The greatest challenge for urban ecologists in the next few decades is to understand the role that humans play in urban ecosystems. So far, research o ...
The 1984 explosion of the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India was undisputedly one of the world's worst industrial disasters. Some have argu ...
This new text offers experienced students a comprehensive review of available techniques for the remote sensing of aerosols. These small particles inf ...
This volume examines in detail how far agribusiness corporations are responding to the opportunities and pressures resulting from emerging environment ...
There is no clear-cut causal relationship between international trade, agricultural expansion and tropical deforestation. Academics, policy makers and ...
This comprehensive text provides a concise overview of environmental problems caused by agriculture (such as pesticide pollution and increased nitrate ...
The world's food supply needs to rise significantly, yet both arable and water supplies per capita are decreasing. Not only are modern agricultural me ...
American agriculture has doubled its use of pesticides since the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962. Agriculture is the nation's lea ...
This volume contains a solid body of the current state of knowledge on the various themes and activities in agroforestry worldwide. It is organized in ...
* First ever collection of findings about the proliferation of urban agriculture written by the world's leading authority in the field* Urban agricult ...
AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty combines the insights of economics and biology to explain the spread of HIV/AIDS and deliver a telling critique of AID ...
Get the Latest from the Field This book offers ready-to-use information for measuring a wide variety of airborne hazardous materials including chemica ...
Presents a comprehensive review of air pollution, dealing with the common gaseous & particulate air pollutants, including chemical carcinogens. Paper.
Proceedings of the Millennium NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modeling and its Application, held May 15--19 in Boulder, Col ...
This volume contains the papers and poster abstracts presented at the 25th NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and It ...
Air pollution is recognized as one of the leading contributors to the global environmental burden of disease, even in countries with relatively low co ...
Urban air quality is a topic which remains high on the scientific and political agenda. Concentrations of most air pollutants are higher in urban area ...
