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Environmental Contaminants in Biota : Interpreting Tissue Concentrations, Sec…
Discussing the interpretation of tissue concentrations of contaminants in wildlife, this updated edition of a bestseller draws on current scientific research and includes new chapters and greater emphasis on aquatic organisms. Each chapter provides a summary and review of a specific chemical along with direction on research methods and the interpretation of conflicting or insufficient data. Cha…
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- 9780429141881
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- 768 p
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- 570 ENV
Design with the desert: conservation and sustainable development
Typical development in the American Southwest often resulted in scraping the desert lands of the ancient living landscape, to be replaced with one that is human-made and dependent on a large consumption of energy and natural resources. This transdisciplinary book explores the natural and built environment of this desert region and introduces development tools for shaping its future in a more su…
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- 9780429111099
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- 620 p
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- 333 DES
Environmental life cycle assessment
Environmental Life Cycle Assessment is a pivotal guide to identifying environmental problems and reducing related impacts for companies and organizations in need of life cycle assessment (LCA). LCA, a unique sustainability tool, provides a framework that addresses a growing demand for practical technological solutions. Detailing each phase of the LCA methodology, this textbook covers the histor…
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- 9780429111051
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- 332 p
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- 333 JOL e
Human Minds and Animal Stories : How Narratives Make Us Care About Other Species
The power of stories to raise our concern for animals has been postulated throughout history by countless scholars, activists, and writers, including such greats as Thomas Hardy and Leo Tolstoy. This is the first book to investigate that power and explain the psychological and cultural mechanisms behind it. It does so by presenting the results of an experimental project that involved thousands …
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- 9780429061424
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- 200 p
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- 800 MAL h
The Circular Economy in Europe : Critical Perspectives on Policies and Imagin…
The Circular Economy in Europe presents an overview and a critical discussion on how circularity is conceived, imagined, and enacted in current EU policy-making. In 2013, the idea of a circular economy entered the stage of European policy-making in the efforts to reconcile environmental and economic policy objectives. In 2019 the European Commission declared in a press release that the Circular…
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- 9780429061028
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- 208 p
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- 330 KOV c
Urban Blue Spaces : Planning and Design for Water, Health and Well-Being
This book presents an evidence-based approach to landscape planning and design for urban blue spaces that maximises the benefits to human health and well-being while minimising the risks. Based on applied research and evidence from primary and secondary data sources stemming from the EU-funded BlueHealth project, the book presents nature-based solutions to promote sustainable and resilient citi…
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- 9780429056161
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- 506 p
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- 333 URB
Digitisation and Low-Carbon Energy Transitions Digitisation and Low-Ca…
The world is digitising as the need for low-carbon transitions gains urgency. Decarbonising energy requires the digital process control of energy production, transmission and end use. Diversified electrification across sectors requires real-time digital coordination of distributed energy production, At the same time, digitisation is accompanied by significant increases in energy demand, partly …
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- XVII, 176
Routledge handbook of high-performance workplacesThe Routledge Handbook of Mu…
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- 9781315560168
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Measuring Emission of Agricultural Greenhouse Gases and Developing Mitigation…
This open access book is an outcome of the collaboration between the Soil and Water Management & Crop Nutrition Section, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria, and the German Science Foundation research unit DASIM (Denitrification in Agricultural Soils: In…
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- 978-3-030-55396-8
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Dilemmas of energy transitions in the global south: balancing urgency and jus…
This book explores how, in the wake of the Anthropocene, the growing call for urgent decarbonisation and accelerated energy transitions might have unintended consequences for energy poverty, justice and democracy, especially in the global South. Dilemmas of Energy Transitions in the Global South brings together theoretical and empirical contributions focused on rethinking energy transitions …
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- 9780367486457
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- 182 p
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