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Quick ViewOver the past few decades, agriculture and related sectors in West Africa have been challenged by climate change, which has become one of the most important developmental issues in the region. Whereas negative environmental and socio-economic impacts have been extensively documented in West Africa, future climate projections suggest that the situation will only get worse…
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Quick ViewThis book is the hearing that took place in front of the U.S. House of Representatives on June 10th 2011. It provides a State and Local Perspective on Emergency Management, specifically on the efforts of State, local and non-government organizations to prepare for and respond to natural disaster, terrorist attacks and other emergencies.
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Quick ViewAdvances in Environmental Research. Volume 61, the authors present a practical, theoretical approach for systemic landscape planning strategies that incorporate a synergistic view of nature and culture in the process of continuous construction of the landscape, while stressing the reality of urban growth in developing countries. This study was established through a technical analysis of…
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Quick ViewDuring the last few decades, development of the environmental movement has been placing more and more pressure on firms to acknowledge, characterize, analyze and report upon environmental issues and impacts. Many organizations and enterprises are aware that environmental issues are becoming urgent in all aspects of social life. In an effort to protect the environment,…
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Quick ViewConcerted, international efforts to tackle the imminent threat posed by climate change are vitally important. In A Closer Look at Climate Change, referring to a philosophy of science called critical realism, the authors explain why evaluating climate change adaptation interventions is challenging. Critical realism has been utilized in various social science disciplines such as economics,…
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Indoor air quality and human health are of continuously growing importance. Indoor air quality may be affected by many factors excluding, but not limited to, more loosely sealed buildings, the use of air purifiers and other pollutant sources (for example, room air fresheners), the use of various chemicals for pesticide management and cleaning, and finally,…
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Quick ViewThis book (with a foreword by eminent desertification specialist, Dr. Alan Grainger of Leeds University) provides a synthesis of what desertification means in the present day context of worldwide concerns about land degradation in the face of global (including climate) change, burgeoning populations, urbanization, and loss of biodiversity. It defines and describes desertification in its…
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Quick ViewThe purpose of this book is to provide the latest, if not complete amount of updated information regarding the use of sediments for the estimation of chemical pollution in the aquatic environment from three main perspectives, namely, monitoring, ecological risk assessment and environmental management. The intended readers of this book include academicians, policy-makers, university students…
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Quick ViewKilling for Sport was previously published in 1915 at a time when widespread attention was being drawn to questions concerning the land, it was especially fitting that the part played by the sportsman should not be overlooked, and that not only the cruelty, but the wastefulness of the practice of breeding and killing animals for…
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Green Technology for Bioremediation of Environmental Pollution has significant importance in its fields, since it comprises the current information of basic concepts and various advanced research aspects of bioremediation related green technologies for controlling environmental pollution. In order to combat the severe environmental problems, a comprehensive treatise on bioremediation dealing with updated relevant novel green…
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This compilation opens by examining earlier investigations of the oil drops dynamics in the marine environment, including the influence of their buoyancy and the dissolution of gases contained inside crude oil. Modelling these processes presents possibilities for estimating the spatial scales of oil drops spreading within the sea environment and on the sea surface, as…
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Quick ViewRecycling and Reuse of Materials begins by discussing the production of glass and ceramic products on the basis of recycling of decommitted products and residuals. Examples are given for production of foam glass, porous ceramic bodies and ceramic pigments from wastes and residuals originated from the same sector. The authors provide a comprehensive description of…
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Quick ViewEmerging Materials for Environment Protection and Renewable Energy includes most of the published research articles from the editors along with the work of other authors. The central theme of this book is interrelatedness. Each part of this book highlights a work contributing to environmental protection and renewable energy, with the presentation of tables, graphs, and…
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Quick ViewAccording to the latest CRS report in 2018, the diminishment of Arctic sea ice has led to increased human activities in the arctic, and has heightened interest in, and concerns about, the region’s future. The US is an Arctic country and has substantial interests in the region. Changes to the Arctic brought about by warming…
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Quick ViewThis book is a guidebook for the health and safety of workers and will help to prevent workplace accidents. It covers five sections of work environments with dangerous hazards and high health risk. Every chapter has been expanded to include knowledge and skills to promote and maintain safety and health in a work environment, and…
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Quick ViewThis book discusses the function, services, importance and threats of natural and constructed wetlands. The first chapter presents one of the largest wetlands which is located in the West Siberian Lowland. This chapter presents the Lowland’s geological history and its impact on the contemporary forms of wetlands in the form of peatlands, rivers and their…
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Quick ViewIn this compilation, the authors open with an address of alternative advanced technologies that effectively meet the desired level of removal of recalcitrant contaminants from water. They discuss the advantages and disadvantages of different state of the art technologies, assess the need for further development, as well as estimate the potential for large scale applications…
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Quick ViewTsunamis: Detection, Risk Assessment, and Crisis Management is a collection of articles that showcases the diversity of tsunami science. This is truly an interdisciplinary field that brings together seismologists, engineers, social scientists, emergency managers, geologists, and geophysicists, to name a few. The title reflects this diversity of tsunami research, ranging from understanding the source mechanism,…
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Quick ViewIn this collection, the authors open with a review of current state of the art methods for the recovery and reuse of selected monomers and biomacromolecules (such as proteins and nucleic acids) from municipal solid waste. They discuss the most relevant recoverable chemical building blocks and biomacromolecules, as well as their potential applications. Following this,…
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Due to rising energy demand, the amount of coal utilization is escalating at a fast rate, leading to a rise in ash generation. Coal Fly Ash: Properties, Applications and Performance begins by presenting a study wherein the physiochemical properties of coal ash were analysed and based on that, their potential for reuse was identified. Next,…
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Quick ViewThe opening study presented in Advances in Environmental Research. Volume 65 aims to clarify the sources and characteristics of groundwater in the aquifers along the coast of the White Sea in northwestern Russia, and on this basis to perform a broad 14C and 234U/238U dating of all their types, taking into account the mixing processes.…
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Quick ViewEnvironmental Change and Sustainability: Management, Challenges and Research Opportunities examines a variety of underlying conceptions regarding sustainability, providing a number of different views on its causes and effects. A general model is necessary to understand the complexity and aggregate all strings – to realize the notion of sustainable management for measurement and comparison of developments…
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Quick ViewIn this book, the sea surface and deep water conditions in the mid-latitude North Atlantic during the Quaternary are reconstructed based on the analysis of both planktonic and benthic microfaunal assemblages from the SW Iberian margin. The key location of the study site, and the comparison with other sites in the North Atlantic, allow for…
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Quick ViewOccurrences of disasters are becoming more frequent and serious. Other than natural disasters, humanity is faced with new challenges of city fires, car accidents, disease outbreak, industrial accidents, radioactive exposure, terrorist attacks, environmental hazards and other unimaginable incidents. Social workers and other city emergency response teams – notably medical teams, firemen, police officers and mental…
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