This new volume addresses the global concern of environmental pollution mediated by a variety of organic, inorganic, persistent, and nonpersistent pollutants, which have a substantial detrimental impact on the structural and functional aspects of ecosystems.
Offers thorough coverage of the remediation of soils contaminated by hazardous wastes, including materials, analytical techniques, cleanup design and methodology, characterization of geomedia, monitoring of contaminants in the subsurface, and waste containment.
A critical aspect of sustainability associated with water and wastewater systems is to maintain and manage infrastructure in the most efficient and economical manner while complying with environmental regulations and keeping rates at acceptable levels.
This new volume addresses the global concern of environmental pollution mediated by a variety of organic, inorganic, persistent, and nonpersistent pollutants, which have a substantial detrimental impact on the structural and functional aspects of ecosystems.
Shortlisted for the 2018 TWS Wildlife Publication Awards in the authored book categoryIn recent years, conflicts between ecological conservation and economic growth forced a reassessment of the motivations and goals of wildlife and forestry management.
Nature-Based Design in Landscape Architecture showcases a range of built works designed by landscape architects from many countries of the world representing diverse environmental regions and uses.
'The Tomb of the Mili Mongga lives up to its magnificent billing' DAILY TELEGRAPH-A fossil expedition becomes a thrilling search for a mythical beast deep in the Indonesian forest and a fascinating look at how fossils, folklore, and biodiversity converge.
This book offers a collection of papers presented at the 2023 6th International Conference on Green Energy and Environment Engineering (CGEEE 2023), held during July 21-23, 2023 in Jeju Island, Korea.
This edited book contests that if design's raison d'etre is to make things better, then the object of design has always been, remains and can only be a changed world and our relationship to it - the world-for-us.
In Meaningful Pasts, Russell Johnston and Michael Ripmeester explore two strands of identity-making among residents of the Niagara region in Ontario, Canada.
This book focuses on the Heritage Conservation of Architecture, Historic Districts of a City and Conservation strategies with specific case studies from India, in order to highlight the need for conserving the rich piece of history through research, education, advocacy, and practice.
This book offers the basics of embodied and operational carbon while discussing the inclusion of carbon emission in the GBRS at global and national level.
This book covers the basics and advancements in various solar thermal desalination systems that are highly affordable and viable even for applications in low-income countries.
Das Handbuch Umweltsoziologie bietet eine umfassende und aktuelle Übersicht über das breite und dynamische Forschungsfeld der Natur-Gesellschaft-Beziehungen.
This book focuses on the economic, political, and cultural factors that make up India's "e;informal processors,"e; which are the highly networked, multi-generational systems that reuse, repurpose, and otherwise dispose of 80% of India's electronic waste.
This edited book is a compilation of information on existing frontier technologies in agriculture, such as driving modernized crop improvement programs via digitalization, mechanization and automation, artificial intelligence, speed breeding.
"e;Global warming"e; and "e;climate change"e; have become common and trending subjects of interest in recent decades, due to their massive influence on biodiversity and the subsequent effects on sustainable uses by human beings.
This book exposes practitioners and decision-makers to the theory and application of river ice processes to gain a better understanding of these processes for modelling and ice flood hazard and risk assessment.
Making the complexities of green architecture accessible to the design studio, The Green Studio Handbook remains a must-read for current and future architects.
This volume discusses: (1) the treatment of hazardous sludge, wastewater, textile effluent, contaminated groundwater, laboratory waste, toxic dye, heavy metals, acid mine drainage and palm oil effluent; (2) the technologies of stabilization, solidification, natural coagulation-flocculation, river catchment control and mitigation, dredging and mining operations, and (3) the management of acid mines, laboratories, nano pollutants and plant effluents.
Agriculture deals with vastly different raw materials, products, and production technologies, generating pollution that is equally diverse and complex and involving biosafety issues.
This book contains papers presented at the International Conference on Emerging Smart Cities (ICESC2022), previously known as the International Conference on Civil, Offshore and Environmental Engineering (ICCOEE).
This book analyses how protecting the rights of local communities can contribute to the alleviation of ecological harms through the development of an innovative 'Rights for Ecosystem Services' framework.
This book combines chapters emphasising mathematical, statistical, and computational modelling applied to insect populations, particularly pests or natural enemies in agricultural landscapes.
How the subtle but significant consequences of a hotter planet have already begunfrom lower test scores to higher crime ratesand how we might tackle them todayIt's hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we think of it as an impending planetary catastrophe.
This book takes the topic of aviation crisis and emergency management and walks the reader through what aviation organisations must consider alongside legislation to respond fully to an aviation emergency or accident.
This book bridges the gap on the critical issues of ecotourism and direct economic assistance to the conservation of local ecological and human resources.
Inside OUT: Human Health and the Air-Conditioning Era focuses on the enclosed environment of fully conditioned buildings, revealing a unique ecosystem with broad implications for human life and a rapidly expanding global footprint.
It's time to rewild ourselves and our dominant worldviews to build Earth-centered communities for allThese pages summon from our bones our commitment to defend this living Earth.