Pollution & Threats to the Environment

Air pollution is recognised as a major threat to global public health. The study of air pollution requires an understanding of various mathematical...

This book discusses in a concise manner the key aspects that are important for the understanding of regulations and managerial framework governing ...

The presence of concentrations of organic substances and cations in sea water is a matter of increasing concern to the water industry, environmenta...

Comparative analyses of social actors and policy outcomes in Bahia and Texas show the similarities and differences in the actors and the policies a...

This book comprehensively assesses the management of micro and nano-plastics in contaminated soil and biosolids, highlighting recent techniques and...

This edited book has been designed to serve as a natural resources engineering reference book as well as a supplemental textbook. This volume is pa...

A new interpretation of imperialism and environmental change, and the anxieties imperialism generated through environmental transformation and inte...

The book presents discussions of the application of Stan Cohen's theories alongside empirical contributions in the fields of critical and green cri...

This book presents the results of the first full-scale emissions trading schemes in Australia and internationally, arguing these schemes will not b...

Polar Seas Oceanography describes a new tool called the Generic Model System for simulations and assessment of potential radioactive spreading in t...

The sociology of hazardous waste, risk, and disasters is a relatively new discipline. This book focuses on hazardous and toxic wastes releases, ind...

Essentials of Medical Geology reviews the essential concepts and practical tools required to tackle environmental and public health problems. It is...

The sociology of hazardous waste, risk, and disasters is a relatively new discipline. This book focuses on hazardous and toxic wastes releases, ind...

The Plastic Turn offers a novel way of looking at plastic as the defining material of our age and at the plasticity of plastic as an innovative mea...

Over the past decade, people have learned about oil contamination in the Ecuadorian Amazon through toxic tours in which a guide brings participants...

Everything looked perfect. Sand - unique Baltic sand, the best in the world - and the calm sea. But wait. Something was amiss. Something was wrongI...

This book reviews groundwater quality and its major global contaminants, and collects the latest advances in the analysis, remediation, risk assess...