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Mercury — Cadmium — Lead Handbook for Sustainable Heavy Metals Policy and Regulation
ISBN: 9781402002243 / Angielski / Twarda / 525 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although this is a handbook for policy and regulation, the major part of it is filled with data on the three heavy metals that served as examples: mercury, cadmium and lead. Their stocks, productions, prices, trade flows, uses and applications, recovery and recycling, as well as their (eco)toxicological characteristics have been collected and presented to their fullest extent.
In addition, they are thoroughly analysed for consistency, future developments and trends and, of course, their consequences for sustainable development and future policy and regulation. The second part, on... Although this is a handbook for policy and regulation, the major part of it is filled with data on the three heavy metals that served as examples: mer...
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806,99 zł |
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Biotechnology for the Environment: Strategy and Fundamentals
ISBN: 9781402005299 / Angielski / Twarda / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the dawn of the 21st century, biotechnology is emerging as a key enabling technology for sustainable environmental protection and stewardship. This text captures the dynamism of environmental biotechnology as it addresses the molecular functioning of micro-organisms as cleanup agents, their communal interactions in natural and polluted ecosystems, and the foundations of practical bioremediation processes.
At the dawn of the 21st century, biotechnology is emerging as a key enabling technology for sustainable environmental protection and stewardship. This...
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479,38 zł |
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Environmental Management Accounting: Informational and Institutional Developments
ISBN: 9781402005527 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) is increasingly recognised as a distinguished tool of environmental management. It helps to integrate a company's environmental and business interests, whereby enhancing corporate eco-efficiency in terms of reducing environmental costs or making one's product more competitive. This book gives a comprehensive coverage of the state of the art. It presents a number of EMA frameworks that companies can take as a basis for implementing their own specific EMA structures. Besides discussing environmental accounting issues within... Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) is increasingly recognised as a distinguished tool of environmental management. It helps... |
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605,23 zł |
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Environmental Management Accounting: Informational and Institutional Developments
ISBN: 9781402005534 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) is increasingly recognised as a distinguished tool of environmental management. It helps to integrate a company's environmental and business interests, whereby enhancing corporate eco-efficiency in terms of reducing environmental costs or making one's product more competitive. This book gives a comprehensive coverage of the state of the art. It presents a number of EMA frameworks that companies can take as a basis for implementing their own specific EMA structures. Besides discussing environmental accounting issues within... Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) is increasingly recognised as a distinguished tool of environmental management. It helps... |
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605,23 zł |
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Detection of Explosives and Landmines: Methods and Field Experience
ISBN: 9781402006937 / Angielski / Miękka / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This ARW is the third NATO-sponsored workshop on Explosives Detection and Humanitarian Demining. The previous events were - Detection and Destruction of Anti-Personnel Landmines Moscow, 1997 - Explosives Detection and Decontamination of the Environment Prague, 1997. Over the last decade applied research in Humanitarian Demining has made progress to some extend, but according to the tremendous tasks of Demining and the lack of scientific methods for practical detection of explosive devices, research activities are still of the same importance than ever before. Concerning countermeasures...
This ARW is the third NATO-sponsored workshop on Explosives Detection and Humanitarian Demining. The previous events were - Detection and Destruction ...
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605,23 zł |
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Field Screening Europe 2001
ISBN: 9781402007392 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Field screening indicates field analytical tools, and (quick) methods and strategies for on-site or in-situ environmental analysis and assessment of contamination. Field screening includes not only field analytical methods, such as mobile laboratories, portable analyses, detectors, sensors, or noninvasive techniques, but also reconnaissance strategies and problems of measurement in heterogeneous media, using, among others, geotechnical and geophysical instruments. This volume contains both oral and poster contributions to a conference held in Karlsruhe during May, 2001.
Field screening indicates field analytical tools, and (quick) methods and strategies for on-site or in-situ environmental analysis and assessment of c...
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408,11 zł |
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Managing Intermediate Size Cities: Sustainable Development in a Growth Region of Thailand
ISBN: 9781402008184 / Angielski / Twarda / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I am both pleased and honored to introduce this book to readers, and I want to take a few moments to explain why. Michael Romanos and Christopher Auffrey have produced a volume which will be of immense value to several different types of people. Planners and other specialists concerned with the development of the Southeast Asian region and the issues and opportunities associated with urban growth and sustainable development will find much to interest them in this book. But the book, I believe, has much wider appeal, and that is what I want to touch on briefly here. The University of...
I am both pleased and honored to introduce this book to readers, and I want to take a few moments to explain why. Michael Romanos and Christopher Auff...
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605,23 zł |
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Urban Air Quality - Recent Advances
ISBN: 9781402008382 / Angielski / Twarda / 757 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents a collection of fully peer-reviewed papers on the most up-to-date advances in the field of urban air quality. Topics include air quality management and policy, emissions, measurements of air pollution, and more.
This volume presents a collection of fully peer-reviewed papers on the most up-to-date advances in the field of urban air quality. Topics include air ...
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479,38 zł |
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Sustainable Coastal Management: A Transatlantic and Euro-Mediterranean Perspective
ISBN: 9781402008894 / Angielski / Miękka / 291 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent assessment of progress in coastal management at the national level shows an impressive growth of efforts after the 1992 Earth Summit, particularly in Europe and the Mediterranean. This book contains regional surveys of coastal management progress in Europe and the Mediterranean since 1992, discussion regional trends, development sin decision making, and cooperative activities. It then goes on to assess national progress towards coastal management, including the development of national coastal management systems, efforts at coordinated planning and management, and the development and...
Recent assessment of progress in coastal management at the national level shows an impressive growth of efforts after the 1992 Earth Summit, particula...
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605,23 zł |
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An Institutional Basis for Environmental Stewardship: The Structure and Quality of Property Rights
ISBN: 9781402010026 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is the role of government in environmental politics and policy? The answer to this question used to be relatively clear. Government was to regulate the environmental performance of state and non-state actors, to set standards, impose charges, and establish more or less stringent criteria of acceptable behavior. With the increasing appearance of the issues of globalization and global governance in the political science literature, however, the focus has turned to the role of non-state actors. Academic research and the popular debate have identified business, non-governmental organizations...
What is the role of government in environmental politics and policy? The answer to this question used to be relatively clear. Government was to regula...
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403,47 zł |
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Tools for Drought Mitigation in Mediterranean Regions
ISBN: 9781402011405 / Angielski / Twarda / 357 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The increasing risk of severe droughts and water shortages emphasizes the need for an integrated approach to drought mitigation. However, effective tools for the implementation of such an approach have not been available till now. This book contributes to an improved preparedness for drought in water supply systems, providing tools useful for a better decision making process in drought management. It presents methods and software features of a Decision Support System (DSS) developed within a European research project and consists of three main parts. The first part deals with the advanced...
The increasing risk of severe droughts and water shortages emphasizes the need for an integrated approach to drought mitigation. However, effective to...
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479,38 zł |
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Approaches to Handling Environmental Problems in the Mining and Metallurgical Regions
ISBN: 9781402013232 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is one of the outcomes of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop "Approaches to handling environmental problems in the mining and metallurgical regions of NIS countries" held in Mariupol, Ukraine on 5-7 September 2002. It include papers written by some of the leading specialists in the field of mining and metallurgy, and by environment specialists who are active in this sector. Readers will notice that some common environmental problems seen in the mining and metallurgical industries are described and that their influence on the health of the population are discussed. Examples of best...
This book is one of the outcomes of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop "Approaches to handling environmental problems in the mining and metallurgical...
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403,47 zł |
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Carbon Dioxide Recovery and Utilization
ISBN: 9781402014093 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Carbon Dioxide Recovery and Utilization is a complete and informative resource on the carbon dioxide sources and market at the European Union level, with reference to the world situation. The book covers the following themes:
- Sources of carbon dioxide and their purity, Carbon Dioxide Recovery and Utilization is a complete and informative resource on the carbon dioxide sources and market at the Europe...
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645,58 zł |
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Origins: Genesis, Evolution and Diversity of Life
ISBN: 9781402018138 / Angielski / Twarda / 709 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Origins: Genesis, Evolution and Biodiversity of Microbial Life in the Universe is the sixth unit of the book series Cellular Origins, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology (COLE) edited by Joseph Seckbach. In this book forty eminent scientists review their studies in the fields of Life from the beginning to the "Fact of Life." The history of Origin of Life and Astrobiology is well covered by these authors. Reviews cover the standard and alternative scenarios of the genesis of Life, while the chapters of "The First Cells" leading to the biodiversity and...
Origins: Genesis, Evolution and Biodiversity of Microbial Life in the Universe is the sixth unit of the book series Cellular Orig...
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806,99 zł |
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Multicriteria Environmental Assessment: A Practical Guide
ISBN: 9781402020889 / Angielski / Twarda / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this book is to analyze, with actual examples, different techniques that have been developed to tackle the complex task of making an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of a project. A project may influence the lives of many people, can change the physical environment temporarily or forever, and creates benefits or losses, not only for the people who promoted it, but also for those not related whatsoever with the project. Thus, its assessment is not only a commercial evaluation of gains and losses, but it goes far beyond that, for it also has to appraise:
-how people's way... The purpose of this book is to analyze, with actual examples, different techniques that have been developed to tackle the complex task of making an En...
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605,23 zł |
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Multicriteria Environmental Assessment: A Practical Guide
ISBN: 9781402020896 / Angielski / Miękka / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this book is to analyze, with actual examples, different techniques that have been developed to tackle the complex task of making an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of a project. A project may influence the lives of many people, can change the physical environment temporarily or forever, and creates benefits or losses, not only for the people who promoted it, but also for those not related whatsoever with the project. Thus, its assessment is not only a commercial evaluation of gains and losses, but it goes far beyond that, for it also has to appraise:
-how people's way... The purpose of this book is to analyze, with actual examples, different techniques that have been developed to tackle the complex task of making an En...
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403,47 zł |
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Both Sides of the Border: Transboundary Environmental Management Issues Facing Mexico and the United States
ISBN: 9781402071263 / Angielski / Twarda / 501 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Mexican -- United States border represents much more than the meeting place of two nations. Our border communities are often a line of first defense -- absorbing the complex economic, environmental and social impacts of globalization that ripple through the region. In many ways, our success or failure in finding solutions for the environmental, social and economic issues that plague the region may well define our ability to meet similar challenges thousands of miles from the border zone. Border residents face the environmental security concerns posed by water scarcity and transboundary...
The Mexican -- United States border represents much more than the meeting place of two nations. Our border communities are often a line of first defen...
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806,99 zł |
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New and Renewable Technologies for Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9781402073410 / Angielski / Twarda / 710 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sustainable development encompasses economic, social, and ecological perspectives of conservation and change in natural resources. It is generally defined as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. This definition is based on the ethical imperative of equity within and between generations. Moreover, apart from meeting; "the basic needs of all"; sustainable development implies sustaining the natural life support systems on Earth, and extending to all the opportunity to satisfy their aspirations for a better...
Sustainable development encompasses economic, social, and ecological perspectives of conservation and change in natural resources. It is generally def...
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605,23 zł |
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The Practice of Water Pollution Biology
ISBN: 9781410218650 / Angielski / Miękka / 281 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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77,43 zł |
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Removal of Underground Storage Tanks (USTs)
ISBN: 9781410220271 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The primary purpose of this manual is to provide practical guidance for removal of underground storage tanks. The manual addresses site evaluation, monitoring, testing, removal, and site restoration. A secondary purpose is to provide information relative to remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater.
The primary purpose of this manual is to provide practical guidance for removal of underground storage tanks. The manual addresses site evaluation, mo...
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124,78 zł |
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