Inaction by governments in the face of climate change is often attributed to a lack of political will or a denial of the seriousness of the situation, but as Mark Alizart argues in this provocative book, we shouldn’t exclude the possibility that...
The contamination of environment and water resources by Selenium (Se) and its oxyanions from various sources are emerging contaminants of significant health and environmental concern. The primary sources include agricultural drainage water, mine...
POLLUTANTS AND WATER MANAGEMENT Pollutants and Water Management: Resources, Strategies and Scarcity delivers a balanced and comprehensive look at recent trends in the management of polluted water resources. Covering the latest practical...
The wild beauty of deserts has always been a source of fascination the world over. Mankind and Deserts 3 – the third and final volume – focuses on wind, frequently present in all deserts, either hot or cold. Wind plays a major role in aridity...
Dieses Buch von Dipl.-Ing. Sven Geitmann ist eine sachlich fundierte Zusammenfassung ?ber das gesamte Feld der erneuerbaren Energien. Es werden sowohl innovative Energietechniken als auch alternative Energietr?ger vorgestellt und allgemein...
Es hei?t, die Technologie mit Wasserstoff k?nne heutige Energie-Probleme l?sen und Brennstoffzellen seien eine aussichtsreiche Alternative f?r die Zukunft. Was ist aber tats?chlich dran an derartigen ?u?erungen? Das Buch Wasserstoff &...
Explore the state-of-the-art in biosurfactant technology and its applications in environmental remediation, biomedicine, and biotechnology Biosurfactants for a Sustainable Future explores recent developments in biosurfactants and their use...
Впервые на русском! Это саммари – сокращенная версия книги Билла Гейтса «Как избежать климатической катастрофы. Решения, которые у нас есть, и прорывы, которые нам нужны». Только самые ценные мысли, идеи, кейсы, примеры.
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В новом издании Черной книги представлены данные по наиболее опасным инвазивным видам животных Беларуси. В список видов включены: инвазивные виды, наносящие экологический и экономический ущерб естественным экосистемам Беларуси; инвазивные виды –...
‘Empowering and elegiac’ Yanis Varoufakis, author of Another Now ‘Utterly inspiring’ Caroline Lucas, MP, Green Party ‘A masterpiece of measured rage and love’ Jonathan Porritt, author of Hope in Hell Capitalism is broken. The relentless...
“This book is about hope in the face of forces that would degrade our world. This book is about the rich tapestry of life that shares our world now and about how we can maintain it, sometimes in places that we protect and set aside, more often...
Explores soil as a nexus for water, chemicals, and biologically coupled nutrient cycling Soil is a narrow but critically important zone on Earth’s surface. It is the interface for water and carbon recycling from above and part of the cycling...
Глобальное изменение климата – самая серьезная и неотложная проблема из всех, с какими сталкивалось человечество за свою историю. От того, как мы будем ее решать в следующие тридцать лет, зависит, в каком мире мы будем жить и какой мир передадим...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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»,...
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...
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...
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...
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...