worldwide, providing a...  Read More >>

Chemical Pesticide Markets, Health Risks and Residues

Chemical Pesticide Markets, Health Risks and Residues...

Author: Jeremy Harris (Biopesticides Programme, CABI Bioscience, Ascot, UK)
ISBN: 9780851994765
Format: Paperback
$132.00

Biopesticides Series, No. 1During recent decades there has been a steady increase in the use of chemical pesticides...  Read More >>

A Biological Assessment of the Aquatic Ecosystems of the Upper Rio Orthon Basin, Pando, Bolivia: Rapid Assessment Program, Volume 15

A Biological Assessment of the Aquatic Ecosystems of...

Author: Barry Chernoff ,  Philip W. Willink
ISBN: 9781881173304
Format: Paperback
$52.80

The Upper Rio Orthon Basin of Pando, Bolivia is a transitional zone between moist, lowland Amazonian forests and...  Read More >>

Economics of Deforestation: The Example of Ecuador

Economics of Deforestation: The Example of Ecuador

Author: Sven Wunder
ISBN: 9780333731468
Format: Hardback
$232.85

Tropical forests are disappearing at an unaltered pace, giving way to alternative land uses. This book gives an...  Read More >>

Bacillus thuringiensis: Biology, Ecology and Safety

Bacillus thuringiensis: Biology, Ecology and Safety...

Author: Travis R. Glare (Biocontrol & Biosecurity, AgResearch, Lincoln, New Zealand) ,  Maureen O'Callaghan (Biocontrol & Biosecurity, AgResearch, Lincoln, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9780471496304
Format: Hardback
$608.95

The bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis (B.t.), is used in products worldwide as a biological control agent for species...  Read More >>

Oil and Hydrocarbon Spills: Modelling, Analysis and Control

Oil and Hydrocarbon Spills: Modelling, Analysis and...

Author: G. Rodriguez ,  C. A. Brebbia (Wessex Institut of Technology)
ISBN: 9781853128288
Format: Hardback
$512.16

Seeking to close the gap between theoretical developments and practical application, this work presents state-of-the-art...  Read More >>

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