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Microplastic in the Environment: Pattern and Process
This open access book examines global plastic pollution, an issue that has become a critical societal challenge with implications for environmental and public health. This volume provides a comprehensive, holistic analysis on the plastic cycle and…
Microscale Testing in Aquatic Toxicology
Bioassays are among the ecotoxicologist's most effective weapons in the evaluation of water quality and the assessment of ecological impacts of effluents, chemicals, discharges, and emissions on the aquatic environment. Information on these…
Migration and Pandemics
This open access book discusses the socio-political context of the COVID-19 crisis and questions the management of the pandemic emergency with special reference to how this affected the governance of migration and asylum. The book offers critical…
Democracy in a Pandemic
Covid-19 has highlighted limitations in our democratic politics – but also lessons for how to deepen our democracy and more effectively respond to future crises. In the face of an emergency, the working assumption all too often is that only a…
Federalism and the Response to COVID-19: A Comparative Analysis
The COVID-19 pandemic bared the inadequacies in existing structures of public health and governance in most countries. This book provides a comparative analysis of policy approaches and planning adopted by federal governments across the globe to…
Risk Management in Crisis: Winners and Losers during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Risk management is a domain of management which comes to the fore in crisis. This book looks at risk management under crisis conditions in the COVID-19 pandemic context. The book synthesizes existing concepts, strategies, approaches and methods of…
North Sea Region Climate Change Assessment
Atmospheric Sciences; Marine & Freshwater Sciences; Environmental Management
Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions of Gases and Particles
Earth System Sciences; Environmental Chemistry; Climatology; Marine & Freshwater Sciences; Atmosphere ocean interaction; Chemical Exchanges; Biogeochemistry; COST 735; air-sea interface; Trace gases; SOLAS
Ageing and Covid-19: Making Sense of a Disrupted World
This volume presents a range of research approaches to the exploration of ageing during a pandemic situation. One of the first collections of its kind, it offers an array of studies employing research methodologies that lend themselves to replication…