Tag: Environment

Free Download Heavy Metal Contamination in the Environment: Health Impacts and Potential Remediation Approaches
by Singh, Veer, Kumar, Ashish, Mishra, Vishal, Rai, Sachchida Nand
English | 2025 | ISBN: 103268576X | 288 pages | True PDF EPUB | 14.61 MB

Free Download GIS for Health and the Environment: Development in the Asia-Pacific Region With 110 Figures By Gerard Rushton (auth.), Poh C. Lai, Ann S. H. Mak (eds.)
2007 | 310 Pages | ISBN: 3540713174 | PDF | 4 MB
"As the world becomes more integrated through the trade of goods and services and capital flows, it has become easier for diseases to spread through states, over borders and across oceans – and to do serious damage to vulnerable human and animal populations. " American RadioWorks and NPR News, 2001 The global cost of communicable diseases is expected to rise. SARS has put the world on alert. We have now Avian Flu on the watch. Recognizing the global nature of threats posed by new and re-emerging infectious d- eases and the fact that many recent occurrences originated in the Asia – cific regions, there has been an increased interest in learning and knowing about disease surveillance and monitoring progresses made in these – gions. Such knowledge and awareness is necessary to reduce conflict, d- comfort, tension and uneasiness in future negotiations and global coope- tion. Many people are talking about the GIS and public and environmental health. The way we make public policies on health and environmental m- ters is changing, and there is little doubt that GIS provides powerful tools for visualizing and linking data in public health surveillance. This book is a result of the International Conference in GIS and Health held on 27-29 June 2006 in Hong Kong. The selected chapters are organized into four themes: GIS Informatics; Human and Environmental Factors; Disease modeling; and Public health, population health technologies, and surve- lance.

Free Download Mohamed Hafidi, "The Mycorrhizal Symbiosis in Mediterranean Environment: Importance in Ecosystem Stability and in Soil Rehabilitation Str"
English | ISBN: 1620812789 | 2012 | 195 pages | PDF | 18 MB
The main objectives of this book are to present recent results showing the expected benefits in managing the mycorrhizal symbiosis in order to ensure the conservation of endemic plant diversity and to rehabilitate degraded soils in Mediterranean areas.

Free Download Andrew Dobson, "Citizenship, Environment, Economy (Environmental Politics)"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0415366720 | EPUB | pages: 170 | 0.2 mb
As governments around the world grapple with the challenge of delivering environmental sustainability, attention has recently focused on the role that citizens should play in meeting the challenge. In advanced industrial countries such as ours, which operate in the political framework of liberal capitalism, what relevance can we place on ‘environmental citizenship’?

Free Download Characterisation of a Personal Learning Environment as a Lifelong Learning Tool By Sabrina Leone (auth.)
2013 | 88 Pages | ISBN: 1461462738 | PDF | 3 MB
​This work focuses on the characterization of adult lifelong learners’ Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) by implicit and explicit tools of personalization. It aims aims toward creating a system for the development of a learning path for the characterisation of PLE for adult life learners. The synergy of formal and informal learning in the dynamic construction of a lifelong learner’s PLE is fully explored, with the recognition that the majority of learning, especially for life long learners, occurs outside traditional learning formats.Specifically, this volume discusses the design, implementation, and validation of the SSW4LL (Social Semantic Web for Lifelong Learners) format, and the the SSW4LL system, built on Moodle 2.0 integrated with an adaptive mechanism (conditional activities) and some tools of Social Semantic Web (Semantic MediaWiki, Diigo and Google+). With thoroughly grounded cases studies, this volume makes the case that these systems are suitable to provide a dynamically personalized learning environment to the lifelong learner. All of these environments are fully discussed and cases made for each as a tool for constructing adult learners’ PLEs.​

Free Download Toxic Effects of Micro- and Nanoplastics: Environment, Food and Human Health by Inamuddin, Tariq Altalhi, Virgínia Cruz Fernandes
English | July 3, 2024 | ISBN: 1394238126 | 608 pages | PDF | 14 Mb
This book provides in-depth coverage of the sources, dispersion, life cycle assessment strategies, physico-chemical interactions, methods of analysis, toxicological investigation, and remediation strategies of micro and nanoplastics.

Free Download Carole Rawcliffe, "Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe "
English | ISBN: 9462985197 | 2019 | 318 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Tapping into a combination of court documents, urban statutes, material artefacts, health guides and treatises, Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe offers a unique perspective on how premodern public authorities tried to create a clean, healthy environment. Overturning many preconceptions about medieval dirt and squalor, it presents the most outstanding recent scholarship on how public health norms were enforced in the judicial, religious and socio-cultural sphere before the advent of modern medicine and the nation-state, crossing geographical and linguistic boundaries and engaging with factors such as spiritual purity, civic pride and good neighbourliness.

Free Download Poetry and the Built Environment: A Theory of the Flesh of Art
by Elizabeth Fowler
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0192888994 | 289 Pages | PDF | 6.8 MB

Free Download Stephen Bocking, "Nature’s Experts: Science, Politics, and the Environment"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 0813533988 | PDF | pages: 310 | 1.0 mb
"With clarity and grace, Stephen Bocking tackles the complicated question of the role of scientific expertise in environmental policy making. Nature’s Experts is a timely and important book."-David H. Guston, author of Between Politics and Science: Assuring the Integrity and Productivity of Research

Free Download Ice Physics and the Natural Environment By J. S. Wettlaufer (auth.), John S. Wettlaufer, J. Gregory Dash, Norbert Untersteiner (eds.)
1999 | 355 Pages | ISBN: 3642642268 | PDF | 12 MB
The Advanced Study Institute Ice Physics in the Natural and Endangered Environ ment was held at Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, from September 7 to 19, 1997. The ASI was designed to study the broad range of ice science and technology, and it brought together an appropriately interdisciplinary group of lecturers and students to study the many facets of the subject. The talks and poster presentations explored how basic molecular physics of ice have important environmental consequences, and, con versely, how natural phenomena present new questions for fundamental study. The of lectures discusses these linkages, in order that overall unity of following sunimary the subject and this volume can be perceived. Not all of the lecturers and participants were able to contribute a written piece, but their active involvement was crucial to the success of the Institute and thereby influenced the content of the volume. We began the Institute by retracing the history of the search for a microscopic un derstanding of melting. Our motivation was straightforward. Nearly every phenome non involving ice in the environment is influenced by the change of phase from solid to liquid or vice-versa. Hence, a sufficiently deep physical picture of the melting tran sition enriches our appreciation of a vast array of geophysical and technical problems.