Download or read book Air Pollution and Its Impacts on U S National Parks written by Timothy J. Sullivan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A variety of air pollutants are emitted into the atmosphere from human-caused and natural emissions sources throughout the United States and elsewhere. These contaminants impact sensitive natural resources in wilderness, including the national parks. The system of national parks in the United States is among our greatest assets. This book provides a compilation and synthesis of current scientific understanding regarding the causes and effects of these pollutants within national park lands. It describes pollutant emissions, deposition, and exposures; it identifies the critical (tipping point) loads of pollutant deposition at which adverse impacts are manifested.

Download or read book Bioformulations for Sustainable Agriculture written by Naveen Kumar Arora and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a century has passed since the first bioformulations were introduced to the market. But there is still much to be done, explored and developed. Though bioformulations offer green alternatives and are important for sustainable agriculture, they make up only a small fraction of the total additions used to enhance crop yields or protect them from pests. There is a great need to develop bioformulations that can promote confidence among end users; accordingly, it is imperative that bioformulations to replace chemicals be reliable and overcome the shortcomings of the past. Bioformulations: for Sustainable Agriculture discusses all the issues related to the current limitations and future development of bioformulations. It examines in detail those bioformulations that include biofertilizers and biopesticides (also commonly known as bioinoculants), presenting a global picture of their development. Further chapters address diverse microbes that are already being or could be used as bioformulations. The book also discusses the techniques, tools and other additions required to establish bioformulations as trustworthy and global solutions. It assesses the types of bioformulations currently available on the market, while also considering the future roles of bioformulations, including the reclamation of marginal and polluted soils. Further, it discusses the current legislation and much-needed amendments. Overall the book provides a comprehensive outlook on the status quo of bioformulations and the future approaches needed to improve them and achieve sustainable agriculture and food security without sacrificing the quality of soils. This will be extremely important in offering chemical-free foods and a better future for generations to come.

Download or read book Dark Pedagogy written by Jonas Andreasen Lysgaard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark pedagogy explores how different perspectives can be incorporated into a darker understanding of environmental and sustainability education. Drawing on the work of the classic horror author H.P. Lovecraft and new materialist insights of speculative realism, the authors link Lovecraft’s ‘tales of the horrible’ to the current spectres of environmental degradation, climate change, and pollution. In doing so, they draw parallels between how humans have always related to the ‘horrible’ things that are scaled beyond our understanding and how education can respond to an era of climate catastrophe in the age of the Anthropocene. A new and darker understanding of environmental and sustainability education is thus developed: using the tripartite reaction pattern of denial, insanity and death to frame the narrative, the book subsequently examines the specific challenges of potentials of developing education and pedagogy for an age of mass extinction. This unflinching book will appeal to students and scholars of dark pedagogies as well as those interested in environment and sustainability education.

Download or read book Microorganisms for Sustainable Environment and Health written by Pankaj Chowdhary and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Microorganisms for Sustainable Environment and Health covers hazardous pollutants released from natural as well as anthropogenic activities and implications on environmental and human health. This book serves as a valuable source of basic knowledge and recent developments in the clean technologies and pollution-associated diseases and abnormalities in the context of microorganisms. Focused on current solutions to various environmental problems in the field of bioremediation, it provides a detailed knowledge on the various types of toxic environmental pollutants discharged from different sources, their toxicological effects in environments, humans, animals and plants as well as their biodegradation and bioremediation approaches. This book helps environmental scientists and microbiologists learn about existing environmental problems and suggests ways to control or contain their effects by employing various treatment approaches. - Provides information on waste treatment approaches using microbes - Includes applications in biofuel and bioenergy production - Covers green belt development, hydroponics, phytoremediation, wetland treatment technology, and common effluent treatment plants (CETPs) - Discusses dissemination of antibiotic resistance among pathogenic microbes and strategies to combat multi-drug resistance (MDR)

Download or read book Annual Report and Findings Update written by National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program (U.S.). Office of the Director and published by . This book was released on 198? with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program written by National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program (U.S.). Office of the Director of Research and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Acid Deposition written by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Monitoring and Assessment of Trends in Acid Deposition and published by . This book was released on 1986-01-15 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And synthesis -- Emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides and trends for eastern North America / Rudolf B. Husar -- Uncertainties in trends in acid deposition : the role of climatic fluctuations / Raymond S. Bradley -- Patterns and trends in data for atmospheric sulfates and visibility / John Trijonis -- Precipitation chemistry / Gary J. Stensland, Douglas M. Whelpdale, Gary Oehlert -- The nature and timing of the deterioration of red spruce in the northern Appalachian mountains / Arthur H. Johnson and Samuel B. McLaughlin -- Streams and lakes / James R. Kramer, Anders W. Andren, Richard A. Smith, Arthur H. Johnson, Richard B. Alexander, Gary Oehlert -- Fish population trends in response to surface water acidification / Terry A. Haines -- Paleolimnological evidence for trends in atmospheric deposition of acids and metals / Donald F. Charles, Stephen A. Norton

Download or read book Inventory of research under the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program written by United States. Interagency Task Force on Acid Precipitation and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program written by National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report and Findings Update written by National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program (U.S.). Office of the Director and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: