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Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > Pollution control
Climate change is not only one of the greatest threats to modern
civilization; it is also a great challenge to economic development
in the 21st century. Global warming can lead to periods of both
drought and intense rain, causing crops to fail and ruining the
livelihoods of many in underdeveloped countries. The Handbook of
Research on Climate Change Impact on Health and Environmental
Sustainability is an authoritative reference source that offers a
comprehensive and timely analysis of various aspects of global
warming and its consequences. Featuring such topics as assessment
of and adaption to climate change, water and its socio-economic
impact, the environmental effects of climate change on human
health, and the mitigation of climate change on both a local and
global level, this expansive handbook is an essential reference
source for students, researchers, academicians, engineers,
government executives, and other practitioners looking to make a
difference in the treatment of our environment. This publication
features timely research on subjects including, but not limited to,
climate change and its effect on both urbanization and the trade
competitiveness of different regions, water-related diseases
flourishing due to climate change, health risks and rethinking
health service provision, losses from natural disasters, farmers'
views on the environment, drought management policies, groundwater
resource management, trends in long-term rainfall, fishery
management and productivity, preserving biodiversity, and
sustainable forest use.
The Anthropocene has arrived riding a wave of pollution. From
"forever chemicals" to oceanic garbage patches, human-made chemical
compounds are seemingly everywhere. Concerned about how these
compounds disrupt multiple lives and ecologies, environmental
scholars, activists, and affected communities have sought to curb
the causes of pollution, focusing especially on the extractive
industries. In Worlds of Gray and Green, authors Sebastian Ureta
and Patricio Flores challenge us to rethink extraction as
ecological practice. Adopting an environmental humanities analytic
lens, Ureta and Flores offer a rich ethnographic exploration of the
waste produced by Chile's El Teniente, the world's largest
underground mine. Deposited in a massive dam, the waste-known as
tailings-engages with human and non-human entities in multiple ways
through a process the authors call geosymbiosis. Some of these
geosymbioses result in toxicity and damage, while others become the
basis of lively novel ecologies. A particular kind of power emerges
in the process, one that is radically indifferent to human beings
but that affects them in many ways. Learning to live with
geosymbioses offers a tentative path forward amid ongoing
environmental devastation.
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