Pollution & threats to the environment books

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The U.N. Framework Convention on Climatic Change Activities Implemented Jointly (AIJ) Pilot: Experiences and Lessons Learned

The U.N. Framework Convention on Climatic Change Activities...

Author: Robert K. Dixon
ISBN: 9780792360568
Format: Hardback
$525.36

This text is a comprehensive, in-depth review and summary of the UN FCCC AIJ pilot. Specific topics covered in this...  Read More >>

Critical Masses: Citizens, Nuclear Weapons Production, and Environmental Destruction in the United States and Russia

Critical Masses: Citizens, Nuclear Weapons Production,...

Author: Russell J. Dalton (University Of California) ,  Paula Garb (Univ Of California, Irvine)
ISBN: 9780262541039
Format: Paperback
$105.60

This book investigates how citizens in the United States and Russia have used the democratic process to force their...  Read More >>

Critical Masses: Citizens, Nuclear Weapons Production and Environmental Destruction in the United States and Russia

Critical Masses: Citizens, Nuclear Weapons Production...

Author: Russell J. Dalton ,  Paula Garb (Adjunct Associate Professor of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine, USA)
ISBN: 9780262041751
Format: Hardback
$264.00

This book investigates how citizens in the United States and Russia have used the democratic process to force their...  Read More >>

The Market Meets the Environment: Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy

The Market Meets the Environment: Economic Analysis...

Author: Bruce Yandle
ISBN: 9780847696253
Format: Paperback
$110.75

What does free market environmentalism have to say about Love Canal, Cleveland's burning Cuyahogo River, golf course...  Read More >>

Creating Enviromental Policy in the European Union

Creating Enviromental Policy in the European Union

Author: A. Zito
ISBN: 9780333722145
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This book investigates the European Union (EU) policy-making process and why this process has taken major steps...  Read More >>

Environmental Pollution and Plant Responses

Environmental Pollution and Plant Responses

Author: Shashi Bhushan Agrawal (Banaras Hindu University, India) ,  Madhoolika Agrawal (Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India)
ISBN: 9781566703413
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Presents an analysis of the research on the factors contributing to the deteriorating environmental quality and...  Read More >>

Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals

Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals

Author: R M Harrison (University of Birmingham, UK) ,  R E Hester (University of York, UK)
ISBN: 9780854042555
Format: Paperback
$90.43

Reviews the scientific evidence and attempts to put the subject into context. Along with an overview of the issue,...  Read More >>

Energiemodelle zum Klimaschutz in Deutschland: Strukturelle und gesamtwirtschaftliche Auswirkungen aus nationaler Perspektive

Energiemodelle zum Klimaschutz in Deutschland: Strukturelle...

Author: Forum für Energiemodelle und EnergiewirtschaftlicheSystemanalysen in Deutschland
ISBN: 9783790812442
Format: Paperback
$158.37

Das Forum für Energiemodelle und Energiewirtschaftliche Systemanalysen in Deutschland will mit der exemplarischen...  Read More >>

Myth and Reality in the Rain Forest: How Conservation Strategies Are Failing in West Africa

Myth and Reality in the Rain Forest: How Conservation...

Author: John F. Oates
ISBN: 9780520222526
Format: Paperback
$76.43

John Oates tackles one of the most serious challenges facing the world's conservation leaders today: how can the...  Read More >>

Controlling Air Pollution in China: Risk Valuation and the Definition of Environmental Policy

Controlling Air Pollution in China: Risk Valuation and...

Author: Therese Feng
ISBN: 9781840641004
Format: Hardback
$294.50

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Sustainable Agriculture in Brazil: Economic Development and Deforestation

Sustainable Agriculture in Brazil: Economic Development...

Author: Jill L. Caviglia
ISBN: 9781840641455
Format: Hardback
$241.35

The author uses new, original case studies of farms in the area to estimate the probability of the adoption of sustainable...  Read More >>

Climate Technology Strategies 1: Controlling Greenhouse Gases. Policy and Technology Options

Climate Technology Strategies 1: Controlling Greenhouse...

Author: Pantelis Capros ,  Leonidas Mantzos
ISBN: 9783790812299
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This text provides an integrated analysis of the implications for the energy system from the need to adapt to meet...  Read More >>

Climate Technology Strategies 2: The Macro-Economic Cost and Benefit of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the European Union

Climate Technology Strategies 2: The Macro-Economic...

Author: Pantelis Capros ,  Panagiotis Georgakopoulos
ISBN: 9783790812305
Format: Paperback
$184.67

The major challenge is how to realize these reduction goals with minimum costs without generating new distributional...  Read More >>

Innovative Subsurface Remediation: Field Testing of Physical, Chemical, and Characterization Technologies

Innovative Subsurface Remediation: Field Testing of...

Author: M. L. Brusseau (Professor, Professor, University of Arizona) ,  D. A. Sabatini (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma)
ISBN: 9780841235960
Format: Hardback
$514.80

This volume summarizes recent advances in remediation technologies for groundwater pollution in two areas: site...  Read More >>

Quaking Houses: Art, Science and the Community - A Collaborative Approach to Water Pollution

Quaking Houses: Art, Science and the Community - A Collaborative...

Author: Penny Kemp ,  John Griffiths
ISBN: 9781897766576
Format: Paperback
$52.67

How scientists, a local community and artists came together to develop a pioneering wetland area to clean up minewater...  Read More >>

Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter: II. Evaluating Research Progress and Updating the Portfolio

Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter:...

Author: National Research Council ,  Division on Earth and Life Studies
ISBN: 9780309066389
Format: Paperback
$84.48

Second in a four-part series requested by Congress, this book describes the plans of the committee to monitor the...  Read More >>

The Redwood Forest: History, Ecology, and Conservation of the Coast Redwoods

The Redwood Forest: History, Ecology, and Conservation...

Author: Reed F. Noss ,  Save-the-Redwoods League
ISBN: 9781559637268
Format: Paperback
$118.80

This text offers a case study for ecosystem-level conservation and gives conservation organizations the information,...  Read More >>

Forest Dynamics in Heavily Polluted Regions

Forest Dynamics in Heavily Polluted Regions

Author: John Innes (University of British Columbia, Canada) ,  J. Oleksyn (Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Dendrology, Kórnik, Poland)
ISBN: 9780851993768
Format: Hardback
$382.80

This book is the first report from the International Union of Forest Research Organization's (IUFRO) Task Force...  Read More >>

The Modern Problems of Electrostatics with Applications in Environment Protection

The Modern Problems of Electrostatics with Applications...

Author: Ion I. Inculet ,  Florin Teodor Tanasescu
ISBN: 9780792359302
Format: Paperback
$261.36

Among the many technological and legal efforts being made to restore our environment, electrostatic technologies...  Read More >>

Transforming Electricity: The Coming Generation of Change

Transforming Electricity: The Coming Generation of Change...

Author: Walt Patterson
ISBN: 9781853833465
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Climatic Variability in Sixteenth-Century Europe and Its Social Dimension

Climatic Variability in Sixteenth-Century Europe and...

Author: Christian Pfister ,  Rudolf Brázdil
ISBN: 9780792359340
Format: Hardback
$409.20

The known documentary climatic evidence from six European countries is compared to results of tree-ring studies....  Read More >>

Bioavailability of Organic Xenobiotics in the Environment: Practical Consequences for the Environment

Bioavailability of Organic Xenobiotics in the Environment:...

Author: P. Baveye ,  J.-C. Block
ISBN: 9780792359449
Format: Hardback
$789.36

In the continuing fight against organic environmental xenobiotics, the initial success attributed to bioremediation...  Read More >>

The Modern Problems of Electrostatics with Applications in Environment Protection

The Modern Problems of Electrostatics with Applications...

Author: Ion I. Inculet ,  Florin Teodor Tanasescu
ISBN: 9780792359296
Format: Hardback
$662.64

Among the many technological and legal efforts being made to restore our environment, electrostatic technologies...  Read More >>

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