Environment and Ecology

This report aims to identify and map air pollution hotspots in South Asia in terms of concentration and exposure, understand the various sources of...

Municipalities around the world face important water supply challenges. One response has been alternative service delivery (ASD). For its proponent...

SDG16 recognises the need to respond to challenges to build a peaceful and just world. In the context of a transforming global community that is in...

Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgias Little Grand Canyon, preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor f...

Beaches, barrier islands and tidal inlets are valuable coastal resources and provide desirable environments that are often densely populated. They ...

Most people think of pythons as giant snakes in distant tropical jungles, but Burmese pythons, which can reach lengths of over twenty feet and weig...

The Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Food Hygiene, Agriculture and Animal Science provides an all-encompassing review of each co...

Lakes, wetlands and coastal regions provide essential services critical to the survival of human, wildlife and, by and large, the ecosystems, which...

Covering almost 8 percent of the earth's terrain, lichens are living beings which are familiar to everyone, known to no one. They are one of those ...

The first comprehensive work on globalization within the context of sustainable development initiatives in Africa. Few studies of globalization ha...

In conjunction with Singapore's 50th birthday in August 2015, 50 Years of Environment: Singapore's Journey Towards Environmental Sustainability tak...

The government's response to Hurricane Katrina, one of the most devastating natural disasters in U.S. history, suffered numerous criticisms. Nearly...

Sustainable Development Goal 11, one of 17 Global Goals that make up the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, recognizes the need to make citie...

Coal, gas and oil have been capitalism's main fuels since the industrial revolution. And yet, of all the fossil fuels ever consumed, more than half...

'Greenlands ice loss is accelerating.' 'Extreme temperatures are causing more fatalities.' 'Rapid 'climate action' is essential to avoid a future c...

Microplastics in the Ecosphere Discover the environmental impact of microplastics with this comprehensive resource Microplastics are the minute qua...

The first part of the book is devoted to the transport equation for a given vector field, exploiting the lagrangian structure of solutions. It also...

Humans rank with the powerful forces of nature transforming Earth. Since the mid-20th century, population growth, industrialization, and globalizat...

The cannabis plant, as a hemp, could contribute better than previously thought to achieving the goals of the UN Sustainable Development Report, the...

An exciting exploration of the new frontier of finance, to value the planet and protect what has too long been treated as free and taken for grante...