Environmental management Books

From our ability to grow and consume food to our social mores and cultural practices, plants have been instrumental in molding human history. Our complex relationship with plants has its origins in our shared evolutionary history, when key moments in our...

Deliberations on the just transition in South Africa have intensified and will continue to do so for the next few years and decades. Climate change, widening socio-economic inequality, the precarious future of work and emergent approaches to financing...

Everywhere in the world communities and nations organize themselves in relation to water. We divert water from rivers, lakes, and aquifers to our homes, workplaces, irrigation canals, and hydro-generating stations. We use it for bathing, swimming,...

World Oil Fact and Policy, a brilliant book published in 1944, delivers a deep exploration and disciplined examination of domestic and foreign petroleum resources, their import to United States energy and security policy during World War II, and their...

Given that it has major environmental impacts, can the use of fossil fuels be phased out? Is there a way forward using renewable energy sources while avoiding nuclear power? This book say 'yes' and offers an overview of the technical, economic and...

The typical image of the Gezira Scheme, the large-scale irrigation scheme started under British colonial rule in Sudan, is of a centrally planned effort by a central colonial power controlling tenants and cotton production. However, any idea(l)s of...

This book establishes a framework for defining transboundary water cooperation and a methodology for evaluating its effectiveness, which will contribute to more effective and therefore successful cooperation processes.With the increasing focus on...

The present volume, "Animal Diversity, Natural History and Conservation- Vol. 3" with 22 chapters of the series has been compiled and the important contributions include: Bacterial Diversity in Faecal Microbiota of Badgers Meles meles Linnaeus (1758),...

The book "Management of Natural Resources for Sustainable Development" is an outcome of a National Seminar, held in 15-16 October, 2011 at the Govt. P.G. College, Morena. There are total 26 papers contributed by Geographers, Scientists and Researchers,...

Natural resources are those gift which are directly from nature. India presents nature in all its splendour. Diversity in physical and climatic condition result in wide range of natural vegetation in different region. In their turn these provide habitat...

This book discusses how research efforts have established an organic link between pedology and edaphology of five pedogenetically important soil orders as Alfisols, Mollisols, Ultisols, Vertisols and Inceptisols of tropical Indian environments. The book...

This operational guide has been written as a guidance tool for the implementation of water treatment plant operation and management critical requirements, as set forth in ANSI/AWWA Standard G100 Water Treatment Plant Operations and Management. The...

Economists often assume that ecosystem and population dynamics are subject to convex, even linear processes. But research by ecosystem and population ecologists suggests that such processes are very often non-convex, for...

Decision making in environmental projects is typically a complex and confusing process characterized by trade-offs between socio-political, environmental, and economic impacts. Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) is a methodology...

The First and the Last"Fountain of Living Water" is supplemental to the book, reviewers showered with praises, "Member Heal Thyself." Readers requested that we create more thirst-quenching information on this topic.This book covers the first of "Member...

Economic values are increasingly used in policy analysis and legal settings. With the growing recognition that many of the things that benefit or harm people are outside the market system, have come increasing efforts to...

Risk-Based Environmental Decision: Methods and Culture presents the principles of human health risk analysis as they are applied in environmental decisions. It balances the discussion of scientific theory and methods,...

This is the first book to address and review the United Nations' Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP), which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2018. Food security and...

This book investigates how environmental qualities can be managed through social capacity development in developing countries. To this end, the book proposes a concept of social capacity assessment (SCA) and presents empirical tools for the SCA which can...

A collection of papers on the archaeology of water installation from a session presented at the EAA conference in The Hague, September 2010.               

Originally published in 1939, this book advises women living in the country on how they can best use the natural resources around them. Not only for financial reasons, but for a sense of the pride and pleasure of creation. 'There is no doubt that some of...

Ecology and Revolution is an in-depth exploration of the global ecological crisis in the larger context of historical conditions and political options shaped by the inability of the existing political system to adequately confront the crisis. Going far...

This book provides a theoretical and empirical examination of the links between environmental change, land grabbing, and migration, drawing on research conducted in Senegal and Cambodia.While the impacts of environmental change on migration and of...

This book seeks to examine the impacts associated with China's carbon-energy policy in Asia and how, coupled with the Belt and Road Initiative, these effects prompt foreign direct investments in coal power and exports of renewable energy technologies...

This book analyses the potential for active stakeholder engagement in the energy transition in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) in order to foster clean energy deployment. Public acceptability and bottom-up activities can be critical for enduring outcomes to...

Before the federal constitution was written, the Confederate Congress established a policy providing land grants for local and state governments to support public schools. Since 1802, when Ohio joined the Union, every new state has benefited from that...

This Energy Sector Directional Guide provides the strategic direction of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for the energy sector.This sector guide describes the context and rationale that will guide ADB's agenda in supporting developing member countries...

This new energy strategy for the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) program aims to achieve a reliable, sustainable, resilient and reformed energy market by 2030.It discusses how the 11 CAREC countries can improve regional energy...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich VWL - Umweltökonomie, Note: 1,3, Hochschule Bochum, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit Instrumenten zur Stimulierung von ökologisch verantwortlichen Handeln, sogenannten "Green...

Based on an ethnographic account of subsistence use of Amazonian forests by Wapishana people in Guyana, Edges, Frontiers, Fringes examines the social, cultural and behavioral bases for sustainability and resilience in indigenous resource use. Developing...

This book uses real-life examples to analyze techniques for undertaking the task of making an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of a project. The text offers suggestions on how to quantify the effects on people's lives;...

Natural and Laboratory-Simulated Thermal Geochemical Processes compares a series of thermal natural geochemical events with thermally laboratory-simulated processes. The emphasis is on the geothermal events occurring in nature...

Policy issues relating to forestry have been the subject of much debate in recent years, and many countries and international agencies have recently, or are currently in the process, of revising their policies for forestry...

"100 Aspects on Nature" is a comprehensive guide that explores various aspects of nature and its significance to humans. The book covers topics ranging from the importance of nature conservation, traditional ecological knowledge, the value of...

Um eine Ecke geführte Plattenstreifen sind häufig vorkommende Elemente in den Trag­ systemen des Hochbaus. Sie sollen in dieser Veröffentlichung zur Vereinfachung als "Winkelplatten" bezeichnet werden. In der täglichen Arbeit...

1.1 Zielsetzung und AufgabensteIlung Mit dem Katalog umweltrelevanter Standards (KUSt) werden im Sinne einer Arbeitshilfe Imformationen über "umweltrelevante Standards" bereitgestellt, die bei Untersuchungen zur Abschätzung und...

In kompakter Form werden für die thermische Abfallbehandlung die Grundlagen vermittelt und ein Überblick über den derzeitigen Stand der Technik und die künftige Entwicklung gegeben. Dabei wird eine bausteinartige Systematik...

This book presents a global and historical perspective of energy flows during the last millennium.The search for sustainable energy is a key issue dominating today's energy regime. This book details the historical evolution of energy, following the...

This book covers theoretical foundations of the Natural Gas (NG) installations and networks illustrated with digital examples. It describes the NG oxidation phenomena and appropriate energy converting devices, usage of NG devices for various building...

Das Mainzer Umweltsymposium will ein Forum fur die Diskussion aktueller umweltpolitischer Fragestellungen aus tikonomischer Perspektive sein. Es wird von Univ.-Prof. Dr. H. Bartmann und Univ.-Doz. Dr. K.D. John in Zusammen­...

This book brings forth important issues in conservation of natural resources which has come to acquire a position of major concern in both developed and developing countries. However, it is a matter of particular significance for the latter, since...