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The indiscriminate use of chemical substances in industrial processes and anthropogenic activities, have resulted in the release of these compounds into aquatic ecosystems through municipal, hospital and industrial discharges, producing various undesired effects on the environment and on species of ecological interest. These compounds, such as metals, pesticides, emerging pollutants and other substances are persistent and susceptible to biotic and/or abiotic transformations, yielding metabolites that can be more toxic than the original compounds. In this book, researchers from diverse environmental science disciplines share their experiences in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, and critically examine the problem of contaminants in aquatic ecosystems in Latin America, as well as the risks presented by their presence.

Aquatic ecology . --- Ecotoxicology. --- Animal ecology. --- Freshwater & Marine Ecology. --- Animal Ecology. --- Animals --- Effect of pollution on. --- Pollution --- Physiological effect --- Zoology --- Ecology --- Ecotoxicology --- Pollutants --- Environmental health --- Toxicology --- Aquatic biology --- Control de la contaminació --- Gestió dels ecosistemes --- Amèrica Llatina --- Gestió d'ecosistemes --- Gestió ambiental --- Gestió forestal --- Conservació de la diversitat biològica --- Gestió de conques hidrogràfiques --- Gestió de recursos naturals --- Restauració ecològica --- Prevenció de la contaminació --- Protecció ambiental --- Descontaminació de dipòsits de residus perillosos --- Minimització de residus --- Seguiment ambiental --- Amèrica espanyola --- Amèrica hispana --- Hispanoamèrica --- Iberoamèrica --- Llatinoamèrica --- Amèrica --- Reducció del diòxid de carboni --- Aquatic ecology. --- Environmental toxicology. --- Control de la contaminació.

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This title critically assesses the foundations, content and implications of biocultural rights and develops new perspectives and ideas concerning their potential applicability for promoting the socio-economic interests of indigenous people and local communities. It further explores the controversial relationship of interdependence and conflict between conservation of environment and protection of human rights.

Biodiversity conservation --- Indigenous peoples --- Environmental protection. --- Law and legislation. --- Ecology. --- Environmental quality management --- Protection of environment --- Environmental sciences --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental policy --- Environmental quality --- Human ecology --- Traditional ecological knowledge --- Environmental law --- Ecology --- Conservació de la diversitat biològica --- Protecció ambiental --- Aborígens --- Autòctons --- Comunitats autòctones --- Comunitats indígenes --- Indígenes --- Grups autòctons --- Nacions autòctones --- Nadius --- Poblacions aborígens --- Poblacions autòctones --- Poblacions indígenes --- Pobles aborígens --- Pobles autòctons --- Pobles indígenes --- Pobles nadius --- Races aborígens --- Races auctòctones --- Races indígenes --- Races natives --- Grups ètnics --- Relacions racials --- Dones aborígens --- Indis d'Amèrica --- Antropologia cultural --- Tribus --- Conservació ambiental --- Conservació del medi ambient --- Protecció del medi ambient --- Protecció mediambiental --- Ciències ambientals --- Agricultura de conservació --- Avaluació d'impacte ambiental --- Conservació de la natura --- Conservació dels recursos naturals --- Control de la contaminació --- Principi de precaució --- Protecció del paisatge --- Protecció dels sòls --- Normes ISO 14000 --- Política ambiental --- Qualitat ambiental --- Conservació de la biodiversitat --- Preservació de la biodiversitat --- Preservació de la diversitat biològica --- Gestió dels ecosistemes --- Biocultural Rights --- Ethnology --- Dones indígenes --- Indigenisme --- Ethnoecology. --- Pobles indígenes.

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This book describes the myriad components of the Hindu Kush-Himalaya (HKH) region. The contributors elaborate on challenges, failures, and successes in efforts to conserve the HKH, its indigenous plants and animals, and the watershed that runs from the very roof of the planet via world-rivers to marine estuaries, supporting a human population of some two billion people. Readers will learn how the landforms, animal species and humans of this globally fascinating region are connected, and understand why runoff from snow and ice in the world’s tallest mountains is vital to inhabitants far downstream. The book comprises forty-five chapters organized in five parts. The first section, Landscapes, introduces the mountainous watersheds of the HKH, its weather systems, forests, and the 18 major rivers whose headwaters are here. The second part explores concepts, cultures, and religions, including ethnobiology and indigenous regimes, two thousand years of religious tradition, and the history of scientific and research expeditions. Part Three discusses policy, wildlife conservation management, habitat and biodiversity data, as well as the interaction of animals and humans. The fourth part examines the consequences of development and globalization, from hydrodams, to roads and railroads, to poaching and illegal wildlife trade. This section includes studies of animal species including river dolphins, woodpeckers and hornbills, langurs, snow leopards and more. The concluding section offers perspectives and templates for conservation, sustainability and stability in the HKH, including citizen-science projects and a future challenged by climate change, growing human population, and global conservation decay. A large assemblage of field and landscape photos, combined with eye-witness accounts, presents a 50-year local and wider perspective on the HKH. Also included are advanced digital topics: data sharing, open access, metadata, web portal databases, geographic information systems (GIS) software and machine learning, and data mining concepts all relevant to a modern scientific understanding and sustainable management of the Hindu Kush-Himalaya region. This work is written for scholars, landscape ecologists, naturalists and researchers alike, and it can be especially well-suited for those readers who want to learn in a more holistic fashion about the latest conservation issues.

Landscape ecology. --- Landscape ecology --- History. --- Ecology --- Environmental management. --- Conservation biology. --- Ecology . --- Political science. --- Spirituality. --- Landscape Ecology. --- Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management. --- Conservation Biology/Ecology. --- Governance and Government. --- Spiritual-mindedness --- Philosophy --- Religion --- Spiritual life --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Nature conservation --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Management --- Conques hidrogràfiques --- Ecologia del paisatge --- Protecció ambiental --- Hindu Kush (Afganistan : Serralada) --- Conservació ambiental --- Conservació del medi ambient --- Protecció del medi ambient --- Protecció mediambiental --- Ciències ambientals --- Agricultura de conservació --- Avaluació d'impacte ambiental --- Conservació de la natura --- Conservació dels recursos naturals --- Control de la contaminació --- Principi de precaució --- Protecció del paisatge --- Protecció dels sòls --- Normes ISO 14000 --- Política ambiental --- Qualitat ambiental --- Ecologia --- Ecologia espacial --- Paisatge --- Conques de cursos d'aigua --- Conques de drenatge --- Conques de rius --- Conques fluvials --- Relleu (Geografia) --- Ecology.

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This edited work presents a comprehensive treatise on the latest progress in the field of selected innovative nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, and their possible combinations for efficient elimination of a broad range of pollutants from various types of water and soil. It covers the underlying principles of all the key technologies (reductive and oxidative technologies for water treatment and biotechnologies for water and soil treatment). Moreover, it includes toxicological evaluation of emerging pollutants and novel engineered nanoparticles, as well as providing results of field-scale verification and application of the most promising technologies. Central aspects covered in this book include: geochemistry of iron, properties of iron nanoparticles (nZVI) and related materials for water treatment, in situ methods for groundwater treatment, evaluation of various combined nano/bio technologies, mechanisms and efficiencies of degradation/dechlorination of chlorinated hydrocarbons (as well as other organic pollutants like POPs, PAHs, etc.), elimination of arsenic and Cr(VI) from water, advanced oxidation processes with a strong focus on high-valent states of iron (ferrates), radical reactions, photooxidation, Fenton reactions, disinfection, and biodegradation including mycoremediation and composting of a wide range of pollutants from water and soil. In addition, technical details of selected strategies adopted for a pilot/full-scale application of key nano-/biotechnologies, i.e. nZVI injection into groundwater, field-scale contaminant monitoring, nanoparticle migration, and microbiological methods for monitoring nZVI performance in groundwater conditions, are presented. Therefore, this multidisciplinary book will be suitable for a broad readership including environmental scientists, practitioners, policymakers, toxicologists, and, of course, students of diverse fields such as materials science, chemistry, biology, geology, hydrogeology, engineering, etc.

Water pollution. --- Waste management. --- Pollution prevention. --- Ecotoxicology. --- Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution. --- Waste Management/Waste Technology. --- Industrial Pollution Prevention. --- Pollution --- Prevention of pollution --- Environmental protection --- Aquatic pollution --- Fresh water --- Fresh water pollution --- Freshwater pollution --- Inland water pollution --- Lake pollution --- Lakes --- Reservoirs --- River pollution --- Rivers --- Stream pollution --- Water contamination --- Water pollutants --- Water pollution --- Waste disposal in rivers, lakes, etc. --- Ecotoxicology --- Pollutants --- Environmental health --- Toxicology --- Control --- Prevention and control --- Water --- Purification. --- Effluent treatment --- Purification of water --- Water purification --- Water treatment --- Sanitation --- Water quality management --- Water-supply --- Depuració de l'aigua --- Descontaminació dels sòls --- Control de la contaminació --- Nanotecnologia --- Enginyeria molecular --- Tecnologia molecular --- Alta tecnologia --- Electrònica molecular --- Espintrònica --- Materials nanoestructurats --- Nanoelectrònica --- Nanolitografia --- Nanomedicina --- Nanoquímica --- Prevenció de la contaminació --- Protecció ambiental --- Descontaminació de dipòsits de residus perillosos --- Minimització de residus --- Reducció del diòxid de carboni --- Seguiment ambiental --- Neteja dels sòls contaminats --- Recuperació dels sòls contaminats --- Tractament dels sòls contaminats --- Contaminació dels sòls --- Protecció dels sòls --- Descontaminació de l'aigua --- Desinfecció de l'aigua --- Potabilització de l'aigua --- Purificació de l'aigua --- Sanejament de l'aigua --- Tractament de l'aigua --- Control de la qualitat de l'aigua --- Dessalinització de l'aigua --- Dret a l'aigua --- Environmental toxicology. --- Pollution.

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This book explores how individuals and communities perceive and understand climate change using their observations of change in the world around them. Because processes of climatic change operate at spatial and temporal scales that differ from those of everyday practice, the phenomenon can be difficult to understand. However, flora and fauna, which are important natural and cultural resources for human communities, do respond to the pressures of environmental change. Humans, in turn, observe and adapt to those responses, even when they may not understand their causes. Much of the discussion about human experiences of our changing climate centers on disasters and extreme events, but we argue that a focus on the everyday, on the microexperiences of change, has the advantage of revealing how people see, feel, and make sense of climate change in their own lives. The chapters of this book are drawn from Asia, Europe, Africa, and South and North America. They use ethnographic inquiry to understand local knowledge and perceptions of climate change and the social and ecological changes inextricably intertwined with it. Together, they illustrate the complex process of coming to know climate change, show some of the many ways that climate change and our responses to it inflict violence, and point to promising avenues for moving toward just and authentic collaborative responses.

Plant systematics. --- Plant taxonomy. --- Climate change. --- Biodiversity. --- Plant ecology. --- Anthropology. --- Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography. --- Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts. --- Plant Ecology. --- Human beings --- Botany --- Plants --- Ecology --- Biological diversification --- Biological diversity --- Biotic diversity --- Diversification, Biological --- Diversity, Biological --- Biology --- Biocomplexity --- Ecological heterogeneity --- Numbers of species --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Botanical classification --- Botanical systematics --- Botanical taxonomy --- Classification --- Plant biosystematics --- Plant classification --- Plant systematics --- Plant taxonomy --- Systematic botany --- Systematics (Botany) --- Taxonomy, Plant --- Plant taxonomists --- Environmental aspects --- Climatic changes. --- Phytoecology --- Vegetation ecology --- Floristic ecology --- Canvi climàtic --- Protecció ambiental --- Etnografia --- Antropologia --- Antropologia cultural --- Antropologia social --- Usos i costums --- Conservació ambiental --- Conservació del medi ambient --- Protecció del medi ambient --- Protecció mediambiental --- Ciències ambientals --- Agricultura de conservació --- Avaluació d'impacte ambiental --- Conservació de la natura --- Conservació dels recursos naturals --- Control de la contaminació --- Principi de precaució --- Protecció del paisatge --- Protecció dels sòls --- Normes ISO 14000 --- Política ambiental --- Qualitat ambiental --- Canvis climàtics --- Canvi climàtic global --- Cicles climàtics --- Fluctuacions climàtiques --- Oscil·lacions climàtiques --- Variacions climàtiques --- Climatologia --- Degradació ambiental --- Desertització --- Canvi mediambiental global --- Dendroclimatologia --- Escalfament global --- Paleoclimatologia --- Temperatura atmosfèrica --- Primitive societies --- Global environmental change --- Social sciences --- Climatology. --- Plant Evolution. --- Climate Sciences. --- Evolution. --- Climate --- Climate science --- Climate sciences --- Science of climate --- Atmospheric science --- Plant evolution --- Evolution (Biology) --- Phylogeny