Pollution and threats to the environment

Arsenic contamination poses a major environmental problem, especially in Southeast Asian countries like Bangladesh and India.

This book discusses different aspects of energy consumption and environmental pollution, describing in detail the various pollutants resulting from the utilization of natural resources and their control techniques.

This book focuses on clean transport and mobility essential to the modern world.

The book is the collection of the latest research results from Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning in environmental policy and reform during the past years, mainly related to ecological compensation, the emission trading, the environment audit, carbon tax, environment friendly city, environmental health, economic policy in medical waste, scattered coal treatment subsidies, environmental policy efficiency analysis, environmental industry statistics, environmental performance evaluation, green fiscal and taxation policy, etc.

This book unveils forestry science and its policy and management that connect past and present understanding of forests.

This book discusses the sensitivity, selectivity, and response times of different sensor materials and their potential application in the design of portable sensor systems for monitoring water pollutants and remediation systems.

This book offers a selection of views from Chinese and European experts and scholars on the most pressing environmental challenges - air quality, global warming, climate change, energy security, urbanisation - faced by Europe and China in 2014.

This book deals with the most emerging aspects of algal research with special reference to microalgae viz; diversity, mutations, genomics and metagenomics study, eco-physiology, culturing, microalgae for food and feed, biofuel production, harvesting of microalgae, separation, and purification of biochemicals, techno-economical assessment, microalgal biotechnology, algal-bacterial systems for wastewater treatment.

This book highlights the institutional, legal, and policy measures to manage water pollution in India, and discusses how effective they have been in improving the overall quality of the country's surface and groundwater resources.

This book highlights the impact of COVID-19 on sustainable waste management and air emission, using various case studies.

"e;Microbial Enzymes: Roles and applications in industry"e; offers an essential update on the field of microbial biotechnology, and presents the latest information on a range of microbial enzymes such as fructosyltransferase, laccases, amylases, lipase, and cholesterol oxidase, as well as their potential applications in various industries.

This book covers the research fields in biodiversity conservation, the Belt and Road eco-environmental cooperation, China's five-year plan for eco-environmental protection, sustainable development goals assessment, and human health loss assessment.

Through a contemporary Gothic lens, the book explores theatre theories, processes and practices that explore; the impacts of continuing drought and natural disaster, the conflicts concerning resource extraction and mining and current political debates focussed on climate change denial.

This book focuses on the recent trends in carbon management and up-to-date information on different carbon management strategies that lead to manage increasing concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Climate has for a long time been a taken-for-granted background against which social, political and economic interactions have taken place.

This book presents a number of innovative uses of fly ash.

This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Health, Safety, Fire, Environment, and Allied Sciences (HSFEA 2018), highlighting the latest developments in the field of science and technology aimed at improving health and safety in the workplace.

This volume offers detailed information on the behaviour of various water pollutants, and on the principles and concepts of groundwater flow and transport.

This book comprehensively reviews the key topics in microbial fuel cells (MFC) and its applications in areas related to energy and environmental mitigation.

This volume is second part of the five-part set on bioenergy research.

This book highlights the impact of COVID-19 on environmental sustainability and SDG's, using various case studies.

This book addresses microalgae, which represent a very promising biomass resource for wastewater treatment and producing biofuels.

This book consists of select peer-reviewed papers from the International Conference on Sustainable Environmental Engineering and Science (SEES) 2019.

How is the struggle against climate change financed?

This book focuses on spatial planning of megacities that are growing in Asia, Africa, and America.

This book highlights the environmental footprints and best practices in sustainable agriculture.

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Energy and Environment - Global Challenges (ICEE 2018).

Environmental Economics and Ecosystem Services provides a rigorous yet accessible introduction to environmental economics, using ecosystem services as the underlying framework.

Through an examination of Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men, this book demonstrates the ability of cinematic fictions, and other complex narrative fictions, to contribute to meeting the climate challenge by shaping the desires of audiences.

This book focuses on the robustness analysis of high accuracy surface modeling method (HASM) to yield good performance of it.

Modernists believed that "e;form follows function.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the theoretical developments and technological breakthroughs that have deepened our understanding of environmental pollution and human health, while also promoting a comprehensive strategy to address these problems.

Packaging plays a major role in the environmental footprints of products from any industrial sector, and thus is important to address the sustainability issues of packaging.

This book offers present-day retrospectives and future perspectives on 'phytobiont' studies in the context of phyto-micro restitution, filling some of the information gaps in this promising research field.

This book comprises selected proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Water Resources 2021 (ICWR2021) focusing on innovations and preparations to face the water-related challenges.

This book addresses a complex issue - water sustainability - that requires a combined approach to manage both water and energy.

This book describes the effect that hydrocarbon energy (oil, gas and coal) has had on human evolution, how we got to the stage we are at today, what we are doing about it and where it will lead us in the not-too-distant future.

This book addresses the emergent need to act on reducing or getting rid of micro plastic pollution, to achieve a sustainable environment.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to microcosms (N-systems) in multiple-species testing and aquatic ecosystem risk assessment.

This book provides the detail information about nanoparticles, their types, characterization techniques such as TEM, FESEM, AFM, XRD etc.

This book discusses major technological advances in the treatment and re-use of wastewater.

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Technologies for Farming - Energy & Environment - Water (ITsFEW 2018).

The processes and consequences of climate change are extremely heterogeneous, encompassing many different fields of study.

This book covers the exchange of greenhouse gases in various ecosystems, biomes and climatic zones, and discusses the measurement, modelling and processes involved in these exchange dynamics.

This book focuses on China's efforts to address climate change on both the strategic and practical levels since the Katowice Climate Change Conference.

Achieving environmental sustainability with rapid industrialization is currently a major global challenge.

Modern civilization faces a broad spectrum of daunting problems, but rational solutions are available for them all.

This monograph reviews the establishment of new theories of the ozone hole and global climate change, two major scientific problems of global concern.

This book studies the pitfalls of regional climate models in simulating track and intensity of tropical cyclone over western North Pacific for the East Asian summer monsoon climate.

This book presents some of the latest technologies in waste management, and emphasizes the benefits that can be gained from the use of recycled products.