Genetically engineered (GE) varieties with pest management traits became commercially available for major crops in 1996. Over 15 years later, adopt...

In the last few years there has been a surge in interest in the geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide (CO2), a process often referred to as carb...

This book describes analytical methods needed by all experts active in coastal area. It provides a theoretical understanding and practical experien...

This book provides an overview of The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R(GOES-R) progr...

This book is dedicated to the study of climate change with aspects of defining segments in the indicated area. The fact is that it is highly import...

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is an independent and international financial mechanism that promotes co-operation and fosters actions to pro...

The fields of environmental crime and speciesism are of increasing interest to social scientists. In the present book, new articles based on empiri...

Grasslands cover around 30% of the Earth's terrestrial surface and provide important ecosystem services. On the other hand, grasslands are among th...

One of the most exciting new trends in water quality management today is the movement by many cities, counties, states, and private-sector develope...

Green chemistry, also called sustainable chemistry, is a chemical philosophy encouraging the design of products and processes that reduce or elimin...

This book presents research scenarios which are designed to stabilise the influence of a suite of greenhouse gases. This research was conducted usi...

Contamination of groundwater sources is a global phenomenon and it is becoming evident that unregulated human activity will lead to further deterio...

Groundwater contamination is nearly always the result of human activity. In areas where population density is high and human use of the land is int...

Groundwater is water located beneath the ground surface in soil pore spaces and in the fractures of lithologic formations. A unit of rock or an unc...

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon incident produced the largest oil spill that has occurred in U.S. waters, releasing over 200 million gallons into the Gu...

Decades, or even centuries, of changing and competing land uses have left many of the world's streams degraded, in poor health, and out of balance ...

Today, environmental protection is among the central matters for natural conservation, public health and sustainable business. With advanced techno...

It is the environment and what humans do to it or with it which will form the basis for the future of mankind. This new handbook examines a wide ra...

Phytoremediation is the use of green plants and their associated microbiota, soil amendments, and agronomic techniques to remove, contain, or rende...

Wastewater treatment represents a continuous challenge for engineers, environmental scientists and regulators. Today, an increasing number of new c...

Algae are the most abundant photosynthetic organisms in marine and freshwater ecosystems and are essential, energy-producing components of aquatic ...

Harmful algal blooms (HABs) and hypoxia (low-oxygen conditions) in the marine waters and freshwaters of the United States negatively impact resourc...

Hazardous materials are any substance which have the potential to cause harm to humans, animals or the environment through direct or indirect inter...

Hazardous waste is a waste with properties that make it dangerous or potentially harmful to human health or the environment. Hazardous waste genera...

Hazardous waste is a waste with properties that make it dangerous or potentially harmful to human health or the environment. Hazardous waste genera...

This book reviews that the environmental pollution caused by anthropogenic impacts that represents a big challenges facing contemporary science and...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has not conducted a recent evaluation of demand for Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) toxicity as...

Industrialisation and urbanisation have led to the rapid deterioration in the water quality of rivers, lakes and reservoirs. Heavy metal pollution ...

Metals are naturally present in our environment and trace amounts of metals are essential micronutrients for the growth of many marine organisms. H...

Heavy metals, algae, and microbial activities in marine systems are the main targets of this book. The book is divided into 8 sections and covers h...

The HER2 receptor is a 185-kDa transmembrane glycoprotein with tyrosine kinase activity, and belongs in the human epidermal growth factor receptor ...

Herbicides have become an important tool as a plant protection agent for boosting food production. However, herbicide use also carries risks that i...

This book examines the economic implications for sustainable forest management of globalisation and related structural changes in the forest sector...

There is a substantial interest in the development of relative humidity sensors for applications in monitoring moisture levels at home, in clean ro...

Hydraulic fracturing is a technique developed initially to stimulate oil production from wells in declining oil reservoirs. More recently, it has b...

The Mekong River is an attractive river basin because of many natural environmental and development projects. Also, the river basin is located in s...

Since 1985, scientists have been documenting a hypoxic zone, an area of low dissolved oxygen that cannot support marine life, in the Gulf of Mexico...

Leo E Miller's experience as a field-naturalist consists of nearly six years of almost continuous exploration in South America, and embraces practi...

Over 100 irrigation projects and systems can be found on Indian reservations primarily across the western United States. The scarcity of water in m...

This book presents an overview of conclusions and future works in new research and design parameters of Spanish indoor ambiences. These conclusions...

The health risks posed by indoor pollutants have concerned scientists for many years. Because people spend a high percentage of their time indoors,...

Industrial pollution occurs when the waste from industries are directly dumped into surrounding water bodies and open lands which causes various ty...

This book examines the current economic practices of water management in the Southern Kurdistan Region (SKR) and suggests ways to change environmen...

Many voices, domestic and international, have called upon the United States to increase foreign assistance to address climate change. Proponents ma...

Many species of plants, microbes, and animals have been introduced around the world. Species are considered "invasive" or "alien" when they are not...

Today's irrigation management faces challenges and competition with other sectors (ie: household, industry, and environmental), quality degradation...

The Klamath River Basin on the California-Oregon border is a focal point for local and national discussions on water allocation and species protect...

H2O is a substance that only on the Earth exists in three phases: solid, liquid and gaseous. On other celestial bodies known to us it does not occu...