Troubled Lands
Troubled Lands

Author: D. J. Peterson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-31

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9780367214937

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The dramatic revelations of environmental catastrophe in the Soviet Union made during the late 1980s and early 1990s were a driving force behind reform in, and later the demise of the communist party-state. But while the Union no longer exists, the independent republics confront the same dilemmas that plagued the Soviet state: Will the goal of econ

Water Pollution Issues and Developments
Water Pollution Issues and Developments

Author: Sarah V. Thomas

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9781604562088

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Pollution is undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities so that the environment becomes harmful or unfit for living things; especially applicable to the contamination of soil, water, or the atmosphere by the discharge of harmful substances. In addition to the harm to living beings, both present or future and known or unknown, pollution cleanup and surveillance are enormous financial drains of the economies of the world. This book focuses on issues and developments critical for the field.