экология

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 influ…

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 devo…

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 geogra…

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 understanding…

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. They …

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 sustainabil…

Рассмотрены систематика и распространение живоглотовых рыб рода Pseudoscopelus. Тринадцать видов этого рода признаны валидными, из них два (P. albeolus Prokofiev et Kukuev и P. vityazi Prokofiev spp. n.) описаны как новые, хотя можно предполагать сущ…

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, municipa…

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 constan…

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 continental …

‘Empowering and elegiac’[b]Yanis Varoufakis, author of [i]Another Now[/i][/b]‘Utterly inspiring’[b]Caroline Lucas, MP, Green Party[/b]‘A masterpiece of measured rage and love’[b]Jonathan Porritt, author of [i]Hope in Hell[/i][/b] Capitalism is broken…

[b]This is the only book that takes a zero-waste approach to propose 100% sustainable water purification techniques.[/b] Water is synonymous with life. This has been the case since pre-historic time to the modern era. For the first time, humanity fac…

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 know …

This book offers an insight into how to create aesthetically pleasing, environmentally integrated, multi-functional developments in the ocean or on the coastline.<br /><br />Eco-design of Marine Infrastructures provides practical and real…

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 terms, …

Given the escalating and existential nature of our current environmental crises, environmental sociology has never mattered more. We now face global environmental threats, such as climate change and biodiversity loss, as well as local threats, such a…

[b]HYDROGEOLOGY[/b] [i]Hydrogeology: Principles and Practice[/i] provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of hydrogeology to enable the reader to appreciate the significance of groundwater in meeting current and future environmental and sus…

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 technologi…

[b]The updated and expanded guide for [/b][b]handling industrial wastes and designing a wastewater treatment plant[/b] The revised and updated second edition of [i]Practical Wastewater Treatment[/i] provides a hands-on guide to industrial wastewater …