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Cancer as an Environmental Disease
Av Luc Hens, N. Van Larebeke m. fl.
2004
2563 kr
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During recent decades the somatic mutation theory for the causation of cancer has held sway. The influence of environmental factors in the aetiology of cancer has become a matter of debate between those who maintain that it is largely a degenerative phenomenon and other voices who increasingly …
Membrane Technology: Applications to Industrial Wastewater Treatment
Av Ana Caetano, M.N. de Pinho m. fl.
Inbunden, 1994
1098 kr
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This text presents the lectures which were given during the Comett II Course on Advanced Separation Technology for Industrial Waste Minimization: Environmental and Analytical Aspects. Due to the interest in new environmental solutions, the European Community organises educational and training …
Computer Treatment of Large Air Pollution Models
Inbunden, 1995
1643 kr
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The long-range transport of air pollutants and the reduction of air pollution to an acceptable level is an important environmental problem. The mathematical models by which this problem can be successfully studied are normally described by partial differential equations. The discretization in space …
Sustainable Development: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy
Inbunden, 1995
1643 kr
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Of all the books written about the problems of sustainable development and environmental protection, Sustainable Development: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy is one of the first to examine the role of science, economics and law, and ethics as generally applied to decision making on sustainable …
Integrated Regional Risk Assessment, Vol. I
Continuous and Non-Point Source Emissions: Air, Water, Soil
Av A.V. Gheorghe, M. Nicolet-Monnier
Inbunden, 1995
1643 kr
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Industrial development is essential to improvement of the standard of living in all countries. In a given region, old and new plants, processes, and technologies have to coexist. Technological penetration and substitution processes are generally taking place; they are entirely dynamic and this …
Integrated Regional Risk Assessment, Vol. II
Consequence Assessment of Accidental Releases
Av A.V. Gheorghe, M. Nicolet-Monnier
Inbunden, 1995
1643 kr
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Over recent years there has been an increasing awareness of the risks of locating hazardous industries near heavily populated, environmentally sensitive areas. This new awareness demands a novel approach to safety planning for hazardous industries; one that looks at the problem from the point of …
Integrated Regional Risk Assessment
Volume I: Continuous and Non-Point Source Emissions: Air, Water, Soil Volume II: Consequence Assessment of Accidental Releases
Av A.V. Gheorghe, M. Nicolet-Monnier
1995
3486 kr
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Over recent years there has been an increasing awareness of the risks of locating hazardous industries near heavily populated, environmentally sensitive areas. This new awareness demands a novel approach to safety planning for hazardous industries; one that looks at the problem from the point of …
Perspectives on Ecological Integrity
Inbunden, 1995
1098 kr
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Concepts of ecological integrity have recently been proposed to facilitate enhanced protection of biological and ecological resources against the threat of human activities. The promotion of ecological integrity as a basis for public policy and decision-making stems from scientists and others …
Sustainable Forestry Challenges for Developing Countries
Av Matti Palo, G. Mery
Inbunden, 1996
1643 kr
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This book is an outcome of a research project on "Sustainable Forestry and the Environment in Developing Countries". The project has been run by Metsantutki muslaitos METLA -the Finnish Forest Research Institute since 1987 and will be completed this year. A major output by this project has so far …
Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Assessment: A Guidebook
Av Jayant A. Sathaye, Stephen Meyers
Inbunden, 1995
1098 kr
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This book describes guidelines prepared by the U.S. Country Studies Program for the evaluation of options to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. The U.S. Country Studies Program developed these guidelines in collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to provide developing countries and …
Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change
Interim Results from the U.S. Country Studies Program
Av Joel B. Smith, Saleemul Huq m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1643 kr
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Martin Parry University College, London, UK The 13 country studies collected in this re Adaptations Assessment published by the port represent the first of what is likely to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change become a worldwide, country-by-country (Carter et al., 1994) as an agreed …
Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories
Interim Results from the U.S. Country Studies Program
Av Barbara V. Braatz, B.P. Jallow m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1643 kr
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International concern for the continued growth of greenhouse gas emissions, and the potentially damaging consequences of resultant global climate change, led to the signing of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change by 155 nations at the Earth Summit in June 1992. The Convention …
Impact of Desert Dust Across the Mediterranean
Av Stefano Guerzoni, R. Chester
Inbunden, 1996
1643 kr
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The atmosphere is an important pathway for the transport of continentally-derived material to the oceans. In this respect the Mediterranean Sea is of special importance because its atmosphere receives inputs of anthropogenic aerosols from the north and desert- derived Saharan dusts from the south. …
Forestry Pesticide Aerial Spraying
Spray Droplet Generation, Dispersion, and Deposition
Av J.J.C. Picot, D.D. Kristmanson
Inbunden, 1997
1207 kr
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This work deals quantitatively with the generation, dispersion, and deposition of pesticide droplets on vegetation and with off-target drift of undeposited droplets. A computer simulation model for calculating dispersion, deposition, and drift is described, with comparisons between calculated …
Ecological Sustainability and Integrity: Concepts and Approaches
Av J. Lemons, L. Westra m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
1643 kr
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Various concepts of ecological sustainability and integrity have been proposed as a means of enhancing the protection of humans and the environment against the threat of human activities. In this book, scholars in the fields of ecology, public policy, philosophy, and economics are brought together …
Strategic Environmental Assessment in Europe
Fourth European Workshop on Environmental Impact Assessment
Av Volker Kleinschmidt, Dieter Wagner
Inbunden, 1998
1098 kr
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This work consists of papers and final recommendations on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), presented at the 4th European EIA Workshop which was held from 29 May to 1 June 1997 in Potsdam, Germany. The main objectives of this workshop were to specify current SEA-related methodologies and …
Energy and the Environment
Av Adrian Bejan, Peter Vadasz m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
879 kr
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This book describes the state of the art at the interface between energy and environmental research. The contributing authors are some of the world leaders in research and education on energy and environmental topics. It begins with the latest trends in applied thermodynamics, the methods of energy …
Health Impacts of Waste Management Policies
Proceedings of the Seminar ‘Health Impacts of Wate Management Policies’ Hippocrates Foundation, Kos, Greece, 12–14 November 1998
Av Polyxeni Nicolopoulou-Stamati, Luc Hens m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
1692 kr
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These proceedings examine the health effects of waste deposit sites, incinerators and other options for waste management, focusing in particular on the impacts of halogenated hydrocarbons, and byproducts of incineration. These results are linked with waste policy options, of which reviews in four …
Environmental Archaeology: Meaning and Purpose
Av Umberto Albarella, Umberto Albarella
Inbunden, 2001
1692 kr
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Despite the fact that the human life of the past cannot be understood without taking into account its ecological relationships, environmental studies are often marginalised in archaeology. This is the first book that, by discussing the meaning and purpose we give to the expression `environmental …
Endocrine Disrupters
Environmental Health and Policies
Av Polyxeni Nicolopoulou-Stamati, Luc Hens m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1692 kr
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During recent decades, millions of tonnes of man-made chemicals have been produced and released into the environment, with very little safety testing. Many of these chemical substances have been found to interfere with the endocrine system and modulate its function. This book not only overviews the …
Understanding Radioactive Aerosols and Their Measurement
Av S.D. Schery
Inbunden, 2001
1643 kr
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This book is intended as an introduction to radioactivity and aerosols for the scientifically literate reader who has had no previous exposure to either of these subjects. Although its main focus is radioactive aerosols, on the road to this subject I provide short, somewhat independent …
Understanding Radioactive Aerosols and Their Measurement
Av S.D. Schery
Häftad, 2001
1643 kr
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This book is intended as an introduction to radioactivity and aerosols for the scientifically literate reader who has had no previous exposure to either of these subjects. Although its main focus is radioactive aerosols, on the road to this subject I provide short, somewhat independent …
Cancer as an Environmental Disease
Av Polyxeni Nicolopoulou-Stamati, Luc Hens m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
1692 kr
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These pages contain a number of chapters from specialists in the field who consider, from a number of different perspectives, the currently available evidence that supports the environmental cancer aetiology hypothesis. This constitutes the first part of the book. In the second part of the book, an …
Cancer as an Environmental Disease
Av Polyxeni Nicolopoulou-Stamati, Luc Hens m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
1692 kr
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These pages contain a number of chapters from specialists in the field who consider, from a number of different perspectives, the currently available evidence that supports the environmental cancer aetiology hypothesis. This constitutes the first part of the book. In the second part of the book, an …
Environmental Health Impacts of Transport and Mobility
Av P. Nicolopoulou-Stamati, L. Hens m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
2188 kr
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The day I became the Flemish Minister for Mobility in 1999, my region of Flanders was one of the poorest students of the “EU class” for traffic safety. This was in spite of a variety of measures taken by previous governments, to improve traffic and safety because of unsafe driving behaviour and to …
Reproductive Health and the Environment
Av P. Nicolopoulou-Stamati, L. Hens m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
2253 kr
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The scope of environmental impact on reproduction is very large. It aims at covering all aspects of reproductive problems and their links to the environment. Therefore, it deals with female and male reproductive impairments, whatever their severity and their sites, gonad or extra-gonad. For women, …
Congenital Diseases and the Environment
Av P. Nicolopoulou-Stamati, L. Hens m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
2188 kr
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In recent years, increasing attention and resources have been brought to bear on the relationship between the environment and congenital diseases. These diseases were previously thought to be mostly due to genetic causes. Even though the importance of genes as factors in causation is accepted, …
Sustainable Development: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy
Häftad, 2010
1643 kr
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Of all the books written about the problems of sustainable development and environmental protection, Sustainable Development: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy is one of the first to examine the role of science, economics and law, and ethics as generally applied to decision making on sustainable …
Integrated Regional Risk Assessment, Vol. II
Consequence Assessment of Accidental Releases
Av A.V. Gheorghe, M. Nicolet-Monnier
Häftad, 2010
1643 kr
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Over recent years there has been an increasing awareness of the risks of locating hazardous industries near heavily populated, environmentally sensitive areas. This new awareness demands a novel approach to safety planning for hazardous industries; one that looks at the problem from the point of …
Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Assessment: A Guidebook
Av Jayant A. Sathaye, Stephen Meyers
Häftad, 2010
1098 kr
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This book describes guidelines prepared by the U.S. Country Studies Program for the evaluation of options to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. The U.S. Country Studies Program developed these guidelines in collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to provide developing countries and …
