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Environmental effects of industries and plants

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  • Energy, Society and Environmentby David Elliott

    Routledge 1997; US$ 47.95

    Energy, Society and Environment examines the potential and limits of technical solutions to environmental problems and suggests the social, economic and political changes necessary to avoid serious environmental damage in the future. more...

  • Environmental Impact Assessmentby Peter Wathern

    Routledge 1990; US$ 67.95

    Provides an authoritative contemporary review of both the science and art of EIA, reflecting concern both with the technical aspects of appraisal and the effects of EIA on the decision-making process. more...

  • Environmental Impact Assessmentby David P. Lawrence

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003; US$ 157.99

    This book challenges the prevailing assumption that Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) should be structured around a unitary EIA process. The book begins by identifying, through a scenario, eight recurrent problems in EIA practice. The characteristics of multiple variations of conventional EIA processes, at both the regulatory and applied levels, are then presented. The residual problems that remain after the conventional processes are described and assessed providing the springboard for a description and analysis of eight alternative EIA processes. more...

  • Agricultural Pollutionby G. Merrington; L. Winder; R. Parkinson; M Redman

    Spon Press 2002; US$ 84.95

    This is a well illustrated and fully-referenced introduction to the main contemporary agricultural pollution issues in the UK. It provides a concise, yet comprehensive overview of the environmental pollution caused by agriculture. more...

  • Dams and Diseaseby William Jobin

    Spon Press 1999; US$ 210.00

    This book provides planners with an overview of a number of global water projects and the unexpected ecological consequences which the engineers encountered or caused. The examples stress human health and aquatic ecology. more...

  • Energy, Society and Environmentby David Elliott

    Routledge 2003; US$ 51.95

    Uses global case studies to examine technological solutions to energy-related environmental problems and suggests that social, economic and political solutions may be needed to avoid serious future environmental damage. more...

  • Mining Environmental Handbookby J J Marcus

    World Scientific 1997; US$ 249.60

    Negative environmental events make the headlines. Mining industry examples are the recent incidents at Summitville, Colorado, US, and the cyanide leak at Cambria Resource's Omai Operation in Guyana. In this volatile atmosphere, the publication of the Mining Environmental Handbook comes at an opportune time. It presents an objective, comprehensive and integrated examination of the effects of mining on the environment, and the environmental laws that deal with mining. Though stressing activities in the United States of America, it covers all of North America. more...

  • Analysing Strategic Environmental Assessmentby P. Caratti; H. Dalkmann; R. Jiliberto

    Edward Elgar Publishing 2004; US$ 40.00

    International contributors outline a new approach to environmental evaluation based on decision theory, policy analysis, and environmental considerations. The collection--which focuses on EU directives and policy--presents recent research on implementation of Analytical Strategic Environmental Assessment, or ANSEA, which aims to ensure that environ more...