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Best Seller | Ecology Economics Ethics: The Broken Circle (Paperback - Used) 0300057512 9780300057515 In this highly readable book a distinguished group of environmental experts argues that in order to solve global environmental problems we must view them in a broad interdisciplinary perspective that recognizes the relationships-the interconnected... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Written from the International Conference on Environment this volume discusses strategies to minimize environmental threats. The need for interdisciplinary collaboration on a global scale is emphasized and the book presents a step forward in this... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Invading Nature - Springer Invasion Ecology: Handbook of Alien Species in Europe (Hardcover) Biological invasions by alien (non-native) species are widely recognized as a significant component of human-caused global environmental change and the second most important cause of biodiversity decline. Alien species threaten many European... more | $64.00 $57.00 FREE shipping go to store |
Prevention and preparedness are the two basic approaches to maximize food security against any sort of tampering whether natural inadvertent or intentional. The NATO funded project Tools for crop biosecurity was designed to strengthen the... more | $238.40 $211.15 FREE shipping go to store |
This book showcases the global energy balance of the climate system and feedback processes that determine the climate sensitivity inital-boundary value problems energy transport in the climate system large-scale ocean circulation and abrupt climate... more | $159.99 $131.04 FREE shipping go to store |
This book is the outcome of the conference Global Environmental Change: Challenges to Science and Society in Southeastern Europe organized by the Scienti c Coordination Center for Global Change (SCCGC) at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences jointly... more | FREE shipping go to store |
The UN designated the decade 2005-2015 as the International Decade for Action - Water for Life. The move was initiated at the third World Water Forum in Kyoto 2003 and it could prove the most significant and effective outcome of the triennial series... more | FREE shipping go to store |
ADRIANO DE MAIO IReR President This publication originated from the workshop on Control and risk prevention of dangerous materials and crisis management that took place in Sofia Bulgaria in March 2009. The basic idea is that international scientific... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Green Chemistry: Challenges in Green Analytical Chemistry (Hardcover) Concerns about environmental pollution global climate change and hazards to human health have increased dramatically. This has led to a call for change in chemical processes including those that are part of chemical analysis. The development of... more | $81.45 $70.63 go to store |
Applied Urban Ecology: A Global Framework (Hardcover) Applied Urban Ecology A Global Framework explores ways in which the environmental quality of urban areas can be improved starting with existing environmental conditions and their dynamics. Written by an internationally renowned selection of... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Comprising selected material from a 2010 conference held in the delta itself the papers assembled in this volume include much technical information and offer a full range of perspectives on the environmental and sustainability issues in this... more | FREE shipping go to store |
The book is based on the results of the investigations of the authors in the semi-arid and arid regions (ASAR) of the globe. These investigations brought to the conclusion that the warming climate will cause the drying up of the water resources in... more | $108.26 $91.00 FREE shipping go to store |
Dimensions of Security: Security and Environmental Change (Paperback) This book provides students with a thorough analysis of the new security challenges produced by global environmental change. In a clear analysis Dalby shows that theories of human security now require a more nuanced geopolitical imagination if they... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Environmental Ethics and Science Policy A Perfect Moral Storm (Hardcover) Climate change is arguably the great problem confronting humanity but we have done little to head off this looming catastrophe. In The Perfect Moral Storm philosopher Stephen Gardiner illuminates our dangerous inaction by placing the environmental... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power: A Critical Global Assessment of Atomic Energy (Hardcover) This book provides a concise but rigorous appraisal about the future of nuclear power and the presumed nuclear renaissance. It does so by assessing the technical economic environmental political and social risks related to all aspects of the nuclear... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Focusing on globalization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Jessica Teisch examines the processes by which American water and mining engineers who rose to prominence during and after the California Gold Rush of 1849 exported the... more | go to store |
It is widely recognised that global warming is occurring due to increasing levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Methods of capturing and then storing CO2 from major sources such as fossil-fuel-burning power plants... more | $77.76 $74.00 FREE shipping go to store |
Global Contamination Trends of Persistent Organic Chemicals (Hardcover) Environmental pollution by man-made persistent organic chemicals (POCs) has been a serious global issue for over half a century. POCs are prevalent in air water soil and organisms including wildlife and humans throughout the world. They do not... more | $283.63 $267.52 FREE shipping go to store |
Earthscan Forest Library Logjam: Deforestation and the Crisis of Global Governance (Paperback) Winner of the International Studies Association s Harold and Margaret Sprout Award 2008 for the best book on international environmental problems. This pioneering study examines the impacts of neoliberal global governance on forests and provides an... more | $49.95 $41.59 FREE shipping go to store |
Scientists and policymakers have realized that localities are central to addressing the causes and consequences of global environmental change. The goal of the Human-Environment Regional Observatory project (HERO) was to develop the infrastructure... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Climate change is the single most important global environmental and development issue facing the world today and has emerged as a major topic in tourism studies. Climate change is already affecting the tourism industry and is anticipated to have... more | $45.00 $29.00 FREE shipping go to store |
Understanding Environmental Pollution - Hill Marquita K. The third edition of this well-received textbook delivers a concise overview of global and individual environmental pollution for undergraduate courses presenting students with the tools to assess environmental issues. With more than thirty percent... more | $76.20 $70.72 go to store |
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Modules in Environmental Science Reclamation of Contaminated Land Book 7 (Hardcover) Land contamination is of global concern with many of the world s industries potentially harming the environment and human health. Along with rapidly changing policy and technological developments this is an interdisciplinary area in which successful... more | $177.50 $146.02 FREE shipping go to store |
Global Environmental Policies : Impact Management and Effects Global Environmental Policies : Impact Management and Effects more | $263.59 $231.58 FREE shipping go to store |
Very Short Introductions Environmental Law: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback) Environmental law is the law concerned with environmental problems. It is a vast area of law that operates from the local to the global involving a range of different legal and regulatory techniques. In theory environmental protection is a no... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Environmental Ethics and Policy Book : Philosophy Ecology Economics 9780534561888 more | $135.91 $120.95 FREE shipping go to store |
This text and sourcebook crosses disciplinary boundaries and attends seriously to economic reasoning and its implications for environmental policy issues while taking a broad view of questions of ethics. It is appropriate and valuable not only for... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Mit Press Global Democracy and Sustainable Jurisprudence: Deliberative Environmental Law (Paperback) A proposal for a philosophical foundation and a realistic deliberative mechanism for creating a transnational common law for the environment. In Global Democracy and Sustainable Jurisprudence Walter Baber and Robert Bartlett explore the necessary... more | go to store |
Environment and Trade: A Guide to Wto Jurisprudence (Hardcover) International trade rules have significant impacts on environmental law and policy at the domestic regional and global levels. At the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement tribunals are increasingly called to decide on environment- and... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Pre-Owned Geomorphology and Global Environmental Change 9780521878128 This volume provides a benchmark statement from the world s leading geomorphologists on the state of and potential changes to the environment. Focusing on catalysts of landscape change other than climate including relief hydroclimate sea-level... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Global Environmental Change and Agriculture : Assessing the Impacts Global Environmental Change and Agriculture : Assessing the Impacts more | FREE shipping go to store |
Based on the results of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Global Climate Change and Local Adaptation Hella Iceland 6-10 June 2010 --T.p. verso. more | FREE shipping go to store |
Ever-increasing interest in oceanography and marine biology and their relevance to global environmental issues creates a demand for authoritative reviews summarising the results of recent research. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Pre-Owned Global Environmental Change : An Atmospheric Perspective 9780471130734 This text focuses on the atmosphere and how it works as a global entity to maintain a given global climate or ozone shield and how it is influenced by human activity. A complete reference for students of environmental science and related fields it... more | $9.40 $7.65 FREE shipping go to store |
This book follows upon earlier work which culminated in the publication of two recent books Sustainable Development: Science Ethics and Public Policy (John Lemons and Donald A. Brown editors) and Perspectives on Ecological Integrity (Laura Westra... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Reclaiming Paradise : The Global Environmental Movement 9780253349521 Used / Pre-owned CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more | FREE shipping go to store |
Environmental Remote Sensing From Regional to Global Scales - FOODY GILES M. ET.AL Environmental Remote Sensing From Regional to Global Scales-Wiley-Giles M. Foody Paul J. Curran-2012-EDN-1 more | $41.00 $33.00 FREE shipping go to store |
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