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Principles of sustainability /
Provides students and researchers with a solid foundation to study of sustainability.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ipswich, Massachusetts : [Amenia, New York] :
Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Grey House Publishing,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Agricultural runoff
- Air pollution policy
- Alternative energy sources
- Antibiotics as environmental waste
- Aquaculture's environmental impact
- Automobile emissions
- Beach erosion
- Bees and other pollinators
- Bhopal disaster
- Biodiversity action plans
- Biomagnification
- Biomass conversion
- Biomes and environmental issues
- Biopesticides and the environment
- Biopiracy and bioprospecting
- Bioremediation
- Biotechnology and genetic engineering
- BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill
- Carbon dioxide
- Carbon dioxide air capture
- Carcinogens in the environment
- Carrying capacity
- Chernobyl nuclear accident
- Chlorofluorocarbons and the ozone
- Clean air act and amendments
- Clean water act and amendments
- Climate accommodation
- Climate change and human health
- Climate change and oceans
- Climate models
- Cogeneration power systems
- Commercial fishing
- Community gardens
- Coniferous forests
- Conservation movement
- Conservation policy
- Controlled burning
- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)
- Coral reefs and coral bleaching
- Dams and reservoirs
- Dead zones
- Destruction of the rain forests
- Detoxification (environmental)
- Detrimental health effects of smog
- Development Gap
- Earth Day
- Earth resources satellites
- Ecological footprint
- Ecotourism: pros and cons
- El Nino and La Nina
- Electronic waste
- Endangered species and species protection policy
- Energy-efficiency labeling
- Environmental causes of cancer clusters
- Environmental effects of coal mining and coal burning
- Environmental impact assessments and statements
- Environmental impacts of desalination
- Environmental impacts of raising cattle
- Environmental refugees
- Erosion and erosion control
- Eutrophication
- Extinctions and species loss
- Floodplains and environmental threats
- Forest management
- Fossil fuels and environmental degradation
- Genetically modified organisms and environmentalism
- Geoengineering
- Glacial melting
- Global biodiversity assessment
- Globalization
- Grazing and grasslands
- Great Barrier Reef and preservation efforts
- Green buildings
- Green marketing
- Greenbelts
- Greenhouse gases and air pollution
- Greenwashing
- Groundwater pollution
- Habitat destruction
- Hazardous and toxic substance regulation
- Hazardous waste
- Health problems caused by exposure to lead
- Hybrid vehicles
- Impact of ocean currents on global climate
- Incineration of waste products
- Indoor air pollution
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- International environmental law
- International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
- Iron Fertilization
- Land clearance
- Land pollution
- Land-use policy
- Light pollution
- Logging and clear-cutting
- Nuclear power industry and the environment
- Ocean dumping
- Ocean pollution
- Oil drilling
- Oil spills
- Organic gardening and farming
- Our common future
- Overconsumption
- Overgrazing of livestock
- Pandemics
- Planned obsolescence
- Plastics
- Poaching
- Pollution permit trading
- Population growth and environmental impact
- Positive feedback and tipping points
- Precautionary principle
- Preservation
- Radon as a health hazard
- Rainwater harvesting
- Renewable energy
- Renewable resources
- Resource depletion
- Resource recovery
- Riparian rights
- Seed banks
- Sewage treatment and disposal
- Slash-and-burn agriculture
- Smart grids and renewable energy
- Soil conservation
- Solid waste management policy
- Spaceship Earth metaphor
- Stormwater management
- Strip and surface mining
- Superfund legislation
- Sustainable agriculture
- Sustainable development
- Sustainable forestry
- Tidal energy
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- Urban ecology
- Urban planning
- Volcanoes and weather
- Waste management
- Water conservation
- Water pollution
- Water treatment
- Watershed management
- Whaling
- Wilderness areas
- Wildfires
- Wildlife refuges
- Zoning laws
- U.S. federal laws concerning the environment
- Directory of U.S. National Parks
- Major world national parks and protected areas
- Environmental organizations
- Sustainability timeline
- Key figures in sustainability.