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Free Download Climate and Political Climate. Environmental Disasters in the Medieval Levant By Sarah Kate Raphael
2013 | 230 Pages | ISBN: 9004216561 | PDF | 7 MB
The twelfth and thirteenth centuries in the Levant saw a substantial rise in the number of droughts. This coincided with some of the most violent tectonic activity the region had witnessed. Nature, however, could conjure other powerful disasters: swarms of locusts, armies of mice, scorching winds and thick dust storms.The data for this research is drawn from contemporary Arabic and Latin sources. The main aim is to try and determine the long and short-term repercussions of environmental disasters on the political, military and social affairs in the Levant during the Crusader, Ayyubid and Mamluk periods. Did environmental disasters spur or hinder conflict?This research examines the most destructive disasters and gradual climate changes within a broader historical context.

Free Download Genia Kostka, "Local Environmental Politics in China: Challenges and Innovations"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0415723299, 1138950661 | EPUB | pages: 144 | 1.3 mb
Knowledge and insight in national environmental governance in China is widespread. However, increasingly it has been acknowledged that the major problems in guiding the Chinese economy and society towards sustainability are to be found at the local level. This book illuminates the fast-changing dynamics of local environmental politics in China, a topic only marginally addressed in the literature. In the course of building up an institutional framework for environmental governance over the last decade, local actors have generated a variety of policy innovations and experiments. In large measure these are creative responses to two main challenges associated with translating national environmental policies into local realities. The first such challenge is a ‘policy implementation gap’ stemming from the absence of the state capacity necessary to the implementation of environmental measures. The second challenge refers to the need for local non-state actors to engage in environmental management; oftentimes such a ‘participation gap’ contributes to implementation failures. In recent years, we have seen a multitude of initiatives within China at the provincial level and below designed to bridge both ‘gaps’. Hence, the central aim of this book is to assess these experiments and innovations in local environmental politics.

Free Download Armin Rosencranz, "Environmental Law and Policy in India: Cases, Materials and Statutes"
English | 2001 | pages: 873 | ISBN: 0195652266, 0195661737 | PDF | 113,4 mb
Environmental law and policy in India affects all sections of society. Those most deeply affected are the poor. Displaced by deforestation, dam-building and degradation of natural resources, they are the first victims of poor sanitation, contaminated water, polluted air and scarce wood. This

Free Download Environmental Geology
by Montgomery, Carla;Seegers-Szablewski, Gina;, Gina Seegers Szablewski
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1266113711 | 608 pages | True EPUB | 224.52 MB

Free Download Velayutham Saravanan, "Environmental History of Modern India: Land, Population, Technology and Development"
English | ISBN: 9354353282 | 2022 | 276 pages | PDF | 2 MB
India, over the decades, has experienced multiple changes, including population explosion, urbanisation, technological advancement, commercialisation of agriculture, change in land-use pattern, vast improvement of infrastructure facilities, etc., which have had an impact on the environment. Author Velayutham Saravanan attempts to understand the complexity of the environmental history of contemporary India from the early nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries.

Free Download AP Environmental Science Premium, 2024: 5 Practice Tests + Comprehensive Review + Online Practice (Barron’s Test Prep) by Gary S. Thorpe
English | July 4th, 2023 | ISBN: 1506288065 | 568 pages | True EPUB | 81.10 MB
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Free Download James Lyons-Weiler, "Environmental and Genetic Causes of Autism"
English | ISBN: 1510710868 | 2016 | 324 pages | EPUB | 865 KB
The Environmental and Genetic Causes of Autism delves deep into the full body of past and current research to reveal how genetic predispositions and environmental factors can combine to produce the conditions autism and autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

Free Download Jeremy Chow, "Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities "
English | ISBN: 1684484294 | 2022 | 262 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This groundbreaking new volume unites eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities, showcasing how these fields can vibrantly benefit one another. In eleven chapters that engage a variety of eighteenth-century texts, contributors explore timely themes and topics such as climate change, new materialisms, the blue humanities, indigeneity and decoloniality, and green utopianism. Additionally, each chapter reflects on pedagogical concerns, asking: How do we teach eighteenth-century environmental humanities? With particular attention to the voices of early-career scholars who bring cutting-edge perspectives, these essays highlight vital and innovative trends that can enrich both disciplines, making them essential for classroom use.

Free Download Clare Saunders, "Environmental Networks and Social Movement Theory"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1472589718, 1849660522 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 1.4 mb
Clare Saunders’ book is an important contribution to the literature on social movements and environmentalism. Using the concept of ‘environmental networks’, it explores the extent to which social movement theory helps us understand how a broad range of environmental organizations interact. It considers the practicalities of social movement theories and it goes on to relate them to the practices of environmental networks. Theoretically and empirically rich, the book draws on extensive survey material with 144 UK environmental organizations, as diverse as not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) groups, reformists, conservationists and radicals; interviews with more than 40 key campaigners and extensive participant-observation, particularly in London.

Free Download Recent Developments in Energy and Environmental Engineering: Select Proceedings of TRACE 2022 (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering) by Rafid Al Khaddar, S. K. Singh, N. D. Kaushika
English | June 20, 2023 | ISBN: 981991387X | 500 pages | PDF | 96 Mb
This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE 2022). It discusses the latest topics related to energy and environmental engineering. The topics covered include green and clean technologies, zero-energy buildings, solar energy, energy conservation and heat recovery, solar architecture, artificial intelligence for sustainable buildings, climate change, and plastic and air pollution. This book is useful for researchers and professionals working in the area of civil engineering and energy and environmental engineering.