Emerging Environmental Issues 2013: A Compilation of Global Environmental Alert Service Bulletins, United Nations Environment Programme

Автор: Brooke
Название: Climate Change and the Course of Global History
ISBN: 0521692180 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521692182
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Climate Change and the Course of Global History presents the first global study by a historian to fully integrate the earth-system approach of the new climate science with the material history of humanity. Part I argues that geological, environmental, and climatic history explain the pattern and pace of biological and human evolution. Part II explores the environmental circumstances of the rise of agriculture and the state in the Early and Mid-Holocene, and presents an analysis of human health from the Paleolithic through the rise of the state. Part III introduces the problem of economic growth and examines the human condition in the Late Holocene from the Bronze Age through the Black Death. Part IV explores the move to modernity, stressing the emerging role of human economic and energy systems as earth-system agents in the Anthropocene. Supported by climatic, demographic, and economic data, this provides a pathbreaking model for historians of the environment, the world, and science.

Название: Emerging Energy Alternatives for Sustainable Environment
ISBN: 0367178893 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367178895
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book addresses the role of sustainable technologies in energy generation options for clean environment.

Автор: Pratt Joseph A., Melosi Martin V., Brosnan Kathlee
Название: Energy Capitals: Local Impact, Global Influence
ISBN: 0822962667 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822962663
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Fossil fuels propelled industries and nations into the modern age and continue to powerfully influence economies and politics today. As Energy Capitals demonstrates, the discovery and exploitation of fossil fuels has proven to be a mixed blessing in many of the cities and regions where it has occurred.With case studies from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Norway, Africa, and Australia, this volume views a range of older and more recent energy capitals, contrasts their evolutions, and explores why some capitals were able to influence global trends in energy production and distribution while others failed to control even their own destinies. Chapters show how local and national politics, social structures, technological advantages, education systems, capital, infrastructure, labor force, supply and demand, and other factors have affected the ability of a region to develop and control its own fossil fuel reserves. The contributors also view the environmental impact of energy industries and demonstrate how, in the depletion of reserves or a shift to new energy sources, regions have or have not been able to recover economically.The cities of Tampico, Mexico, and Port Gentil, Gabon, have seen their oil deposits exploited by international companies with little or nothing to show in return and at a high cost environmentally. At the opposite extreme, Houston, Texas, has witnessed great economic gain from its oil, natural gas, and petrochemical industries. Its growth, however, has been tempered by the immense strain on infrastructure and the human transformation of the natural environment. In another scenario, Perth, Australia, Calgary, Alberta, and Stavanger, Norway have benefitted as the closest established cities with administrative and financial assets for energy production that was developed hundreds of miles away.Whether coal, oil, or natural gas, the essays offer important lessons learned over time and future considerations for the best ways to capture the benefits of energy development while limiting the cost to local populations and environments.

Автор: Ravi Sharma, Prakash Rao
Название: Environmental Impacts of Tourism in Developing Nations
ISBN: 1522558438 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781522558439
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In the face of rapid industrialisation in the last few decades, the tourism economy has blossomed into a major industry with positive impacts such as economic growth, infrastructure development, employment, and income generation. However, tourism brings negative environmental effects such as degradation of landscapes and habitats, increased vulnerability of avifauna and wildlife, and pollution leading to the decline of species.Environmental Impacts of Tourism in Developing Nations is a pivotal reference source that explores some of the critical challenges faced in the tourism economy particularly with regard to the impacts on the environment in developing nations. It also explores the impact tourism plays in the biophysical environment such as the issue of climate change. While highlighting topics such as environmental justice, ecosystems, and ecotourism, this book is ideally designed for academicians, policymakers, environmentalists, tourism professionals, and graduate-level students seeking current research on the environmental and economic impacts of tourism.

Автор: Gregg T Beckham
Название: Lignin Valorization: Emerging Approaches
ISBN: 1782625542 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781782625544
Издательство: Royal Society of Chemistry
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Описание: A comprehensive, interdisciplinary picture of how lignocellulosic biorefineries could potentially employ lignin valorization technologies.

Автор: United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Название: Environmental Performance Review
ISBN: 9211170869 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789211170863
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: This series aims to improve environmental management by recommending ways to achieve better policy implementation in different countries. It helps integrate environmental policies into sector-specific policies such as those in agriculture, energy, transport and health. Presented here are the third reviews for the Republic of Serbia and Montenegro, both reviewed last in 2007.

Автор: Chuhan-Pole Punam, Dabalen Andrew L., Land Bryan Christopher
Название: Mining in Africa: Are Local Communities Better Off?
ISBN: 1464808198 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781464808197
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: This study focuses on the local and regional impact of large-scale gold mining in Africa in the context of a mineral boom in the region since 2000. It contributes to filling a gap in the literature on the welfare effects of mineral resources, which, until now, has concentrated more on the national or macroeconomic impacts. Economists have long been intrigued by the paradox that a rich endowment of natural resources may retard economic performance, particularly in the case of mineral-exporting developing countries. Studies of this phenomenon, known as the "resource curse," examine the economy-wide consequences of mineral exports.Africa's resource boom has lifted growth, but has been less successful in improving people’s welfare. Yet much of the focus in academic and policy circles has been on appropriate management of the macro-fiscal and governance risks that have historically undermined development outcomes. This study focuses instead on the fortune of local communities where resources are located. It aims to better inform public policy and corporate behavior on the welfare of communities in Africa in which the extraction of resources takes place.

Автор: Anderson & Holcombe
Название: Community-Based Landslide Risk Reduction
ISBN: 0821394568 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821394564
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The handbook details the MoSSaiC (Management of Slope Stability in Communities) methodology, which aims to create behavioral change in vulnerable communities in developing countries. It deals with the landslide hazard trigger most relevant to vulnerable urban communities in developing countries: rainfall-induced instability on soil slopes. Focusing on maximizing within-country capacity to deliver landslide mitigation measures on the ground, it provides an end-to-end blueprint for the mitigation process: building the necessary teams, detailed community-based slope stability assessment, construction of drainage measures for reducing the hazard, and the audit of outputs and outcomes. This book is a resource for policy-makers, project managers, and practitioners in developing countries.

Автор: SIMON, SUZANNE
Название: Sustaining the Borderlands in the Age of NAFTA: Development, Politics, and Participation on the U.S.-Mexico Border
ISBN: 0826519598 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826519597
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Provides the only book-length study of the impact on residents of the US-Mexico border of NAFTA`s Environmental and Labor Side Accords, which required each state to enforce labour and environmental regulations. Through field research in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, anthropologist Suzanne Simon tests the premise that the side accords would encourage Mexican grassroots democratization.

Автор: Best Bill, Best Billy F.
Название: Saving Seeds, Preserving Taste: Heirloom Seed Savers in Appalachia
ISBN: 0821420496 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821420492
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Описание: The Brown Goose, the White Case Knife, Ora`s Speckled Bean, Radiator Charlie`s Mortgage Lifter-these are just a few of the heirloom fruits and vegetables you`ll encounter in Bill Best`s remarkable history of seed saving and the people who preserve both unique flavors and the Appalachian culture associated with them.

Автор: Brian Treanor, Martin Drenthen, David Utsler
Название: Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics
ISBN: 0823254259 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780823254255
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Описание: Modern environmentalism has come to realize that many of its key concerns—“wilderness” and “nature” among them—are contested territory, viewed differently by different people. Understanding nature requires science and ecology, to be sure, but it also requires a sensitivity to history, culture, and narrative. Thus, understanding nature is a fundamentally hermeneutic task.

Автор: Catalina Spataru
Название: Transitioning Island Nations Into Sustainable Energy Hubs: Emerging Research and Opportunities
ISBN: 1522560025 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781522560029
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Many islands currently rely on heavy fuel oil as their primary energy source. As the issue of pollution and climate change became a reality, many countries, including island nations, began looking to reduce their carbon emissions by launching programs and policies designed to ease their transition from oil to alternative energy technologies that are more environmentally friendly.Transitioning Island Nations Into Sustainable Energy Hubs: Emerging Research and Opportunities provides the latest research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of establishing renewable energy source systems on islands. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as the vision of future energy networks and its role in creating the idea of energy hubs, this book is ideally designed for academicians, environmental professionals, researchers, policy makers, environmental engineers, and individuals seeking current research on renewable energy development.