Ecology - Environment Studies

Developed by a plant manager who experienced the challenges to going green, Green Intentions shows how the green value stream provides a dynamic approach to making green improvements. It defines each of the seven green wastes, explains the overall green value stream process, demonstrates how to map ..

Green Technology and Design for the Environment..

The Handbook of Ecosystem Theories and Management provides an overview of ecosystem theory and the tools available to manage these systems such as ecological engineering, ecological modeling, ecotoxicology, and ecological economics. The comprehensive treatment of ecosystem theory and application of ..

Heat Conversion Systems..

Providing an introduction, the scientific background, case studies and future perspectives of in-situ arsenic remediation technologies for soils, soil water and groundwater at geogenic and anthropogenic contaminated sites. The case studies present in-situ technologies about natural arsenic, specific..

Written by leading scientists in the field, Institutions, Ecosystems, and Sustainability focuses on long-term, sustainable natural resource management practices at the often conflicting local, national, and international levels. The challenge is to match ecosystems and governance systems in ways tha..

This volume is taken from an ecological study of wetlands undertaken in northern Lake Victoria (East Africa) between 1993 and 1996 with the major aim of characterizing shallow vegetation-dominated interface habitats, and evaluating their importanc.....

As more land cover datasets have been developed, the need to harmonize classification systems for landscape analysis is a frequently proposed solution. This book provides a platform for scholars to reassess the field, affirm successful approaches, and point to future possibilities in advancing LULC ..

This short book is distinguished by : 1) its systematic and comprehensive approach to the under-explored subject of unintended consequences; 2) its focus on the inherent unpredictability of human action as a major cause of such consequences; 3) its contention that these consequences pose serious cha..

This short book is distinguished by : 1) its systematic and comprehensive approach to the under-explored subject of unintended consequences; 2) its focus on the inherent unpredictability of human action as a major cause of such consequences; 3) its contention that these consequences pose serious cha..

Thoroughly revised and updated, Natural Capital and Human Economic Survival, Second Edition focuses on a key aspect of ecological economics, natural capital, in the context of Sustainable Development. It uses real-world examples and case studies to describe what natural capital does - and the severe..

This book discusses the different actions of plants and their associated rhizosphere bacteria on contaminants including phytoextraction, rhizofiltration, phytostabilization, phytodegradation, rhizodegradation, and phytovolatilization...