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To Be Published June 14th 2012 by Whittles Publishing
Environmental Health and Hazard Risk Assessment: Principles and Calculations explains how to evaluate and apply environmental health and hazard risk assessment calculations in a variety of real-life settings. Using a wealth of examples and case studies, the book helps readers develop both a...
To Be Published June 17th 2012 by CRC Press
Series: Pathways to Sustainability Series
There has been a dramatic spread of health markets in much of Asia and Africa over the past couple of decades. This has substantially increased the availability of health-related goods and services in all but the most remote localities, but it has created problems with safety, efficiency and cost....
To Be Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
Drawn from presentations made during the Croucher Advanced Study Institute workshop held in 2010, this volume covers all the fundamentals necessary for contaminated site assessment and remediation. It discusses historical and emerging contaminants, human health, risk assessment and bioremediation....
To Be Published August 12th 2012 by CRC Press
Series: The Earthscan Science in Society Series
As negotiations aimed at improving our global response to climate change continue to falter, geoengineering – the planetary scale engineering of the climate system – is expected to receive increasingly serious consideration by states seeking ways to manage the most dangerous risks of climate change...
To Be Published August 31st 2012 by Routledge
This fully updated second edition addresses the persistent environmental threat of organic chemicals with a fresh approach to evaluating degradation and transformation processes. It examines a wide range of chemical as well as abiotic and microbiological reactions mediated by microorganisms....
To Be Published September 3rd 2012 by CRC Press
Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of human lives, lost livelihoods and damaged assets and businesses. Yet these consequences and the financial and human crises that follow catastrophes can often be traced to policies unsuited to the emerging scales of...
To Be Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
Hydraulic fracturing is a well stimulation process used to maximize the extraction of hard-to-reach underground resources. While hydraulic fracturing allows access to previously unobtainable energy supplies, the technology can cause serious damage to environmental media. Public concerns have...
To Be Published October 1st 2012 by CRC Press
Series: Applied Ecology and Environmental Management
This handbook provides an overview of urban ecosystem structures, functions, and changes and discusses how to successfully accomplish eco-city planning based on government requirements. It adds a new dimension to the understanding and the application of the concept of urban sustainability, based on...
To Be Published October 9th 2012 by CRC Press
Series: The Earthscan Risk in Society Series
Through its exploration of the spatial dimensions of risk, this book offers a brand new approach to theorizing risk, and significant improvements in how to manage, tolerate and take risks. A broad range of risks are examined, including natural hazards, climate change, political violence, and...
To Be Published October 31st 2012 by Routledge
