Environment and Ecology

Air pollution has been recognised as the worlds top problem in many strategic environmental policies. However, it is still inadequately corroborate...

National Parks (NPs) are mainly designed to protect the remaining wilderness of a given country and have primarily focused on the conservation of...

Africas urban population is growing rapidly, raising numerous environmental concerns. Urban areas are often linked to poverty as well as power and ...

This book is a collection of current research work on the economic and social impacts of, and policy responses to, global change mainly in the sout...

Forests are enormously important to mankind. They not only supply essential harvestable products, but also ornamental landscapes, regulate climate,...

The federal land resources include; national parks, monuments, and recreational areas; national trails; public lands; forests, wetlands, and wildli...

Plastic bottles, cardboard boxes, aluminium cans we all get through a lot of rubbish, but do you really know what happens after you put it in the b...

In urban planning, a brownfield is a former industrial or commercial site where environmental contamination hinders development. They exist in a...

Over the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. From river levees ...

A groundbreaking analysis of how the genomic revolution is transforming American society and creating new social divisions-some along racial lines-...

What can we really do about the climate emergency?   The inconvenient truth is that we are causing the climate crisis with our carbon int...

A Financial Times BEST BOOKS OF 2021'Engaging, authoritative and very timely. Marco Alverà spells Hydrogen's critical role as an energy store in th...

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away ... God has cared for these trees ... but he cannot save them from fools only Uncle Sam can do t...

Humans spend more time in or on the water than ever before; we love the beach. But for many people, getting in the water provokes a moments hesitat...

The story of the Singapore River, the other rivers flowing into the Kallang Basin, and Marina Bay. It covers their commercial role over the centuri...

Sustainable development is often thought of as a product that can be obtained by following a prescribed course of interventions. Rather than concep...

A socialist response to the looming ecological crisis As the Anthropocene advances, people across the red-green political spectrum seek to unde...

China is an integral actor in any movement that will stabilize the global climate at conditions suited to sustainable development for its own popul...

Does all the positive press about hybrid cars, alternative fuels, and the next green must-have product sound too good to be true? Well, maybe it is...

Proving Grounds brings together a wide range of scholars across disciplines and geographical borders to deepen our understanding of the environment...