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Author: Robert H. Armon Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9401794995 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 1068
Book Description
Environmental indicators are the first line of warning against hazards caused by humans or nature catastrophes to prevent diseases and death of living organisms. The present book covers a large variety of environmental indicators from physical-chemistry through economical, bioinformatics, electromagnetic irradiation and health aspects, all dealing with environmental pollution. This volume has been intended to environmentalists, engineers, scientists and policy makers as well to anybody interested in the latest development in the indicator field.
Author: Robert H. Armon Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9401794995 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 1068
Book Description
Environmental indicators are the first line of warning against hazards caused by humans or nature catastrophes to prevent diseases and death of living organisms. The present book covers a large variety of environmental indicators from physical-chemistry through economical, bioinformatics, electromagnetic irradiation and health aspects, all dealing with environmental pollution. This volume has been intended to environmentalists, engineers, scientists and policy makers as well to anybody interested in the latest development in the indicator field.
Author: Michael John Wilson Publisher: CABI ISBN: 1845933850 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 340
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Nematodes are the most wide spread multicellular animals in nature and analysis of nematodes in terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments as well as their role and function in ecosystems, can be used for environmental monitoring. Compared to other organisms, they offer the greatest potential as bioindicators and can be used to study gene expression in relation to environmental challenges, to monitor changing impacts on the environment and in laboratory ecotoxicity tests. This volume addresses classical and molecular approaches to nematode community analysis, the contemporary field of nematodes as biosensors, as well as genomic aspects of nematode bioindicators. In addition, the case studies stress the importance of these bioindicators and demonstrate the commercial potential of these technologies.
Author: Tomás Hák Publisher: Island Press ISBN: 1597266280 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 448
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While the concept of sustainability has been widely embraced, it has been only vaguely defined and is exceedingly difficult to measure. Sustainability indicators are critical to making the broad concept of sustainability operational by providing specific measures by which decision makers and the public can judge progress. Sustainability Indicators defines the present state of the art in indicator development. It presents a comprehensive assessment of the science behind various indicators, while placing special emphasis on their use as communications tools. The contributors draw on their experience as academics and practitioners to describe the conceptual challenges to measuring something as complex as sustainability at local, regional, national, and global scales. The book also reviews existing indicators to assess how they could be better employed, considering which indicators are overused and which have been underutilized. Sustainability Indicators will help planners and policy makers find indicators that are ready for application and relevant to their needs, and will help researchers identify the unresolved issues where progress is most urgently needed. All readers will find advice as to the most effective ways to use indicators to support decision making.
Author: Bernd Lottermoser Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319427318 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 413
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This book represents an important new contribution to the literature that presents practical and comprehensive solutions to mining activities. Its timely content has been prepared by several experts from around the world and its practical format addresses the major environmental predictive techniques required for the extraction and processing of metal resources. Packed with reviews and case studies, it covers current methods used to forecast environmental effects of metal mining.
Author: OECD Publisher: OECD Publishing ISBN: 9264012192 Category : Languages : en Pages : 156
Book Description
This book includes key environmental indicators endorsed by OECD Environment Ministers and major environmental indicators from the OECD Core Set.
Author: OECD Publisher: OECD Publishing ISBN: 926418855X Category : Languages : en Pages : 416
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This book is the first comprehensive study to review and take stock in OECD countries of progress in developing indicators to measure the environmental performance of agriculture.
Author: Eduardo Jacob-Lopes Publisher: Elsevier ISBN: 0128236043 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 214
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Sustainability Metrics and Indicators of Environmental Impact: Industrial and Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment covers trending topics on the environmental impact of systems of production, putting emphasis on lifecycle assessment (LCA). This methodology is one of the most important tools of analysis, as mathematical models are applied that will quantify the systematic inputs and outputs of the processes in order to evaluate the sustainability of industrial processes and products. In this sense, LCA is mainly a tool to support environmental decision-making that analyzes the environmental impacts of products and technologies from a lifecycle perspective. The emergence of ever-larger global issues, such as the energy dilemma, the changing climate and the scarcity of natural resources, such as water, has boosted the search for tools capable of ensuring the reliability of the results published by the industries, and has become an important tool in order to achieve sustainability and environmental preservation. Thus, lifecycle assessment (LCA), including carbon footprint valuation is necessary to ensure better internal management. Provides guidance on environmental impacts and the carbon footprint of industrial processes Features guidelines in lifecycle assessment to support a sustainable approach, along with quantifiable data to support proposed solutions Includes a companion website with slides and graphics to quantity environmental impact and other metrics of lifecycle assessment
Author: Sven Jørgensen Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1439858519 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 376
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Continuing in the tradition of its bestselling predecessor, the Handbook of Ecological Indicators for Assessment of Ecosystem Health, Second Edition brings together world-class editors and contributors who have been at the forefront of ecosystem health assessment research for decades, to provide a sound approach to environmental management and sust
Author: Arthur Hermans Publisher: Nova Science Publishers ISBN: 9781628082593 Category : Air quality Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book discusses the environmental indicators, monitoring and health implications of air quality. Topics in this compilation include the application of a Mars-based regression model to the air quality study in Northern Spain; microbial air sampling; the impact of air pollution from the mining-metallurgical complex on the content of total sulphur in plant material and soil; ecotoxicity assessment of traffic-related airborne pollution; and air quality in occupied school buildings spaces in the south of Portugal.
Author: Julie L. Hass Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers ISBN: 928932371X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 87
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Finding and using indicators that are most suited for tracking progress, raising awareness and supporting analysis is a challenge. Indicators need to be used in appropriate contexts and should ideally be fit-for-purpose. For example, indicators which are best used for awareness-raising cannot be used for monitoring policy goals. This report presents a short review of different indicators typically encountered by environmental policy makers. General advice is provided regarding their uses. In the second part of the report, an overview of the environmental-economic accounting work of the Nordic statistical institutes is presented. Lessons learned from the development of these accounts as well as ideas for future work are described. These types of environmental accounts provide a framework for developing information about the connections between the economy and the environment. The study was commissioned by the Nordic Council of Ministers and conducted by the national statistical agencies in the Nordic countries, led by Statistics Norway and Statistics Sweden.
Author: Robert H. Armon
Author: Robert H. Armon
Author: Michael John Wilson
Author: Tomás Hák
Author: Bernd Lottermoser
Author: OECD
Author: OECD
Author: Eduardo Jacob-Lopes
Author: Sven Jørgensen
Author: Arthur Hermans
Author: Julie L. Hass