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Organic Chemicals

An Environmental Perspective

By Alasdair H. Neilson

Environmental problems have become increasingly complex. The procedures for investigating these problems cross the traditional boundaries of organic and analytical chemistry, microbiology and biology. Organic...

Published December 20th 1999 by CRC Press.

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Global Climate Change and Tropical Ecosystems

Edited by John M. Kimble, B. A. Stewart

Tropical ecosystems - the regions between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn - play an important role in global processes, economic issues, and political concerns....

Published December 20th 1999 by CRC Press.

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Storms

Edited by Roger A. Peilke Jnr., Roger A. Peilke Snr.

This book shows how societies around the world have sought to reduce their vulnerability to storms through different levels of planning and legislation. It also...

Published December 16th 1999 by Routledge.

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Pesticide Removal by Combined Ozonation and Granular Activated Carbon Filtration

By Ervin Orlandini

This research aimed to identify and understand mechanisms thar underlie the beneficial effect of ozonation on removal of pesticides and other micropollutants by Granular Activated...

Published December 15th 1999 by Taylor and Francis.

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Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability

The Prospects for Green Growth

By Paul Ekins

A key area of public policy in the last twenty years is the question of how, and how much, to protect vthe environment. At the...

Published November 25th 1999 by Routledge.

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The Great Ice Age

Climate Change and Life

By J.A. Chapman, S.A. all at The Open University Drury, R.C.L. Wilson

The Great Ice Age documents and explains the natural climatic and palaeoecologic changes that have occurred during the past 2.6 million years, outlining the emergence...

Published November 11th 1999 by Routledge.

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Environment and Philosophy

By Emily Brady, with Jane Howarth, Vernon Pratt

Environment and Philosophy provides an accessible introduction to the radical challenges that environmentalism poses to concepts that have become almost second nature in the modern...

Published October 28th 1999 by Routledge.

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Environmental Forensics

A Glossary of Terms

By Robert Morrison

Environmental Forensics: A Glossary of Terms contains over 3,500 definitions and 1,500 acronyms. Compiled from common technical terms encountered in millions of pages of environmental...

Published September 28th 1999 by CRC Press.

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Glossary for the Worldwide Transportation of Dangerous Goods and Hazardous Materials

By Malcolm A. Fox

What could the following possibly have in common?
Accumulator...acid sludge...actuating cartridge...air bag inflator...cut back asphalt...Bangalore torpedo...wet battery...bhusa...blau gas...box toe gum...bursters...copra...dead oil... etching acid...fish meal...fracturing devices... gasohol...gutta...

Published August 27th 1999 by CRC Press.

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Eco-Hydrology

Edited by Andrew J. Baird, Robert L. Wilby

^iEco-Hydrology is the first book to offer an overview of the complex relationships between plants and water across a wide range of terrestrial and aquatic...

Published June 10th 1999 by Routledge.

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