Download or read book Reducing Pollution and Waste written by Jen Green and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2012 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the issue of pollution and waste throughout the world, including the long- and short-term affects on the environment, worldwide government regulations on pollution, and how to reduce waste and pollution.
Download or read book Reducing Pollution written by John Coad and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how pollution occurs, its impact on the Earth, and what alternatives are available to help prevent pollution in the future.
Download or read book Clearing the Air written by Jørgen Wettestad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002: The adoption of the 1999 Gothenburg Protocol within the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) and the 2001 EU National Emission Ceilings (NEC) directive has made for much stronger European air pollution policies. This volume offers the first in-depth analysis available of this key development. Central questions discussed include: -What role did the three new Green member states joining the EU in 1995 play in this development? -Will these significantly stronger policies only be followed by weaker implementation? -Why are the EU emission ceilings more ambitious than those of CLRTAP? -Do these more ambitious EU NEC emission ceilings and wider trends such as EU enlargement signal that CLRTAP is fading away as a central forum for European policy development? Decision makers, negotiators and international and non-governmental organizations will benefit from this book as it discusses important institutional issues. Students and academics will also find it extremely useful.
Download or read book Pollution written by Christiane Dorion and published by Encyclopaedia Britannica. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in British English, Did you know that each year more than 5 million people die from diseases caused by drinking polluted water? Our modern lifestyle is producing more and more waste and air pollution that is changing the climate. This book looks at the causes of pollution and the dangers of continuing to produce, consume, and dispose of products the way we do. It examines the efforts individuals and governments are taking to reduce pollution and find more sustainable ways of living.
Download or read book How Can We Reduce Transportation Pollution written by L J Amstutz and published by Lerner Publications (Tm). This book was released on 2016 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title delves into different issues pertaining to transportation pollution and its causes, effects, and how we can proactively deal with it to make our planet a cleaner and healthier place.
Download or read book How Can We Reduce Manufacturing Pollution written by Douglas Hustad and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Factories create large amounts of pollution when making their products. But did you know that new technology helps factories significantly reduce the amount of that pollution? Or that governments have rules about how much pollution factories can put into the environment? Get the inside story on manufacturing pollution. As part of the Searchlight BooksTM collection, this series sheds light on an important question—What Can We Do about Pollution? Informative text, compelling photos, and engaging captions will help you find the answer!
Download or read book Tackling Pollution written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tackling Pollution written by Institution of Environmental Health Officers and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Super Polluters written by Don Grant and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power plants are essential to achieving the standard of living that modern societies demand and the social and economic infrastructure on which they depend. Yet their indispensability has allowed them to evade responsibility for their vast carbon emissions. Fossil-fueled power plants are the single largest sites of anthropogenic greenhouse gases, making them one of the greatest threats to our planet’s climate. Significant as they are, we lack a comprehensive understanding of the social causes that enable power plant emissions and continue to delay their reduction. Super Polluters offers a groundbreaking global analysis of carbon pollution caused by the generation of electricity, pinpointing who bears the most responsibility for the energy sector’s vast emissions and what can be done about them. The sociologists Don Grant, Andrew Jorgenson, and Wesley Longhofer analyze a novel dataset on the carbon dioxide emissions and structural attributes of thousands of fossil-fueled power plants around the world, identifying which plants discharge the most carbon. They investigate the global, organizational, and political conditions that explain these hyper-emitting facilities’ behavior and call into question the claim that improvements in technical efficiency will always reduce emissions. Grant, Jorgenson, and Longhofer demonstrate which energy and climate policies are most effective at abating power-plant pollution, emphasizing how mobilized citizen activism shapes those outcomes. A comprehensive account of who bears the blame for our warming planet, Super Polluters points to more feasible and effective emission reduction strategies that target the world’s most profligate polluters.
Download or read book Reducing Pollution and Waste written by Jen Green and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2012 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the issue of pollution and waste throughout the world, including the long- and short-term affects on the environment, worldwide government regulations on pollution, and how to reduce waste and pollution.
Download or read book WHO global air quality guidelines written by Weltgesundheitsorganisation and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main objective of these updated global guidelines is to offer health-based air quality guideline levels, expressed as long-term or short-term concentrations for six key air pollutants: PM2.5, PM10, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide. In addition, the guidelines provide interim targets to guide reduction efforts of these pollutants, as well as good practice statements for the management of certain types of PM (i.e., black carbon/elemental carbon, ultrafine particles, particles originating from sand and duststorms). These guidelines are not legally binding standards; however, they provide WHO Member States with an evidence-informed tool, which they can use to inform legislation and policy. Ultimately, the goal of these guidelines is to help reduce levels of air pollutants in order to decrease the enormous health burden resulting from the exposure to air pollution worldwide.
Download or read book Reducing Air Pollution written by Jen Green and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the importance of air quality, including how the air is polluted and what can be done to reduce air pollution.
Download or read book Air Quality Guidelines written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2006 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents revised guideline values for the four most common air pollutants - particulate matter, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide - based on a recent review of the accumulated scientific evidence. The rationale for selection of each guideline value is supported by a synthesis of information emerging from research on the health effects of each pollutant. As a result, these guidelines now also apply globally. They can be read in conjunction with Air quality guidelines for Europe, 2nd edition, which is still the authority on guideline values for all other air pollutants. As well as revised guideline values, this book makes a brief yet comprehensive review of the issues affecting the application of the guidelines in risk assessment and policy development. Further, it summarizes information on: . pollution sources and levels in various parts of the world, . population exposure and characteristics affecting sensitivity to pollution, . methods for quantifying the health burden of air pollution, and . the use of guidelines in developing air quality standards and other policy tools. Finally, the special case of indoor air pollution is explored. Prepared by a large team of renowned international experts who considered conditions in various parts of the globe, these guidelines are applicable throughout the world. They provide reliable guidance for policy-makers everywhere when considering the various options for air quality management.
Download or read book Tackling Pollution written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and published by . This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Clean Planet written by Tristan Boyer Binns and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2005 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on air and water pollution and how to stop it.
Download or read book Defending the Public Domain written by Paul H. Templet and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, industry has come under criticism for failing to cover the environmental costs of doing business. When companies are allowed to pollute, or to use natural resources without paying their full price, they are in effect appropriating natural capital -- land, air, & water -- without compensation to society at large. Economists have paid a good deal of attention to the inefficiencies that result when companies pass on, or ¿externalize,¿ production costs in the form of environmental damage. But few have looked at the broader effects of externalities on public welfare, particularly on the distr. of wealth. This research suggests that externalities are an important force behind economic inequality & poverty in the U.S. Charts & tables.
Download or read book Controlling and Reducing Pollution from Plastic Waste written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental Protection and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
