Environmental Encyclopedia

Harvard University, 2009. 88 p. ISBN:13 9781436189101, 9781436189095 Renowned professor Michael B. McElroy leads a comprehensive examination of energy, including its history, use in the world today, and environmental consequences. Whether discussing the oil shocks of the 1970s, the current reliance on imported oil, or the growing buildup of carbon dioxide in the planet’s atmosphere, it is clear that energy represents one of the world’s most dau...

Nova Science Publishers Inc, 2011. 435 p. ISBN:1607416352 Today, environmental protection is among the central matters for natural conservation, public health and sustainable business. With advanced technologies and changing lifestyles, the consumption of resources and release of wastes and pollutants are increasing fast. This requires policy makers to design environmental policies that properly guide the development of new products and busines...

CRC, 2010. 618 p. ISBN:0415548829. Environmental engineering has a leading role in the elimination of ecological threats, and can deal with a wide range of technical and technological problems due to its interdisciplinary character. It uses the knowledge of the basic sciences – biology, chemistry, biochemistry and physics – to neutralize pollution in all the elements of the environment, i.e. the hydrosphere, atmosphere and lithosphere. Mainly, e...

Smith C. Environmental Physics (Физика окружающей среды) Routledge introductions to environment series. - Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. - 274 р. Introduction The forces of nature Energy Heat and radiation Solids, liquids and gases The Earth’s climate and climate change Sound and noise Radioactivity and nuclear physics

Prentice Hall, Pearson Education Inc. [distributor], 2011. 9th edition. ISBN-10: 0131392573. ISBN-13: 9870131392571. (696 pages). Contents : Visions of the Future - The Economic Approach: Property Rights, Externalities, and Environmental Problems - Evaluating Trade-Offs: Benefit–Cost Analysis and Other Decision-Making Metrics - Valuing the Environment: Methods - Dynamic Efficiency and Sustainable Development - Depletable Resource Allocation: The...

EPA/625/R-97/ 009. Center for Environmental Research Information. National Risk Management Research Laboratory. Office of Research and Development. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Cincinnati, Ohio. October 1997 -- 122 pages Wood preserving has been an industry in North America for more than 100 years. During this time, wood preserving facilities have utilized a variety of compounds, including pentachlorophenol (PCP), creosote, and certain...

Elsevier Academic Press, 2004. - 801 с. Язык: английский. Эта книга рекомендуется для специалистов в области экологии. она может быть использована преподавателями, студентами и гражданами для оценки рисков, связанных с загрязнением природы.

6 edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2011. 394 p. ISBN:049589897X. ASY-to-read and concise, this political science text explores how environmental problems are identified and how solutions are formulated and implemented. With objective and clear explanations of controversies, you will gain an understanding of how politics affects policymaking and how policy affects progress toward solving environmental problems. Coverage of issues such as th...

MIT Press, Cambridge, 2010. 240 p. ISBN:0262515210 The most colossal environmental disturbance in human history is under way. Ever-rising levels of the potent greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) are altering the cycles of matter and life and interfering with the Earth's natural cooling process. Melting Arctic ice and mountain glaciers are just the first relatively mild symptoms of what will result from this disruption of the planetary energy ba...

CRC Press, 2004, 1566706416, 767 pages The current rate and scale of environmental change around the world makes the detection and understanding of these changes increasingly urgent. Subsequently, government legislation is focusing on measurable results of environmental programs, requiring researchers to employ effective and efficient methods for acquiring high-quality data. Environmental Monitoring is the first book to bring together the conce...