Environmental Science/Climate Change & Mitigation

Recent Advances and Issues in Environmental Science
Editor: William Hunter III

Recent Advances and Issues in Environmental Science

Available now.
Pub Date: December 2011
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Hard ISBN: 9781926692708
Paperback ISBN: 9781774632222
E-Book ISBN: 9781466559899
Pages: 272 pp. with index
Binding Type: hardbound / ebook / paperback

Now Available in Paperback


This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.



Environmental science integrates physical and biological sciences to the study of the environment, with the goal of solving today’s environmental challenges. Many of these challenges tie into a greater concept of using the earth’s resources sustainably. This collection brings together some very important advances in environmental science, including how climate change affects plant disease, how to keep birds and bats away from wind turbines, disinfecting polluted water for drinking, how climate policy impacts natural habitats, cancer risk due to ecological issues, and much more.

CONTENTS:
• Spatial Analysis of Plague in California: Niche Modeling Predictions of the Current Distribution and Potential Response to Climate Change
• Exploring the Molecular Basis of Insecticide Resistance in the Dengue Vector Aedes aegypti: A Case Study in Martinique Island (French West Indies)
• The Aversive Effect of Electromagnetic Radiation on Foraging Bats—A Possible Means of Discouraging Bats from Approaching Wind Turbines
• Solar Drinking Water Disinfection (SODIS) to Reduce Childhood Diarrhea in Rural Bolivia: A Cluster-Randomized, Controlled Trial
• Energy Sprawl or Energy Efficiency: Climate Policy Impacts on Natural Habitat for the United States of America
• Impact Monitoring of the National Scale Up of Zinc Treatment for Childhood Diarrhea in Bangladesh: Repeat Ecologic Surveys
• Ecological Equivalence: A Realistic Assumption for Niche Theory as a Testable Alternative to Neutral Theory
• Phylogeographic Analysis Reveals Association of Tick-Borne Pathogen, Anaplasma marginale, MSP1a Sequences with Ecological Traits Affecting Tick Vector Performance
• Cancer Risk Among Residents of Rhineland-Palatinate Winegrowing Communities: A Cancer-Registry Based Ecological Study
• Climate Change, Habitat Loss, Protected Areas and the Climate Adaptation Potential of Species in Mediterranean Ecosystems Worldwide
• Risk of Congenital Anomalies Around a Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator: A GIS-Based Case-Control Study
• Australia’s Dengue Risk Driven by Human Adaptation to Climate Change
• Oil and Gas Projects in the Western Amazon: Threats to Wilderness, Biodiversity, and Indigenous Peoples
• Malaria and Water Resource Development: The Case of Gilgel-Gibe Hydroelectric Dam in Ethiopia
• Effective Environmental Management Through Environmental Knowledge Management
• Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editor: William Hunter III
Researcher, National Science Foundation, USA

Professor William Hunter III lives in Houghton, New York. He holds a master’s degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo with a specific focus on ecology and evolution. He has done extensive research in the fields of limnology and the effect of water quality on aquatic life, and he is in the midst of project funded by the National Science Foundation researching the effects of a new sewer project on the water chemistry and aquatic life of Cuba Lake, New York. A longtime science lover, Professor Hunter has worked for Ward’s Natural Science, Inc. to create new biology, chemistry, and environmental science products to serve the science education community. He currently shares his interest in biology and chemistry with his New York state students to help build another generation of scientists.




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