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  • The Earth’s Human Carrying Capacity
    Frederic R. Siegel
    This book focuses on the Earth’s carrying capacity to service the needs of its human populations as well as preserve the ecosystems that provide natural resources that sustain life and support human activities in 2020 and later in the century (2050 and beyond). It addresses the two principal factors that challenge the limits of the carrying capacity: growing populations/demogra...
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    160,45 €

  • Cities and Mega-Cities
    Frederic R. Siegel / Frederic RSiegel
    This book discusses existing and future global problems of physical, chemical, biological and societal origins faced by increasingly populated cities and mega-cities, and options to mitigate or eliminate them. In nine chapters, the book focuses on rehabilitation and redevelopment projects aimed at converting shantytowns/slums into well serviced neighborhoods via secure housing,...
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    73,18 €

  • Countering 21st Century Social-Environmental Threats to Growing Global Populations
    Frederic R. Siegel / Frederic RSiegel
    This book brings together in a single volume a grand overview of solutions - political, economic, and scientific - to social and environmental problems that are related to the growth of human populations in areas that can least cope with them now. Through progressive adaptation to social and environmental changes projected for the future, including population growth, global war...
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    66,80 €

  • Environmental Geochemistry of Potentially Toxic Metals
    Frederic R. Siegel
    Contamination of the earth’s ecosystems by potentially toxie metalsl metalloids is a global problem. It will likely grow with our planet’s increasing populations and their requirements for natural resources (e. g. , water, food, energy, waste-disposal sites) and metals-based goods. The health impacts of pollution from the ingestion of heavy metals/met...
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    66,56 €

  • Demands of Expanding Populations and Development Planning
    Frederic R. Siegel
    The Ecosystem and Development.- Populations: Growth, Braking, Contraction.- Population Needs for Well-Being.- The Surface/Near-Surface Atmosphere.- Water: An Essential, Limited, Renewable Resource.- Soil Formation, Quality, Sustainability.- 'Green' Legislation: Now for the Future.- Proactive Planning in Industrial/Agricultural Development: Minimizing Chemical Pollution.- Remedi...
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    171,00 €