As the world's demand for food from aquatic environments continues to increase, the importance of performing aquaculture in an environmentally responsible manner also increases. The aim of this important and thought-provoking book is to stimulate discussion among aquaculture's m…
This text defines how ecological principles are applied to aquaculture, covers methods for sustainable hatcheries, and gives the context of aquaculture, reviewing important species that feed low on the aquatic food web or on-farm resources.
Information: what we are doing to our world -- Overfishing -- Removing forests -- Disrupting the ocean-atmosphere engine -- The perilous future for coral reefs -- Understanding: why we don't comprehend the scale of our problem -- The problem of shifting baselines -- Our unrealis…
Geomorphology has now reached a certain level where the methodology, scientific content and results being published in the field make it worthy of being considered as a major environmental research area. PIn preparing ITEnvironmental Geomorphology/IT, the author has given priori…
Geomorphology has now reached a certain level where the methodology, scientific content and results being published in the field make it worthy of being considered as a major environmental research area. In preparing <IT>Environmental Geomorphology</IT>, the author has given pri…
"In 1800, the highlands of Sri Lanka had some of the most biologically diverse tropical rainforests in the world. By 1900, only a few craggy corners and mountain caps had been spared the firestick. Highland villagers, through the extension of slash-and-burn agriculture, and Brit…
"Ecocriticism: Creating Self and Place in Environmental and American Indian Literatures studies twentieth-century poets and prose writers of diverse ethnicity who have attempted to recover a sense of home identity, community, and place in response to various forms of displacemen…
"The Triple Bottom Line"--Which delivers simultaneous social, financial and environmental benefits - is a rallying cry for business sustainability. This text examines the implications of the idea, showing what has already been achieved.
In this text leading experts examine the implications of the idea of the "triple bottom line"--The business strategy that delivers simultaneous financial, social and environmental benefits - showing what it has already achieved by stimulating change and bringing business to appr…
"Trace minerals and metals such as zinc, copper, and magnesium are accepted as a "natural" part of the human system. Interactions of some elements and/or disturbances in trace-metal or mineral homeostasis can, however, be toxic to the central nervous system (CNS). Mineral and Me…
"Looking beyond the traditional applications of polyurethanes (PUR), Polyurethanes as Specialty Chemicals presents a different approach to polyurethane chemistry by examining a range of new products and new research for environmental and medical applications. This book is also f…
