environmental impact Books
-
Premium
Guidance Document on Biodiversity, Impact Asessment & Decision Making in Southern Africa
This document provides guidance for decision-makers on a range of biodiversity principles and issues which confront decision-makers every day when they evaluate impact assessments. It is based on the findings of a Situation Assessment conducted as part of the Capacity Building in Biodiversity and Impact ...
-
Environmental Impact Assessment
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is one of the most important tools employed in contemporary environmental management. Presenting the component activities of EIA within a coherent methodological framework, Environmental Impact Assessment: A Methodological Approach provides students and practitioners ...
-
Environmental Impact Assessment
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is one of the most important tools employed in contemporary environmental management. Presenting the component activities of EIA within a coherent methodological framework, Environmental Impact Assessment: A Methodological Approach provides students and practitioners ...
-
Environmental Impacts of Treated Wood
Due to the extensive use of treated wood products throughout urban and agricultural communities, information concerning the environmental and health risks associated with treated wood is very much in demand. Responding to increasing need for a comprehensive and cohesive source on this topic, Environmental ...
-
Disposal of Plastics with Minimum Environmental Impact
Five papers covering recycling, degradability, incineration and reuse of plastics. A basic book for those concerned with environmental ...
-
Environmental Impact of Textiles: Production, Processes, and Protection
This book is concerned with developing an awareness of the environmental problems generated by textile production. The author sets his argument within a wide global context, giving cogency to a message that is increasingly relevant to the industry. After an introduction that clearly indicates what ...
-
Lead-Free Soldering in Electronics: Science, Technology, and Environmental Impact
Assessing the scientific and technological aspects of lead-free soldering, Lead-Free Soldering in Electronics considers the necessary background and requirements for proper alloy selection. It highlights the metallurgical and mechanical properties; plating and processing technologies; and evaluation methods vital to the production of lead-free solders in ...
-
The Economic and Environmental Impacts of Agbiotech
"After almost fifteen years in the laboratory and in the test plots, bioengineered crops arrived to the market in the mid-1990s. Adoption was rapid and widespread. In 1996, less than 4 million acres in six countries were planted with bioengineered plants. By 2001, worldwide adoption had expanded to more than 115 million acres." The foretelling of a scientific revolution has persistently raised ...
-
Environmental Impacts of Modern Agriculture
Modern agriculture must seek to feed the world's growing population with little or no cost to the Environment. Modern agriculture is capable of producing greater yields than ever before, but intensification of agriculture does come at a price. This comprehensive volume examines the environmental impact ...
-
Environmental Impact of Power Generation
In today's automated world, the need for economic generation of power is of vital importance. However, the industry is commonly perceived as being responsible for pollution of the atmosphere and contamination of land and water. The wide-ranging subjects addressed in this book will contribute to the public understanding of science in this important area. Encompassing areas as diverse as current ...
-
Sprawl Costs: Economic Impacts of Unchecked Development
The environmental impacts of sprawling development have been well documented, but few comprehensive studies have examined its economic costs. In 1996, a team of experts undertook a multi-year study designed to provide quantitative measures of the costs and benefits of different forms of growth. Sprawl Costs ...
By Island Press
-
The Application of Economic Techniques in Environmental Impact Assessment
This volume is based on a number of reports prepared over several years for a research project jointly sponsored by the United Nations Environment Programme, the Australian International Development Assistance Bureau and the Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council. Since release of the report of the World Commission on Environment and Development, the quest has ...
-
Defining and Assessing Adverse Environmental Impact from Power Plant Impingement and Entrainment of Aquatic Organisms: Symposium in Conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, 2001, in Phoenix, Arizona, USA
The U.S. Clean Water Act calls for the minimization of adverse environmental impact at cooling water intake structures. To facilitate an exchange of information among all stakeholders in the issue, the Electric Power Research Institute organized a national symposium in 2001 to discuss the meaning of ...
-
Quantifying Environmental Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic
Environmental impact assessments are required for a wide-range of projects throughout the world. These assessments have increasing involved complex, political decision-making and incorporated values and beliefs of both stakeholders and interested parties. However, the results are often ineffective because ...
-
Mining, Society, and a Sustainable World
to social and economic development, environmental impact, and human development in ...
-
Technological Choices for Sustainability
, environmental impact and socio-economic factors. A further objective is to identify the major trends in ...
-
Managing and Preparing Environmental Assessments: A Comprehensive Guide to NEPA EAs and International Environmental Impact Assessment
"Although upwards of 50,000 Environmental Assessments (EA) are prepared annually, the focus of the National Environmental Policy Acts (NEPA) Regulations is clearly on defining requirements for preparing environmental impact statements. Surprisingly, until now, there has been no authoritative and comprehensive ...
Need help finding the right suppliers? Try XPRT Sourcing. Let the XPRTs do the work for you