Environment and Ecology

*One of NPR''s Books We Love 2021 * ''I came to see the mountains as an outpouring of our modern lives,'' Roy writes, ''of the endless chase for ...

'If bravery itself could write, it would write like she does' John BergerWhy rebel?Because our footprint on the Earth has never mattered more than ...

The international bestseller that gives you the facts about climate changeWhen students David Nelles and Christian Serrer struggled to find a book ...

We are using up the planet at almost double the rate it can regenerate. To support our economies, we're told we must shop now like we've never shop...

Easy, do-able, down to earth ideas and suggestions for everyone to help save the planet. If you want to save the planet, but your to-do list is al...

The growing quantities of waste sludge generated in municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants containing various organics and other cont...

In this book, the authors gather and present current research in the study of the technological systems, management practices and environmental imp...

Over the past few years, the occurrence of pharmaceutical residues in the environment has attracted great interest regarding the possible harmful e...

Over the last couple of decades, rapid urbanisation, unplanned industrialisation, and a rising population jointly created several issues worldwide,...

Despite significant improvements in pollution abatement and environmental remediation over the past several decades, billions of people around the ...

One of the big challenges that today's growing cities are coping with is the delivery of effective and sustainable waste management, together with ...

Waste management can be problematic. Especially with the emphasis in many countries now being on sustainability, there is a great need for more res...

In this collection, the authors open with a review of current state of the art methods for the recovery and reuse of selected monomers and biomacro...

An 800-CEO-READ Editor's Choice March 2019 How We Can Harness Carbon to Help Solve the Climate Crisis In order to rescue ourselves from climate c...

Interest in solid and hazardous waste management is relatively recent, i.e., in the last three decades, and is driven by regulations in most countr...

An 800-CEO-READ Editor''s Choice March 2019 How We Can Harness Carbon to Help Solve the Climate Crisis In order to rescue ourselves from cl...

Converting sludge into construction materials is deemed to be a sustainable approach to alleviating sludge disposal problems and conserving natural...

We've reached an environmental crisis point with plastic, and it's time to take action. But is it possible to make positive changes without radical...

In today''s globally connected marketplace, a wedding sari in rural north India may become a woman''s blouse or cushion cover in a Western boutique...

For twenty-two years politicians and businessmen pushed for the Adams Mine landfill as a solution to Ontario?''s garbage disposal crisis. This plan...

From the bestselling historian and acclaimed broadcaster ''A rich social history ... Paxman''s book could hardly be more c...

Is waste (or trash) really so useless that, as William Faulkner once wrote, [r]ead everythingtrash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it....

In the United States, Federal incentives for the deployment of wind and solar power projects are delivered primarily through the tax code, in the f...

The first handbook on reclaimed wood, combining useful information, rich history, and design ideas Wood reclaimed from old houses, factories, bar...

This volume in the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, Second edition, provides a comprehensive overview of complementary strate...

With the effects of climate change already upon us, the need to cut global greenhouse gas emissions is nothing less than urgent. Its a daunting cha...

A global energy war is underway. It is man versus nature, fossil fuel versus clean energy, the haves versus the have-nots, and, fundamentally, an e...

Over the next several decades, as human populations grow and developing countries become more affluent, the demand for energy will soar. Parts of t...

The accumulation of solid organic waste is thought to be reaching critical levels in almost all regions of the world. Organic waste needs to be man...

Rubber is used in a vast number of products, from tyres on vehicles to disposable surgical gloves. Increasingly both manufacturers and legislators ...

We know, from repeated failures to predict and prevent catastrophes ranging from the Great Tohoku Earthquake to the global financial crisis of 2008...

Congress enacted the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) in response to a growing desire for the...

Available estimates suggest that the amount of used electronics is large and growing, and that if improperly managed can harm the environment and h...

Hauling Pennsylvania anthracite and backloads of iron ore among mountain mines, inland ports and tidewater cites along its 106-mile route, the Morr...

Companies are becoming more aware of the public relations value of the green agenda to their business and are including information on their sustai...

Discussing the future of energy production and management in a changing world, this book contains the proceedings of the first international confer...

Under the Superfund program, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) places some of the most seriously contaminated sites on the National Priorit...

Millions of tons of municipal solid wastes (MSW) comprising a great proportion of ''''food & green garden wastes'''' generated from homes and i...

Carbon Democracy provides a unique examination of the relationship between oil and democracy. Interweaving the history of energy, political analysi...

Rational use of natural resources has gained importance in the last several years. Solving this actual problem in terms of national economy suggest...

A sweeping study of how capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power - and contributed to the worsening climate crisisThe mo...

The Department of the Interior (DOI) manages ocean energy and mineral resources, including oil, natural gas, wind, and geothermal resources. Federa...