In India, you can still find the kabaadiwala, the rag-and-bone man. He wanders from house to house buying old newspapers, broken utensils, plastic bottlesーanything for which he can get a little cas……続きを見る
Issues in Underground Storage Tank Management presents a comprehensive description of the many complex facets of hazardous waste management, tank closure, and site assessment. It is also the only bo……続きを見る
著者:Robin Nagle
出版社: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
発売日: 2013年03月19日
A "gripping" behind-the-scenes look at New York's sanitation workers by an anthropologist who joined the force (Robert Sullivan, author of Rats).
America's largest city generates garbage in torrents……続きを見る
This second edition of Geotechnical Slope Analysis is an updated version of the original scholarly book. In this edition, concepts and applications have been thoroughly revised. In particular, the ‘……続きを見る
Ecocriticism is a mode of interdisciplinary critical inquiry into the relationship between cultural production, society, and the environment. The field advocates for the more-than-human realm as wel……続きを見る
Clean technology does not just aim to dilute or detoxify industrial waste. It aims to eliminate it by re-engineering the entire production cycle. As industry is constrained by regulations on the one……続きを見る
著者:Robin Crockett
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2019年02月14日
Time-series analysis is used to identify and quantify periodic features in datasets and has many applications across the geosciences, from analysing weather data, to solid-Earth geophysical modellin……続きを見る
The world consists of many complex systems, ranging from our own bodies to ecosystems to economic systems. Despite their diversity, complex sys tems have many structural and functional features in c……続きを見る
An examination of anti–water privatization movements in the United States and Canada that explores the interplay of the local and the global.
Attempts by local governments to privatize water service……続きを見る
Climate change is perhaps the most important issue of our time and yet despite the urgency of the problem, the measures necessary to mitigate it have not been implemented. International cooperation ……続きを見る
During the past few years the worlds has reverberated of names like Seveso, Love Canal, Lekkerkerk, Times Beach, just to name the most publicized ones. All these names are connected with hazardous o……続きを見る