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Winner of the 2023 E.B. Burwell, Jr. Award for outstanding contributions in engineering and environmental geologyIntroduction to Waste Management An introductory textbook offering comprehensive coverage of the management of municipal, hazardous, medical, electronic, and...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2022-07-26
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-9%
90,40€
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This book discusses issues of geoecological (GER) and geopolitical (GPR) risks due to hydrocarbon development of the Arctic. The authors explain the ethical and philosophical foundations of understanding environmental equity and justice in relation to the development of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-06-01
Collection :
Environmental Pollution
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This book investigates institutional dimensions of urban water supply in India, with a specific focus on institutional capabilities to provide drinking water to urban households in an efficient, equitable and sustainable manner.This book has been developed through...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-05-15
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This book establishes theories and methods of climate change economics based on the perspective of human development. The book, in two volumes, consists of papers and research reports authored by Pan Jiahua or researchers under his guidance. Professor Pan Jiahua is a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-04-22
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Despite the global movement to tackle plastic pollution, demand for plastics continues to rise. As the world transitions away from fossil fuels, plastics are set to be the biggest driver of oil demand. Single-use plastics – deemed essential in the fight against COVID-19...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-04-21
ePub
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ORGANIC REACTIONS Thought-provoking discussions of the challenges posed by—and potential solutions to—plastic and microplastic pollution In Plastic and Microplastic in the Environment: Management and Health Risks, a team of distinguished environmental researchers...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-03-18
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-10%
123,95€
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Climate change is one of the most serious global challenges facing humankind.Climate change has enormous environmental and economic implications, and finding a solution is a daunting task. The purpose of this book is to look at the global problem of climate change...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-03-15
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The European Union, as a regulatory polity based on integration through law, arguably relies more on legal compliance with its policies than any other political system. Proceeding from this point of departure, this book puts the spotlight on the subnational tier and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-02-21
Collection :
The Future of Europe
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The book is an edited collection of contributions by a distinguished international panel of academics on the main scientific, juridical, and economic aspects involved in the mitigation and adaptation processes imposed by climate change. Explicitly interdisciplinary, the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-02-19
ePub
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Du willst was für das Klima tun? Nicht mehr abwarten? Damit du richtig durchstarten kannst, erklärt dir dieses Buch in kurzen Texten, was beim Klimawandel und der Erderwärmung passiert. Die reinen Fakten werden kombiniert mit einfachen Experimenten.Du hast dann...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2022-02-11
Collection :
Für Dummies
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This is an Open Access book. In accordance with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, it showcases 17 projects under the framework of Belt & Road Initiative (BRI). These projects cover ninefields, namely, biodiversity and ecosystem, clean energy, clean water,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-12-15
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In the merciless arena of life, we are all subject to the law of the jungle, to ruthless competition and the survival of the fittest – such is the myth that has given rise to a society that has become toxic for our planet and for our and future generations. But today...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-11-11
ePub
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-7%
20,40€
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This book focuses mainly on strategic decision making at a global level, which is rarely considered in approaches to sustainability.This book makes a unique contribution as the work looks at global consequences of mineral exhaustion and steps that can be taken to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-10-01
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A thirty-thousand-year history of the relationship between climate and civilization that teaches powerful lessons about how humankind can survive. Human-made climate change may have begun in the last two hundred years, but our species has witnessed many eras of...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2021-09-21
ePub
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This book examines why authoritarian governments are willing to address environmental problems that have an international impact, such as CO2 emissions, but are reluctant to address problems that have only a domestic impact. In a case study of Azerbaijani oil...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-09-14
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Given the escalating and existential nature of our current environmental crises, environmental sociology has never mattered more. We now face global environmental threats, such as climate change and biodiversity loss, as well as local threats, such as pollution and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-08-09
Collection :
What is Sociology?
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Japan was ahead of the rest of the world when it introduced intermediate processing of municipal waste by such means as incineration in the 1960s. Owing to the small land area of the country and the difficulty in securing landfill sites, the incineration ratio of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-06-19
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Geographic Information Science for Land Resource Management is a comprehensive book focusing on managing land resources using innovative techniques of spatial information sciences and satellite remote sensing. The enormous stress on the land resources over the years due...
Editeur :
Wiley-Scrivener
Parution :
2021-06-15
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-10%
218,95€
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‘Deep adaptation’ refers to the personal and collective changes that might help us to prepare for – and live with – a climate-influenced breakdown or collapse of our societies. It is a framework for responding to the terrifying realization of increasing disruption by...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-06-09
ePub
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-23%
16,95€
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Inaction by governments in the face of climate change is often attributed to a lack of political will or a denial of the seriousness of the situation, but as Mark Alizart argues in this provocative book, we shouldn’t exclude the possibility that part of the reluctance...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-05-20
ePub
Offre spéciale
-20%
11,30€
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