Environment and Ecology

In this book, the authors discuss the management, legal issues and health aspects of environmental policy. Topics include health-care solid waste m...

In late October 2012, Hurricane Sandy caused widespread flood-related property damage in coastal areas of states throughout the Northeast and the m...

On 25 June 2013, President Obama announced a national plan to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (GHG), as well as...

A floodplain is a flat, or nearly flat, land that is adjacent to a stream or river which experiences occasional flooding (a naturally occurring pro...

This book provides an overview of the technical report issued by the U.S. Department of Energy on climate change and infrastructure, urban systems ...

Environmental services are an important and growing sector of the global economy and of global services trade. This book estimates the size of the ...

Urbanisation is caused by migration. However, an essential difference exists between migration in the past and that in the present. This book focus...

Decisions about how and where we build our communities have significant impacts on the natural environment and on human health. Cities, regions, st...

A significant amount of natural resources such as lands, waters, biodiversity, ecosystem services etc. are all part of an agricultural system. Mode...

The United States (US) program for siting interim storage and permanent disposal facilities for used nuclear fuel (UNF) is at a crossroads. The Mar...

This book compiles research summaries from a number of different focuses in the important field of environment and agriculture.

This series covers leading-edge research focusing on the environment, including current research data on simulating future residential property los...

This book is a compilation of research on oil spills in ice-covered Arctic waters and recommendations for future work. Research entities in governm...

This book compiles research summaries from a number of different focuses in the important field of food science.

The Clean Water Act (CWA) contains a number of complex and interrelated elements of overall water quality management. Foremost is the requirement i...

This book compiles research summaries from a number of different focuses in the important field of food science.

Temperate forests covering 34% of the Earth''s land have experienced human disturbances since ancient times and this is where the major industrial ...

Works related to identification of harmful exhaust components from aviation engines have continued since the second half of the last century. These...

Sustainable development is all about integrating all of our present day needs with the needs of society, the environment and global citizenship, in...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has implemented all of the recommendations GAO made in its May 2011 report to improve the Unregulated Con...

In its Fiscal Year 2012 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap, the Department of Defense (DOD) identified climate change phenomena such as rising tempe...

After decades of research, monitoring, and analysis, we still have so much to learn about sea turtles. As reptiles, they are environmentally sensit...

The goals of the National Environmental Policy Act are to declare a national environmental policy, provide federal agencies with action-forcing pro...

The magnitude 9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake occurred on March 11, 2011, claiming over 20,000 lives. It crippled the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Pow...