Table of Contents

Preface, Editor, Contributors, 1. Freshwater Today: Uses and Misuses, 2. Water Bioremediation, 3. Water Appropriate Technologies, 4. Soil, 5. Land-Use Impacts on Ecosystem Services, 6. Conciliating Ecosystem Services and Human Needs through Improved Land Use, 7. Sustaining Soils and Mitigating Climate Change Using Biochar, 8. Energy: Defining the Future, 9. Solar Solutions, 10. Bioenergy Solutions, 11. Air Pollution and Anthropogenic Climate Change, 12. Airborne Toxic Pollutants, 13. Evolution of Human Features Driving Current Unsustainability, 14. Population and Food Sustainability, 15. Consumption and Property, 16. Built Environment, 17. Sustainable Science and Technology

About the Author

Alejandro De Las Heras

Reviews

This is an amazingly readable compilation of chapters covering a wide and accessible range of environmental science and management topics for the reader interested in the details of environmental systems and environmental technology without being overwhelmed …—Tim O’Riordan, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK