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Books in Environmental sciences

The Environmental Sciences titles present critical research and insights into the complex interactions within natural ecosystems, climate systems, and human impacts on the environment. Covering areas such as biodiversity, sustainability, climate change, and resource management, these titles support scientific discovery and practical solutions for addressing today’s most pressing environmental challenges. This collection is essential for researchers, policymakers, and students dedicated to advancing environmental understanding and stewardship

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    • Climate Change and Soil Interactions

      • 2nd Edition
      • October 21, 2025
      • Marcin Pietrzykowski + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 4 0 2 9 2 0
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 4 0 2 9 3 7
      Climate Change and Soil Interactions: Drivers and Pathways for Sustainability, Second Edition delves into the critical relationship between soil systems and climate change, offering innovative research on soil carbonization, biodiversity, and vegetation. This comprehensive resource examines strategies for preserving eco-sustainability, focusing on microbial responses and soil health under changing climatic conditions. The book emphasizes the importance of understanding soil systems' physical, chemical, and biological interactions to restore soil vitality amidst climate shifts.Beyond these foundational topics, the book also discusses the latest advancements in soil improvement practices. It serves as an essential guide for agricultural, ecological, and environmental researchers, providing up-to-date information on the dynamic interplay between climate change and soil. The insights offered are vital for soil scientists and climatologists seeking to navigate and mitigate the impacts of climate change on soil interactions.

    • Integrated Strategies for Developing Sustainable Energy Systems

      • 1st Edition
      • October 21, 2025
      • Esbeydi Villicaña-García + 5 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 4 2 8 6 8
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 4 2 8 7 5
      Integrated Strategies for Developing Sustainable Energy Systems: From Carbon Capture to Energy System Optimization brings together insights into sustainable energy production and carbon capture technologies, as well as strategies for more sustainable chemical processes, from all aspects from process design and optimization strategies, through to effective implementation. This book equips readers with the knowledge and tools to implement sustainable chemical processes, providing them with the knowledge and tools needed to advance sustainability and energy optimization in their respective fields. The content combines a strong theoretical foundation, methodology details, real-world case studies and calculations to offer detailed process design theory and methodology, integrated strategies, carbon-capture technologies and eco-friendly energy system designs. This is a valuable resource for all those with an interest in sustainable energy systems and related practices, including researchers, faculty, industry professionals, policy makers, decision makers, and environmental advocacy groups.

    • Mycorrhizae, Microplastics and Money

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 17
      • October 21, 2025
      • Bill Butterworth
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 6 7 7 5 8
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 6 7 7 6 5
      Mycorrhizae, Microplastics and Money: Wastes as a Resource for Farming and Forestry to Deliver Reversal of Global Warming introduces a groundbreaking, technology-driven global plan that aims to achieve environmental sustainability through financial incentives. This book explores innovative methods to upcycle end-of-life materials using mycorrhizae and microplastic technology, emphasizing the importance of transforming waste into valuable resources without relying on mineral fertilizers, while still achieving higher crop yields. The potential for earning carbon credits is also discussed.The book delves into safe waste upscaling techniques, ensuring both financial and environmental sustainability. It offers practical approaches to land management and discusses the concept of reverse franchising, emphasizing its role in promoting widespread adoption of sustainable practices.

    • Soil Microorganisms for Plant Growth Promotion and Soil Health

      • 1st Edition
      • October 15, 2025
      • Gustavo Santoyo
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 4 0 5 5 0
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 4 0 5 6 7
      Soil Microorganisms for Plant Growth Promotion and Soil Health provides readers with an overview of plant growth-promoting microorganisms and their molecular mechanisms to improve plant growth and soil health. Students and researchers in soil science will gain a comprehensive understanding of soil microbiota diversity and functions, along with insights into the mechanisms by which plant growth, including molecular processes involved in nutrient acquisitions and defense mechanisms work. In addition, the book provides a noteworthy emphasis on fungi.A soil beneficial microbe cannot only be the living cells, but also their components, such as molecules or enzymes produced by this beneficial microbiota. Molecules like microbial phytohormones can be excellent promoters or regulators of plant growth, as well as proteins and other compounds like volatiles, which might elicit a systemic resistance response against pathogenic threats. Therefore, plant growth promoters living in soil, associated with plant roots, could act through direct beneficial interactions with the plant, by stimulating or regulating growth responses to environmental conditions, or indirectly by inhibiting the growth of potential microbial pathogens and herbivore pests.

    • Waste to Resources

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 18
      • October 3, 2025
      • Shrikaant Kulkarni
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 5 3 0 3
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 5 3 1 0
      Waste to Resources: Environmental Sustainability, Safety, and Health features practical solutions to address environmental challenges. With a focus on converting waste into valuable resources, this book explores the pivotal roles of businesses and society in fostering innovation for sustainable waste management. Divided into four sections, the book covers waste-to-value added product conversion using biotechnology and emphasizes environmental sustainability through a cradle-to-cradle approach. By providing comprehensive knowledge, understanding, and practical solutions, this book will promote research initiatives for a sustainable future while aligning with the attainment of sustainable development goals.

    • Planning and Management for Sustainable Water Resources and Infrastructure under Climate Change

      • 1st Edition
      • October 1, 2025
      • Kourosh Behzadian + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 6 8 7 4
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 6 8 8 1
      Planning and Management for Sustainable Water Resources and Infrastructure under Climate Change explores the critical intersection of climate change, and sustainable water resources and infrastructure. With a diverse range of chapters covering topics from public participation and water governance to smart technologies, it provides a holistic understanding of the current concerns, core challenges, and innovative solutions surrounding water infrastructure and resilience. The book offers necessary information on current approaches for adaptation and mitigation strategies including but not limited to AI, IoT, and remote sensing. The implications of climate change for agriculture and aquaculture, the complexities of water and climate change governance, and the pressing issues of droughts, seawater intrusion, and intermittent water supply are discussed. It also examines various impacts of climate change on water resources and infrastructure with real-world case studies around the globe. By addressing these multifaceted topics, the book equips readers with the knowledge and strategies to navigate the evolving issues of water management in the face of a changing climate.

    • Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology

      • 2nd Edition
      • September 25, 2025
      • Claudia Augusta De Moraes Russo + 1 more
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 1 5 7 5 0 9
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 1 5 7 5 1 6
      Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, Second Edition, Four Volume Set is a comprehensive resource containing approximately 215 chapters that covers all fundamental topics in evolutionary biology. Featuring a consistent chapter structure, this encyclopedia ensures easy navigation across the volumes. Each chapter effectively links concepts to specific systems and examples, making it an invaluable tool for anyone interested in applying evolutionary thinking to their field of study. This edition includes new or expanded topics such as human evolution, including cultural evolution and language, paleontology, the origins of life, mass extinction events, epigenetics, and metagenomics.The encyclopedia also delves into the evolution of behavior, game theory, kin selection, optimality, human microbiomes, and the diversification of viruses. With its broad coverage, this essential resource will engage readers across various educational levels, emphasizing the central role of evolutionary biology in the life sciences. It caters to a wide range of readers, from students to experienced professionals, by offering both introductory chapters and in-depth analyses.

    • Handbook of Hydrosystem Restoration

      • 1st Edition
      • September 24, 2025
      • Saeid Eslamian + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 8 8 2 6 5
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 8 8 2 7 2
      Hydrosystem Restoration Handbook: Groundwater Natural Recharge (GNR), Second Edition covers the essentials of GNR with a range of global case studies that encompass the most up-to-date management approaches in streams. The book provides comprehensive methods for sustainable water supply through debris removal, along with conservation practices to assist researchers and graduate students specializing in this field.

    • Special Volume on Kogia Biology: Part 3

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 100
      • September 23, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 9 7 4 8 9
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 9 7 4 9 6
      Special Volume on Kogia Biology, Part Three, Volume 100 presents reviews on all aspects of marine biology. Published since 1963, this serial updates on marine biology, fisheries science, ecology, zoology and biological oceanography. Topics include Stranding data of Kogia spp. from the seas around Japan, The biology of pygmy sperm whales (Kogia breviceps) from New Zealand waters, Age, growth and reproduction of pygmy (Kogia breviceps) and dwarf (K. sima) sperm whales stranded in South Africa, The fast lane revisited: life history strategy of Kogia spp, and Stomach content analysis of pygmy and dwarf sperm whales and its ecological implications: is there niche partitioning?

    • Soil Pollution

      • 2nd Edition
      • September 16, 2025
      • Teresa Rocha-Santos + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 3 2 9 3
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 0 9
      Soil Pollution: From Monitoring to Remediation, Second Edition provides a comprehensive overview of the causes of soil pollution, distribution, transport, and fate of pollutants and transformation of pollutants in soil and metabolite accumulation. Soil pollution has increased over the last decades and may pose a risk for human and ecological health. The book expands and updates on current knowledge with an increased focus on PFAs and micronanplastics. The new edition also includes a new chapter on the One Health initiative.In this book, researchers and students in soil science will find appropriate and comprehensive information on organic, inorganic, and nanoparticle pollutants in soil, methodologies for their monitoring, and data reporting processes in order to gain adequate insights of pollution problems caused by these pollutants.

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