Pollution & threats to the environment books

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Aerobiology

Aerobiology

Author: Michael L. Muilenberg (Harvard University) ,  Harriet A. Burge (Harvard University, Boston , Massachusetts, USA)
ISBN: 9781566702065
Format: Hardback
$378.00

Aerobiology highlights the current interests in this field, primarily the ecology and distribution of airborne particles...  Read More >>

Critical Masses: Global Population Challenge

Critical Masses: Global Population Challenge

Author: George D. Moffett
ISBN: 9780140232264
Format: Paperback
$50.16

One of the gravest problems facing our planet today is over-population. The aim of this book is to convey the sense...  Read More >>

Particles in Our Air: Concentrations and Health Effects

Particles in Our Air: Concentrations and Health Effects...

Author: John Daniel Spengler ,  Richard Wilson
ISBN: 9780674240773
Format: Paperback
$36.95

Generated by the use of fossil energy, respirable-sized particles pose a major threat to our environment and health....  Read More >>

The Ecological Risks of Engineered Crops

The Ecological Risks of Engineered Crops

Author: Jane Rissler ,  Margaret Mellon
ISBN: 9780262680851
Format: Paperback
$60.72

The authors propose a practical, feasible method of conducting precommercialization evaluations that will balance...  Read More >>

Eastern Old-Growth Forests: Prospects For Rediscovery And Recovery

Eastern Old-Growth Forests: Prospects For Rediscovery...

Author: Mary Byrd Davis ,  Steve Comers
ISBN: 9781559634090
Format: Paperback
$118.80

Eastern Old-Growth Forests is the first book devoted exclusively to old growth throughout the East. Authoritative...  Read More >>

Acid Reign '95?: Proceedings on the 5th International Conference on Acidic Deposition, Goteborg, Sweden, 26-30 June 1995

Acid Reign '95?: Proceedings on the 5th International...

Author: Peringe Grennfelt ,  etc.
ISBN: 9780792339717
Format: Hardback
$1238.16

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The Ecological Risks of Engineered Crops

The Ecological Risks of Engineered Crops

Author: Jane Rissler ,  Margaret Mellon
ISBN: 9780262181716
Format: Hardback
$151.80

The authors propose a practical, feasible method of conducting precommercialization evaluations that will balance...  Read More >>

A Manual of Environmental Protection Law

A Manual of Environmental Protection Law

Author: Michael Fry
ISBN: 9780198262305
Format: Hardback
$240.00

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The Impact of Ozone-Layer Depletion

The Impact of Ozone-Layer Depletion

Author: United Nations Environment Programme
ISBN: 9789211005790
Format: Paperback
$15.95

This work provides an overview and background to the topic of ozone-layer depletion. It discusses the phasing out...  Read More >>

Sustainable Settlement in the Brazilian Amazon

Sustainable Settlement in the Brazilian Amazon

Author: Anna Luiza Ozorio de Almeida ,  Joao S. Campari
ISBN: 9780195211047
Format: Hardback
$42.95

In this book the authors convey the shifting character of the Amazon frontier. They document and discuss the largest...  Read More >>

Environmental Contaminants in Wildlife: Interpreting Tissue Concentrations

Environmental Contaminants in Wildlife: Interpreting...

Author: James P. Meador (NOAA-NMFS, Seattle, Washington, USA) ,  Gary H. Heinz
ISBN: 9781566700719
Format: Hardback
$501.47

Deals with the question of how much of a chemical in the tissues of an animal is harmful. This book explains the...  Read More >>

Management of Animal Waste: Environmental Health Problems and Technological Solutions

Management of Animal Waste: Environmental Health Problems...

Author: Amer El-Ahraf ,  William V. Willis
ISBN: 9780275935290
Format: Hardback
$90.00

This work is an attempt to help those concerned with animal waste management—agricultural economists and policy-makers,...  Read More >>

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology: Continuation of Residue Reviews

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology:...

Author: George W. Ware
ISBN: 9780387947037
Format: Hardback
$343.17

International concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental communi­ ties over traces of xenobiotics in foods...  Read More >>

Climate Change: Developing Southern Hemisphere Perspectives

Climate Change: Developing Southern Hemisphere Perspectives...

Author: Thomas W. Giambelluca (University of Hawai'i at Manoa) ,  Ann Henderson-Sellers (Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia)
ISBN: 9780471962144
Format: Hardback
$789.95

This book explores the rights and aspirations of the developing world, the need to balance ecology and economics,...  Read More >>

On the Water Front - Making Your Water Safe to Drink

On the Water Front - Making Your Water Safe to Drink...

Author: John Archer
ISBN: 9780646265247
Format: Paperback
$22.00

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Urban Air Pollution: Monitoring and Control Strategies - Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop ""Monitoring and Control Strategies for Urban Air Pollution"", Held in Erice, Italy, October 9-15, 1994

Urban Air Pollution: Monitoring and Control Strategies...

Author: Ivo Allegrini ,  Franco DeSantis
ISBN: 9783540607076
Format: Hardback
$578.16

This review of the field of urban pollution offers insights into specific issues such as the use of receptor modelling...  Read More >>

Groundwater Contamination from Stormwater Infiltration

Groundwater Contamination from Stormwater Infiltration...

Author: Robert E. Pitt (University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA) ,  Shirley Clark
ISBN: 9781575040158
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Groundwater Contamination from Stormwater Infiltration examines topics such as urban runoff, constituents of concern,...  Read More >>

Whose Backyard, Whose Risk: Fear and Fairness in Toxic and Nuclear Waste Siting

Whose Backyard, Whose Risk: Fear and Fairness in Toxic...

Author: Michael B. Gerrard
ISBN: 9780262571135
Format: Paperback
$71.28

In Whose Backyard, Whose Risk, environmental lawyer, professor, and commentator Michael B. Gerrard tackles the thorny...  Read More >>

Contaminants and the Soil Environment in the Australasia-Pacific Region: Proceedings of the First Australasia-Pacific Conference on Contaminants and Soil Environment in the Australasia-Pacific Region, held in Adelaide, Australia, 18–23 February 1996

Contaminants and the Soil Environment in the Australasia-Pacific...

Author: R. Naidu ,  R.S. Kookana
ISBN: 9780792339007
Format: Hardback
$868.56

legal, health and social impacts of contaminated land, remediation approaches and strategies to manage contaminated...  Read More >>

Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Subsidence: Causes, Consequences, and Strategies

Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Subsidence: Causes, Consequences,...

Author: J.D. Milliman ,  B.U. Haq
ISBN: 9780792339335
Format: Hardback
$604.56

Explores the concepts of sea-level rise and coastal subsidence, both natural and anthropogenically accelerated,...  Read More >>

African Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories and Mitigation Options: Forestry, Land-Use Change, and Agriculture: Johannesburg, South Africa 29 May – June 1995

African Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories and Mitigation...

Author: John F. Fitzgerald ,  Barbara V. Braatz
ISBN: 9780792339427
Format: Hardback
$419.76

Among their other commitments, Parties to the Convention must develop and periodically update national inventories...  Read More >>

Assessing the Risks of Nuclear and Chemical Contamination in the former Soviet Union

Assessing the Risks of Nuclear and Chemical Contamination...

Author: E.J. Kirk
ISBN: 9780792339519
Format: Hardback
$290.37

Risk assessment has come to assume acute importance in the former Soviet Union since money is so scarce, yet the...  Read More >>

Spacecraft Maximum Allowable Concentrations for Selected Airborne Contaminants: Volume 2

Spacecraft Maximum Allowable Concentrations for Selected...

Author: National Research Council ,  Division on Earth and Life Studies
ISBN: 9780309054782
Format: Paperback
$116.44

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has developed spacecraft maximum allowable concentrations...  Read More >>

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