Community-based Environmental Protection
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 18,83 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN :
Guide to Environmental Protection of Collections
Author : Barbara Appelbaum
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,23 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
Book Description
Writing for those with little or no technical background, Appelbaum clarifies the various phenomena that affect objects, how those objects respond, and what to do about it. The first half of the book covers five basic topics of preservation, and the second part goes into detail about the needs of specific materials and objects.
Environmental Management for Collections
Author : Shin Maekawa
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 34,1 MB
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 1606064347
Book Description
In recent years more cultural institutions in hot and humid climates have been installing air-conditioning systems to protect their collections and provide comfort for both employees and visitors. This practice, however, can pose complications, including problems of installation and maintenance as well as structural damage to buildings, while failing to provide collections with a viable conservation environment. This volume offers hands-on guidance to the specific challenges involved in conserving cultural heritage in hot and humid climates. Initial chapters present scientific and geographic overviews of these climates, outline risk-based classifications for environmental control, and discuss related issues of human health and comfort. The authors then describe climate management strategies that offer effective and reliable alternatives to conventional air-conditioning systems and that require minimal intervention to the historic fabric of buildings that house collections. The book concludes with seven case studies of successful climate improvement projects undertaken by the Getty Conservation Institute in collaboration with cultural institutions around the world. Appendixes include a unit conversion table, a glossary, and a full bibliography. This book is an essential tool for cultural heritage conservators and museum curators, as well as other professionals involved in the design, construction, and maintenance of museums and other buildings housing cultural heritage collections in hot and humid climates. “It is absolutely right that conservation be in step with the socio-political context surrounding environmentally sound approaches. This text does that, and does it well. The authors have, admirably, been awarded the 2016 Prose Award for Environmental Science, and they are to be congratulated for producing a text that is seen as having an impact outside of the conservation sphere. The technical theory that underpins the text is accessible, and the solutions borne out through the case studies do present as being admirably pragmatic.”— Journal of the Institute of Conservation
Research to Protect, Restore, and Manage the Environment
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 1993-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0309049296
Book Description
This book assesses the strengths and weaknesses of current environmental research programs, describes the desirable characteristics of an effective program, and recommends cultural and organizational changes to improve the performance of environmental research. Research areas in need of greater emphasis are identified, and overall directions for environmental research are recommended. The book also comments on the proposal to establish a National Institute for the Environment and on the elevation of the Environmental Protection Agency to cabinet status.
Environmental Protection and Management
Author : Marlon White
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 13,37 MB
Release : 2017-04-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781635490084
Book Description
Growing population has led to many different problems in today_s world, worst of all being pollution. Environment is being damaged every day because of the actions of human beings and thus, its protection and preservation has become vital. Environmental protection and management is the field, which deals with study of laws, rules, scientific solutions, etc. required to conserve our environment and save its inhabitants. This book provides information about the most basic to the most complex topics related to this field. Some of the diverse topics covered in it address the varied branches that fall under this category. The textbook is appropriate for those seeking detailed information in this area.
Environmental Quality
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Publisher :
Page : 1454 pages
File Size : 41,49 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Environmental protection
ISBN :
Book Description
Linking Science and Technology to Society's Environmental Goals
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 38,46 MB
Release : 1996-11-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309175216
Book Description
Where should the United States focus its long-term efforts to improve the nation's environment? What are the nation's most important environmental issues? What role should science and technology play in addressing these issues? Linking Science and Technology to Society's Environmental Goals provides the current thinking and answers to these questions. Based on input from a range of experts and interested individuals, including representatives of industry, government, academia, environmental organizations, and Native American communities, this book urges policymakers to: Use social science and risk assessment to guide decision-making. Monitor environmental changes in a more thorough, consistent, and coordinated manner. Reduce the adverse impact of chemicals on the environment. Move away from the use of fossil fuels. Adopt an environmental approach to engineering that reduces the use of natural resources. Substantially increase our understanding of the relationship between population and consumption. This book will be of special interest to policymakers in government and industry; environmental scientists, engineers, and advocates; and faculty, students, and researchers.
Preserving the Nation
Author : Thomas R. Wellock
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 24,1 MB
Release : 2007-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Book Description
This renamed 'environmental' movement focused less on efficient use of resources and more on creating healthy ecosystems and healthy people free of risks from pollution and hazardous wastes. By 1970, environmentalism enjoyed widespread popular support and bipartisan appeal. What all three movements always shared was a common recognition of the limits of America's natural resources and environment, a belief in preserving them for generations to come, and a faith in at least some government environmental action rather than relying purely on private solutions. Not only does the history of these movements bring to light much about the expanding role of government in environmental regulation and the growth of the modern American state, but a look at environmental campaigns over the course of the twentieth century reveals a great deal about the racial, gender, and class divisions at work in the ongoing efforts to preserve the environment.
The Rise of the American Conservation Movement
Author : Dorceta E. Taylor
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 33,73 MB
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0822373971
Book Description
In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. She shows how race, class, and gender influenced every aspect of the movement, including the establishment of parks; campaigns to protect wild game, birds, and fish; forest conservation; outdoor recreation; and the movement's links to nineteenth-century ideologies. Initially led by white urban elites—whose early efforts discriminated against the lower class and were often tied up with slavery and the appropriation of Native lands—the movement benefited from contributions to policy making, knowledge about the environment, and activism by the poor and working class, people of color, women, and Native Americans. Far-ranging and nuanced, The Rise of the American Conservation Movement comprehensively documents the movement's competing motivations, conflicts, problematic practices, and achievements in new ways.
Agroecosystem Diversity
Author : Gilles Lemaire
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 0128110511
Book Description
Agro-Ecosystem Diversity: Impact on Food Security and Environmental Quality presents cutting-edge exploration of developing novel farming systems and introduces landscape ecology to agronomy. It encompasses the broad range of links between agricultural development and ecological impact and how to limit the potential negative results. Presented in seven sections, each focusing on a specific challenge to sustaining diversity, the book provides insights toward the argument that by re-introducing diversity, it should be possible to maintain a high level of productivity of agro-ecosystems while also maintaining and/or restoring a satisfactory level of environment quality and biodiversity. - Demonstrates that diversified agro-ecosystems can be intensified with environmental quality preserved, restored and enhanced - Includes analysis of economic constraints leading to specialization of farms and regions and the social locking forces resisting to diversification of agro-ecosystems - Presents a global vision of world agriculture and the tradeoff between a necessary increase in food production and restoring environment quality
