Environmental Science, Engineering & Technology

While international negotiations to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have been less than satisfactory, there is a presumption that a significa...

Per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS), often referred to as per- (and poly) fluorinated compounds (PFCs), have been used for years in ma...

Prioritizing Sustainability Education presents theory-to-practice essays and case studies by educators from six countries who elucidate dynamic app...

Poetics of the Earth is a work of environmental philosophy, based on a synthesis of eastern and western thought on natural and human history. It dr...

Indigenous, ethnic and rural peoples throughout the world struggle to effectively deal with the challenges triggered by outside economic and social...

Agroecology theory is not endless. A point is reached where the central elements become visible, equations distill, and a conceptual apex is reache...

Formally established by the EPA nearly 15 years ago, the concept of green chemistry is beginning to come of age. Although several books cover green...

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Infrastructures: Challenges and Opportunities reveals how environmental research infrastructures (RIs) provide new v...

Bow Ties in Process Safety and Environmental Management: Current Trends and Future Perspectives aims to combine the process safety aspects and the ...

Its widely accepted that our environment is in crisis. Less widely recognized is that three quarters of environmental damage is due to cities the ...

The field of electromagnetic sensitivity is the new epidemic of the 21st century, and can cause disease of the automatic nerve system in any part o...

This book examines the nature of emergence in context of man-made (i.e. engineered) systems, in general, and system of systems engineering applicat...

Onshore unconventional gas operations, in most jurisdictions, operate on the legal principle that all activities during exploration and extraction ...

The premise of this book is that our environmental dilemmas are products of biological and sociocultural evolution, and that through an understandi...

This volume focuses on the theory and practice of the regenerative development paradigm that is rapidly displacing sustainability as the most ferti...

Environmental Conflict and Cooperation explores the evolution of environmental conflict as a field of research and the study of cooperation as an a...

This book addresses the growing demand for collaborative and reflexive scholarly engagement in the Arctic directed at providing relevant insights t...

This book examines the challenges and impacts of poor diets and nutrition from current food systems and the potential contribution of biodiversity ...

In this book, Steffen Lange and Tilman Santarius investigate how digitalization influences environmental and social sustainability. The information...

Ian McHargs ecological planning approach has been influential since the 20th century. However, few empirical studies have been conducted to evaluat...

With growing awareness of environmental deterioration, atmospheric pollution and resource depletion, the last several decades have brought increase...