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The Meaning of Environmental Security : Ecological Politics and Policy in the New Security Era
Jon Barnett
Paperback - $78.95
This book is a comprehensive, critical discussion of the new idea of environmental security. Jon Barnett looks at links between environmental degradation and national security. But the meaning of the concept is ambiguous, and an examination of its va ...
Natural Organic Matter and Disinfection By-Products : Characterization and Control in Drinking Water
Sylvia E. Barrett
Hardcover - $584.95
There are many by-products of water disinfection that are still not fully understood and can be potentially harmful. In this volume all the current research in this area is discussed, along with an examination of the role of NOM (natural organic matt ...
Environmental Management for Sustainable Development
C. J. Barrow
Paperback - $107.95
Environmental management is a wide, expanding, and rapidly evolving field, which concerns all humans. There is no precise and universally agreed definition of environmental management but it plays a crucial role in the quest for sustainable developme ...
Environment and Social Theory
John Barry
Paperback - $90.95
While the environment has been a perennial theme in human thought, it is clear that the present human generation is faced with a series of unprecedented environmental dilemmas, which have ensured that the environment and how we value, use and think a ...
Land Use Effects on Streamflow and Water Quality in the Northeastern United States
Paul K. Barten
Hardcover - $296.95
Providing a comprehensive literature review, Land Use Effects on Streamflow and Water Quality in the Northeastern United States presents the principles that define and govern interactions between land activities and conditions in streams, lakes, and ...
Water Quality Monitoring : A Practical Guide to the Design and Implementation of Freshwater Quality Studies and Monitoring Programmes
Jamie Bartram
Hardcover - $411.95
Water quality monitoring is a fundamental tool in the management of freshwater resources, and this book covers the entire monitoring process providing detailed guidance for implementing a monitoring network with step-by-step descriptions of field and ...
A Plague of Rats and Rubbervines : The Growing Threat of Species Invasions
Yvonne Baskin
Paperback - $44.95
The human love of novelty and desire to make one place look like another, coupled with massive increases in global trade and transport, are creating a growing economic and ecological threat. The same forces that are rapidly "McDonaldizing" the world' ...
Development and Perspectives of Landscape Ecology
Olaf Bastian
Hardcover - $504.95
The book gives a fundamental representation of landscape ecology, which proves to be a young, but an interesting and very important trans-disciplinary science for the solution of environmental problems. Both the theoretical basis and practical applic ...
Valuing Environmental Preferences : Theory and Practice of the Contingent Valuation Method in the Us, Eu, and Developing Countries
Ian J. Bateman
Paperback - $152.95
This is a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) which asks what people would be willing to pay for an environmental good or attribute, or willing to accept for its loss. CVM is currently central to the assess ...
Mountains Witnesses of Global Changes : Research in the Himalaya and Karakoram
Renato Baudo
Hardcover - $324.95
From an environmental point of view, mountains are particularly sensitive and important for monitoring the state of health of our planet. Only through distribution of meteoclimatic and atmospheric composition monitoring points in mountain regions, co ...