The book focuses on heavy metals that have damaged the ecosystem Earth and its life forms. It characterizes natural and anthropogenic sources of pollutants, identifies physical ...

Population: Answering the Needs and Demands The world’s human populationis 6. 6+ billion people and growing(by 80 million in 2005). Most of the growth is in less developed ...

This book covers the early stages of development planning in relation to the inevitable occurrence of natural hazards & their damaging affects. Events such as earthquakes ...

This book brings together in a single volume a grand overview of solutions - political, economic, and scientific - to social and environmental problems that are related to the ...

This book advances a three-step program for mitigation of natural and anthropogenic hazards, addressing mitigation economics and funding possibilities to meet the needs of at ...

This book discusses existing and future global problems of physical, chemical, biological and societal origins faced by increasingly populated cities and mega-cities, and ...