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The African Marine Litter Outlook
This open access book provides a cross-sectoral, multi-scale assessment of marine litter in Africa with a focus on plastics. From distribution, to impacts on environmental and human health, this book looks at what is known scientifically. It includes a policy analysis of the instruments that currently exist, and what is needed to help Africa tackle marine litter—including local and transbound…
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- XXII, 224
Fracking the neighborhood :reluctant activists and natural gas drilling
When natural gas drilling moves into an urban or a suburban neighborhood, a two-hundred-foot-high drill appears on the other side of a back yard fence and diesel trucks clog a quiet two-lane residential street. Children seem to be having more than the usual number of nosebleeds. There are so many local cases of cancer that the elementary school starts a cancer support group. In this book, Jessi…
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- 9780262329798
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 191 pages).
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Integrated Treatment Technology of Rural Domestic Sewage
This open access book provides integrated treatment technology of rural domestic sewage, and highlights ten typical cases in China. The integrated sewage treatment system (ISTE) combine sewage pretreatment, biological treatment, sedimentation, and disinfection, which particularly suitable for decentralized domestic wastewater treatment in rural areas without pipe networks. The main advantages o…
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- 978-981-99-5905-1
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- XIII, 140
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Agricultural Implications of Fukushima Nuclear Accident (IV)
This open access book presents the findings from on-site research into radioactive cesium contamination in various agricultural systems affected by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in March 2011. This fourth volume in the series reports on studies undertaken at contaminated sites such as farmland and forests, focusing on soil, water, mountain, agricultural products, and animal…
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- 978-981-19-9360-2
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- XIII, 276
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Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change
A call for a broadened environmental movement that addresses issues of everyday life. In Environmentalism Unbound , Robert Gottlieb proposes a new strategy for social and environmental change that involves reframing and linking the movements for environmental justice and pollution prevention. According to Gottlieb, the environmental movement's narrow conception of environment has isolated it fr…
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- 9780262274111
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Mechanical sound : Technology, Culture, and Public Problems of Noise in the T…
'Mechanical Sound' traces efforts to control unwanted sound - the noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraft - from the late 19th to the late 20th century. Karin Bijsterveld argues that a paradox of control has developed, in which only some forms of noise are regulated by experts and governments.
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The Silent Epidemic: Coal and the Hidden Threat to Health
Why our dependence on coal-produced energy is bad for our health: a physician maps the connections of burning coal to death and disease.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305419
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- 1 online resource (xi, 229 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China
An examination of the daily grind of living with pollution in rural China and of the varying forms of activism that develop in response.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Power generation and environmental change :symposium of the Committee on Envi…
Enormous increases in the demand for power throughout the world make it imperative to reduce the environmental hazards and pollution associated with power generation. This book discusses the effects that power generation has had on the land, the water, the air, and the biosphere. It reviews the technological means available for abatement and control of damaging environmental effects and describ…
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- 9780262268257
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 440 pages) :illustrations
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A world to live in :an ecologist's vision for a plundered planet
A century of industrial development is the briefest of moments in the half billion years of the earth's evolution. And yet our current era has brought greater changes to the earth than any period in human history. The biosphere, the globe's life-giving envelope of air and climate, has been changed irreparably. In A World to Live In, the distinguished ecologist George Woodwell shows that the bio…
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