Planet Earth is under stress from various environmental factors, increasing the importance of being able to estimate the environmental costs associated with dynamic material shifts.
Optimal Control of Wind Energy Systems is a thorough review of the main control issues in wind power generation, covering many industrial application problems.
"e;Design for Environmental Sustainability"e; is a technical and operative contribution to the United Nations "e;Decade on Education for Sustainable Development"e; (2005-2014), aiding the development of a new generation of designers, responsible and able in the task of designing environmentally sustainable products.
This monograph covers uniqueness of micromorphology in resolving many important but enigmatic pedological issues such as clay illuviation, formation of pedogenic and non-pedogenic CaCO3, modification of plasmic fabric, contemporary and relict pedogenic processes, polygenesis of soils in Alfisols, Mollisols, Ultisols, Vertisols and Inceptisols of the tropical Indian environments.
This book explores the fragile Arctic marine environment from the perspective of marine toxicology, shedding light on the intricate relationship between pollution, contaminants, and Arctic ecosystems.
This book explores the fragile Arctic marine environment from the perspective of marine toxicology, shedding light on the intricate relationship between pollution, contaminants, and Arctic ecosystems.
This proposed book aims to present an analysis of several crisis issues induced by global climate changes and implications at the micro-level, particularly from the perspective of ground-based study.
The book focuses on environmental monitoring, pollution discharge control and management, environmental pollution governance, ecological remediation technology, and environmental sustainability.
Gordon Chaplins father was a seemingly happy-go-lucky, charismatic adventurer who married a wealthy heiress and somehow transformed himself into the author of a landmark scientific study, Fishes of the Bahamas, published by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
This book discusses the possibilities, reach, challenges, and limitations of agroforestry in new contexts where the security of food, nutrition, and the environment are equally vital.
This book is intended to provide a hitherto missing English-language overview of a multi-year research project in which a comprehensive methodology was developed to assess a rule-based classification of the habitat services, the primary net biomass productivity and carbon sequestration capacity.
This book sheds new light on the transformative role of microorganisms in waste management, offering a comprehensive overview of microbial waste management strategies and their applications.
This book integrates various scientific approaches, including bioremediation and nanomaterials, to address environmental challenges posed by living organisms.
This book integrates various scientific approaches, including bioremediation and nanomaterials, to address environmental challenges posed by living organisms.
The book delves into the intricate interplay between health resilience and governance in the context of India, providing a thorough examination of critical domestic and international issues.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges associated with dye pollution and highlights opportunities for sustainable development in the textile industry.
This overview compiles the on-going research in Europe to enlarge and deepen the understanding of the reaction mechanisms and pathways associated with the combustion of an increased range of fuels.
This book focuses on sustainable solid waste management in an urban context and gives an example of how a modern city can work with waste management for increased sustainability in close cooperation with the academy.
The conventional approach for energy saving in a process system is to maximize heat recovery without changing any process conditions by using pinch technology.
Foams and froths are an important feature of everyday life; one only has to think of shaving foam, foam upholstery, fire fighting foam, bread, bear head, and ice cream.
Due to the threat of a possible global climate change and the greenhouse effect caused by constituents of anthropogenic origin in the atmosphere, air quality has become a major environmental issue.
Although fossil fuels remain the primary global energy source, developing and expanding economies are creating an ever-widening gap between supply and demand.
The Symposium on Radionuclides in the Food Chain, sponsored by the Interna- tional Life Sciences Institute in association with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, was intended to bring together policymakers and other representatives of the food industry with radiation experts involved in measuring and assessing radioactivity in foodstuffs.
Increasingly over the next few decades, the oil and gas industry faces the complex task of decommissioning its offshore platforms, pipelines and sub-sea equipment as they reach the end of their operational capabilities.
