Ekologia i ochrona środowiska

Wydawnictwo: Routledge

Over the last two decades environmental hydraulics as an academic discipline has expanded considerably, caused by growing concerns over water environmental issues associated with pollution and water balance problems on regional and global scale. These issues require a thorough understanding of proce...

Wydawnictwo: Earthscan

This practical manual demonstrates how to arrive at equitable and successful arrangements over access to, and the commercial development of, genetic resources. Despite much discussion at the international policy level relating to the use of genetic resources and traditional knowledge, to date there ...

Wydawnictwo: Earthscan

This four-volume set, edited by a leading expert in the field, brings together in one collection a series of papers that have been fundamental to the development of renewable energy as a defined discipline. Some of the papers were first published many years ago, but they remain classics in their fie...

Wydawnictwo: CRC Press Inc.

Coastal Aquifer Management - Monitoring, Modeling, and Case Studies provides the most advanced and up-to-date methods and tools for the study and protection of coastal aquifers. This 'how-to' volume presents a worldwide perspective with contributions from an international panel of experts. They addr...

Wydawnictwo: CRC Press Inc.

By the year 2050, the world’s population is expected to reach nine billion. To feed and sustain this projected population, world food production must increase by at least 50 percent on much of the same land that we farm today. To meet this staggering challenge, scientists must develop the tech...

Wydawnictwo: CRC Press Inc.

?§ Explores environmental quality from the perspective of soil science § Emphasizes interactions of potential pollutants with soils and the aquatic and atmospheric environments § Discusses analytical approaches used in soil, water, and atmospheric sciences § Covers remediation of contaminated soils...

Wydawnictwo: Blackwell Science

Freshwater ecosystems are under increasing pressure as human populations grow and the need for clean water intensifies. The demand for ecologists and environmental managers who are trained in basic freshwater ecology has never been greater. Students and practitioners new to the field of freshwater e...

Wydawnictwo: Routledge

Wydawnictwo: CRC Press Inc.

Wydawnictwo: Cambridge University Press

The third edition of this well-received textbook delivers a concise overview of global and individual environmental pollution for undergraduate courses, presenting students with the tools to assess environmental issues. With more than 30% new material, Hill assesses pollution from an international p...

Wydawnictwo: CRC Press Inc.

Mineral scale deposits, corrosion, suspended matter, and microbiological growth are factors that must be controlled in industrial water systems. Research on understanding the mechanisms of these problems has attracted considerable attention in the past three decades as has progress concerning water ...

Wydawnictwo: Routledge

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 neutra...

Wydawnictwo: Routledge

Now and in the future, the ever-growing demand for drinking water will lead many cities to implement indirect water reuse programs, where wastewater effluent becomes part of the drinking water sources. Pollution of those sources with emerging contaminants (micropollutants) such as endocrine disrupti...

Wydawnictwo: CRC Press Inc.

Many competent organizations have extensive safety, health, and environmental protocols in place, but still find that things go wrong. Having good quality instructions is only half the battle. An equally crucial part of a good quality process is auditing, the step that ensures compliance with the pr...

Wydawnictwo: Sinauer Associates

This text, with individual chapters written by researchers in marine ecology, explains the structure and organization of the groups of organisms that live on the sea floor. The first section covers general processes and how physical and biological forces combined with historical and genetic constrai...

Wydawnictwo: CAB International

This bok provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic value of Mediterranean forests. Using the "total economic value" framework, it addresses not only market benefits, such as timber, but also the public goods and externalities that such forests provide. The book includes national-level case s...

Wydawnictwo: Cambridge University Press

This book outlines how to conduct a complete environmental risk assessment. The first part documents the psychology and philosophy of risk perception and assessment, introducing a taxonomy of uncertainty and the importance of context. It provides a critical examination of the use and abuse of expert...

Wydawnictwo: John Wiley & Sons

Land contamination is of global concern with many of the world’s industries potentially harming the environment and human health. Along with rapidly changing policy and technological developments, this is an interdisciplinary area in which successful contaminated land management depends on the...

Wydawnictwo: Resources for the Future

Estimates of the economic values of environmental and resource services can be a useful part of the information base supporting resource and environmental management decisions, a premise substantiated by current environmental and resource policy issues. A. Myrick Freeman II examines in a clear and ...

Wydawnictwo: CAB International

There can be little doubt that issues relating to soils and sediments are moving up the political agenda, and a realization that we need to collectively manage and protect both soil and water resources. In order to manage this delicate interface, attention is being increasingly directed towards holi...

Wydawnictwo: University of Nebraska Press

Where the eastern and western currents of American life merge as smoothly as one river flows into another is a place called Nebraska. There we find the Platte, a river that gave sustenance to the countless migrants who once trudged westward along the Mormon and Oregon trails. We find the Sandhills, ...

Wydawnictwo: Blackwell Science

Written by one of the world's leading theorists in ecocriticism, this manifesto provides a critical summary of the ecocritical movement. A critical summary of the emerging discipline of "ecocriticism". Written by one of the world's leading theorists in ecocriticism. Traces the history of the ecocrit...

Wydawnictwo: Earthscan

Forestry issues vary from place to place, but the pattern of forest problems is common to most countries - loss of natural forests, centralized control, inequitable access, lack of information and resources, and ossified institutions. Policy is at the root of most of the problems. This volume offers...

Wydawnictwo: University of Washington Press

The recent listing of Pacific salmon under the Endangered Species Act has led to substantial interest in the scientific basis for river restoration in the Pacific Northwest. Millions of dollars in state and federal funding have been programmed for habitat restoration efforts to stem the decline of s...

Wydawnictwo: World Bank

Co-operative management and development of Africa's international rivers holds real promise for greater sustainability and productivity of the continent's increasingly scarce water resources and fragile environment. Moreover, the potential benefits of co-operative water resources management can serv...

Wydawnictwo: Mc Farland & Company

A major problem confronting the United States in the 21st century is the 20th century's legacy of toxic waste. The weapons that fought the Cold War, the facilities that manufactured those weapons, and the factories that fueled a prosperous economy left behind a trail of pollution. Seven previously u...

Wydawnictwo: Springer Verlag

SThis is a new text aimed expressly at the student taking a course in landscape ecology, written by very well-known practitioners and pioneers in this new field of ecological analysis. Landscape ecology has emerged during the past two decades as a new and exciting level of ecological study. Environm...

Wydawnictwo: W.W. Norton & Company

Argues that governments could speed environmental cleanup by ending wasteful subsidies and shifting taxes from workers and investors to polluters.

Wydawnictwo: McGraw-Hill

Rather than the 25 to 30 chapters found in most environmental science textbooks, the authors have limited Principles of Environmental Science: Inquiry and Applications to 15 chapters--perfect for the one-semester, non-majors environmental science course. True to its title, the goal of this concise t...

Wydawnictwo: Harry N. Abrams

Another title in the 365 DAY series, this book takes the reader on a daily journey through our planet with a photograph and simple everday action to help take part in the protection of planet Earth.