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 | Introduction to Systems Ecology(Hardback)
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 | A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout(Paperback / softback)"The first book about the BP disaster by a world-renowned oceanographer, A SEA IN FLAMES examines the environmental and social consequences of the spill from the perspective of those directly affected by it. It will be published on the one-year anniversary of the spill, in April 2011. The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is among the greatest environmental catastrophes in....
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 | Climate Change Mitigation and Development Cooperation(Hardback)This is a companion book to Earthscan's 2010 book Climate Change Adaptation and International Development. This book consists of summarised case studies looking at climate change mitigation specifically in Asia, the region producing the most greenhouse gas emissions. It examines international development from the perspective of climate change mitigation and looks at how international communities and donors support developing nations....
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 | Climate Change Mitigation and Development Cooperation(Paperback)This is a companion book to Earthscan's 2010 book Climate Change Adaptation and International Development. This book consists of summarised case studies looking at climate change mitigation specifically in Asia, the region producing the most greenhouse gas emissions. It examines international development from the perspective of climate change mitigation and looks at how international communities and donors support developing nations....
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 | MWH's Water Treatment: Principles and Design(Hardback)Updating the most comprehensive and complete guide to water treatment planning and design, this edition maintains the book's broad scope and reach, while reaching the working professional with additional worked problems and new treatment approaches.
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 | Tourism and Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptation & Mitigation(Hardback)Climate change is one of the single most important global environmental issues facing the world today and is emerging as a major topic in tourism studies. As Tourism is one of the world's largest industries it, both contributes to, and will be notably affected by, climate change , which is already evident through conditions for winter tourism becoming less reliable....
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 | Integrated Air Quality Management: Asian Case Studies(Hardback)The result of 10 years of research on the worsening of the air pollution problem in Asia's developing nations, this book provides an overview of air quality in six cities across Asia. It discusses pollution in Bangkok, Thailand; Beijing, China; Chennai, India; Dan Dung, Indonesia; Manila, Philippines; and Hanoi, Vietnam and offers offers potential pollution reduction approaches. This reference covers....
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 | The Ecological Thought(Paperback / softback)In this passionate, lucid, and surprising book, Timothy Morton argues that all forms of life are connected in a vast, entangling mesh. This interconnectedness penetrates all dimensions of life. No being, construct, or object can exist independently from the ecological entanglement, Morton contends, nor does "Nature" exist as an entity separate from the uglier or more synthetic elements of life.....
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 | Mathematical and Numerical Modeling in Porous Media: Applications in Geoscience(Hardback)Presents a collection of prominent research contributions on applications of physics of porous media in Geosciences selected from two recent international workshops providing a state of the art on mathematical and numerical modeling in Enhanced Oil Recovery, Transport, Flow, Waves, Geostatistics and Geomechanics. The subject matters are of general interest for the porous media community, in particular to those seeking....
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 | Information, Communication, and Space Technology(Hardback)Assessing the rapid evolution of information and communications technology (ITC) and the implications of this growth on the future of the field, this book emphasizes the need to integrate ITC and space technology into the general university curriculum. Aimed at students and professionals alike, it reveals the import and impact of recent technologies by building from basic definitions and explanations....
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 | Greening Through IT: Information Technology for Environmental Sustainability(Paperback)Environmental issues often span long periods of time, far-flung areas, and labyrinthine layers of complexity. In Greening through IT, Bill Tomlinson investigates how the tools and techniques of information technology (IT) can help us tackle environmental problems at such vast scales. Tomlinson describes theoretical, technological, and social aspects of a growing interdisciplinary approach to sustainability, "Green IT," offering both a....
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 | Natural Resources - Technology, Economics & Policy(Hardback)Natural resources management has two principal dimensions : Science-illuminated (earth, space, hydrological, pedological, information, etc. sciences) management of local resources (waters, soils, bioresources, minerals, rocks, sediments, etc.) in an ecologically-sustainable manner, and Value-addition through processing of natural products, through the application of technology is most marked in the case of some mineral products. The wellness of a community is....
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 | Fundamentals of General Ecology, Life Safety & Environment Protection(Paperback)Provides an introduction to general ecology, life safety and environment protection. This book reviews the problems resulting from anthropogenic changes of the environment, and discusses the ways and methods of reducing the negative sub-sequences.
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 | Climatology: New Developments(Hardback)Presents topical research in the study of climatology. This book discusses topics that include the investigation of possible causative mechanisms behind the Houston cloud-to-ground lightning anomaly; the effects of heat stress on beef cattle production; and, the detection of five-day to one-month surface air temperature predictability.
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 | The Environmental Professional's Essential Guidebook: Reducing Risk and Liability While Making a Profit(Paperback)Environmental professionals must undertake activities that are historically fraught with claims and liability issues. A proper understanding of methods and practices that can be implemented to avoid such claims is essential to the professional's success. In The Environmental Professional's Essential Guidebook: Reducing Risk and Liability While Making a Profit, authors Anne and Sandy Horan offer invaluable, actionable tips to avoid....
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 | Application of Hydrodynamic Cavitation in Environmental Engineering(Hardback)
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 | Biodiversity Observation Network in the Asia-Pacific Region(Hardback)This book represents a quantum step forward in advancing science that optimizes the synergy between development and biodiversity conservation in Asia. The aim is to foster a harmonious balance between development and conservation in the region.
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 | Sustainable Automotive Technologies 2012(Hardback)
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 | Abundance: The Benign Conspiracy to Transform the World(Hardback)Providing abundance is humanity's grandest challenge--this is a book about how we rise to meet it. We will soon be able to meet and exceed the basic needs of every man, woman and child on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp. This bold, contrarian view, backed up by exhaustive research, introduces our near-term future, where exponentially growing....
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 | Management of Mountain Watersheds(Hardback)With a focus on the monitoring, research and modelling of interactions between the climate, water cycle, and aquatic ecosystem, this volume takes a multidisciplinary approach in to highlight the environmentally sound management of mountain watersheds.
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