Considered the "bible of biofilters," Biofiltration for Air Pollution Control provides a complete description of the biological treatment of contaminated air. This second edition expands its coverage to include biotrickling filters. The text discusses fundamental principles of air-phase biological treatment, examines how these principles govern the operation of biofilters as well as biotrickling filters, and presents mathematical modeling design principles of such systems. Reflecting recent adva...
Highlighting the contributions of Victorian and Edwardian women to the study, protection, and writing of nature, this text recovers their works from the misrepresentation they often faced at the time of their composition. Barbara T. Gates discusses not just well-known women like Beatrix Potter but also others - scientists, writers, gardeners, and illustrators - who are little known today. Some of these women discovered previously unknown species, others wrote and illustrated natural histories or...
The Influence of Agriculture on the Quality of Natural Waters in England and Wales (Water Quality S., #6)
Biodiversity and Conservation offers an introductory guide through the maze of interdisciplinary themes that combine under the concept of 'biodiversity'. Featuring lively and engaging examples from the UK, Africa and several oceanic islands and elsewhere the book defines and explains core topics of biodiversity, from creation and natural processes, measurements and patterns of extant biodiversity, losses, causes and consequences, to legislative, species/habitat protection and economic approaches...
The Landowner's Guide to State-protected Plants of Forests in New York State
by Dudley J. Raynal and Donald J. Leopold
This volume features 150 state-protected herbacious and woody species found in wetland and upland forests throughout the New York and the Northeast. It shows key botanical details of each species and its habitat, and offers a general introduction to the various categories of rarity in New York.
Untersuchungen Zur Immissionsbelastung Der Berliner Forsten (Dissertationes Botanicae,, #170)
by Kristina Markan and Uwe Fischer
Brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Area
by Principal Investigators Norman F Cheville and Dale R McCullough
Cadmium (Environmental Toxin, #2)
On May 25,1978, the Commission on Toxicology ofthe Division of Clinical Chemistry of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) established its Subcommittee on Environmental and Occupational Toxicology of Cadmium following aseries of Commission meetings in Kristiansand, Norway. I was appointed chairman ofthe new Subcommittee by the Commission on Toxicology (chairman at that time F. w. Sun derman Jr. ) in which I served from 1977 as an Associate Member and from 1979 as a Titul...
The radical rewilder The Times As seen on BBC's 'The One Show' This authentic, impassioned manifesto-cum-memoir will hopefully have a major impact on what is likely to be a long-running controversy. The Spectator Gow reinvents what it means to be a guardian of the countryside. the Guardian Gow has a fire in his belly. We need more like him. BBC Wildlife Magazine Bringing Back the Beaver is farmer-turned-ecologist Derek Gow’s inspirational and often riotously funny first-hand account of how...
UV-unterstutzte Nassoxidation zur weitergehenden Abwasserbehandlung
by University Michael Meyer
Environmental impact analysis of pulp and paper production
by Matthias Okoro
SeattleOil.com The Internet writings of John Michael Greer - beyond any doubt the greatest peak oil historian in the English language - have finally made their way into print. Greer fans will recognize many of the book's passages from previous essays, but will be delighted to see them fleshed out here with additional examples and analysis.The Long Descent is one of the most highly anticipated peak oil books of the year, and it lives up to every ounce of hype. Greer is a captivating, brilliantly...
The Radon Manual
Identical twin brothers Andy and Dave Hamilton live in the centre of Bristol. Attracted to the pub and music scene of the bustling city, they still yearn for elements of the good life. So ever since they were students, they have used their initiative and imagination to think up ways to live in a frugal and self-sufficientish way, while still enjoying life to the full. Having set up their website www.selfsufficientish.com in 2004, they discovered that their approach and ethos touched a nerve wit...
This book examines the long-term fate of invasive species by detailing examples of invaders from different zoological and botanical taxa from various places around the world. Readers will discover what happened, after a century or so, to 'classical' invaders like rabbits in Australia, house sparrows in North America, minks in Europe and water hyacinths in Africa and Asia. Chapters presented in the book focus on eighteen species in the form of in-depth case studies including: earthworms, zebra m...