Environmental science, engineering and technology Books

The environmental movement of the 1960s made educationists in some parts of the world aware of the significance and importance of ecology in curricula at all levels of education, from kindergarten to post-secondary. A great...

Behavioral toxicology is a young discipline in the United States; so young, in fact, that this is one of its first books. Behavioral questions are bound to play a major role in future scientific work and governmental decisions...

This volume documents the proceedings of the Symposium on Emissions from Continuous Combustion Systems that was held at the General Motors Research Laboratories, Warren, Michigan on September 27 and 28, 1971. This symposium was...

Offshore Risk Assessment was the first book to deal with quantified risk assessment (QRA) as applied specifically to offshore installations and operations. Risk assessment techniques have been used for more than three decades in the offshore oil and gas...

WHARVES AND PIERS THEIR DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, AND EQUIPMENT by CARLETON GREENE, A. B., C. E. Originally published in 1917. PREFACE: THIS book has been written in response to an editorial in one of the engineering journals calling attention to the lack of...

This is the first textbook to address quantified risk assessment (QRA) as specifically applied to offshore installations and operations. As the second part of the two-volume updated and expanded fourth edition, it adds a new focus on the recent...

This book considers the pollutants formed by the combustion of solid biomass fuels. The availability and potential use of solid biofuels is first discussed because this is the key to the development of biomass as a source of energy.This is followed by...

Foreword1. Introduction2. The story of "The Limits to Growth"3. Of models and simulations4. System dynamics modeling5. Modeling the real world: whaling in 19th century6. World modeling by system dynamics7. Criticism to "The Limits to Growth"8. Mineral...

Forest Analytics with R combines practical, down-to-earth forestry data analysis and solutions to real forest management challenges with state-of-the-art statistical and data-handling functionality. The authors adopt a...

Derivatives and Differentiation.- Integration.- Ordinary Differential Equations.- Further Topics in ODEs.- Systems of Ordinary Differential Equations.- Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations.- Second-Order ODEs.- Linear Algebra.-...

For readers with some competence in PDE solution properties, this book offers an interdisciplinary approach to problems occurring in natural environmental media: the hydrosphere, atmosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere, biosphere...

We developed the first edition of this book because we perceived a need for a compilation on study design with application to studies of the ecology, conser- tion, and management of wildlife. We felt that the need for coverage...

This book, published in cooperation with WWF International, integrates the restoration of forest functions into landscape conservation plans. The contents represent the collective body of knowledge and experience of WWF and its...

""An Illustrated Essay On The Noctuidae Of North America: With A Colony Of Butterflies"" is a book written by Augustus Radcliffe Grote and published in 1882. The book is a comprehensive guide to the Noctuidae family of moths found in North America, which...

""An Essay On The Weeds Of Agriculture: With Their Common And Botanical Names"" is a book written by Benjamin Holdich and published in 1826. The book is a comprehensive guide to the weeds that are commonly found in agricultural fields, and it provides...

""An Essay On The Cause Of Rain And Its Allied Phenomena"" is a scientific work written by George Augustus Rowell in 1859. This book delves into the natural phenomenon of rain and its related phenomena, such as thunderstorms, lightning, and hail. The...

An Elementary Treatise On The Steam-Engine, Stationary And Portable: Being An Extension Of The Elementary Treatise On Steam Of Mr. John Sewell (1885) is a comprehensive guidebook about the steam engine, written by Daniel Kinnear Clark. The book is an...

This book provides authoritative and up-to-date research for anyone interested in the study of international environmental politics. The first section reviews the historical development of international environmental politics as well as the theoretical...

This book contains six studies on various national environmental policies and environment -oriented technology policy systems in Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom, sandwiched between this...

This is an investigation into contemporary thinking on controlling the market, especially with regard to the problem of dealing with environmental issues. The book contributes to contemporary insight by arguing that the issue...

This book is one of the outcomes of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop "Approaches to handling environmental problems in the mining and metallurgical regions of NIS countries" held in Mariupol, Ukraine on 5-7 September 2002...

At the dawn of the 21st century, biotechnology is emerging as a key enabling technology for sustainable environmental protection and stewardship. Biotechnology for the Environment: Wastewater Treatment and Modeling, Waste Gas...

As the coastal human population increases in the United States, there will likely be increasing environmental and socioeconomic pressures on our coastal and estuarine environments. Monitoring the condition of all our...

This book presents the proceedings and the outcomes of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on Integrated Technologies for Environmental Monitoring and Information Production, which was held in Marmaris, Turkey, between...

Contemporary international aid consists of a wide range of various support programs, where the end-result in many cases not only reflects the needs of the recipient country, but also the interests of the donor country. In...

This publication deals with soil erosion and sedimentation. Soil erosion and associated sediment deposition are natural landscape-forming processes that can be greatly accelerated by human intervention through deforestation,...

The NATO ARW in Irkutsk was an excellent occasion for the coming together of Eastern and Western scientists who are involved in tropospheric science; the workshop has greatly contributed to the scientific and social ...

This volume includes a selection of papers presented at the EURESCO Conference "The International Dimension of Environmental Policy" held in Kerkrade, The Netherlands, in October 2000. We would like to thank those who made this...

This book deals with the challenges posed by the transformation of society towards much-needed sustainability. Especially, it deals with the local condi­ tionalities ofthis change, but seen in a global context. Indeed, its two...

The 15th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster offered a timely opportunity for an expert assessment of the current situation and suggestions for approaches to managing the information associated with the...

This book can be regarded as a monograph on the debates and developments in Dutch environmental policy. It has been written with a specific perspective in mind. First and foremost, the line of approach we have taken was from a...

The marginal price elasticities estimated by Martinez-Espineira conforms to expectation. The price specification that accounts for the changing proportion of water users in each block yields a higher elasticity (-0. 47)...

The aim of this book is to link demand and supply of environmental information in the field of Life Cycle Management. The book is based on the results of the CHAINET concerted action financed by EU-DGXII for the work period...

Yoque en el campo he nacido dig6 que mis cantos son para los unos sonidos, y para otros intencion. H. Hernandes - Martin Fierro. The period of active influence of the people on desert environments in Central Asia counts more...

This book was initiated while the three major authors were at the Development Centre of Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, working on its program on economic growth, trade, and sustainability...

Notwithstanding past achievements, flood damage continues to rise throughout the world as the magnitudes of floods increase, partly as a result of poor land management and partly by climate change, growing populations and...

A comprehensive tour d'horizon of the debate on the environment and security, focusing on the various policy options for building peace and preventing environmental conflict. Experts from the areas survey the key ...

This is a story involving you, me, everyone else in the world, all nonhuman life, our environment, science, and ecoethics.  As a species, we are beset by a Crisis which was decades in the making.  We don't have decades to correct the...

Introduction ������ l'�����tude des mollusques (1894) de Pelseneer, Paul est un livre qui explore en d�����tail les mollusques, un groupe d'animaux marins qui comprend des escargots, des moules, des calmars et des pieuvres. Le livre est divis����� en...

Il libro ""Il Pulviscolo Atmosferico Ed I Suoi Microorganismi: Studiato Dal Lato Fisico, Chimico E Biologico"" pubblicato nel 1885 da Roster, Giorgio Vincenzo, ����� un'opera che si concentra sull'analisi del pulviscolo atmosferico e dei suoi...

Il libro ""Il Clima di Roma: Conferenze fatte nella primavera del 1885"" scritto da Tommasi-Crudeli, Corrado, ����� una raccolta di conferenze tenute nella primavera del 1885 a Roma. L'autore analizza il clima della citt������ di Roma, esaminando le sue...

Het boek ""Het Uitdrukken Der Gemoedsaandoeningen Bij Den Mensch En De Dieren"" is geschreven door Charles Darwin en werd voor het eerst gepubliceerd in 1873. In dit boek onderzoekt Darwin de manieren waarop zowel mensen als dieren emoties uitdrukken en...

Het boek ""Het Hout: Bouw, Eigenschappen En Toepassing In Het Dagelijksch Leven"" werd geschreven door G.J. Stam en werd oorspronkelijk gepubliceerd in 1888. Het boek geeft een uitgebreide beschrijving van hout, inclusief de structuur, eigenschappen en...

Essais De G�����ographie Malacologique (1858) est un livre �����crit par Jean Pierre Sylvestre De Grateloup. Le livre traite de la malacologie, qui est l'�����tude des mollusques, en se concentrant sur leur distribution g�����ographique. L'auteur explore...