Earth sciences

This comprehensive text provides a concise overview of environmental problems caused by agriculture, (such as pesticide pollution and increased nitrate levels) and offers practical solutions to them.

Innovative and Hybrid Technologies for Wastewater Treatment and Recycling investigates the biological and non-biological features of the treatment process for wastewater and emphasizes the benefits that these aspects bring for sustainable engineering.

Historically, research on the methods and amounts of trace element application to agriculture soils for correcting plant deficiencies has received major attention.

This book examines cacao cultivation with a view to improving the sustainable management and production of this crop.

This book offers strategies and solutions for rural communities dependent on fossil fuel economies to enable them to transition to sustainable development.

Plankton populations have lived in the oceans for hundreds of millions of years, performing essential functions within marine ecosystems.

Alors que la biodiversité s’étiole sous l’effet du réchauffement climatique et des pratiques agricoles intensives, la science offre comme remède une écologie impuissante à rétablir le contact entre l’Homme et la Nature.

Explores innovations in the production of rare earths that would be more sustainable Rare earth elements are used in many modern technologies including electronics, clean energy, defense, aerospace, and automotive.

A unique presentation that unifies the field, this book brings together concepts and information about contaminant effects at all levels of the biological hierarchy.

The Science of Fluid Mechanics: Applications in Water and Wastewater Operations examines the intricacies of hydrology and hydraulic systems within the context of water and wastewater management.

Earth is a complex system, with myriad interactions and feedbacks among the atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, cryosphere, and biosphere, as well as the people, institutions, and technologies that respond to and influence these dynamics.

The field of risk science continues to learn from the long history of events to develop principles and practices that enable individuals, organizations, and societies to understand and manage future risk.

Wetlands are, by their very nature, ephemeral and transitional, which makes them challenging to characterize.

The sugarcane industry faces a number of challenges in terms of stagnating production, price regulations, unstable sugarcane market, and water scarcity/drought.

DNAPL Site Evaluation covers long-term contamination of ground water by DNAPL (dense non-aqueous phase liquids) chemicals.

Dans un monde où les avancées technologiques redéfinissent constamment notre réalité, où l'Intelligence Artificielle s'invite de plus en plus dans nos vies, quelle place pour l'Afrique ?

Use of genetically engineered plants for food production has raised many questions about food safety.

This book demonstrates the variability and extension of environmental pollutants in water and wastewater, besides with recent technological developments in wastewater treatment.

This book demonstrates the variability and extension of environmental pollutants in water and wastewater, besides with recent technological developments in wastewater treatment.

Industrial wastewater can contain many toxic pollutants as well as varying concentrations of organic and inorganic matter.

This book is the documented result of an expert workshop, Modeling and Management of Emerging Environmental Issues, held at Penn State University.

Conservation tillage systems have been adopted by farmers in many countries to solve the problem of land degradation and declining water productivity.

Comprehensive in its scope and directly applicable to daily waste management problems of specific industries, Waste Treatment in the Metal Manufacturing, Forming, Coating, and Finishing Industries covers hazardous industrial waste treatment, renovation, and reuse in the metal manufacturing, forming, coating, enameling, and finishing industries.

Groundwater is Africa's most precious natural resource, providing reliable water supplies for many people.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Tagung Physik der Atmosphäre, Schwerin, 8.

Environmental Soil-Landscape Modeling: Geographic Information Technologies and Pedometrics presents the latest methodological developments in soil-landscape modeling.

Discusses the biochemical and geological cycling of selenium (Se), its worldwide distribution, and the factors controlling its fate and transport within and between major environmental media, presenting a global assessment of selenium's complex environmental behaviour.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Verfahrensgrundlagen Erprobungsergebnisse, Testtechnik" verfügbar.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Polarisation des Himmelslichts in der getrübten Atmosphäre" verfügbar.

New technologies have the potential to transform the agri-food industry by improving agricultural productivity.

Completely revised and updated, Treatment Wetlands, Second Edition is still the most comprehensive resource available for planning, designing, and operating wetland treatment systems.

This symposium, held in Argentina in March 2003, commemorates Otto Nordenskjold's 1901 expedition, and pays tribute to the Swedish and Argentinian explorers who took on the challenge of early fieldwork in Patagonia and Antarctica.

How fossilized reefs hold clues to the survival of corals in the AnthropoceneWith rising global temperatures, pollution, overfishing, ocean acidification, and other problems caused by humans, there's no question that today's coral reefs are in trouble.

This new volume explores the revolution in the use of smart technologies in agricultural science in recent years.

Water Pollution Calculations: Quantifying Pollutant Formation, Transport, Transformation, Fate and Risks provides a comprehensive collection of relevant, real-world water pollution calculations.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Entstehung der Alluvialen Eisenerzlagerstätten Mecklenburgs" verfügbar.