Pollution & threats to the environment books

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Superfund: The Political Economy of Risk

Superfund: The Political Economy of Risk

Author: John A. Hird (Director, University of Massachusetts)
ISBN: 9780801848070
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Over recent years, the Federal hazardous waste clean-up programme - Superfund - has been mired in controversy. This...  Read More >>

Bioavailability: Physical, Chemical, and Biological Interactions

Bioavailability: Physical, Chemical, and Biological...

Author: Jerry Hamelink ,  Peter F. Landrum
ISBN: 9781566700863
Format: Hardback
$504.00

Practical and provocative, Bioavailability reviews prevalent understanding of the physical-chemical-biological mechanisms...  Read More >>

Rainforest Relations: Gender & Resource Use by the Mende of Gola, Sierra Leone

Rainforest Relations: Gender & Resource Use by the Mende...

Author: Melissa Leach
ISBN: 9780748604937
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Melissa Leach examines the importance of rainforest resources to the local economy and social relations in West...  Read More >>

Climate Change: Significance for Agriculture and Forestry: Systems Approaches Arising from an IPCC Meeting

Climate Change: Significance for Agriculture and Forestry:...

Author: David H. White ,  S. Mark Howden
ISBN: 9780792329336
Format: Hardback
$382.80

It highlights the need to adopt a holistic systems approach to monitoring and reducing greenhouse gas emissions...  Read More >>

Patterns of China's Lost Harmony: A Survey of the Country's Environmental Degradation and Protection

Patterns of China's Lost Harmony: A Survey of the Country's...

Author: Richard Louis Edmonds
ISBN: 9780415104784
Format: Hardback
$399.00

Combines historical documentation with contemporary assessment to analyse the increasing problems of environmental...  Read More >>

Sustainable Development and the Energy Industries

Sustainable Development and the Energy Industries

Author: Nicola Steen
ISBN: 9781853832109
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Analyzing the energy industry from an environmental perspective, this study outlines what alterations to environmental...  Read More >>

The Environmental Protection Agency: Asking the Wrong Questions: From Nixon to Clinton

The Environmental Protection Agency: Asking the Wrong...

Author: Landy ,  Roberts
ISBN: 9780195086737
Format: Paperback
$99.95

This book traces the history of the EPA since its founding in 1970 and critically examines its actions on key environmental...  Read More >>

Hydroquinone

Hydroquinone

Author: United Nations Environment Programme ,  International Labour Organisation
ISBN: 9789241571579
Format: Paperback
$114.05

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Planning and Managing Regional Air Quality: Modeling and Measurement Studies

Planning and Managing Regional Air Quality: Modeling...

Author: Paul A. Solomon
ISBN: 9781566700597
Format: Hardback
$599.15

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Fundamentals of Air Sampling

Fundamentals of Air Sampling

Author: Gregory D. Wight
ISBN: 9780873718264
Format: Hardback
$462.00

Explains the fundamentals of air sampling, develops the theory of gas measurement, and presents examples of calibration...  Read More >>

Organic Dusts Exposure, Effects, and Prevention

Organic Dusts Exposure, Effects, and Prevention

Author: Ragnar Rylander (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) ,  Robert R. Jacobs
ISBN: 9780873716994
Format: Hardback
$368.00

Organic dusts are particles of vegetable, animal, and microbial origin and are found in a wide range of occupational...  Read More >>

Before and after an Oil Spill: The Arthur Kill

Before and after an Oil Spill: The Arthur Kill

Author: Joanna Burger ,  Joanna Burger
ISBN: 9780813520957
Format: Hardback
$158.40

In January 1990, the New York Harbor suffered a major oil spill when an underwater pipe at an Exxon refinery leaked...  Read More >>

The Medieval Warm Period

The Medieval Warm Period

Author: M. K. Hughes ,  Henry F. Diaz
ISBN: 9780792328421
Format: Hardback
$261.36

This volume addresses the issue of whether there really was a Medieval Warm Period, and if so, where and when. The...  Read More >>

Trends in Environmental Impact Assessment of Energy Projects

Trends in Environmental Impact Assessment of Energy...

Author:
ISBN: 9789211044270
Format: Paperback
$35.95

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Becoming Native To This Place

Becoming Native To This Place

Author: Wes Jackson
ISBN: 9780813118468
Format: Hardback
$66.00

The New World -- this empty land dazzlingly rich in forests, soils, rainfall, and mineral wealth -- was to represent...  Read More >>

Arsenic in the Environment, Part 2: Human Health and Ecosystem Effects

Arsenic in the Environment, Part 2: Human Health and...

Author: Jerome O. Nriagu (The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
ISBN: 9780471304364
Format: Hardback
$530.95

An element in the earth's crust, an additive in livestock feed. a medicine in early civilization--and the ""toxin...  Read More >>

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology: Continuation of Residue Reviews

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology:...

Author: Dr. George W. Ware ,  George W Ware
ISBN: 9780387942834
Format: Hardback
$274.56

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

Pollution Control in Fertilizer Production

Pollution Control in Fertilizer Production

Author: C.A. Hodge ,  Neculai N. Popovici
ISBN: 9780824791889
Format: Hardback
$840.00

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Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology...

Author: Dr. George W. Ware
ISBN: 9780387942780
Format: Hardback
$256.08

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

Workbook of Atmospheric Dispersion Estimates: An Introduction to Dispersion Modeling, Second Edition

Workbook of Atmospheric Dispersion Estimates: An Introduction...

Author: D. Bruce Turner (Consultant, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA)
ISBN: 9781566700238
Format: Hardback
$546.00

This completely updated and revised Second Edition of the popular Workbook of Atmospheric Dispersion Estimates provides...  Read More >>

Global and Regional Climate Interaction: The Caspian Sea Experience

Global and Regional Climate Interaction: The Caspian...

Author: S. Rodionov
ISBN: 9780792327844
Format: Hardback
$351.12

The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water both in area and volume. Located in a large continental...  Read More >>

Image 2.0: Integrated Modeling of Global Climate Change

Image 2.0: Integrated Modeling of Global Climate Change...

Author: Joseph Alcamo
ISBN: 9780792328605
Format: Hardback
$446.16

The IMAGE 2 model demonstrates our current ability to model the complex global system. Only a few laboratories have...  Read More >>

Arsenic in the Environment, Part 1: Cycling and Characterization

Arsenic in the Environment, Part 1: Cycling and Characterization...

Author: Jerome O. Nriagu (The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
ISBN: 9780471579298
Format: Hardback
$530.95

This investigation of a deadly toxin and its impact on ecology and human health contains a thorough treatment of...  Read More >>

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