Pollution and threats to the environment

Im Kontext von Umwelt- und Klimagerechtigkeit werden Umweltzerstörung und Klimastörung kritisch hinterfragt.

Auf dem Weg vom Holozän ins aufkommende Zeitalter des Anthropozäns zeichnen sich essenzielle und existenzielle Herausforderungen für die Menschheit ab.

Dieses Buch beschreibt die zukunftsfähige Gestaltung der physischen Basis von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft insgesamt durch eine gerechte Steuerung des weltweiten Ressourcenverbrauchs.

Dieses Buch beschreibt die metallurgischen Vorgänge, Thermodynamik, Strömungsmechanik und Verfahrenstechnik der Roheisenerzeugung im Hinblick auf die Hüttenwerks- und Gasreinigungsanlagen.

Darstellung der sich verschärfenden Anforderung hinsichtlich Wassergewinnung, höhere Anforderung bei der Abwassereinleitung sowie der Preisdruck bei Energie- und Rohstoffen.

Dieses Buch behandelt grundwasserchemische Fragen, die durch die zunehmende Nutzung und Verschmutzung der aquatischen Umwelt immer wichtiger werden.

Ziel dieses Buches ist die Vermittlung weitreichender Kenntnisse zur Mitarbeiterführung für Ingenieure und Naturwissenschaftler.

Dieses Buch beschreibt die anlagentechnischen Komponenten für die Wärmeversorgung von Gebäuden sowie die Anlagentechnik und die dazugehörigen Parameter.

Das vorliegende Buch vermittelt Studierenden die hydrologischen, hydraulischen und wasserbaulichen Grundlagen für Gerinne und Fließgewässer.

This textbook provides a complete introduction to Hydrogeology.

Das Buch beschreibt die statistisch-stochastische Modellierung des Kanalzustandes.

Wie lassen sich notwendige Klimaschutzmaßnahmen wie der Braunkohleausstieg so umsetzen, dass sowohl auf lokaler aber auch auf gesamtgesellschaftlicher Ebene keine moralischen Rechtsverletzungen entstehen?

Die konkreten gesellschaftlichen Folgen des Klimawandels sind sehr unsicher und nicht vorhersagbar.

An overview of the coordination of various requirements for coastal-zone use is provided in this book, offering examples and best practice.

Dieses Buch gibt einen Überblick über die Stahlerzeugung von den Anfängen bis zu den heutigen Verfahren.

Der Fokus des Buches liegt auf der Rechengutelimination aus dem Rohabwasser.

This contributed volume is about water resources, their variability with prevalent environmental conditions and its sustainable management in India.

The book presents recent research on marine ecology in different parts of the world.

This book discusses different aspects of water resources, ranging from hydrology and modeling to management and policy responses.

This country diagnostic assessment seeks to strengthen financial preparedness for disasters in Sri Lanka, focusing on insurance and other risk transfer instruments.

This volume highlights important links existing between soils and human health which up to now are not fully realized by the public.

This book argues that groundwater pollution risk assessment is the essential foundation of groundwater pollution prevention and control.

This book reviews the latest advances in the bioelectrochemical degradation of recalcitrant environmental contaminants.

Transformations of Global Food Systems for Climate Change Resilience: Addressing Food Security, Nutrition, and Health provides poignant case studies of climate change resilience frameworks for nutrition-focused transformations of agriculture and food systems, food security, food sovereignty, and population health of underserved and marginalized communities from across the globe.

The third volume in the Handbook of Environment and Waste Management Series, this book provides a comprehensive compilation of topics at the forefront of many of the technical advances and practices in acid rain and greenhouse gas pollution control.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the various aspects involved in biomass burning, highlighting the complexity of the phenomenon and the ensuing challenges for the design of approaches aimed at reducing fires in the open air.

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.

In diesem Buch werden für repräsentative Fahrzeuge mit unterschiedlichen Antriebskonzepten Gesamtkosten und Treibhausgasemissionen vorgestellt.

Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy is one of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.

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.

The book provides reader with a comprehensive up-to-date overview of various aspects of soil pollutants manifestation of toxicity.

This publication is a practical guidebook on environmental risk assessment, especially for watershed-scale management.

This book presents novel design principles and technologies for dynamic isolation based on experimental studies.

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 gives an overview of the relationships between agriculture and air quality, which is an issue of increasing importance for practitioners and policy makers.

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 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.

Environmental chemistry is a fast developing science aimed at deciphering fundamental mechanisms ruling the behaviour of pollutants in ecosystems.

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 presents the state-of-the-art in the area of water remediation.

This book analyzes the status quo concerning waste generation and management systems in Thailand and other developing countries with similar problems.

This book provides insights into microfiber pollution in textile industries that would help researchers and professionals to work from the textile point of view to mitigate the problem, and create a green sustainable future.

This book details the state-of-the-art methodological advances for delineating the toxicology and working mechanisms of nanomaterials, microplastics, fine aerosol particulates (PM2.

This book mainly provides the current status of water pollution faced by China under rapid changing environment and the actions that have been taken for prevention and treatment of water pollution.

This book discusses energy transfer, fluid flow and pollution in built environments.

The book focuses on the key contemporary issue of Climate change, constructing the narrative from traditions' of Urbanism through its Axiology and Epistemology.

This book provides a comparative analysis of both diesel and gasoline engine particulates, and also of the emissions resulting from the use of alternative fuels.