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Invasive Species: Ecology, Management Strategies and Conservation

Environmental Research Advances, Invasive Species, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Sciences
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Invasive species constitute a significant environmental and economic threat worldwide, acting as a key driver of biodiversity loss and ecosystem function disruption globally. Biological invasions have the potential to dramatically affect species composition, guild structure and alter interspecific interactions within the invaded community. This book provides the reader with new research on invasive species. Chapter…
Environmental Degradation: Types, Causes and Impacts

Environmental Remediation Technologies, Regulations and Safety, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Sciences
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The earth is a dynamic arrangement of synergistic and interrelated systems that has throughout its existence experienced cataclysmic and devastating events. The earth has had long periods of ice and snow to mass extinctions and occasional hothouse loads of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and the oceans. The main difference between then and now is…
National Parks: Biodiversity, Management and Environmental Issues

Environmental Remediation Technologies, Regulations and Safety, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Sciences
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This book discusses biodiversity, management and environmental issues of several national parks around the world. The first chapter presents general principles of access to national parks for tourism and recreation under the provisions of the Nature Conservation Act. Chapter Two examines the contribution of Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) exploitation to poverty alleviation in the Fako-Meme…
Cleaner Development for Safe and Sustainable Living on Earth: Policy Measures and Technological Innovations (Education for Industries and Business Managers)

Environmental Science, Engineering and Technology, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Sciences
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Cleaner production is defined as the continuous application of an integrated preventive strategy for environmental protection in the developmental processes applied to products and services in industries & business organizations to increase overall efficiency and reduce risks to humans (consumers and industrial workers) and the environment from the hazardous chemicals and materials used in the…
Environmental Management: Past, Present and Future

Environmental Remediation Technologies, Regulations and Safety, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Sciences
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In recent years, the topic of environmental responsibility has been affecting policymakers and markets, and it has become a relevant issue in the multidisciplinary discussion between scientists and practitioners. Most countries have adopted new regulations and economic instruments to support environmental sustainability; at the same time, many organizations have adopted environmental policies and management tools…
Protected Areas: Policies, Management and Future Directions

Wildlife Protection, Destruction and Extinction, Environmental Research Advances, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Sciences
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Establishment of a protected area (PA) is a key global conservation strategy aimed to protect the Earth’s imperiled biodiversity and ecosystems. Globally, PA networks now cover nearly 15% of the terrestrial ecosystem. Despite the importance of PAs in protecting declining biodiversity and unique ecosystems, many of them are in critical condition due to poor governance,…
BEST SCORES Solution to the Catastrophe-Bound Environment

Environmental Science, Engineering and Technology, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Sciences
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After several decades of rapid technological advancement and economic growth, alarming levels of pollution and catastrophe-bound environmental degradations are emerging all over the world. Even sizable reduction in industrial pollutant emissions would only slow down the accumulation of pollution. Given the complexity of the problem and the over-simplicity of international environmental initiatives (like the Kyoto…
Adaptive Management: Elements, Applications and Research

Environmental Research Advances, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Sciences
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The goal of an adaptive management approach is to reduce uncertainty over time by systematically incorporating learning into management. Managers of natural resources are required to design their actions as scientific experiments, monitor the outcomes, and adjust management direction in light of what the experiments revealed. This is a modern management concept that facilitates the…
Biological Conservation in the 21st Century: A Conservation Biology of Large Wildlife

Wildlife Protection, Destruction and Extinction, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Sciences
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This edited book, composed of chapters written by scholars of the environmental and biological sciences, examines selected topics from the vast field of conservation biology, with a focus on some of the issues that dominate the current discourses and practices on the conservation biology of large wildlife. The first chapter examines the history and status…
Coral Reef Ecosystem in Space and Time (Based on the Reefs of Vietnam)

Coastal and Oceanic Landforms, Development and Management, Coastal Management, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Sciences
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This lavishly illustrated book explores the concept of reef ecosystems and its characteristics. It provides a conceptual description of reefs and their functions. This compilation also outlines the general species composition and structure of coral reefs and their corallobionts. Described and illustrated are the main inhabitants of the reef community. Various types of reefs (fringing,…
International Financial Institutions, Climate Change and the Urgency to Facilitate Clean Energy Investment in Developing and Emerging Market Economies

Financial Institutions and Services, Economic Issues, Problems and Perspectives, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Sciences
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Climate change is perhaps among the most serious challenges that humankind has ever faced and perhaps the greatest market failure the world has ever seen. At the same time, clean unutilized energy resources around the world are available that could help remedy climate and environmental problems while also improving people’s lives. It is likely that…
Phytoremediation: Methods, Management and Assessment

Environmental Research Advances, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Sciences
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Phytoremediation is one of the cost effective procedures for the cleaning or removal of pollutants from soil or water matrices. Over the last few decades, thousands of publications about different aspects of phytoremediation were created. This massive amount of data required systematization, classification and ordering. Additionally, many aspects of phytoremediation were not elaborated upon properly.…
Restoration of Watersheds and Estuaries

Environmental Remediation Technologies, Regulations and Safety, Environmental Conservation
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The Columbia River Basin is one of the nation’s largest watersheds and extends mainly through four Western states and into Canada. Activities such as power generation and agricultural practices have impaired water quality in some areas, so that human health is at risk and certain species, such as salmon, are threatened or extinct. Chapter 1…
Environmental Regulation: Evaluation, Compliance and Economic Impact

Environmental Science, Engineering and Technology, Environmental Conservation
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During 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,…
Killing for Sport

Animal Science, Issues and Research, Environmental Conservation
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Killing 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…
Recycling and Reuse of Materials

Environmental Remediation Technologies, Regulations and Safety, Environmental Conservation
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Recycling 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…
Changes in the Arctic: Issues and Challenges

Arctic Region and Antarctica Issues and Research, Environmental Conservation
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According 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…
Strategic Advances in Environmental Impact Assessment: Challenges of Unconventional Shale Gas Extraction

Environmental Science, Engineering and Technology, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Sciences
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Shale gas is natural gas that is tightly locked within low permeability sedimentary rock. Recent technological advances are making shale gas reserves increasingly accessible and their recovery more economically feasible. This resource is already being exploited in South Africa, China, the United States and Canada. Shale gas is being produced in large volumes, and will…
Chemical Pollution Control with Microorganisms

Pollution Science, Technology and Abatement, Environmental Conservation, Environmental Sciences
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The desire for a more efficient life coupled with the methods of production and pollution brought about by the Industrial Revolution have degraded the environment. Reports concerning sustainable strategies for the control of pollutants released into the environment are meager at best. Notably, the significance of sustainable/bio-remediation energy using either plants or bacteria has been…