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  • Mining Impacts on the Environment in the Central African Copperbelt of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo

    by Ambayeba Muimba-Kankolongo, Célestin Banza Lubaba Nkulu, Jacob Mwitwa, Florence Kampemba Mujinga, Misery Mulele Nabuyanda ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book covers various areas of mining and metallurgic industries' pollution of water, food crops, ambient air and farmlands, and their related salient impacts on residents' well-being. Community inhabitants' reactions to environmental damage due to mining activities were determined through a questionnaire at village, district, provincial, and national levels. All respondents recognized that ... Read more

    $179.09 USD

  • Forest Policy, Economics, and Markets in Zambia

    by Jacob Mwitwa, Ambayeba Muimba-Kankolongo, Philimon Ng'andwe ...
    This book is the result of over ten years of field research across Zambia. It covers the production and diverse uses of wood and non-wood forest products in different parts of Zambia. Although a short format, it is a multi-contributed work. It starts an overview of the forestry sector, and covers more specific areas like production, markets and trade of wood and non-wood products; the role of non ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    Dehesas of Spain and Ranchlands of California

    Edited by Pablo Campos, Lynn Huntsinger, Jose Luis Oviedo, Paul F Starrs, Mario Diaz, Richard B Standiford, Gregorio Montero ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The oak tree was a boon companion as humans expanded their presence across much of the globe. While oak woodlands (Quercus spp.) come today in stunningly diverse forms, the stately dehesas of Spain and the dramatic oak-dominated ranchlands of California are working landscapes where cultivation and manipulation for a couple of millennia have shaped Mediterranean-type ecosystems into a profoundly ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Forest Inventory-based Projection Systems for Wood and Biomass Availability

    Edited by Susana Barreiro, Mart-Jan Schelhaas, Ronald E. McRoberts, Gerald Kändler ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book provides detailed descriptions of the forest biomass projection systems used in 22 countries in Europe and North America, as well as four European-wide systems. Separate chapters focus on the concepts of estimation of availability of woody biomass, compare and classify the different projection systems, and discuss the challenges and opportunities for the further development of these ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Freer Trade, Sustainability, and the Primary Production Sector in the Southern EU: Unraveling the Evidence from Greece

    Edited by J. Lekakis ...
    Series Book 16 - Economy & Environment
    Freer Trade, Sustainability, and the Primary Production Sector in the Southern European Union is the first full-scale academic work to cap ture the primary production sector policy aspects of trade liberaliza tion and sustainability with a detailed focus on a typical southern EU country, Greece. Many efforts were pooled together in making this book. In May 1996 the Department of Economics of the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • China's Air Pollution Problems

    by Claudio O. Delang ...
    China’s rapid industrialisation has led to "an air pollution catastrophe". Concerted efforts to achieve economic growth have led to veiled skies of toxic air and created health and morbidity problems as well as tremendous environmental degradation.China’s Air Pollution Problems provides an overview of air pollution in China describing how and why China has ended up in such a dire situation, what ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Elsevier's Dictionary of Trees

    Volume 1: North America

    by M.M. Grandtner ...
    This dictionary will present all currently accepted generic, specific, sub-specific and variety names of trees, excluding fossil and more recently extinct taxa, hybrids and cultivars. Only the indigenous trees of a continent, those wild species that were natural elements of the spontaneous forest vegetation before the arrival of Europeans or other colonizers, are included.Each generic entry ... Read more

    $283.49 USD

  • Scaling Up

    The Convergence of Social Economy and Sustainability

    Edited by Mike Gismondi, Sean Connelly, Mary Beckie, Sean Markey, Mark Roseland ...
    When citizens take collaborative action to meet the needs of their community, they are participating in the social economy. Co-operatives, community-based social services, local non-profit organizations, and charitable foundations are all examples of social economies that emphasize mutual benefit rather than the accumulation of profit. While such groups often participate in market-based activities ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Change - Ready or Not: Climate

    Our Choice, Our Responsibility

    by Alan Garman ...
    This book includes insights on global warming and climate change, from a political, economic, scientific and engineering perspective. It speaks about the current situation regarding alterations to the chemistry of the biosphere/atmosphere over the Industrial Age. In particular, it focuses on the accelerating rate of change in the last 100 years and what needs to happen to redress the situation. ... Read more

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  • Economic Models of Material-Product Chains for Environmental Policy Analysis

    by P.P. Kandelaars ...
    Series Book 4 - Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science
    A theoretical and empirical contribution to the quest for sustainability and environmental quality. The book examines the physical and economic aspects of flows of materials and products, as well as the policies and strategies designed to reduce the related resource depletion and environmental pollution. The `material-product chain' concept forms a general framework, defined as a system of linked ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Economic Policies for Sustainable Development

    Edited by Thomas Sterner ...
    Series Book 7 - Economy & Environment
    This book focuses on describing policy instruments in different countries. Its purpose is not only descriptive but also, to some extent, advocatory. We believe that economic instruments can make an important contribution to an environmentally less disruptive path of development. The design of economic instruments is however a fine art and depends among other things on their political acceptability ... Read more

    $143.09 USD