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Offering broad coverage of basic and advanced principles and applications, Control of Heavy Metals in the Environment: Innovative Techniques and Solutions for Industrial Waste Treatment and Environmental Protection provides environmental and chemical engineers complete resources available on remediation of heavy metal contaminants.

This book examines cacao cultivation with a view to improving the sustainable management and production of this crop.

This book explores the much talked about but less understood issue of sustainability reporting, linking it to the application of blockchain and other technologies. It provides a transnational platform to examine the experiences of investors, researchers, and policymakers as they confront these concerns across a variety of industries.

This book introduces technologies and devices that are used for the analysis of treated ballast water. Emphasis is placed on the separation, manipulation, detection, counting and sizing of microalgae in a microfluidic chip which shows great potential for developing miniatured analysis devices.

First published in 1980, this book was directed to student-teachers in Nigeria studying for the Nigeria Certificate in Education, the Advanced Teachers Certificate in some West African countries and those pursuing the Bachelor of Education degree. Also useful to students doing various diploma and postgraduate courses in education.

This book explores the relationship between human rights and environmental protection, analysing the concept of environmental procedural rights from a comparative perspective in the EU, India and China. It argues the need to apply a holistic approach acknowledging interlinkages between democracy, environmental protection and climate change.

An A to Z of the calamities and catastrophes that could end life as we know it - and a look at what should really be keeping us awake at night.From the Atomic bomb to the Zombie apocalypse (via Black holes, Killer diseases and UFOs), Jakob Thomä explores twenty-six doomsday scenarios that could spell the end of humanity as we know it. Using scientific facts and entertaining anecdotes, he explains how likely it is that we will be swallowed up by a black hole or that the Walking Dead will become a reality - and what we can do about it.Funny, eye-opening and charmingly illustrated, this is the perfect gift for the doomsayers, cynics and pessimists in your life.

This book provides an overview of Atlantic cod biology and ecology, focussing on regional differences in life-history and stock dynamics that affect productivity and the challenges faced by management.

The book titled "Microbiome and Plant Nutrition: A Roadmap Towards Sustainable Agriculture" is expected to direct many emerging research pathways needed at local and global levels for sustainable agricultural package and practices.

New from the popular In the Moment series-in search of the darkest night skies, Anna Levin uncovers a sense of wonder about the universe that will help you to understand more about our own pale blue dot.The darkness of the night represents something unknowable and mysterious. But when we look up, we can find celestial light shows, whole galaxies, and even a new perspective on our Earthly concerns. The night sky offers us an essential connection to something bigger than ourselves, a vast, timeless expanse that extinguishes our individual concerns.Humans have tried to make sense of the night sky since ancient times. From physicists and meteorologists to astrologists, artists, philosophers and poets, it has been a source of inspiration, wonder, and exploration. But now, our relationship to the night sky is changing as our access to darkness is under threat. Light pollution all over Earth can be seen from space, altering the landscape and outlining the coasts. And if we look from Earth into space, we can see artificial light there, too.In this concise volume, Anna Levin looks at how we can learn from and nurture our relationship with the night sky, even-especially-in the context of our changing world.

Welcome to the Commonsverse, a parallel social economy helping millions of commoners take charge and escape the predatory Market/State order.This completely revised and updated edition of Think Like a Commoner offers a succinct yet thorough account of the history and future of the commons.Working outside of both market capitalism and state power, commoners are deeply committed to developing local, practical solutions, social trust, and community. From relocalized agriculture to open-source learning, diverse types of commons - ecological, social, digital, urban - are building a decentralized Commonsverse. This parallel economy is powered by the peer governance of shared wealth; respectful engagement with the Earth; participation; and fairness.Widely respected activist and scholar David Bollier explores the full scope of the commons in contemporary life, including:A survey of successful commons initiatives, from shared land and water, to digital commons, mutual aid networks, alternative currencies, cohousing, and moreThe centuries-old cultural traditions, Indigenous practices, and historical folkways that gave rise to the modern commons Commons under siege - how enclosures of shared wealth through trade treaties, copyright and trademark law, commodification, privatization, and outright theft are dispossessing commoners and worsening inequalityUnderstanding the commons as a profoundly relational, living social organism that itself generates value.The Commonsverse is a dynamic, evolving socio-political space that is constantly being reimagined and rebuilt. Driven forward by worldwide networks of traditionalists and innovators working collaboratively outside of mainstream institutions, commoning constitutes a quiet revolution of real, functional alternatives. Pull up a chair, relax, and let's talk about the commons.

In The Year Science Changed Everything, author Mark O'Connell charts the struggles and successes of 1957's International Geophysical Year alongside interviews with today's leading environmental scientists to show that the time is right for another global environmental initiative.

This timely volume is a novel and important contribution to scholarly literature on gender and tourism entrepreneurship, utilising feminist and post-colonial frameworks to interrogate the role of social policies in facilitating inclusive tourism entrepreneurship.

Explores the concept of transforming the current macroeconomic system from a system based on continuous growth that doesn't recognize the fundamental importance of Earth's natural support structures, to a system consistent with the basic views of biophysical economics that recognizes that real wealth derives from finite planetary resources.

This book introduces non-specialist readers to the history of how human societies have sought to control, use and exploit our oceans, seas and shorelines over time in different geographical and cultural contexts.

A thematic, critical introduction to the regional geography of the Middle East and Northern Africa.

This book presents the first systematic overview and analysis of the deep connection between Scharoun and China, offering insights into East-West cultural exchange and enriching existing understandings of modernism.

Focuses on identifying potential precursors from agricultural waste, municipal waste, and industrial waste and investigate toxic pollutants.

This book investigates the physical effects of a lightning flash on a person near the down conductor of a lightning protection system. These effects are the touch voltage, the step voltage and the side flash. For this purpose, a full-scale simulation model of the human body with a resistance of 1000 ohms was first created. In the simulation model, the body can touch the down conductor or be placed close to it. Furthermore, the specific resistance of the earth is varied. Likewise, insulating layers such as asphalt can be incorporated into the simulation model. Also, special cases like water permeable layers or water layers on an asphalt layer can be calculated. In post-processing, all relevant values can be determined, such as the energy converted in the body, the charge, the current and the voltage applied to the body. A comparison with the permissible limit values then shows for the lightning protection classes whether there is danger or not and provides information on necessary measures. There is a risk for death and injury if the down conductor is touched. However, there is also a risk of a side flash if a person is standing next to a discharge. Site isolation with dry asphalt is effective, but there is a residual risk of surface discharges. In real situations with wet asphalt, water-permeable layers or asphalt with a water layer, however, there is a great risk of death or injury. Equipotential bonding with an earthing grid is a necessary but not sufficient solution with regard to the induced voltage at negative subsequent stroke. Therefore, the situation must always be examined on a case-by-case basis with regard to the safety requirements. The only effective measure to prevent injury and death due to touch voltage is an insulating down conductor in conjunction with equipotential bonding. The measures for reducing the touch voltage, such as site insulation and equipotential bonding, basically also apply to limiting the step voltage. A risk calculation according to IEC 62305-2 gives the mean time between two events of injury and death MG = 1/RA. The tolerable risk is: RA = 0,0001 or MT = 10.000 years, equivalent to one death in 10.000 years.

Ecological restoration, although a relatively new endeavour compared to other disciplines, has gained significant momentum during the last decade as accelerating global change becomes more apparent. It is now widely accepted by the scientific community that to avoid further devastating effects of climate change and biodiversity loss, humanity must determinedly move more to protect and restore natural ecosystems. Many restoration efforts of the past have been ad hoc, site and situation-specific and have often failed to achieve desired outcomes, but over the last decade, many countries are allocating increasingly significant amounts of financial investment towards restoration with the goal of achieving more systematic and predictable outcomes. Today, activities related to restoring ecosystems, natural assets and biodiversity are a global focus. This book covers a wide range of topics related to ecological restoration including for grasslands, wetlands, temperate and tropical forests and arid zones. Importantly, it also focuses on ecological restoration in human-disturbed landscapes such as for urban areas, farmlands, mine sites and transport corridors. It highlights the necessity for evidence-based approaches that are both nuanced and complementary with prescriptions for people-based restoration, that is socially inclusive and cognisant of historic and current community sentiment. Ambitious landscape and continental scale targets for ecological restoration have been set across the globe. However, without practical guidelines developed from restoration evaluations from the recent past to follow, future efforts are unlikely to be successful, nor -expected targets met. To that end, this book reviews and highlights a large number and variety of restoration stories from around the world. Most are presented as reader-friendly case studies, that feature innovative and systematic techniques for undertaking species-rich ecological restoration.Together they provide inspiration for current and future professionals and offer unique glimpses into state-of-the-art practice for this critically important discipline

This book targets to earth scientists and engineers, in particular students, researchers, managers, and practitioners, who are interested in mining engineering, environmental engineering, green coal mining, sustainable water resource management, and effective measures to balance mine safety and ecological conservation.In the disciplines of mine hydrogeology and mining engineering, there have always been difficulties in the theoretical interpretation of the changes in the physical and hydraulic characteristics of water resisting strata during coal seam mining. In the past 10 years, the authors studied the relevant contents by using the methods of physical simulation, numerical simulation, field test and mining practice of similar materials, so as to understand the internal relationship between the stratigraphic sedimentary characteristics of the mining area and the occurrence mechanism of mine water disaster. On the premise of analyzing and studying the stratigraphic sedimentary environment in the mining area in detail, it is of great significance for the realization of "coal water" dual resource mining in the mining area to divide the types of roof water disaster in the mining area and study the formation mechanism of mine water disaster caused by different rock formation combinations and mining methods.

This book provides a breadth and depth of innovative and impactful research led by women investigators in the field of renewable energy. This book showcases the diversity of renewable energy solutions being deployed commercially in the United States and internationally, including new research underway. The chapters collectively cover the entire spectrum of large, utility scale to small, distributed-scale renewable energy technologies, as well as new operating practices in buildings necessary to fully capture the value of renewable energy. The chapters also discuss technical and market considerations of renewable energy resources, plus customer attitudes and acceptance. These topics touch on many of the challenges facing the world today and these solutions by women researchers are valuable for their technical excellence and their non-traditional perspective.

'My mother was an oak treemy dad a garage mechanicMy father was a field of wheatmy mother the Prime MinisterMy mother was an innkeeperand my father a lonely cactus...'Suzannah Evans' new pamphlet introduces us to Green, half human, half angry nature spirit. Green serves as a stunt double for our own rage and complicity in nature's destruction. He shows us nature's delights so we may mourn their loss more deeply.

The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century is John Ruskin's rigorous and prophetic denunciation of capitalism's assault on the environment, developed through his conflicted relationship with 19th-century science.

Addresses the goal to implement greener environment approaches while considering public health and human well-being and economies. It considers the underlying concepts of a healthy water and wastewater treatment, food supply under sustainable development, and chemical contamination. Provides relevant experimental techniques and case studies.

Considers important research topics in sustainability and natural resource conservation. Discusses agroforestry for biodiversity conservation and nutritional security, how sustainability can improve lives of locals etc. Covers topics like carbon sequestration in agroforestry systems, approaches to repairing soil through halophytes etc.