экология
Water Engineering
Nazih K. Shammas
Details the design and process of water supply systems, tracing the progression from source to sink Organized and logical flow, tracing the connections in the water-supply system from the water’s source to its eventual use Emphasized coverage of...
Structure Design and Degradation Mechanisms in Coastal Environments
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This book provide a series of designs, materials, characterization and modeling, that will help create safer and stronger structures in coastal areas. The authors take a look at the different materials (porous, heterogeneous, concrete…), the...
Water Resources in the Built Environment
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Water management is a key environmental issue in controlling of floods and reducing droughts. This book provides analysis of the main issues, offering solutions and describing good practice. Water Resources for the Built Environment: management...
Novel Ecosystems
Richard J. Hobbs
Land conversion, climate change and species invasions are contributing to the widespread emergence of novel ecosystems, which demand a shift in how we think about traditional approaches to conservation, restoration and environmental management....
Climate Governance in the Developing World
David Held
Since 2009, a diverse group of developing states that includes China, Brazil, Ethiopia and Costa Rica has been advancing unprecedented pledges to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, offering new, unexpected signs of climate leadership. Some...
Hydrology and the Management of Watersheds
Kenneth N. Brooks
This new edition is a major revision of the popular introductory reference on hydrology and watershed management principles, methods, and applications. The book's content and scope have been improved and condensed, with updated chapters on the...
Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment
Joan B. Rose
Provides the latest QMRA methodologies to determine infection risk cause by either accidental microbial infections or deliberate infections caused by terrorism • Reviews the latest methodologies to quantify at every step of the microbial...
Infrared Observation of Earth's Atmosphere
Herv? Herbin
This book is designed to provide the theoretical, but most of all, the practical bases needed for the achievement of atmospheric composition analyses from infrared remote sensing.
Crustal Permeability
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Permeability is the primary control on fluid flow in the Earth’s crust and is key to a surprisingly wide range of geological processes, because it controls the advection of heat and solutes and the generation of anomalous pore pressures. The...
Extreme Events
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The monograph covers the fundamentals and the consequences of extreme geophysical phenomena like asteroid impacts, climatic change, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, flooding, and space weather. This monograph...
An Introduction to Human-Environment Geography
William G. Moseley
This introductory level text explores various theoretical approaches to human-environment geography, demonstrating how local dynamics and global processes influence how we interact with our environments. Introduces students to fundamental...
Environment and Society
Paul Robbins
Substantially updated for the second edition, this engaging and innovative introduction to the environment and society uses key theoretical approaches to explore familiar objects. Features substantial revisions and updates for the second...
Applied Studies in Climate Adaptation
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The book advances knowledge about climate change adaptation practices through a series of case studies. It presents important evidence about adaptation practices in agriculture, businesses, the coastal zone, community services, disaster...
Oceans and Human Health
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Human health and well-being are tied to the vitality of the global ocean and coastal systems on which so many live and rely. We engage with these extraordinary environments to enhance both our health and our well-being. But, we need to recognize...
An Integrated Approach to Environmental Management
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Covers the most recent topics in the field of environmental management and provides a broad focus on the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of environmental management Provides an up-to-date survey of the field from the perspective of...
Introduction to Environmental Engineering
Bernd Markert
Building on the first principles of environmental chemistry, engineering, and ecology, this volume fills the need for an advanced textbook introducing the modern, integrated environmental management approach, with a view towards long-term...
Groundwater Vulnerability
Vyacheslav Shestopalov
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) disaster that occurred in Ukraine on April 26, 1986, was one of the most devastating in human history. Using this as a case study, the AGU monograph Groundwater Vulnerability: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster is...
Скажи «НЕТ» пластику. 101 способ использовать меньше пластика и спасти мир
Мария Ершова
Мы достигли экологического кризиса, наша планета буквально задыхается от пластиковых отходов. Но возможно ли остановить глобальную катастрофу, не нанося ущерб качеству своей жизни? Эта практическая книга предлагает экологически чистые...
Экологический менеджмент: Учебное пособие
А. М. Годин
В учебном пособии рассмотрены и анализируются следующие аспекты экологического менеджмента: государственная политика в области охраны окружающей среды и использования природных ресурсов России; экономические механизмы управления охраной...
QGIS and Applications in Agriculture and Forest
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These four volumes present innovative thematic applications implemented using the open source software QGIS. These are applications that use remote sensing over continental surfaces. The volumes detail applications of remote sensing over...
Water Science, Policy and Management
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Provides an in-depth look at science, policy and management in the water sector across the globe Sustainable water management is an increasingly complex challenge and policy priority facing global society. This book examines how governments,...
Global Climate Change Demystified
James G. Speight
For too many years climate change (also referred to as global warming) has been assigned predominantly to the emissions of carbon dioxide though the combustion of fossil fuels. It must never be forgotten or ignored, however, that the Earth is...
Я забочусь о планете
Ирина Жукова
Наша планета нуждается в защите прямо сейчас. Однако для спасения планеты вовсе не обязательно ехать на Амазонку высаживать тропические леса или бастовать перед зданием правительства. Вполне достаточно начать со своей жизни и, немного изменив...
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[T]axing Greenhouse Gases
Lex Fullarton
Lex Fullarton takes a closer look at the three pillars of the sustainable development framework known as the Triple Bottom Line (TBL). The concept of the TBL is that for a project to be sustainable it must not simply be profitable in economic...
Экология. (Бакалавриат). Учебник.
Сергей Ильич Колесников
Состоит из трех частей: общая экология, учение о биосфере, рациональное природопользование и охрана природы. Содержит контрольные вопросы, краткий словарь терминов и понятий, законов, правил и принципов экологии, рационального природопользования...
Industrial Environmental Management
Tapas K. Das
Provides aspiring engineers with pertinent information and technological methodologies on how best to manage industry's modern-day environment concerns This book explains why industrial environmental management is important to human...
Zero Waste Challenge. 155 шагов к осознанной жизни
Яна Потрекий
Хотите помочь планете и снизить свой экологический след? Тогда концепция Zero Waste («быт без отходов») поможет вам прийти к этому!
Яна Потрекий @_mamyana_, экоблогер и автор популярной книги «Zero Waste: осознанное потребление без фанатизма»,...
Offshore Compliant Platforms
Srinivasan Chandrasekaran
A guide to the analysis and design of compliant offshore structures that highlights a new generation of platforms Offshore Compliant Platforms provides an authoritative guideto the analysis and design of compliant offshore structures and...
Practical Wastewater Treatment
David L. Russell
The updated and expanded guide for handling industrial wastes and designing a wastewater treatment plant The revised and updated second edition of Practical Wastewater Treatment provides a hands-on guide to industrial wastewater treatment...
What is Environmental Politics?
Elizabeth R. DeSombre
Why is it so difficult to control, or fix, pollution? How can we justify harvesting the world’s natural resources at unsustainable rates, even though these activities cause known harm to both people and ecosystems? Scientific knowledge and...
Sustainable Water Purification
M. R. Islam
Water is synonymous with life. This has been the case since pre-historic time to the modern era. For the first time, humanity faces a crisis that eclipses the energy crisis, which has often incapacitated the global economy. The...
Another End of the World is Possible
Pablo Servigne
The critical situation in which our planet finds itself is no longer in doubt. Some things are already collapsing while others are beginning to do so, increasing the possibility of a global catastrophe that would mean the end of the world as we...
