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This book enables engineering students to understand how microbiology can be applied to environmental research and practical applications. Written specifically for senior undergraduate to graduate lev...

The field of environmental chemistry has evolved significantly since the publication of the first edition of Environmental Chemistry. Throughout the book’s long life, it has chronicled emerging issues...

The classic reference on weeds and invasive plants has been revised and updated. The Third Edition of this authoritative reference provides an in-depth understanding of how weeds and invasive plants d...

In several societies around the world, people are struggling to gain their rights. People have shown great courage as they overcome serious obstacles to gain their rights and exercise democratic freed...

Examines the positive changes taking place around the world. People are working to bring better access to doctors and nurses to improve everyone´s health

For plants and animals, every place on Earth is a home, or habitat, which provides food, water, and shelter. Yet scientists are finding that habitats for many animals and plants around the world are s...

Examines how water, soil and the atmosphere have become increasingly polluted and the impact pollution has on people´s health

Examines how water, soil and the atmosphere have become increasingly polluted and the impact pollution has on people´s health

Examines how water, soil and the atmosphere have become increasingly polluted and the impact pollution has on people´s health

Examines how countries around the world are taking steps, such as conservation, to lessen the effects of climate change.

Examines how countries around the world are taking steps, such as conservation, to lessen the effects of climate change

In several societies around the world, people are struggling to gain their rights. People have shown great courage as they overcome serious obstacles to gain their rights and exercise democratic freed...

Explores how countries around the world are using preservation and a smarter use of resources to protect the habitats of living things

The Global Issues series consists of books at three reading levels covering 12 of the most important geographic and environmental issues of our time. Informational text for social studies and language...

Examines the positive changes taking place around the world. People are working to bring better access to doctors and nurses to improve everyone´s health .

The Global Issues series consists of books at three reading levels covering 12 of the most important geographic and environmental issues of our time. Informational text for social studies and language...

According to most scientists, Earth´s atmosphere has warmed by about 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit in the past 100 years. The result has been melting glaciers, rising sea levels, and more extreme weather eve...

The Skeptical Environmentalist challenges widely held beliefs that the environmental situation is getting worse and worse. The author, himself a former member of Greenpeace, is critical of the way in ...

Examines how countries around the world are taking steps, such as conservation, to lessen the effects of climate change

Water is an essential resource for life on Earth. Considering how vital and precious water is, it is almost unbelievable that it can be used so carelessly. Sewage, toxic chemicals, fertilizers, pestic...

In several societies around the world, people are struggling to gain their rights. People have shown great courage as they overcome serious obstacles to gain their rights and exercise democratic freed...

Explores the ways in which water on Earth has become polluted - and what people around the globe are doing to solve this problem

For more than two decades, Botkin has been active in the application of ecological science to environmental management. Updated and revised to include the latest research in the field, the new Sixth E...

Featuring sixty-two accessible selections--from classic articles to examples of cutting-edge original research--Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works addresses both of the princ...

Random fluctuations in population dynamics are fundamentally important in pure and applied ecology. This book introduces demographic and environmental stochasticity, and illustrates statistical meth...

There is now clear scientific evidence that emissions from economic activity, particularly the burning of fossil fuels for energy, are causing changes to the Earth´s climate. A sound understanding of ...

In recent years air-sea interaction has emerged as a subject in its own right, encompassing small-scale and large-scale processes in both air and sea. Air-Sea Interaction: Laws and Mechanisms is a com...

This book addresses the fundamental issues of predator-prey interactions, with an emphasis on predation among arthropods, which have been better studied, and for which the database is more extensive t...