This book discusses the bioremediation of both solid and liquid waste, including regional solutions for India as well as globally relevant applications.
This book focuses on radiation applications in various fields such as industry, environmental conservation, analytical sciences, agriculture, medical diagnosis and therapy, and other areas, from laboratory or research scale to practical or commercial scale.
This volume provides state-of-the-art information on soil-water interactions in wastewater systems, characterization of wastewater, modes of treatment, safety of wastewater use, water conservation technologies involved in recycling of sewage in fish culture, biogeochemical cycling bacteria and nutrient dynamics, ecosystem resilient driven wastewater reclamation, bioremediation, aquaponics, ecological integrity, culture practices of fish farming, microbial food web phenomena, fish diseases, environmental economics of wastewater, environmental risk assessment, environmental law and regulations.
This book focuses on various aspects related to air pollution, including major sources of air pollution, measurement techniques, modeling studies and solution approaches to control.
This book provides extensive information on high-temperature H2S removal for integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) coarse gas, together with briefly introductions to the concept of clean coal technology, and to the mechanism and kinetics of hot coal gas desulfurizers.
This book presents an intensive study on the biogeochemical cycle of mercury in a river-reservoir system in Wujiang River Basin, the upper branch of the Yangtze River.
This proceedings volume for the 4th international conference CIGOS 2017 (Congres International de Geotechnique - Ouvrages - Structures) presents novel technologies, solutions and research advances, making it an excellent guide in civil engineering for researchers, students, and professional engineers alike.
This book reviews the progresses and achievements made in the past 20 years of research on soil pollution and remediation in China, and presents 50 review and research articles from all over China, including Hong Kong and Taiwan.
This book analyses the sustainability of membrane operations applied on an industrial scale, as well as that of those under investigation on lab/pilot scales, covering also the preparation of both polymeric and inorganic membranes.
This book presents a detailed analysis in relation to pollutant processes and transport pathways encompassing atmospheric pollutants, atmospheric deposition and build-up on road surfaces of traffic generated key pollutants.
This third volume on detox fashion highlights sustainable wastewater treatment methods, as well as techniques used by and the adoption of detox strategies by different brands in the textile sector.
This book presents the necessary fundamental knowledge in the research, development, design, selection, and application of desiccant heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning systems.
This book is particularly concerned with China's path to green development and how it can be understood, exploring questions such as how the goal of Chinese-led green development can be achieved.
This book offers a comprehensive and accessible guide covering various aspects of trace metal contamination in abiotic and biotic matrices of an iconic Indian tropical mangrove wetland - Sundarban.
This textbook on Environmental Biotechnology not only presents an unbiased overview of the practical biological approaches currently employed to address environmental problems, but also equips readers with a working knowledge of the science that underpins them.
This book identifies the key hydrologic and hydraulic factors which influence the performance of stormwater quality treatment systems such as constructed wetlands and bioretention basins.
This book takes a new and critical look at the underlying factors that affect the management of water resources, and its content is guided by three important visions.
Integrating information from several areas of engineering geology, hydrogeology, geotechnical engineering, this book addresses the general field of groundwater from an engineering perspective.
This book takes stock of micro irrigation systems (MIS), the technological intervention in India's agricultural and water management sectors, over the past couple of decades.
En la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, los avances en la medicina profiláctica permitieron un alto ritmo del crecimiento de la población, la llamada explosión demográfica.
El Quinto Informe de Evaluación del Grupo Intergubernamental de Expertos sobre Cambio Climático IPCC (2014), concluye que la temperatura del planeta está aumentando como resultado del incremento en la concentración de gases de efecto invernadero en la atmósfera.
Esta obra da cuenta de la regulación internacional de algunos de los agentes tóxicos más poderosos creados por la sociedad humana: los desechos, químicos peligrosos y contaminantes orgánicos persistentes (pesticidas prohibidos).
This edited volume explores the crucial intersections between Indigenous Land-Based Knowledge (ILK), sustainability, settler colonialism, and the ongoing environmental crisis.
Este libro es fruto de la experiencia acumulada a lo largo de las clases que he impartido sobre los fundamentos de la contaminación atmosférica a estudiantes universitarios de los últimos semestres del programa de Ingeniería Ambiental de la Universidad de Medellín.
Suelo y cambio climatico es un enfoque sistemico resultado de investigaciones en el area de edafologia, orientado a contribuir a la comprension y apropiacion del recurso como base del sistema ecologico.
El presente manual se centra en reconocer al usuario/lector del manual como un ciudadano potencialmente cientifico, por lo tanto, invita a utilizar las herramientas propuestas para que se anime, desde donde este, a generar procesos de conocimiento local que ayude a buscar soluciones acordes con entornos especificos.
Desde los años setenta del siglo pasado, el mundo desarrollado presentó la estrategia que permitiría salvar el planeta de la inminente destrucción a causa de la contaminación y la sobreexplotación de los recursos naturales.
Este trabajo explora las formas en que la desigualdad social se proyecta en las intimidades del servicio doméstico, y analiza las experiencias y trayectorias de vida de tres mujeres que trabajan como empleadas domésticas en Bogotá, en torno a las tensiones que implican las diferencias sociales entre patrones y empleadas.
El presente libro aporta al estudio de las relaciones entre las desigualdades socio-económicas y los cambios ambientales en la urbanización de Bogotá, un tema de indudable trascendencia justo en un contexto mundial actual marcado por el incremento de las desigualdades a nivel urbano y los desafíos ambientales asociados al cambio climático, la contaminación, los desastres, el derecho al agua, y como nos ha enseñado el 2020, los virus y las pandemias que creíamos superados.
El oficio de fisiologo implica desarrollar modelos en el laboratorio para poder hacer predicciones sobre lo que ocurrira en las personas, y es entonces cuando nuestro escritor comienza a observar, e indudablemente se convierte en un humano desesperado, que quiere compartir con sus lectores unas reflexiones de lo que percibe.
This book describes the creation of a monitoring network, which can provide information about the exact locations and the environmental threats posed by chemical weapons (CW) dumpsites in the Baltic Sea region, using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs), and utilising the existing research vessels of NATO partner institutions as launching platforms.
This book offers a ready solution for those who wish to learn more about this fascinating part of our water history and makes accessible to the wider world the traditional knowledge gained from building and maintaining qanats for more than 2,500 years.
