246 pages , CRC Press , 2019-04-29 Biological Environmental Science is an introductory textbook for undergraduate students who desire a one semester course or, alternatively, a springboard course for advanced environmental offerings. This book features timely issues such as global warming, air, ground and water pollutions, population growth, species extinction and enviro...[Read More]
2004-06-22T07:00:00Z The most radical of Kuhns's (1971) post-industrial prophets is the French social critic Jacques Ellul. Ellul rarely addresses the effects of individual technologies, instead focusing on technology at the highest level of abstraction, as a system, worldview, and way of life; the term he uses in this context is la technique. In what many consider his major work, The T...[Read More]
Listen to Jeanette's story on how she became an environmental engineer. For more information on how to become an environmental engineer, go to http://www.
2010-11-08T08:00:00Z This book provides an introduction to the role of diversity in complex adaptive systems. A complex system--such as an economy or a tropical ecosystem--consists of interacting adaptive entities that produce dynamic patterns and structures. Diversity plays a different role in a complex system than it does in an equilibrium system, where it often merely produces variat...[Read More]
NASA just released a study showing that Antarctica is actually gaining ice at a faster rate than it's losing it. Will this rise in ice help keep global warming at bay? What Happens If...
Biodiversity offsetting is a system used predominantly by planning authorities and developers to fully compensate for biodiversity impacts associated with economic development, through the planning process. In some circumstances, biodiversity offsets are designed to result in an overall biodiversity gain. Offsetting is generally considered the final stage in a mitigation hierarchy, whereby predict...[Read More]
This group is designed to educate each other on various topics in biology or biology-related fields.
All contributions are welcome.
Members shall report to the admins all forms or unprofessional conduct.
Biology is the study of life and it has so many branches ranging from botany, ecology, anatomy and physiology....inter alia
you're therefore at liberty to enlighten us on any branch of biolo...[Read More]
Katharina Brinck is a theoretical ecologist and systems scientist. In her talk, Katharina explains how ecological systems form, self-organize and develop resilience in the light of global transform...
Meet our latest Stanford Engineering Hero, Perry McCarty. His research on the impact of contaminants in water supply defined the field of environmental biotechnology and laid the foundation...
244 pages , Taylor & Francis , 2017-02-24 In order to address the twenty-first-century challenges of decarbonisation, energy security and cost-effectiveness it is essential to understand whole energy systems and the interconnection and interaction between different components. An integrated language is therefore needed to assist energy policymakers and to help industrial...[Read More]
Global warming is a blatant lie and history has proven that. Take a listen to this short video and then please voice your opinions and concerns. I am confident that once you watch this video...
70 pages , 2016 Small children have BIG questions. Some are fun. Some are serious. And some will quietly break your heart. In Dear Pope Francis, the Pope's first book for children, he personally responds to 30 questions from children all over the world. With his optimistic heart, Pope Francis writes with an honesty that will impact every reader long after the final page is turne...[Read More]
