Ionizing radiation is radiation composed of particles that individually can liberate an electron from an atom or molecule, producing ions, which ar...

The Bush Administration has pursued several avenues to attempt to contain or end the potential threat posed by Iran, at times pursuing limited enga...

In both 2016 and 2017, 15 separate U.S. disasters resulted in losses exceeding $1 billion each. FEMA provides PA grants to state and local governme...

Green infrastructure reduces stormwater pollution by infiltrating, evapotranspiring, capturing, and using rainwater, and can be used to replace or ...

Italy's peculiar cultural variability is the result of population movements and invasions from the Mediterranean Sea, which took place in both hist...

In this book, the authors examine Kenya's current political, social and environmental issues. Topics discussed in this compilation include the miti...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the Congressional Research Serv...

Our progressive philosophy calls for more freedom and more prosperity for more people. Yet author Kevin Galalae says you can't always have more. Ov...

Cooking and cooking burners emit pollutants that can adversely affect indoor air quality in residences and significantly impact occupant health. Ef...

This book by Professor Michelini offers a vision of the future from today's point of view and a strategy for dealing constructively with the critic...

This book is devoted to the The Kyoto Protocol which is a significant protocol to the international Framework Convention on Climate Change with the...

The Lacey Act was enacted in 1900 to prevent hunters from killing game in one state and escaping prosecution by crossing state lines. It has evolve...

Desertification is one of the most important issues facing our societies because of its serious consequences for human health, landscape and the en...

This book addresses the issues and problems related with land resources degradations and its meaningful solution using local tool and technological...

This book includes research from selected international authors and institutions that consider land use management to be an important aspect in the...

Decisions about how and where we build our communities have significant impacts on the natural environment and on human health. Cities, regions, st...

In this book the treatment of landfill leachate by ozonation process was investigated. For this purpose, the ozonation experiments were carried out...

A landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial. Historically, landfills have been the most common methods of organised waste di...

In chapter one, Abdelhakim El Maguiri, Yassine Zegzouti, Salah Souabi, Laila Idrissi, Miloud El Hadek, and Mohamed Hafidi discuss result, initiativ...

Although several countries have been introducing more stringent laws to reduce the amount of waste to be land-filled, in an attempt to maximise rec...

Landfills have been targeted by geophysical methods in order to investigate their environmental impacts. In fact, landfills have been the classic w...