экология
Наполовину мертвый кот, или Чем нам грозят нанотехнологии
К. В. Иванов
В книге в легкой и непринужденной форме рассказывается о совсем непростых и серьезных вещах – о рисках нанотехнологий. Серая слизь и боевые нанороботы – вот всё, что знает рядовой потребитель об угрозах, связанных с нанотехнологиями. Но это лишь...
Экология. (Аспирантура, Бакалавриат, Магистратура). Учебник.
Юрий Гаврилович Ярошенко
Рассмотрены современные представления о возникновении жизни на Земле, связанные с формированием биосферы. Описаны структура биосферы, закономерности существования и развития экосистем, взаимоотношения организма и среды, глобальные проблемы...
Воздух городов и его изменения
И. В. Смирнова
В этой книге на основании результатов наблюдений на станциях государственной сети Росгидромета выполнен анализ состояния загрязнения воздуха и тенденции его изменения с 1996 года в городах Российской Федерации. Показан тренд концентраций...
Природные ресурсы и окружающая среда
Группа авторов
В сборнике представлены итоговые материалы выполнения заданий Государственной научно-технической программы «Природные ресурсы и окружающая среда» в 2011–2015 годах. Рассчитан на магистрантов, аспирантов и докторантов, руководителей, научных...
Заповедное дело Россиию Теория, практика, история
Феликс Штильмарк
Феликс Робертович Штильмарк обосновал научные принципы заповедания, дал чёткое определение заповедности, создав таким образом теорию заповедного дела. В опубликованных работах представлены: наука и практика заповедного дела, биосферные,...
Understanding Mathematical and Statistical Techniques in Hydrology
Harvey J. E. Rodda
Pick up any hydrology textbook and it will not be long before you encounter pages listing sequences of equations representing complex mathematical concepts. Students and practitioners of hydrology will not find this very helpful, as their aim,...
Acid Mine Drainage, Rock Drainage, and Acid Sulfate Soils
Jay H. Lehr
Provides the tools needed to analyze and solve acid drainage problems Featuring contributions from leading experts in science and engineering, this book explores the complex biogeochemistry of acid mine drainage, rock drainage, and acid sulfate...
Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Modelling
Matthew F. Jones
This book covers both the practical and theoretical aspects of catastrophe modelling for insurance industry practitioners and public policymakers. Written by authors with both academic and industry experience it also functions as an excellent...
Pollutants, Human Health and the Environment
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Pollutants, Human Health and the Environment is a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of environmental pollutants that are of current concern to human health. Clearly structured throughout, the main body of the book is divided by pollutant type...
The New Carbon Economy
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The New Carbon Economy provides a critical understanding of the carbon economy. It offers key insights into the constitution, governance and effects of the carbon economy, across a variety of geographical settings. Examines different dimensions...
Sustainability Policy
Steven Cohen
A complete guide to sustainability policy at the federal, state, and local levels Sustainability Policy: Hastening the Transition to a Cleaner Economy is a fundamental guide for public sector professionals new to sustainability policy...
Water Centric Sustainable Communities
Пол Браун
The current literature compartmentalizes the complex issue of water and wastewater into its discrete components; technology, planning, policy, construction, economics, etc. Considered from the perspective of sustainability, however, water in the...
MWH's Water Treatment
Kerry J. Howe
the definitive guide to the theory and practice of water treatment engineering THIS NEWLY REVISED EDITION of the classic reference provides complete, up-to-date coverage of both theory and practice of water treatment system design. The Third...
Abrupt Climate Change
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Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 193. Abrupt Climate Change: Mechanisms, Patterns, and Impacts brings together a diverse group of paleoproxy records such as ice cores, marine...
The Governance of Climate Change
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Climate change poses one of the greatest challenges for human society in the twenty-first century, yet there is a major disconnect between our actions to deal with it and the gravity of the threat it implies. In a world where the fate of...
Fundamentals of Geobiology
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2012 PROSE Award, Earth Science: Honorable Mention For more than fifty years scientists have been concerned with the interrelationships of Earth and life. Over the past decade, however, geobiology, the name given to this interdisciplinary...
Solutions for Climate Change Challenges in the Built Environment
Colin A. Booth
The multi-disciplinary perspective provided here offers a strategic view on built environment issues and improve understanding of how built environment activities potentially induce global warming and climate change. It also highlights solutions...
Spaces of Environmental Justice
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In this cutting-edge volume, leading scholars examine a diverse range of environmental inequalities from around the world. Shows how far the field has moved beyond its original focus on uneven distributions of pollution in the USA Considers the...
A Companion to Environmental Geography
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A Companion to Environmental Geography is the first book to comprehensively and systematically map the research frontier of 'human-environment geography' in an accessible and comprehensive way. Cross-cuts several areas of a discipline which has...
The Anthropology of Climate Change
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This timely anthology brings together for the first time the most important ancient, medieval, Enlightenment, and modern scholarship for a complete anthropological evaluation of the relationship between culture and climate change. Brings...
Models and Modeling
Jerry P. Fairley
An Introduction to Models and Modeling in the Earth and Environmental Sciences offers students and professionals the opportunity to learn about groundwater modeling, starting from the basics. Using clear, physically-intuitive examples, the...
Industrial Water Resource Management
Pradip K. Sengupta
Provides the tools that allow companies to understand the fundamental concepts of water resource management and to take proper action towards sustainable development Businesses, communities, and ecosystems everywhere depend on clean freshwater...
Recycling of Polymers
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This timely reference on the topic is the only book you need for a complete overview of recyclable polymers. Following an introduction to various polymer structures and their resulting properties, the main part of the book deals with different...
Hydrodynamics and Water Quality
Zhen-Gang Ji
The primary reference for the modeling of hydrodynamics and water quality in rivers, lake, estuaries, coastal waters, and wetlands This comprehensive text perfectly illustrates the principles, basic processes, mathematical descriptions, case...
The Innovation Biosphere
Eunika Mercier-Laurent
This book addresses those involved in research or R&D. It introduces the principles of eco-innovation and the importance of the impact of their activity. This topic is considered in the context of natural and digital ecosystems powered by...
Impact Assessment
David P. Lawrence
Offers solutions and best practices to respond to recurrent problems and contemporary challenges in the field Since the publication of the first edition of Environmental Impact Assessment in 2003, both the practice and theory of impact...
The Holocene
Neil Roberts
The Holocene provides students, researchers and lay-readers with the remarkable story of how the natural world has been transformed since the end of the last Ice Age around 15,000 years ago. This period has witnessed a shift from environmental...
Aquatic Pollution
Edward A. Laws
Since the publication of the third edition of Aquatic Pollution in 2000, there have been many major developments within the field in terms of research, regulations, and also large-scale catastrophes that have had a significant impact on the...
Free-ranging Cats
Stephen Spotte
Feral and stray domestic cats occupy many different habitats. They can resist dehydration for months by relying exclusively on the tissue water of their prey allowing them to colonize remote deserts and other inhospitable places. They thrive and...
Introduction to Sustainability
Robert Brinkmann
Introduction to Sustainability is the first major textbook to review major themes in the cutting-edge field of sustainability. The book is suitable for introductory interdisciplinary courses on sustainability, as well as those in the fields of...
Water Pollution Control
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Designed to accompany the new Open University course in Environmental Monitoring and Protection, this is one of four new titles which will equip the reader with the tools to undertake Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs). Used in planning,...
Field Hydrogeology
Rick Brassington
The fourth edition of this bestselling textbook has been fully revised in order to present the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to completing a hydrogeological study. Beautifully presented with full colour photos and diagrams throughout,...
Geodiversity
Murray Gray
The first book to focus exclusively on the subject, Geodiversity, Second Edition describes the interrelationships between geodiversity and biodiversity, the value of geodiversity to society, as well as current threats to its existence....
The Laws Protecting Animals and Ecosystems
Paul A. Rees
There is currently no basic text in wildlife law suitable for the wide range of courses in wildlife conservation and animal welfare at both bachelors and masters level, or for the large number of people who work in conservation and animal...
Handbook of Oil Spill Science and Technology
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Provides a scientific basis for the cleanup and for the assessment of oil spills Enables Non-scientific officers to understand the science they use on a daily basis Multi-disciplinary approach covering fields as diverse as biology, microbiology,...
Climate Change Adaptation in Small Island Developing States
Martin J. Bush
A groundbreaking synthesis of climate change adaptation strategies for small island states, globally A wide ranging, comprehensive, and multi-disciplinary study, this is the first book that focuses on the challenges posed by climate change...
The Protection and Conservation of Water Resources
Hadrian F. Cook
This book is about water – in Britain, and in the world. It is about water resources, their conservation, protection of water quality for human consumption and aquatic ecosystems. Since the publication of the first edition in 1998, major...
Sustainable Solid Waste Management
Ni-Bin Chang
This book presents the application of system analysis techniques with case studies to help readers learn how the techniques can be applied, how the problems are solved, and which sustainable management strategies can be reached.
Sustainable Surface Water Management
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Sustainable Surface Water Management: a handbook for SUDS addresses issues as diverse as flooding, water quality, amenity and biodiversity but also mitigation of, and adaptation to, global climate change, human health benefits and reduction in...
Hydraulic Modeling
Victor M. Lyatkher
Water. Except for air, it is the most important ingredient to all life on Earth. It surrounds us every day. We are literally bathed in it, we cook our food with it, and we need a steady stream of it in our bodies every single day just to...
Conservation Criminology
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This important new text introduces conservation criminology as the interdisciplinary study of environmental exploitation and risks at the intersection of human and natural systems. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book enhances...
Seismic Loads
Victor M. Lyatkher
Earthquakes are a way of life on Earth, and, whether you live in an area that is often affected by earthquakes or not, every building, every road, every bridge, and, in fact, almost everything constructed by humans in which we walk, sleep, live,...
Urban Water Security
Robert C. Brears
In the 21st Century, the world will see an unprecedented migration of people moving from rural to urban areas. With global demand for water projected to outstrip supply in the coming decades, cities will likely face water insecurity as a result...
Hydrogeochemistry Fundamentals and Advances, Groundwater Composition and Chemistry
Viatcheslav V. Tikhomirov
Water is the Earth’s most precious resource. Until recent years, water was often overlooked as being overly abundant or available, but much has changed all over the world. As climate change, human encroachment on environmental areas, and...
Hydrogeochemistry Fundamentals and Advances, Mass Transfer and Mass Transport
Viatcheslav V. Tikhomirov
Water is the Earth’s most precious resource. Until recent years, water was often overlooked as being overly abundant or available, but much has changed all over the world. As climate change, human encroachment on environmental areas, and...
Conservation Psychology
Susan Clayton
People are inseparable from natural ecosystems, and understanding how people think about, experience, and interact with nature is crucial for promoting environmental sustainability as well as human well-being. This is the new edition of what is...
Vulnerability of Land Systems in Asia
Ademola K. Braimoh
This book provides a comprehensive yet accessible overview of land systems vulnerability assessment in Asia – fundamental to the understanding of the link between global change, environmental sustainability and human wellbeing. The extent and...
Modeling Atmospheric and Oceanic Flows
Paul D. Williams
Modeling Atmospheric and Oceanic Flows: Insights from Laboratory Experiments and Numerical Simulations provides a broad overview of recent progress in using laboratory experiments and numerical simulations to model atmospheric and oceanic fluid...
Environmental Pest Management
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A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary exploration of key topics that interrelate pest management, public health and the environment This book takes a unique, multidimensional approach to addressing the complex issues surrounding pest management...
The Globalization and Environment Reader
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The Globalization and Environment Reader features a collection of classic and cutting-edge readings that explore whether and how globalization can be made compatible with sustainable development. Offers a comprehensive collection of nearly 30...
