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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Poulopoulos, Stavros G.,
• Inglezakis, Vassilis J.,

Titel

Environment and development : basic principles, human activities, and environmental implications

Ist Teil von

• Gale eBooks

Ort / Verlag

Amsterdam : Elsevier,

Erscheinungsjahr

[2016]

Link zum Volltext

• Elsevier Books AutoHoldings

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• 2.1. Introduction: The Stratification of Atmosphere2.2. Scales of Atmospheric Pollution; 2.3. Ambient Air Pollution and Health Effects; 2.4. Indoor Air Pollution; 2.5. Noise; Chapter 3. Aquatic Environment; 3.1. Introduction: The Importance of Water; 3.2. The Distribution of Freshwater; 3.3. Conventional and Nonconventional Sources of Drinking Water; 3.4. Hydrological Cycle; 3.5. Water Stressors; 3.6. Climate Change and Freshwater Pressure; 3.7. Water Pollution; 3.8. International Water Policy and Legislation; 3.9. Wastewater as a Resource; 3.10. Wastewater Treatment Technologies
• 3.11. Drinking Water Treatment Technologies3.12. Water Economics and Management; Chapter 4. Soil Environment; 4.1. Introduction: Basic Definitions; 4.2. Soil Threats and Degradation; 4.3. Desertification; 4.4. International Policy; 4.5. Building a Strategy for Soil Protection at Local Scale-The Case of Agricultural Wastes Disposal on Soil; Chapter 5. Urban Environment; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Key Urban Environmental Problems; 5.3. Stress Posed to Natural Sources by Urbanization; 5.4. Measures for Restoration/Conservation of the Urban Environment; 5.5. Transport and Land Use; 5.6. Air Quality
• 8.4. Quantifying the Interactions Between Development and Environment
• This book focuses on the adverse impacts of human activities and development on both natural and inhabited environments. It covers associated problems and solutions for achieving harmonic sustainable development in a range of environments and presents the latest research findings in global environmental policy.
• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 8, 2016).