This book offers an environmental-economic analysis of exploited ecosystems with a clear policy orientation. The study tries ...
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With shortages of fossil energy, especially oil and natural gas, and heavy biomass energy use occurring in both developed ...
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This valuable study of environmental subsystems functioning under various climatic and anthropogenic conditions provides ...
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Global warming has worsened the water resource crisis in many arid zones worldwide, from Africa to Asia, affecting millions ...
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The biological effects of asteroid and comet impacts have been widely viewed as primarily destructive. The role of an impactor ...
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For the first time, this opportune book provides a comprehensive treatment of the many innovative, non-timber bioproducts ...
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Environmental biotechnology, which was in its infancy in the early 80's, has evolved thanks to the revolution brought about ...
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Biosolids Engineering and Management, is a collection of methods of practical design, calculation and numerical examples ...
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This book represents the most comprehensive description of the physical findings of an investigation into the spatio-temporal ...
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Maritime canals dissolve natural barriers to the dispersal of marine organisms, thus providing novel opportunities for natural ...
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The book describes in detail how to design, build, calibrate, and use inexpensive instruments for measuring solar radiation, ...
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Buried waste on the seabed is a major source of pollution. But, very often, waste sites are not known until a serious problem ...
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Carbon Inventory Methods Handbook provides detailed step-by-step information on sampling procedures, field and laboratory ...
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Carbon is chemically versatile and is thus the body and soul of biological, geological, ecological and economic systems. ...
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Carbon and carbon dioxide always played an important role in the geobiosphere that is part of the Earth’s outer shell and ...
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One principal need in petroleum recovery from carbonate reservoirs is the description of the three-dimensional distribution ...
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The book covers radiation protection and nuclear safety supervision of installations built during the cold war, particularly ...
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It merges political ecology, collective-action theories, and institutional analysis to study how the people and forests have ...
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The long-term effects of the Chernobyl incident on the environment are still becoming apparent, twenty years after the event. ...
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Twenty million people have been exposed to Chernobyl radionuclides through the Dnieper River aquatic pathways. This book ...
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