California Greenin': How the Golden State Became an Environmental Leader, 1^st Edition

Princeton University Press | 2018 | ISBN-13: 9781400889594

This book offers a political history of environmental policy and regulation in California, from the Gold Rush to the present. Over its 150-year history, California has successfully protected its scenic wilderness areas, restricted coastal oil drilling, regulated automobile emissions, preserved coastal access, improved energy efficiency, and, most recently, addressed global climate change. How has this state, more than any other, enacted so many innovative and stringent environmental regulations over such a long period of time? The first comprehensive look at California’s history of environmental leadership, this book shows why the Golden State has been at the forefront in setting new environmental standards, often leading the rest of the nation. It traces California’s remarkable environmental policy trajectory and explains why the state took a leading role—it had more to lose from environmental deterioration and more to gain from preserving its stunning natural geography.

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Environmental Carbon Footprints: Industrial Case Studies, 1^st Edition

Butterworth-Heinemann | 2018 | ISBN-13: 9780128128503

This book provides a wide range of industrial cases, beginning with textiles, energy systems, and biofuels. Each footprint is associated with background information, scientific consensus and the reason behind its invention, methodological framework, assessment checklist, calculation tool/technique, applications, challenges, and limitations. More importantly, applications of each indicator/framework in various industrial sectors and their associated challenges are presented. As case studies are the most flexible of all research designs, this book allows researchers to retain the holistic characteristics of real-life events while investigating empirical events.

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Environmental Engineering: Review for the Professional Engineering Examination, 1^st Edition

Springer | 2013 | ISBN-13: 9780387499307

This book will help the reader expand into chemical engineering and become a licensed professional engineer (PE), which can offer a tremendous boost to one’s career as there are certain career opportunities available only to licensed engineers. Licensure demonstrates high standards of professionalism, knowledge, and ability. Because of the work experience requirement, PE examinees generally have been out of school for some time. This book summarizes the theoretical background of topics covered in the exam, which will help examinees refresh their memories on subjects they may not have been exposed to since their undergraduate classes. Another advantage of using this book to prepare for the PE exam is that two or three “logical distractors” (answers that result from common mistakes) are included among the answer choices for each problem. The solutions to the problems also explain why the logical distractors are incorrect. Research has shown that this is an efficient teaching tool. Thus, the inclusion of these logical distractors and their explanations will give individuals a better understanding of the subject matter in a shorter period of time. Although this book is intended primarily to help engineers prepare for the PE environmental engineering examination, it’s also useful in undergraduate engineering courses that cover environmental engineering topics.  

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Idiot’s Guides: Environmental Science, 1^st Edition

Alpha Books | 2014 | ISBN-13: 9781615643738

Environmental science is an integrated interdisciplinary field that combines the study of ecology, physics, chemistry, biology, soil science, geology, atmospheric science, and geography. It is among the top 10 most popular Advanced Placement examinations taken by high school seniors to receive postsecondary college credit. Idiot’s Guide^® to Environmental Science provides a step-by-step review of the disciplines that comprise environmental science, helping students grasp the basic concepts, internalize the information, and prepare for exams.

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Oil Spill Environmental Forensics Case Studies, 1^st Edition

Butterworth-Heinemann | 2018 | ISBN-13: 9780128044353

This book includes 34 chapters presenting various aspects of environmental forensics in relation to “real-world” oil spill cases from around the globe. Authors representing academic, government, and private researcher groups from 14 countries bring a diverse and global perspective to this volume

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Science and the Global Environment: Case Studies for Integrating Science and the Global Environment, 1^st Edition

Elsevier Inc. | 2017 | ISBN-13: 9780128018088

This book provides data-rich cases focused on complex global environmental issues in four major content areas: water resources, the atmosphere and air quality, ecosystem alteration, and global resources and human needs. It’s designed to help students of the environment and natural resources make the connections between their training in science and math and today’s complex environmental issues.

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