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Environmental Contamination
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ISBN: 953515219X 953510120X Year: 2012 Publisher: IntechOpen

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Nature minimizes the hazards, while man maximizes them. This is not an assumption, but a basic idea of the findings of scientists from all over the world. The last two centuries have witnessed the indiscriminate development and overexploitation of natural resources by man causing alterations and impairment of our own environment. Environmental contamination is the result of the irrational use of resources at the wrong place and at the wrong time. Environmental contamination has changed the lifestyle of people virtually all over the world, and has reduced the extent of life on earth. Today, we are bound to compromises with such environmental conditions, which was not anticipated for the sustenance of humanity and other life forms. Let us find out the problem and its management within this book.

Ecological resistance movements : the global emergence of radical and popular environmentalism
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ISBN: 058508713X 9780585087139 0791426459 0791426467 1438421907 Year: 1995 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

The love of nature and the end of the world
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ISBN: 0262280655 0585442614 9780585442617 0262140764 9780262140768 9780262280655 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press


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Building common interests in the Arctic Ocean with global inclusion.
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ISBN: 3030893111 303089312X Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature Switzerland AG,

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This book contains an inclusive compilation of perspectives about the Arctic Ocean with contributions that extend from Indigenous residents and early career scientists to Foreign Ministers, involving perspectives across the spectrum of subnational-national-international jurisdictions. The Arctic Ocean is being transformed with global climate warming into a seasonally ice-free sea, creating challenges as well as opportunities that operate short-to-long term, underscoring the necessity to make informed decisions across a continuum of urgencies from security to sustainability time scales. The Arctic Ocean offers a case study with lessons that are especially profound at this moment when humankind is exposed to a pandemic, awakening a common interest in survival across our globally-interconnected civilization unlike any period since the Second World War. This second volume in the Informed Decisionmaking for Sustainability series reveals that building global inclusion involves common interests to address changes effectively for the benefit of all on Earth across generations.


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Environmental degradation in Asia : land degradation, environmental contamination, and human activities
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ISBN: 3031121112 3031121120 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer,


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Sentient ecologies : xenophobic imaginaries of landscape
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ISBN: 1800737661 Year: 2022 Publisher: New York, New York : Berghahn Books,

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"Employing methodological perspectives from the fields of political geography, environmental studies, anthropology, and their cognate disciplines, this volume explores alternative logics of sentient landscapes as racist, xenophobic, and right-wing. While the field of sentient landscapes has gained critical attention, the literature rarely seems to question the intentionality of sentient landscapes, which are often romanticized as pure, good, and just, and perceived as protectors of those who are powerless, indigenous, and colonized. The book takes a new stance on sentient landscapes with the intention of dispelling the denial of "coevalness" represented by their scholarly romanticization"--


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Environmental inequalities beyond borders : local perspectives on global injustices
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ISBN: 1283119161 9786613119162 0262295687 0262294575 9780262295680 9781283119160 9780262015516 026201551X 9780262515870 0262515873 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,

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Case studies demonstrate the spatial disconnect between global consumption and production and its effects on local environmental quality and human rights.


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Habitats of the World : Biodiversity and Threats
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ISBN: 1789844878 1839680083 178984486X Year: 2020 Publisher: IntechOpen

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Today it is not easy to talk about habitats and to think about the various threats facing them. We are living in an age in which we are poised between having everything immediately, and maintaining good living conditions on Earth. Unfortunately, this is almost impossible!For this reason it is important that everyone understands the importance of the habitats of the world and the inhabitants: including humans!This book aims to describe some of the world's habitats, their characteristics, and their daily threats. This is done in the hope that our children will see all of this tomorrow. Enjoy reading!

Crazy Mountains
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ISBN: 0585046131 9780585046136 0791426513 0791426521 1438421516 Year: 1995 Publisher: Albany, N.Y. State University of New York Press

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Written in the tradition of Walden and A River Runs Through It with philosophical clarity and literary power, this book opens with a vivid account of the Crazy Mountains of Montana, an island of high, craggy peaks, forest, meadows, and rushing streams, surrounded by the sweep of the high plains. A newly-bulldozed road and a planned timber sale jeopardize the wild character of the range and trigger the wide-ranging reflections of this remarkable book. This book presents a comprehensive vision of the challenge wilderness offers to our contemporary culture.


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Exploring environmental change using an integrative method
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ISBN: 0429078420 1482287447 1280105240 9786610105243 0203304039 9780203304037 Year: 1999 Publisher: Australia : Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, an imprint of Overseas Publishers Association,

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This text draws upon 'complex systems' thinking to introduce a policy-related integrative method for diagnosing and managing environmental change. This conveys how existing intellectual resources can be exploited to explore environmental decision issues without resoring to such devices as 'meta-methods' or 'meta-disciplines'.

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