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Oil Spills in Arctic Waters: An Inventory of Research Efforts

Environmental Science, Engineering and Technology, Special Topics, Environmental Sciences
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This book is a compilation of research on oil spills in ice-covered Arctic waters and recommendations for future work. Research entities in governmental, nongovernmental, industrial, and private organizations are identified. An introduction to the topic is provided. In this book, the U.S. Arctic Research Commission (USARC) recommended to the federal government an invigorated oil spill…
Adaptation Costs of Rising Sea Levels and Storm Flooding: An Economic Framework for Coastal Communities

Coastal and Oceanic Landforms, Development and Management, Coastal Management, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Sciences
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Coastal areas across the United States are beginning to incorporate sea level rise adaptation into their community planning. One of the most challenging aspects of adapting to sea level rise is understanding the economic implications of future inundation risk, and the costs and benefits of different adaptation options. Communities are already grappling with difficult decisions…
Heavy Metal Remediation: Transport and Accumulation in Plants

Environmental Research Advances, Special Topics, Environmental Sciences
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Plants have a very specific and efficient mechanism to obtain, translocate and store nutrients from the surrounding environment. The precise mechanism that helps a plant in nutrient translocation from root to shoot also, in the same way, transfers and stores toxic metals within their structure. Metal toxicity generally causes multiple direct or indirect effects on…
Oil Spills: Environmental Issues, Prevention and Ecological Impacts

Environmental Science, Engineering and Technology, Toxic and Hazardous Substances, Environmental Sciences
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Petroleum perhaps is one of the most important substances in the modern society due to its wide use in the most diverse productive sectors. Besides serving as raw material to the production of plastics and other compounds, it is the fuel source used in the production of electric energy, in industries and in different transport…
Social Science Tools for Coastal Management: Considerations, Insight, Strategies

Coastal and Oceanic Landforms, Development and Management, Natural Disasters, Coastal Management, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Sciences
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Public attitudes, perceptions, and beliefs can strongly influence coastal management decision-making. Officials use surveys and other social science tools to identify the relationship between a community and its natural resources. Managing coastal resources often means making hard decisions about the best way to use those resources, especially when there are competing demands. Although there is…
Arctic Maritime Infrastructure: Key Issues and Priorities for the United States

Arctic Region and Antarctica Issues and Research, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Sciences
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The United States is an Arctic nation. Due to climate change, the Arctic is warming faster than any other region on Earth. As the loss of sea ice creates a more accessible Arctic, the nation must consider risks and opportunities for commerce and economic growth; security of our maritime domain; indigenous peoples and their subsistence…
Automotive Exhaust Emissions and Energy Recovery

Energy Science, Engineering and Technology, Energy, Technology and Engineering, Air Pollution and Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Sciences
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Concerns for fuel economy and reduced emissions have focused the attention of automotive internal combustion engine manufacturers on the exhaust system and towards technological developments to both reduce fuel consumption and emissions, as well as account for the still significant levels of waste exhaust energy that can be recovered. The present volume on Automotive Exhaust…
The National Environmental Policy Act: Background, Costs and Benefits of NEPA Analyses

Environmental Remediation Technologies, Regulations and Safety, Special Topics, Environmental Sciences
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The goals of the National Environmental Policy Act are to declare a national environmental policy, provide federal agencies with action-forcing provisions intended to ensure that the goals of the policy are implemented, establish the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to provide advice to the President on environmental matters and to monitor the state of the…
Adaptive Management of Natural Resources: Concepts and Applications

Environmental Science, Engineering and Technology, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Sciences
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Our country’s natural resource challenges today are more complex and more difficult to resolve than ever before. The loss of biodiversity, changing climatic patterns, spread of invasive species, alteration of landscapes and many other problems pose serious threats to the long-term sustainability of America’s natural resources. We urgently need to find new ways to address…
Dry Forests: Ecology, Species Diversity and Sustainable Management

Environmental Science, Engineering and Technology, Ecology, Environmental Sciences
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Fossil records indicate the Neotropical Dry Forests had a more continuous distribution in the recent geological past, especially in the late Pleistocene, more precisely at the end of the last glacial period. Seasonal Deciduous Forests are remnants of a broader continuous distribution that was present in the past, ranging from North-Eastern Brazil to Argentina in…
Advances in Environmental Research. Volume 34

Advances in Environmental Research (Numbered Series), Special Topics, Environmental Sciences
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This series covers leading-edge research focusing on the environment, including current research data on lead adsorption into activated carbon; energy efficiency improvement utilising high technology; clean and green energy technologies, sustainable development and environment; a review of published “environmental flows” research; the study of biodiversity corals community on coral reefs of Vietnam; microbial community in…
U.S. Waters Protected Under the Clean Water Act: Analyses of a Proposal

Environmental Remediation Technologies, Regulations and Safety, Special Topics, Environmental Sciences
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On March 25, 2014, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) jointly proposed a rule defining the scope of waters protected under the Clean Water Act (CWA). The proposal would revise regulations that have been in place for more than 25 years. This book describes the proposed rule and…
Decentralization, Forest and Poverty: Framework and Case Studies from Ethiopia

Environmental Research Advances, Forests and Forest Management, Ecology, Environmental Sciences
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Tropical deforestation and rural poverty are among the major apprehensions of developing nations in the 21st century. The protectionist paradigm that had dominated nature conservation since the 19th century is replaced by a strong notion that poverty reduction and environmental protection should go hand in hand. Decentralization is among the key polices devised to achieve…
Health Assessments of Chemicals and Contaminants: Analyses of the EPA’s IRIS Program

Environmental Science, Engineering and Technology, Air Pollution and Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Sciences
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has not conducted a recent evaluation of demand for Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) toxicity assessments with input from users inside and outside EPA. The health effects information in IRIS provides fundamental scientific information EPA needs to develop human health risk assessments. Specifically, EPA issued a needs assessment report in…
Drinking Water and Unregulated Contaminants: Analyses of EPA Measures

Water Resource Planning, Development and Management, Water Supply, Environmental Sciences
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has implemented all of the recommendations GAO made in its May 2011 report to improve the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR) program. EPA’s UCMR program collects data on unregulated contaminants in the nation’s drinking water. EPA uses this data and other information to make decisions on whether to regulate additional…
Climate Change and Infrastructure: Decision Making Issues and Adaptation Measures

Climate Change and its Causes, Effects and Prediction, Global Warming and Climate Change, Environmental Sciences
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According to the National Research Council (NRC) and others, infrastructure such as roads and bridges, wastewater systems, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) centers are vulnerable to changes in the climate. Changes in precipitation and sea levels, as well as increased intensity and frequency of extreme events, are projected by NRC and others to…
Saltwater Recreational Anglers: Attitudes and Preferences Across the Nation

Fish, Fishing and Fisheries, Special Topics, Environmental Sciences
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries agency is responsible for the management and stewardship of saltwater recreational fisheries in the U.S. With approximately 11.7 million saltwater recreational anglers in 2012, the agency needed to understand anglers’ attitudes, perceptions, and management preferences in order to provide and sustain high-quality recreational fishing opportunities to constituents.…
Civil Earth Observations: National Strategy and Plan

Space Science, Exploration and Policies, Special Topics, Environmental Sciences
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The U.S. Government is the largest provider of environmental and Earth-system data in the world. Voluminous amounts of data and information come from a complex array of satellites, ocean buoys, stream gauges, human surveys, and other platforms for collecting what the scientific community calls Earth observations. These data are used every day to protect life…
National Response and Disaster Recovery Frameworks

Natural Disaster Research, Prediction and Mitigation, Natural Disasters, Environmental Sciences
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The National Response Framework is a guide to how the Nation responds to all types of disasters and emergencies. It is built on scalable, flexible, and adaptable concepts identified in the National Incident Management System to align key roles and responsibilities across the Nation. This Framework describes specific authorities and best practices for managing incidents…
National Disasters and Emergencies: Federal Response Authority

Natural Disaster Research, Prediction and Mitigation, Natural Disasters, Environmental Sciences
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When there is a catastrophe in the United States, state and local governments lead response activities, invoking state and local legal authorities to support them. When state and local response capabilities are overwhelmed, the President, acting through the Secretary of Homeland Security, can provide assistance to stricken communities, individuals, governments, and not-for-profit groups to assist…
Federal Support for Domestic Disaster Assistance: Deployable Assets and Responders

Natural Disaster Research, Prediction and Mitigation, Natural Disasters, Environmental Sciences
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For most disasters across the nation, the affected local, state, or tribal governments have sufficient capabilities to respond to the incident. However, for disasters with consequences that require unique capabilities or that overwhelm the existing capabilities of a respective state or tribal government, Congress has authorized and appropriated a suite of deployable federal assets to…
Economic Costs of Inaction on Climate Change: Analysis and Perspectives

Climate Change and its Causes, Effects and Prediction, Global Warming and Climate Change, Environmental Sciences
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The changing climate and increasing atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations are projected to accelerate multiple threats, including more severe storms, droughts, and heat waves, further sea level rise, more frequent and severe storm surge damage, and acidification of the oceans. Beyond the sorts of gradual changes we have already experienced, global warming raises additional threats…
Handbook on Oil Production Research

Energy Science, Engineering and Technology, Special Topics, Environmental Sciences
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It is a well-known fact that since the start of industrial crude oil extraction, some 150 years ago, the United States has consistently been the nation that consumes a greater proportion of the global production of that precious liquid fuel. What may be less obvious for many, nowadays, is that for most of that period,…
Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Strategy and Progress Update

Natural Disaster Research, Prediction and Mitigation, Natural Disasters, Environmental Sciences
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Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast with incredible power and fury, wreaking havoc in communities across the region. Entire neighborhoods were flooded. Families lost their homes. Businesses were destroyed. Infrastructure was torn apart. After all the damage was done, it was clear that the region faced a long, hard road back. That is why President…

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