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River engineering, a branch of civil engineering, deals with the process of planned human intervention to improve and restore rivers for human and environmental needs. With modern technologies, data collection and modelling, navigation can be improved, dredging reduced and new habitats can be created.
Compendium of UK Statistics - Environment. This page lists the issues that the United Kingdom currently has that are related to the environment, such as pollution and contamination. In 2015, it was reported that for the past decade, the state of the environment in London had significantly deteriorated both in urban and rural areas.
In 1999, Environment Minister Michael Meacher wrote, in a foreword to 'Equality and the Environment' by Brenda Boardman: 'environmental problems are serious and impact most heavily on the most vulnerable members of society: the old, the very young and the poor.' [11] In a 2001 speech, Prime Minister Tony Blair spoke about the need to address ...
The NAP outline actions the government and other entities will take to adapt to climate change challenges e.g. in England over a five-year period. They cover aspects such as the natural environment, infrastructure, people and the built environment, business and industry, and local government sectors. [117]
In 2022, the most comprehensive study of pharmaceutical pollution of the world's rivers found that it threatens "environmental and/or human health in more than a quarter of the studied locations". It investigated 1,052 sampling sites along 258 rivers in 104 countries, representing the river pollution of 470 million people.
The return of the plague: British society and the cholera, 1831-2 (1979) Halliday, S. The Great Stink of London: Sir Joshep Bazalgette and the cleansing of the Victorian capital (1999) Hassan, J. A. "The growth and impact of the British water industry in the nineteenth century" Economic History Review (1985). 38 (4), 531-547. Hughes, M.
As well as the cost to human life and society, there is a significant environmental impact of war. Scorched earth methods during, or after war have been in use for much of recorded history but with modern technology war can cause a far greater devastation on the environment .
Modifying the environment to fit the needs of society (as in the built environment) is causing severe effects [16] [17] including global warming, [14] [18] [19] environmental degradation [14] (such as ocean acidification [14] [20]), mass extinction and biodiversity loss, [21] [22] [23] ecological crisis, and ecological collapse.